Draft Due 13/12/17 4pm
(1) CONTEXT OF PRACTICE BLOG
Throughout this module, you will be engaging with quite a diverse range of skills, methods, concepts, techniques, and processes. This can be challenging and at times confusing. Your context of practice blog is a space where you can make sense of all these aspects of the module in relation to your own project. You will be producing blog posts that reflect on concepts, theories and texts that you have read, tasks undertaken in the studio sessions, developments to your practical work, ideas, proposals, crits, and tutorials.
Throughout this module, you will be engaging with quite a diverse range of skills, methods, concepts, techniques, and processes. This can be challenging and at times confusing. Your context of practice blog is a space where you can make sense of all these aspects of the module in relation to your own project. You will be producing blog posts that reflect on concepts, theories and texts that you have read, tasks undertaken in the studio sessions, developments to your practical work, ideas, proposals, crits, and tutorials.
(2) 2500 WORDS OF CRITICAL WRITING & (3) VISUAL INVESTIGATION
Write a 2500 word piece of critical writing AND produce a body of graphic design work in response to a research question. It will be your job to identify a question that is of interest to you and relates to your ambitions as a designer. Your writing should demonstrate a developing understanding and appreciation of academic writing and importance of critical and analytical approaches to your subject discipline. Your visual research will demonstrate a recognition of research methods in graphic design and show explicit links with your critical writing.
Evidence:
- Context of practice blog
- 2500 word piece of critical writing
- 6 x A3 design sheets documenting your practical work
- CoP3 Proposal
Studio Brief
In response to a considered research question focussing on a specific Graphic Design discipline, you will produce 1 x 2500 piece of academic writing and a body of practical work that demonstrates your ability to research and understand increasingly complex theories and concepts and apply these to the development of graphic design work. This brief is separated into two parts but will be assessed as a whole. As such, you will be assessed on your ability to organise and execute theoretical and practical research in relation to a single question.
PART 1 (Critical Writing):
To complete part one of this brief you must write a 2500 word academic critical essay exploring and interrogating your research question. Your essay will demonstrate your ability to find, read and understand increasingly complex ideas, theories and concepts and to make use of these for your own purposes. Your written piece must adhere to academic writing conventions (which you know already but further support will be available through tutorials and through academic support) and must be written using objective, the specialist language in the third person consistently. Your written pieces must contain some quotes and must be referenced using the Harvard referencing system. The information could be interpreted and then reference who generated that knowledge rather than just consistently directly quoting.
PART 2 (Visual Investigation):
In part 2 of this studio brief, you will develop a graphic design response to your chosen question. Your practical work will build on your knowledge established through your critical writing and explore through practice the creative, practical and pragmatic issues (referring to the way in which you wish to work and the relevant considerations depending on the work that you will be doing) and circumstances surrounding your chosen topic and question. In this way, your practical work should endeavour to "answer" your chosen question through practical means. Since you will be producing a graphic design response, your work must show that you have an increasingly advanced understanding of the purposes and processes of graphic design practice. That is, it must have a clear brief and a thoroughly documented and assessable design process.
Your practical outcome will be documented through design boards in the same way as is required for other studio modules. Be sure to cross-reference information learned and established through your critical writing in the development and documentation of your practical response.
