Category: Year Four

  • Semester One – Week 9 & 10:

    At this stage, I still want to focus on the fact that my first draft of my dissertation is due by the end of Week 9, but I am continuing my research and looking for stories and objects. Over the weekend, on my way to Edinburgh for my friend Neil’s stag do, I had a…

  • Semester One – Week 7 & 8:

    Week 7 has been an independent study week, and I’ve used this time to focus on finishing the first draft of my dissertation and planning. Collecting Images: Typographic History: Even from old painted signs of businesses on the wall can tell the story of people, their lives, the times they lived, the state and style…

  • Extending Design:

    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…

  • Semester One – Week 5 & 6:

    Asking the experts: Bruce Peter Nicholas Oddy: Show and Tell: Thoughts after show and tell: After ‘Show and Tell,’ I didn’t feel I had done my project justice in either my work or my presentation. I wasn’t very sure or very confident in my work in front of others because I felt like their work…

  • Semester One – Week 3 & 4:

    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…

  • Semester One – Week 1 & 2:

    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…