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MUSIKMÖBEL | Bauhaus Style 1934-35 Bang & Olufsen. This model was designed and inspired by Peter Bang’s desk chair “B64,” designed by Marcel Breuer in 1928.

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Still in Progress / Picto / Custom Typeface

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Final Reflective statement

Although I didn’t know what we are exactly going to study in this course at first, I was hoping that I can learn more skills in using design applications(like ai and ps) because I’m quite a beginner. I would say that this Communication Design Studies course actually did let me improved my skills especially in the final project, but there is also so much more than that.

Throwback to the first workshop, we talked about ‘What is Communication design about?’ ‘Communication’. I think throughout our lectures and workshops of this semester, we explored lots of different ways of communication with Andy and Karen together. One thing that moved you is looking at people in the early ages communicate using stones and tablets, including create their own typefaces. It is so original and so different to what we are experiencing today. It was also very inspiring for me to think everything can be our materials and we can make them out of any typefaces we want. Moreover, exploring typefaces in the campus is the activity from the course that made me think differently about design because after doing this activity, I started to observe things I see everyday. The things are still the same, but what I seen became different (never thought of the side of stairs can be ‘M’).

Also, making zine is a really fun and cool thing that I gain in this course, and I would definitely say that I learned so many skills during the process. I learned how to work out the layout for printing, sort out questions, planning the zine, working with spaces, binding and trimming. It is so cool to know that even a small zine publishing needs a lot of energy and work. I would also like to make another zine later about myself! I hope we could have more opportunities to learn skills like zine making next semester!

A late post of Week 6′s Lecture

In week six’s lecture, we looked at grid system in typography. It is interesting that while Chinese typography works with different concepts and terminology, we are also use a grid system in China when we learn how to write.

Finally finished the “Ask me anything” project！For this project, I interviewed a Chinese Illustrator Caro. I totally didn’t think of I will study design when I was in highs school, but Caro’s style and artwork has really inspired me and drawn my interest to illustration and design. I only followed her from Weibo before(like Instagram in China). It was so great that she let me interview her and let more people to know her from the zine I made about her. To me, Caro’s artworks are weird but fun, cute and colourful. I love how she use colours. So For the cover of the zine, I did a illustration of Caro with horn and four eyes to represent her special and various perspectives to the world that I saw from her artworks. She call herself ‘Petite Caro’, so I think smaller size zine will be quite suitable for this name. With bright colours, one is to show the colourful style of Caro’s design. Another is to show the ‘Petite zine’ has full of energy. There are definitely a lot of challenging in the process. For example, I had no idea about how the layout in Indesign is going to work out as I never done a zine before. So there could be a lot of problems when it’s printed out, like the font might be to small, two continuous page doesn’t match each other completely so I need to readjust it. Binding and trimming is also skills that you thought would be simple but requires a lot of patience and energy. I would definitely say that I learned so many skills from this project. And I really glad that I now have the way to contact Caro!

Get my mock-up worked out! Ready for the real one!

Trying to do a mock-up version of my zine so I printed out one myself! But the back side was a wrong layout... I think it’s because I chooses ‘flip on the long edge’. Learning..Learning..Learning..

Got the answers for the interview questions from Caro!!!!!!! She answered me so nicely and I’m so grateful!!! Although I need to translate them to English myself, I’m still so happy!!

##Interview Questions For my last project, I asked the question ‘Do designers need a personal style?’. It’s a question that I always curious about and I also want to know how other designers will answer this questions. Also, as I grow up and decide what I will be doing in the future, I always wondering if it’s a good thing to turn things that we interested in into career. So I listed that in my questions as well.

Yess!! Got answers from the Melbourne based illustrator Jess Racklyeft!!! I also tried to contact another Chinese illustrator Caro but haven’t got her answers yet!! Waiting for more answers....

Week 9 - Lecture

In week 9’s lecture, we’ve talked about the style of Memphis. The Memphis style is about the rejection of tradition. It become a playful part of pop culture and also represent the symbol of the 80s’. He developed a series of iconic objects that transcended their physical characteristics, that is full of symbolism, global and historical references, and had the ability to appeal to their users’ emotions.

For Ettore Sottsass, he really played in colours in an interesting way. ‘Designing was a more complex endeavour than just building a house or creating a new consumer object——it was about achieving a deeper connection to the world around us.’

https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-design-icon-ettore-sottsass

Week 8 - Lecture

In week 8’s Lecture, we continued to look at the legacy of Bauhaus. The posters are from one of the designers that we talked about in the lecture, which is Josef Muller-Brockmann, who using grids to create his design. The two posters are for a Beethoven concert. The poster on the left side has the simplest possible colour scheme, black ink on white paper. The strong contrast of these colours with the concentric sections of the circles, mirrors the drama of Beethoven’s music. The second poster also very simple, using bold black and white colour scheme and is even less complex than the previous one, being made of only black circles and black types. Although it’s simple, it still has aesthetic attractions due to using the grid system, as well as the size and distance between different circles.

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Folding Techniques for Zines, Books, Journals, Leaflets, Posters and more.

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Lots of great inspo here

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In week 10′ s workshop, I made the mockup for my zine. I was interviewing a friend who studied fashion technology in Italy, and she is mainly work is to design the model of clothing. So she pays great attention to the feeling of lines and the structure of the clothes.

I hope that the zine I designed will allow the readers to intuitively know the work of the person being interviewed. So the prototype of this zine model came from the work of the interviewer. I designed the cover with hollow eye, and I chose to put some lines to cover the eye. This is mainly to show that lines are very important for the designer. Then one the third page of the book, there is a hollow rectangle in the middle, which symbolizes the shape of the wardrobe. Because readers turn one page further, they will appreciate the design of the designer. Then I chose to use the style of the window to show the designs of this designer. The reader can see the designs one after another just like to open different windows. In addition, for the last page of the zine, I chose to use a knife to outline the side face of the designer. It not only shows the appearance of the designer, it also shows the importance of lines in the designer’s design.

For this zine model. I think it is good. Because the design of each page is justified, it is to reflect the style of the interviewer and her attitude. Maybe this model will not be exactly the same as the fianl zine. But for me it is already a very good start and I got a lot of fresh ideas for my final design.

Jesses Mess is a Melbourne based illustrator that works with lots of illustrations for children’s books. She loves to work with colours and paints. I love her style of illustrations because they’re so sweet and healing. She is on my list for the one of the 5 artists! Here is more of her great works! https://jessesmess.com/

In the week 8 workshop, Karen and Andy showed us how to make different size of zines out of paper. By doing so, we can know which pages are go together when we create our zine in Indesign. Although it’s quite simple but make a small mock-up is definitely helpful.

In the week 7’s workshop, we did an activity of finding and photographing alphanumeric symbols within our campus. I found letters such as C, A, W, H and D. I thought the W at the side of the stairs are very interesting and never thought about it could be a typeface until this activity.

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