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Create better annual reports →
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Microsoft and Sesame Street create Kinect-based... →
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Samsung's 'future-proof' voice-controlled... →
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C3RI →
Last project up on site. 
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December 2011
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A lesson in informative visual communication  Link 
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Structure
Abstract Introduction Aims Methods Findings/outcomes Conclusion  - Technical conclusions - Achievment  - (Proposal?) - Future work  - Proposal to client 
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Findings/outcomes
May be factual  May be ideas May be instructions
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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...
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Issues shaping society and designing
Money  Copyright  3D Idealism  Poverty  Student fee increase Pollution - natural rarities  Mass customisation Unpredictable weather  Royal mail 
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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
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Tom Wujec on 3 ways the brain creates meaning Link 
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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...
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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...
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FINAL PRESENTATION
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Julian Bialowas →
Some stunning photography and typography work 
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D&AD Simple.  →
Perfect research source for what I am doing.  Simple typography design. 
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LucasFonts →
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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...
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