Unfortunately this will be my last blog post before my Design Contexts assignment is due. As the end of the University semester closes in and assignments are due, I have been looking back on what I have learnt. From developments such as Gutenburg's printing press and Neutrath's Isotype - the universal visual language; to Twentieth... Continue Reading →

The following blog post contains the week nine tutorial discussion questions and answers. It is based on the week nine reading 'What is 'Post Digital' by author Florian Cramer. Discussion Questions: 1. What, in your own words, IS the "post-digital" exactly? To me, the term 'post-digital' can be seen as a modern disillusionment with digital... Continue Reading →

The week nine reading was "The Language of New Media" by Lev Manovich. Throughout the reading, Manovich explains 'new media within the histories of visual and media cultures' over the past few centuries (Manovich, 2001); and explores how new media relies on the conventions of old media, highlighting how new media's can create the illusion... Continue Reading →

The following blog post is based on the assessment #3 essay. For the essay I have chosen question 1. "Now that every phone has a camera. How has this affected the way in which social/political events or issues are shaped by citizen visual communication? Is the quality of imagery produced becoming less refined or composed,... Continue Reading →

For the Pecha Kucha presentation I was given the topic "The rise and development of album and cover art". Unfortunately due to family issues and personal health I was unable to present my pecha kucha to my tutorial class, however I was able to submit my presentation to the University blackboard for marking. I was... Continue Reading →

The following blog post is based on week 6 tutorial discussion questions around "Ways of Seeing" by John Bergers. "Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognises before it can speak. But there is also another sense in which seeing comes before words. It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world;... Continue Reading →

A Pecha Kucha is a Japanese style presentation that was developed in 2003 by Klein Dytham Architecture. A pecha kucha is a quick formatted style presentation, that focuses on the presenter showing 20 slides, each for 20 seconds. This style presentation is commonly used in art, design and the creative industries For the Pecha Kucha... Continue Reading →

The following post is based on tutorial 5 discussion questions and are based around the reading "Camera Lucida" by Roland Barthes. 1. He tells us he wants to find out something about photography (p3). What is it? Throughout the reading, Bathes tells us he wants to find out something about photography, where he wanted to... Continue Reading →

  Isotype - (International System of Typographic Picture Education) Week Fours required reading is "Isotype representing social facts pictorially" by Christopher Burk. The reading explains how Isotype was developed by theorist Otto Neurath and his colleagues (as seen to the right: the man, the myth the legend). Isotype was first developed at the Museum of... Continue Reading →

The week 3 reading was "Twentieth Century Design" by Jonathon M. Woodham. Throughout the text Woodham investigates the bigger issues of design and industrial culture throughout the world, and explores ideas such as national identity, pop and post modernism, and contemporary ideas of nostalgia and heritage. Woodham highlights the wider issues of design, and focuses... Continue Reading →