February 2012
6 posts
January 2012
8 posts
Create better annual reports →
Microsoft and Sesame Street create Kinect-based... →
Samsung's 'future-proof' voice-controlled... →
C3RI →
Last project up on site.
December 2011
49 posts
A lesson in informative visual communication
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Structure
Abstract
Introduction
Aims
Methods
Findings/outcomes
Conclusion
- Technical conclusions
- Achievment
- (Proposal?)
- Future work
- Proposal to client
Findings/outcomes
May be factual
May be ideas
May be instructions
Reports and Referencing
Design It
Share knowledge/gain agreement
Method -
Tell them your going to tell them.
Who produced it?
Who it is.
Picture
Tell them you told them
Present the facts, draw conclusions, sum up
Abstract
Compact version of the whole thing
Introduction
History - Reasons for doing the work (very brief)
Aims
Aim - Big picture (main target)
Objective - Smaller aim
Methods
The...
Issues shaping society and designing
Money
Copyright
3D
Idealism
Poverty
Student fee increase
Pollution - natural rarities
Mass customisation
Unpredictable weather
Royal mail
What is a designer?
Explorer
Witty
Immersive
Chaotic
Mathematician
Innovative
Enthusiast
Researcher
Specialist
Socialite
Opinionated
Tester
Inventor
Brave
Listener
Intuitive
Inspiring
Listener
Creative
Scientist
Juggler
Individual
Competitor
Critical
Tom Wujec on 3 ways the brain creates meaning
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CIP Part 1 Main Assignment
Assignment 3 Group Poster for Week 20 (see timetable) Assignment 4 Individual Report for Week 25 – 17:00 Thu 19 January
What kind of designer might you become?
What kind of design team would your group make?
For this assignment you are asked to produce a report discussing these two questions and providing some first answers, which will probably be quite tentative.
We don’t expect you to...
Conclusion
At the beginning of this project whatever I ended up doing, I knew I wanted it to combine science and creativity as it is something I have always had an interest in but never progressed with it so, I decided to continue my prep for level 6 proposal which was to design a more creative and modern version of the periodic table.
I began to look into my target audience and look at the national...
FINAL PRESENTATION
Julian Bialowas →
Some stunning photography and typography work
D&AD Simple. →
Perfect research source for what I am doing.
Simple typography design.
LucasFonts →
Letterror →
Erik van Blokland (1967) studied Graphic and Typographic Design at the Royal Academy for Fine and Applied Arts in The Hague, Holland. Erik started to collaborate with Just van Rossum under the name LetTeRror in Berlin, while working at MetaDesign. After experimenting with computer programming in connection to type design, they came up with Beowolf, the first typeface with a mind of its own. It...