Lecture February 3rd

Today was our last big group lecture at Filton college. We spoke about the module hand book and looked though it looking at what we need to do between now and the 21st of April, when we have to present our research project. We also got a timetable for the next nine weeks saying were we should for the morning lessons and what should be done for each week. We also have a group discussion on what good and bad presentations we have seen. We came up with alot of good and bad point for example should speak clearly and make eye contact and you should read from your notes. This task was really useful it well help us prepare for our presentations.

Lecture January 20th

Today's lecture we spoke over the module handbook, we have nine weeks till deadline and we will now have one to one tutorials with Sam about our work.we then spoke about different ways of starting our research project and finding information.

Academic skills
Sources - books, journals and e-journals.
Periodicals and online
Exhibitions, catalogues and materials
Reputable websites
Archives
Documentaries
Interviews
Visual research

Methods
Exploring
Literature review
Scientific data
Soft data e.g interview

Documenting
Clear
Annotation, notes on images and text
Bibliography details of sources

Bibliography
Alphabetised by authors surname
Details about sources
Books - name, author, year published, the editor, where it was published and who published it.
Journals - authors name, year published, title of article, title of journal,volume number, part number and page number.

Reference
Quotation - whenever you have used any source of information,
A particular theory or idea
Quoting - Quotations must always be clearly indentified by marks.

Lecture Decmeber 9th

Modernism and Postmodernism

Who decides what is good?
Modernism - saw themselves as the guardians of cultures these who were lower down the social order seldom questioned there place.

What is class?
- Education
- Occupation
- Leisure
- Activity
- Taste

The era of the lifestyle.
Consumer objects constitute a system of signs that differentiate the population.
Postmodernist theorists Baudvived and Foucaults.

Postmodernism - difficult to locate historically because its not clear when it began.
Artists Micheal Beutler and John Clay.

1990 the stylistic conventions of postmodernism graphic design Milton Glaser and Martin Sharp.

Stupid Girl

Today we watched the music video 'stupid girl' by pink. The reason for watching this video was to look for all the ways she communities her views to us.

The video include many ways for communication these are the ones i find.
- Uses the TV
- The way they look
- Body
- Different symbols
- Film
- Songs words
- Specials effects
- Location
- History ( black and white images)
- Camera angles

Lecture December 2nd

Communication

We communicate thought language and body language.
The way people stand, an image we no straight away the meaning.

A signifier - A sign
The outline of an image is the signifier. We know the meaning of image just from the outline.

Language is always changing - what means something to you might mean something different to someone else.

Russian Cyrillic alphabet shows different sounds, ideas and different meanings.
Symbolic signs you know straight away like road signs and flags of different country's.

We use everything around us to help us communicate.

Bauhaus

Photography

I was away for the lesson on photography however i have look at other people notes on the lecture and decided to look up the photographer Tom Stoddart. I looked at alot of his photos and find them quite upseting. However i like black and white photos and these show the real emotioin the people faces.

Graphic Design

For the graphic design lecture i was away, however looking though the presentation notes on blackboard i can get a real understanding of all the different sides to graphic design. As my chosen pathway I've never really thought what is graphic design? Now looking thought some of the images posted i see a pattern of logos, layout and typography shown. I love working with text and layout and i think if everyone looked at examples of these it would give people a good understanding of what a good layout looks like depending on the style/subject it for.

Reading 1 - Vivienne Westwood

Reading the Vivienne Westwood text i thought i would of bin reading alot about fashion and her design and ideas (which of course i wouldn't mind as i love fashion and shopping), but there was alot about the design of her logo and her involvement in the process. I was really surprised that Vivienne has alot of say about the design of the packaging and logo as i thought all her interest was in fashion design.
I really like the fact she uses ideas and designs from the people around her. Also the thought of what colours to use and what they symbolise. I like that i can now see the graphic design side of fashion and would like to do something like this in the
future.

Magazine Covers

I LOVE looking at magazine covers. They really inspire

me to look at different layouts and typography to help

me improve in my graphics modules.