Your Task
Take a graphic design interest that you are familiar with and investigate how the idea can be improved, disrupted or retold through a shift of application.
This might be an opposing media or environment ( e.g from book to installation, packaging to performance) or an opposing time or fictional future (e.g. speculative design). You can tell the story of your idea in any medium, but ensure the shift you make with your project is apparent, courageous and driven by risk and a rationale.
Upload your work to the ideas wall and demonstrate further reflection on your personal critical, reflective learning journal; your blog
Research:
Notes on the Lecture:
This week’s Lectures addressed a number of key talking points that are, in my view, integral to the future of design-practice. Each of the subjects that were discussed posed questions pertaining to the relationship between the role of the designer and the needs of society, and it is by exploring these subjects further that we will begin to formulate a perspective on who we are and where we are going, as creatives and as a society.
In responding to the question, Sam Winston elaborates on his views regarding the ostracisation of first-hand experiences in favour of mass-participation in the digital-community, making specific mention of the segregation of disciplines within the museum and gallery sectors. For me this was intriguing, as in my view such institutions benefit from integration.
Interestingly, all participants in this weeks’ lecture held similar opinions in regards to the roles of the agency, going forward. With each practitioner stating their belief that the responsibilities of the agency have become much broader and as a consequence, the skillset of the designer is far more versatile. All parties were inclined to believe that this is going to play a formative role in the future of the industry.
Examples of work that transcend disciplines:
James Jean.
James Jean: Schrodinger’s Kitten Rescue. 2018.
Jame Jean: Portal Interior. Stained and Fused Glass. 2018.
James Jean. The Fair-haired dumbbell. Permanent Mural Installation. 2017.
Outcome: Organic-Fashion.
With the ascent of the environmentally-aware designer across all creative industries, I believe that organic-matter and innovations in Green-technologies will contribute to a cultural-shift towards a more integrated solution across society.
This change in consumer-attitudes is beginning to take shape in the form of Bio-Diversity led Architecture, Renewable materials being implemented in the production of Fashion Design products, Bio-degradable packaging, and a review and rethinking of how we realise our production-processes in the production of Electronics.
My outcome this week depicts my take on the future of fashion-design, and how through the increased availability of Green-technologies and innovations in the production of materials, we will begin to see a more integrated product that reflects an aesthetic that is intended to flow with the natural-world, seamlessly. The Visual-narratives within society will blend with the organic forms of the rural landscape and redefine the architecture and social-hierarchies within our communities.
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