Complex Simplicity

This weeks lecture was a great insight into the world of type and how each location has been branded and has a sense of identity through its design choices. Having spent time in London, New York and Paris, each has a very distinct feeling and this is evident in their tube stations. Each shows a […]

A future heritage of design

This week I will aim to unravel an idea of print, design and the future landscape of creative industries to answer the proposed question, How is Perception changed when Design shifts into a new Paradigm? If we consider that evolution of the design industry and reflect on where we are now, what will be the future […]

What lies beneath

The front page of the Sunday Times boasts an image of riots in Paris that it claims were due to the rise in fuel costs. At first glance, this seemed an extreme response to the rise in fuel costs and high taxes. Further reading highlights the struggling times of austerity that France is undergoing. With […]

Type & Page

This weeks workshop challenge focuses on typography and type convections to communicate a message beyond the words themselves. Discussions of using type this week have circulated around movement or rhythm within a text to emphasise the message. We have seen examples from the Tate Modern and the poster adverts for an exhibition of Christian Marclay. […]

Message & Material

This weeks lecture, a conversation between Susanna Edwards and Sam Winston circled around the idea of form and function. Straight away I began to think Bauhaus. The fundamental question and themes and the teachings at the Bauhaus were about challenging form and function. The idea was that each is just as important and that without […]

Skills & Making

We have grown up with the internet and have seen the huge impacts that technology has had on our lives. What would you like to be doing that you are not doing within your work? This question was put to a series of designers who all seemed to give the same or similar answer. Simon […]

Search and Research

Research is defined by the French as to search, closely, it is the systematic approach, an investigation into a subject or material. Search, on the other hand, is defined as looking for or seeking out. Until this week, maybe like most people I had not considered the difference in the two words and how they […]

Noticing the Ignored

Are Designers arguably the most aware group of people? I would imagine the very nature of being a creative and a designer we would notice the finer details of everyday life, surely? Is it not in the role and within the education of a designer, is it in their DNA to notice the fine detail […]

Thoughts on ideas

What is an idea and how do we generate ideas? To have an idea we must have a problem to solve, so how do we solve a problem? These are the questions I will aim to answer in this week’s critical reflection. I will also evaluate my own working practice and reflect on the theories […]

The self & Identity.

The self and Identity, are they the same thing? At the start of this process, I certainly believed so. Through his podcast, Dr. Scott Barry Kaufman raise this question of the self and identity in episode 121, The self, Identity and removing the mask, he explores labels and categorisation, in discussion with Mark Leary, Ph.D. a […]