OUGD505 Brief1/2 Visit to Manchester

After the visit to manchester Library and Peoples history museum,

I took away some intresting aspects for both money and other 

political and historical information, specifically in the people of 

history. I learnt about women's place in voting in the early 1900's.

 

This is a collection of stock market graphs of a vacation of dates
showing how unstable money can really be.

Me in the £10 note.

Daisy in the £10 note

Circus China. From the Art Gallery/Museum.

Pattern Design in the Art Gallery in Manchester

OUGD505 Brief 1 - Licence to print money

The Brief
In an age of Apple Pay, Bitcoin, contactless, Paypal and other options for the transferring of funds, is there a future for "real" money?

Undertake research into the development of coinage and banknotes while also exploring the cultural understandings of legal tender. Following this initial engagement (including the research trip to the People's History Museum's Show Me The Money exhibition), begin a more developed interrogation of financial transactions in order to complete your own proposal for the future of the banknote.

Your proposed banknote design should be presented as a finished print that makes use of any of the varied analogue print processes available within the college's workshops. Submissions should additionally be created using a minimum of two colours/finishes. Paper size for completed work will be 21cm x 26cm with banknote designs displayed landscape. (The size of the actual banknotes are to be determined by the student when based on their design rationale. It is up to the student whether they choose to display one or two sides of a banknote on the print.)

Each 21cm x 26cm print is to be submitted by 21st April 2016 for inclusion in a Level 4 and Level 5 group show that will run in May 2016.

Please note, finished prints for this brief are not digital prints.

Considerations
Think visually, explore both literal and lateral responses. Explore working with text and image, both combined and separately. Consider the various techniques and processes that are available to you and their suitability for conveying or re-enforcing the ideas that you are trying to communicate.

Requirements & Deliverables

• Analogue print on 21cm x 26cm stock for completed designs.
• Final print.
• 2 x A3 design boards submitted as PDFs that provide a condensed overview of your research, process and design decisions.
• Documentation of your development via posting to your Studio Practice blog. 

My Understanding of the Brief

OUGD505 Brief 2 - Research Time Plan

Jan 14th - Briefing

Jan 18 - Feb 29 - Consider subjects

Feb 29 - April 4th - Research

OUGD505 Brief 2 - Product, Range and Distribution

Examine graphic design outputs relating to social, political and 

ethical change. Aim to increase your awareness of historical 

examples plus contemporary practice that is responsive to 21st 

Century issues. Be sure to note the relationship between medium 

and message.You should then produce a body of research work that 

explores the connections between these concepts and their respective 

design outcomes prior to your own practical and conceptual exploration 

of possible products, ranges and methods of distribution that may be 

suggested by your preferred content or, indeed, those that reflect your 

own ideologies, concerns and/or ambitions.

Part 1: Based on the introductory workshops, develop a practical, visual 

and contextual investigation of a specific subject. You should aim to develop 

research from a range of primary and secondary sources in order to fully 

explore the opportunities for informed creative development. Your research 

and development of this part of the brief should be documented on your 

Studio Practice blog and will be presented as part of your interim concept 

pitch.

Part 2: Devise and develop a body of practical work that both distils your 

knowledge of an identified issue and demonstrates your ability to tap into 

the market potential for socially, politically and ethically-driven design. This 

output should still work within the broader creative and professional contexts 

of graphic design but could be based around ideas of awareness or protest. 

Examples of potential deliverables include (but are not limited to):

materials relating to an issue-led campaign (this could be one affiliated to an 

established organisation or a more ‘guerilla’ approach)
a poster series
a booklet/publication/manifesto
a web/digital platform
placards, banners or a set of badges
a range of products or merchandise that communicate your identified core 

message

Your contextual research, critical observations and reflective evaluations should 

be documented on your Studio Practice blog and summarised within reflective 

content that supports your design submission. Your response should explore the 

relationship between product range and methods/media of distribution as well as 

specific audiences, contexts and appropriate tone of voice.

Requirements and Deliverables

-As defined by your interpretation of the selected brief.
-You will need to meet any mandatory requirements specified on 

individual briefs.
-In addition to the submission requirements for the briefs you will need 

to evidence the research, development and production of your resolutions.
-Your work should be documented through regular labelled posts to your 

Design Practice Blog.
-Correct labelling of your work on your blog is essential. Failure to organise 

your work clearly will affect the assessment of your work.
-Your response to the brief should be supported by a rationale and evaluation 

of your work in relation to the initial brief.

-Resolutions & Products appropriate to your selected brief(s).
-A minimum of 5 x A3 design boards/design sheets (submitted as PDFs) 

articulating the selected research development, resolution and contextualisation 

of your work.
-Posts to your Design Practice blog demonstrating your ability to effectively record,

 document and critically evaluate the progress of your work in relation to your own 

intentions and appropriate areas of contemporary creative practice.

My response

At this point I am not sure on what I would like to research in response

to this brief to do this I will create a mind map to get the ball rolling,

we are visiting the peoples history museum this will hopefully give

me some influence! To manage my time effectively I am going to create

a detailed day plan to help me manage not only this brief but also brief 1

and the other modules. I look forward to the results of this brief.

OUGF504 Studio Practice Evaluation

OUGD504 Studio Practice Evaluation

Since the first year I feel I am developing and growing as a designer,

 this module has allowed me to improve my design and language skills. 

When writing my blog posts I have tried to write in third person as 

much as possible so my writing will improve and appear more 

professional I would like to progress this in the next module as I am still 

learning, English is one of my weakest strengths and I am hoping at the 

end of this year I am confident with my writing skills.

Out of the 4 briefs I feel the most challenging was Brief 4 this being 

because it was live not only this but presenting to client ‘Only’ It was 

also challenging because I had never before tackled a digital brief, I 

really enjoyed this and would like to further develop my skills in this are. 

I am still unclear in the direction in which I want to take my practice but 

by testing the waters of different briefs I feel I will become closer to a 

strong mind-set and direction. Brief 4 was my most enjoyed brief out of 

the 4 because of the new challenge, it was great to have feedback from 

a professional that was extremely useful that I could even use for advice 

when tackling a digital brief again.

In this module my most successful brief I believe is Brief 3, I feel I kept to 

my time plan and developed and acted on my feedback well. I believe the 

reason this was most successful brief was because of my previous and current 

knowledge on book design and binding. From this brief I learnt how to do 

foiling this was probably one of my highlights from this module, I really 

enjoyed doing this and loved the effect it gave. I would like to try foiling on 

a larger scale by doing screen printing as for my experiments I just used the 

laminator.

My least successful moment is probably on Brief 2 although I feel my outcome 

was strong and overall successful – I did not do enough research to inform my 

idea this became apparent when I began to struggle with design direction and 

ideas. This has made me realise just how important it is to gather relevant and

 useful information without you cannot design or design well anyway.

This module I have managed my time better than last year, to do this at the 

beginning of every brief I used the time scale and split up what needed doing 

although occasionally I would stray from my plan it kept me motivated to 

complete it, not only that but it also gave me a brief idea of what needed to be 

done.

Overall this brief went considerably well, in the next module I wish to expand 

and further my skills in digital design as I believe I have still lots to learn about 

designing for web etc. I would also like to complete another logo task although

 this time round I didn’t do as I wished I believe the more experience and practice 

I have in this area I will learn and progress more. If I could do anything differently 

in the module it would be to use more primary research although I experimented 

a lot in this module I would like to do more to improve my skillset and knowledge.

OUGD504 Brief 4 - Design Boards

OUGD504 Brief 3 - Design Boards