Study from Home! (week 1)

Today is our first GD in context class!!

Here is an overview of a few things that were discuss during the online session

1. The Aim

Based on what I learned, the general aim for this course is for us to develop a clear understanding on a subject through research, and create a project that could have an impact.

2. The Module

From what I know, the module is divided into 3 parts.

Which is Practice, Position and Professional.

It is split up this way because this course have part 1 and part 2, but for this semester we will be focusing on PART 1 majority of the time.

3. Learning Outcome

We were also brief on the learning outcome for this course so that we would have a better understanding on how our lecturers would grade us!

So I learned about what the lecturers would want to see in our projects:-

- research! (variety sources)

- how we apply our researches into the idea?

- how we communicate the message across? (media/message/methods)

- how we expand from our topic? (area of interest)

- how our portfolio reflect our own practices?

4. Project #1

I am AMPLIFIER

This is our first project for this class, and we are supposed to complete this by week 4.

From what I know, the objective is to shift the context of the message into professional graphic design. To get a better understanding we were shown a few example of protest that were done by other artist such as Gorilla Girls, Keith Haring and Fahmi Reza.

examples

I learned that all of this protest/ campaign have something in common which are:-

- A symbol (consistent)

- Loud (impact)

- Active

- Urgent

- Approach people

The topic that we were to research for this project is "How design is used to turn us into buying machine". When I heard about this topic, one of the things I think of is advertising. Advertisement could be seen everywhere, and the purpose of an ad is to persuade the audiences to buy.

On my own free time, I am going to look further into the topic by reading the brief so that I have a better understanding on this project. Besides, I would research on different protest done and take notes.

The outcome for this brief would be a GIF!!

An example, how the outcome would look like!!

(Design Manifesto '19 — Dora Visky, 2019)

5. Group activity

We were divided into 5 different groups, each of the groups are asked to discuss an article call the "First Things First 1964 Manifesto by Ken Garland". A few things we have to discuss is the main problem, what we have gained from this article,what we agree on and what we disagree. This activity is due this Thursday.

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Conclusion

Even though today is just our first class, we already have so much to do...However, I hope I got all the important information correct and would be able to complete it all on time!!

citation: Doravisky.com. 2019.Design Manifesto '19 — Dora Visky. [online]

Available at: <https://doravisky.com/Design-Manifesto-19> [Accessed 20 April 2020].