Week 7

Week 7: Lecture – Content Review Angharad Lewis: Head of visual communication at the Cass School of Art, Architecture and Design I didn’t study graphic design, I studied English literature and History of Art for my undergraduate degree. That was a combined degree. I was really interested in Fine Arts but also loved writing so…

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Week 6

https://blackcountrymuse.webs.com/folklore https://www.expressandstar.com/news/Features/2023/03/23/the-painful-link-between-the-salem-witch-trials-and-west-midland-quaker-families/ Romantic/ Gothic Art https://www.wolverhamptonart.org.uk/ebb/ Folklore https://blackcountrymuse.webs.com/folklore Black Country accent/ dialect: Anglo saxon/ Germanic origins Red House Glass Cone: https://www.dudley.gov.uk/things-to-do/museums/red-house-glass-cone/glass-workers-roles/ The Cradley Witch https://www.expressandstar.com/news/Features/2023/03/23/the-painful-link-between-the-salem-witch-trials-and-west-midland-quaker-families/ The Black Country Museum: Women’s Rights Traditional Sign Writing https://www.narrowboatpainting.co.uk/narrowboats-painted-by-john-sanders

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Week 5

seminal event socially, politically, 1984 coal bastardisation of iconic images cultural importance – graphic canon british social political landscape – readressing willful ignoranc epunk aesthetic women – rage against patriachiacal society – activism democratising design – work drawing on inspirations of other people – inclusive ethics of design – meaning in workcollective body of work-…

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Week 4

https://petkeen.com/animal-shelter-statistics-uk/#5_Of_all_pets_that_enter_UK_animal_shelters_only_11_are_reunited_with_their_owners_Researchgate 11 Shocking Animal Testing Statistics That Are Hard to Swallow https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/historical-statistics-notices-on-the-number-of-cattle-sheep-and-pigs-slaughtered-in-the-uk-2023/monthly-uk-statistics-on-cattle-sheep-and-pig-slaughter-and-meat-production-january-2023-published-16-february-2023 https://nbnatlas.org/ https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jul/17/uk-has-nearly-800-livestock-mega-farms-investigation-reveals https://animalclock.org/uk/ https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2017-07-17/intensive-numbers-of-intensive-farming https://countinganimals.com/ https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2016-08-28/severe-welfare-breaches-recorded-six-times-a-day-in-british-slaughterhouses https://records.nbnatlas.org/explore/your-area#52.4826865|-2.1658038|12|Arthropods https://www.foodstandards.gov.scot/publications-and-research/open-data-portal/animal-welfare-data With the growing amount and accessibility of data, data visualisation is becoming increasingly important. Not only does visualised data represent large quantities of data coherently, it doesn’t distort what the data has to say and…

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Week 3: Complex Simplicity – Big Data

WRITE UP NOTES Fenton’s perspective was extremely valuable to my practice which is largely inspired by my previous experience in fine art. The concept of photo vis blends creative disciplines, enabling data to be represented in more artistically expressive and technologically innovative ways. In some cases, the final artefact becomes an interesting piece of visual…

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Week 2: Complex Simplicity| Story Told

Reforming and projecting a new future in a type design I don’t expect using 33% less ink to save the word directly, but I expect it to be one step in a bigger conversation about how we can save things. I expect it to be one gesture that triggers you to think about what else…

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Week 1: History Revealed

Click to access Complete%20Mem%20Index%20Part%202pp.pdf BRICK Making Lockdown Learning: Black Country Bricks https://www.expressandstar.com/news/2012/12/21/delight-as-corbett-hospital-site-gates-renovated/ https://www.dorothearestorations.com/case-studies/corbett-hospital-gates Resource Material Critical Reflection: Baines, Phil (2003) Signs, Lettering and Environment  Baines (2003) examines the social function of signage systems and how the visual texture of a specific location can be influenced by an ongoing tension between utility vs personality. As the overarching…

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Week 12: Outcome and Ambition | Project story, evaluation and conclusion

Finalised Design Outcomes: Further Development: Animated Logo Video Further Development: Final Web Design: Evaluation Research Course Material Outcome and Ambition | Interviews How does project evaluation help you, your clients/ audience measure effectiveness of your final outcome? Torsten Posselt (FELD) highlighted the variation of approaches when evaluating a project, from extensive reports for larger project, smoother…

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Week 11: Design Development | Peer reflection, thinking by doing, testing and refining design

Design Development | Interviews Critical feedback is something that is really important. The problem is it hurts Torsten Posselt, (FELD) The common themes throughout the Design Development Interviews regarding critical feedback were necessity and the idea of personal pain, embarrassment and discomfort when dealing with negative responses or challenges. For instance, Torsten Posselt, (FELD) acknowledged, “Critical…

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Week 10: Design development | Peer reflection, thinking by doing, testing and refining design

Design Development | Interviews Q: Please identify and explain a development process / activity where you had to evolve amore revolutionary approach to solve a project. Torsten Posselt, FELD “Is the machine knowing all the information really the thing you trust? Is this more based on communication and the way you communicate?“ Torsten exemplified a revolutionary…

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