Nicholas McLaughlin Blog
Creative Technologist/ Designer/ Student.
Category: Year Four
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Formative Assessment: What should I take away from formative assessment, and how will I realise it moving forward? That being more making, a deeper exploration of research, a clear direction of my project, maintaining good documentation, and finalising the pieces of work from the archives. More Making: When it comes to the materials and the…
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Formative Assessment Presentation: Goma: John Akomfrah’s Mimesis- African Soldier : I didn’t get the pleasure of watching all of ‘Mimesis- African Soldier’ due to time constraints. Still, my IxD hat was one, and what I couldn’t stop thinking about was the use of three large projectors, each playing a different film that intertwined to make something…
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At the end of last week I spend some time working on some design aspects of the project within my new framing of being more abstract with it or less like a real exhibition in a museum and trying to do everything myself when usually it would be a team of people for each section.…
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At this stage I’m still wanting to focus on the fact that my first draft of my dissertation in due by the end of Week 9 but I am still continuing with my research and looking for stories and objects. Over the weekend on my way to Edinburgh for my friend Neil’s stag do I…
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Week 7 has been independent study week and I’ve took this time to focus on finishing the first draft off my dissertation as well as planning. Collecting Images: Typographic History: Even from old painted signs of business on the wall can tell the story id people, their lives, the times they lived, the state and…
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Initial thoughts: QR Code: Today, the QR Code is slapped on the bottom of forms, screens, and posters with very little thought, a second thought. With this work, I want to put the QR code at the front, make it the main focus and explore the idea that it is a portal of information. Idea…
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Asking the experts: Bruce Peter Nicholas Oddy: Show and Tell: Thoughts after show and tell: After ‘Show and Tell’ I didn’t feel that I had done my project justice either in my work or my presentation. I wasn’t very sure or very confident in my work in front of others because I feel like their…
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My Aim: Last week, I was unsure of what I was doing and found myself getting into a bit of a funk. I wasn’t sure why until I took some much-needed time away to spend with my family and watch Scotland beat Belarus 2-1 at Hampden. But as I was sitting there getting a bit…
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Design Proposal : In all honesty I’m unsure what the year ahead holds, I’m not sure what I’m going to produce. At this moment I have ideas of what I might look into and what my work might follow. I have the edges of the puzzle but I have no idea what the middle of…
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