Business Foundations – Week 1:

Well, I was not looking forward to this module and I have been feeling a little overwhelmed since the content unlocked last Friday. I have been a freelancer for just over 10 years. When I started, I went from my first job out of University, (Communications Officer at a Carer organisation) to full time freelance

Press – Week 12: New Steps

RESEARCH AND REFLECTION: As I’ve read, researched and thought about graphic design over the last 12 weeks, I have seen media, technology, globalisation, culture and society change the way we practice. Sometimes there is a need for a new sector, or a new definition, sometimes technology, or events create a new space for them. Branding

Press – Week 11: Trends and Environments

REFLECTIONS ON RESEARCH: The world is full of messages and narratives, everywhere we look there are posters, billboards, screens, adverts, signs and messages, telling us what to buy, where to go, what to do, what not to do, how to do it and why. These messages range from hand written messages and notes too highly

Press – Week 10: Type and Page

REFLECTIONS AND RESEARCH: Going through the history of type and typography, it seemed very clear to me that the ‘rules’ and ‘conventions’ that we consider when setting type or reading and writing are mainly based on the technology we have used and developed through the ages. Before movable type, we had hand written or hand

Press – Week 9: Message Delivered

RESEARCH AND REFLECTION: The medium is the massage. This popped into my head at the beginning of the week, and I tried to remember what I could from the book of the same title by Marshall McLuhan and Quentin Fiore. I read it years ago, and now can’t find my copy… It’s a book about

Process – Week 8: Skills and Making

RESEARCH AND REFLECTION: This week is all about our skillset and the gaps in our skills. I enjoyed watching the lecture with different attitudes about side hustles and doing different things within a Graphic Design career. All 7 of the designers had slightly different attitudes towards it all, all were happy with what they were

Process – Week 7: Research Methods

RESEARCH AND REFLECTION: I started my research this week thinking about my own definition of research. I feel like life in general is research. Often things I have read about, seen TV programmes about, or seen, can come back and be useful springboards for projects and ‘official’ research projects. My definition at the start: Exploring

Process – Week 6: Noticing the Ignored

RESEARCH AND REFLECTION I have barely scratched the surface this week. I have been busy with work and life in general, and this is definitely a project I will be coming back to. I started as always with the resources and lecture. I read Ways of Seeing by John Berger a long time ago, and

Process – Week 5: Thoughts on Ideas

RESEARCH AND REFLECTIONI started this week by trying to define my own creative thinking process. I tend to do a lot of research – about the company, their industry, the problem or brief, looking at other competitors, similar ideas and work, and at totally different work, and going off on tangents (I’m good at that!).

Perspectives – Week 4: The Self and Identity

The Self – quite a big and deep subject this week. I started with the lecture, which I found really interesting and very introspective listening to the different theories of self. The questions that Martin Hoskin bought up were really thought-provoking, trying to get my head round the nature of who we are, why we