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Sorry what the hell is communication design again? Legitimately asking...

Can I just say that I thoroughly enjoyed every moment of the most iconic duo’s (Andy and Karen) antics and personality that they brought to every lecture and workshop early on a Friday morning. Unlike the “Colour and Information design” course, the title of this course does not give away a whole lot about what it may include. To begin with I was very unsure about what sort things I would be covering in this course. Given how broad “Communication Design Studies” is I’m not sure what I really expected to get out of this course at the beginning. The amount of freedom offered in this course allows for some truely creative thinking. Teaching creativity is something that I think is an impossible task but to facilitate an environment where creativity can evolve is something truely unique and special. I think that this course (especially the workshops) is a true example of how this sort of environment allows for creativity to blossom.

I think that the participation in this course has really evolved my creativity in a way that I couldn’t have imagined at the beginning of the year. In that sense I guess I achieved some objectives I didn’t know existed.

Aside from the personal development that I made in this course I feel as though I was able to discover a lot of information about the history of communication design and what people have been able to achieve in the past. The things that I found most interesting were the big changes that certain people or movements were able to achieve. Things such as medieval, early print and Bauhaus that changed the way creativity was conceptualised really fascinated me.

This course offered me something that I have never had before - that is an environment that stimulated group work among other creatives. This was a true highlight for me.

Thank you so much to all those who made this experience and incredible one x

EYE OF THE BEHOLDER

My god this was a bit of a stressful one. With my interviewee, Ricardo Cavolo, only replying within a few days before the assessment’s due date, this one was close.

I went back to roots for this assessment. Since Ricardo strictly only uses his hands to create his illustrations I thought that that it was only fair to keep this theme going throughout his interview. All pages have been handwritten, hand-sewn, and hand-cut. Imperfections are Ricardo’s perfection. An interesting man to say the least.

FiND MORE AT RiCARDOCAVOLO.COM

P.S. get yourself a gal (or guy) who is able to sew, love you Becs x

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In the final lecture we looked at historical movements, designers and design collectives and key design concepts that we shared over this 12 week lecture series. Andy and Karen then discussed how the lectures then related to the work shops we had, this was useful and effective to recap all the knowledge we just had been fed. I was feeling rather nostalgic looking back at over the weeks, having been introduced to so many different ideas and concepts it vastly widen my knowledge of the design industry.

In class we discussed and shared our ideas on the zines we had created. It was really cool too see what everyone had came up with. Everyone’s assignment was unique, individualistic and matched there own design style.

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Actually a really interesting read x

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Collage exercise where we were asked to create letterforms from objects selected from magazines. I was able to create this effect by repeatedly scanning and cutting out parts of this acrobatics photo till the X revealed itself. The entire effect of this work is altered again and again by changing the background of the cut outs.

Weimar Germany was a time with intense artistic freedom that lead to the development of many of the greatest artists from this period of time. Works from the bauhaus as well as many other notable artists from this period such as Fritz Lang were the pioneers for ideas that would influence much of the 20th century.

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In this workshop we moved around the city campus looking for letterforms and symbols out of the environment around us. By adjusting perspective and cropping my group were able to find almost the whole alphabet.

Here are some of my more interesting letters that I was able to find.

Another letterform workshop.

I think that this may be be my favourite workshop so far. We began with a bag of yellow squares and were told to create a typeface. After completing this we were then given red rectangles and told to work this into our typeface. We decided to keep our original shapes but use the red as an accent to the yellow letters. Finally we were given blue circle quadrants. We layered these over the top of the yellow to emphasise certain shapes. I’m really proud of what my group was able to create. We worked really well together on this one.

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Last Friday’s workshop - creating prototypes

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I like guidelines.

SUNFIGO

Was walking around Flinders St the other day and discovered this gem by Melbourne street artist Sunfigo. Sunfigo is known for their use of continuous line art, often created by using ribbon between chain link fences.

This was a major throwback to the workshop on pangrams where we created sentences out of a continuous piece of string.

See more of his works here http://allthoseshapes.com/sunfigo_street-art/

Design is everywhere?

This weeks workshop took us to new heights.

The exhibition of all of our works was an interesting exercise that opened our eyes to different ways of presenting our works. We each chose a location and presentation method. Each of the three groups had incredibly different ideas on how the works were to be presented: A maze that directed the audience in a guided presentation, an exploration on a fire escape where the audience had to discover each of the works, and on the dividing wall which required the audience to change their perspective on viewing the artworks.

What makes you any different?

This is my submission for the first assignment of communication design. The brief was to come up with an open ended question about design that could spark a conversation.

My question was what makes unique design. For this project I wanted to use various different types of design to make up the question. Using typography, photography, illustration, cartoons and paintings I cut out each letterform to make the question. I wanted to keep all of the text as basic block letters apart from the word unique. I wanted Unique to stand out and be... unique. The cut model was used either side of the question to symbolise that this question is a hypothetical thought within my head.

Stefan Sagmeister

is a New York-based graphic designer known for his unorthodox and provocative designs. After Andy’s introduction to Sagmeister in one of our Friday tutorials I later discovered some more of his works in a design book that I found in a thrift store in Fitzroy. Reading about him gave me a much greater appreciation of his style and past works.

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Week 4 Class. We tried.

Todays aim was to create a pangram (a sentence that contains all the letters of the alphabet) using a series of materials.

The first attempt was using string and pins in a wall to create each letterform. We managed to get the first word of the pangram done and it looked great, but we ran out of time before we could finish.

The second attempt was using a paintbrush at water on warm concrete in the sun. This was a challenge as the water would evaporate before the sentence would complete.

HOW DY PART NER

Design is versatile.

Holy heck - I did not think I would be playing with play-doh at university.

What’s more permanent than a stone tablet for sending messages back and forth with your loved ones (or classmates you’ve known all of an hour and a half).

This lesson we learnt about the history of typography and how characters are subjected to change as they become more efficient. We experimented with how we could communicate whilst being as efficient as possible using a popsicle stick and black play-doh.

Caffeine had not kicked in by this point... Evidently.

DAMN GOOD QUESTION

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This is the question that set the mood for week 1 communication design studies. Just like the post previous, we were asked to create a phrase just out of the things that we brought with us to the class, the only difference was this time we had a whole tables worth of people’s belongings to chose from. Can you read it?

The all important first post.

Welcome to “A Domain Called Quest”. Let us start with introductions. My name is Hugh. I am an 18 year old studying a bachelors degree in Communication design at RMIT in Melbourne Victoria. But of course you already knew this considering the only people who would ever be interested in this feed would be those marking it as a part of my assignment (and maybe the odd student who decided they were actually bored enough to read other students mindless blah).

This picture was captured in the first class of the Communication Design Studies subject. The first task was to create a Typeface in My Pocket; using any items that we had on us, we had to construct our names. Never have I been so glad to have such a short name as my bag was almost completely bare. Despite this I feel as though I completed this task to a satisfactory degree - you be the judge.

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