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Reflecting on comm design studies as a course, I feel like I’ve learnt a heap but haven’t really been as disciplined as I would like to have been throughout it’s duration. One of my objectives for the course was go above and beyond the expectations and have my work done with time to spare before each deadline. That definitely didn’t happen, but it’s something I’m learning from even now as I write this.

I was as attentive as possible in lectures, although I still get confused about the timeline of the historical events we touched on. I loved learning about the early writing forms such as mesopotamian cunieform, and how we applied that in workshops.

The aspect of the workshops I loved the most were when we were tasked with “finding” letterforms, whether that be finding them in our bags, in our surroundings, in magazine images.

Out of all the historical art and design movements discussed as part of this course, the most memorable to me was postmodernism. In particular, Memphis Group. I don’t know why I liked it so much, I just thought it looked cool, and I’d love to furnish my house in that style if I get one in the future.

Now that that course is finished, something I would like to continue on with is making zines.

After the zine exhibition, we found a cylinder of bread, and also a bread sacrifice hanging from the ceiling.

Check out my finished zine and @mik-ca ‘s beautiful head!

I had been wanting to experiment with layering, and thought that an ink roller effect would do nicely behind an acetate sheet with vector line drawings of my artist’s CUTE WORK

I thought about just downloading a rolled ink background off the web but felt that in the two weeks I had left, I could surely find the time to just do it myself :) It worked a treat. I liked how it looked when the roller didn’t have a lot of ink left on it.

Behind in my Tumblr posts, but glad that I took documentation in the form of badly lit photos during the process of trying to work out how I was going to go about my zine.

Week 10 and 11

I missed the week 10 lecture and workshop because I locked myself out of the house and spent the rest of the day trekking between stations and finding my way to the property management in order to get back inside *facepalm*

I made it to the week 11 lecture though, and I thought it was the best lecture of the lot. I felt really inspired as Karen and Andy discussed the future of design. The stand out example for me was the device that allowed a paralysed street artist to continue making art by tracking his eye movement. The technology was great, but I was even more moved by the fact that the engineer who designed it had made the plans available to anyone who wanted to learn to make it themselves.

I skipped the week 11 workshop to attend the Extinction Rebellion strike for climate (regrettable because I got behind in my work after missing two sessions but also not regrettable because the earth and all that). After the lecture I was really revved up about the difference I can make to the future and got a bit passionate lel

Week 9.

Exploring collage, we were encouraged to find letterforms hidden within the images of various magazines. I managed to find most of the alphabet. I think the letters made from images of the human body were the most effective!

“Ask Me Anything” project

I was lucky enough to get a response from one of my favourite creatives, Frances Cannon. She’s a multi-disciplinary artist based in Melbourne, whose work centres mainly around the body and the psyche. She uses media such as ink, gouache, watercolour, and also photography. She said she is happy to participate in my project- I hope that she’s able to give me plenty of words to work with in response to my questions.

The above images are her illustrations collected from her online shop and instagram page. The portrait of her was take by Jade Florence.

I managed to find every letter except B and P around the RMIT campus on Friday.

Polly and I also spotted a few punctuation marks such as / and ?.

This exercise wasn’t about making letterforms - it was about making letterforms become seen.

Tell you what, after this course I’m going to be seeing letters everywhere I go !!

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+ In today’s workshop, we did an activity that allows us to develop our own font with only two shapes. A font is made with grids and it follows a specific structure. I like the shapes that our team were given : quadrant of circle and squares.

+ Firstly, we made the font with only the red quarents of circle. We used the minimum amount of shapes as we could to make each letter. We first worked individually of ideas, then we propose our ideas to others. The first idea that we tried is using negative space, but from E onwards it became too hard. So we developed the final idea, which is using the roundness of the shape to form simplistic and abstract letters.

+ Then, we added the green squares to the font which made the font more legible than before. Our font follows the three line rule, which means all letters should be made with three horizontal layers. But we found hard for some letters, such as ‘r’, ‘n’ and ‘o ‘ looks much better in two layers.

+ We names our font ‘Elephant’ because the ‘t’ in our font looks exactly like an elephant.

+ My fovorite letters are ‘F J K M’ because we used the round shape explicitly to create smooth and flowing fonts. Our group worked closely together and very encouraging of any ideas. We tell others if there were any problems without hesitation, which is key to big improvements.

+ Team: Lily, Jade, Quentin, and (ask next week)

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WOW :0 :)

I love this course and everybody’s great brains. We all are posed the same task and come up with completely different and fresh and creative stuff!

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I bought some silk ribbons and did this work next to my apartment building. This is a really good experience, I had a lot of fun even it was rainning. I chose to take a picture at night to make sure the letters do not mess around with the background. Luckily, the light behind me is really helping.

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Week 5

~~The production of my first assignment~~

The question that I thought of for this assignment was ‘Can Designers Design Designers?’. This question references the advance of AI in the field of design, and whether ‘design’ that is created artificially, can actually be classified as design.

When I was thinking of ways to represent this question, my first thought was something involving robotics or machinery, however I realised that AI design happens at the software level. To represent this, I used circuit boards and applied solder and wires to them to form my letters, and added LED lights to contextualise it as a computer circuit.

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This is amazing!!

there’s me in black!

Week 6

In the second part of the workshop, we were given a set of triangles to add to our existing yellow squared alphabet. There were only a few letters that really needed it, but for the sake of cohesiveness, we made sure every letter had a touch of both blue and yellow.

And thirdly, orange quarter segments! We named the font “Ramsay” after Gordon Ramsey. Not for any particular reason relating to the font itself, but yeh.

My favourite letter in this set is the “X” because it’s actually been formed with the negative space between the shapes themselves!

Week 6

We were challenged to make the alphabet with only yellow squares. Not only did we have to consider that we had a short timeframe to get it done in, but we also had a finite amount of yellow squares and were limited in tabletop space! To make it more challenging, Karen and Andy made the rule: no overlapping. With these four limitations factoring into whether the typeface was a success or not, we came up with a very bizarre looking alphabet! My favourite letters were “P”, “Q”, and “X” because they worked well in the grid, but also “B” because it is so different from the rest.

Week 5

Do good designers need a style?

With this assignment, my available materials kind of dictated what my question had to be. I don’t have a lot of stuff!

The critique I received for this work was fair and useful. One key point was that I could have afforded to take more of a risk. This is something I will consider in future projects!

Week 3

We explored the pros and cons of different materials and methods when making pangrams in our workshop in week 3.

Our group received a roll of plastic cord and some thumb tacks. We had to try a few different methods to be able to manipulate it effectively into something legible. Our material was very difficult to work with quickly. The method we thought would be most appropriate at first was to bend and twist the cord like wire. We learnt that it didn’t hold it’s shape well and ended up relying mostly on thumb tacks to hold it together.

The first group to finish their pangram was the group who was given electrical tape. This was a very efficient material to use, as it had an adhesive that made it easy.

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