Academic Year 2010/11 – Day 6

I think today can be classed as a 'typical Thursday' Meant to be a day spent doing theory, although more practical work was done in the end. Not much else to say to be quite honest. I think tomorrow would be good to spend some time looking over current wayfinding typefaces, maybe for the first... Continue Reading →

30/09/2010 0

Academic Year 2010/11 – Day 5

Today the morning was spent getting into groups and carrying out an exercise, which was; Edward de Bono's six hats exercise. This consisted of 6 people having different roles within the group discussion to try and evoke different thought strategies from people. Overall it was quite successful, although I didn't understand the point in the positive... Continue Reading →

29/09/2010 0

Academic Year 2010/11 – Day 4

Today i looked over some of the signs i had taken pictures of at Heathrow airport and evaluated them. Did i think they worked well? why/why not? and how could they be improved? here are some examples(to view larger please click the image): The below image is of the standard signage that they have at... Continue Reading →

24/09/2010 0

Academic Year 2010/11 – Day 2

The first official day back was just as I expected, plenty of talking and a couple of exercises trying to get our creative mood back for the academic year ahead. The first exercise was similar to word association. I had to quickly pick five words which related to my practical project and for each of... Continue Reading →

22/09/2010 0

Academic Year 2010/11 – Day 1

For my first year of college I had to do this thing called 'Personal Development Plan' ('PDP' for short) this was clearly not a great system of confusing sections to fill in on a Word document, this had to be done at the end of every week and, if used correctly, should aid the user... Continue Reading →

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