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 →
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 →
Academic Year 2010/11 – Day 3
Today was mostly spent looking over my proposal for the essay, so I thought I would upload what I have thus far: Debating how the use of certain factors within wayfinding systems can help or hinder the user’s interpretation. Introduction: Navigation has been a necessary part of human life for thousands of years. How to... Continue Reading →
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 →
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 →
Some Photography.
Hi all, I haven't uploaded much photography for a while now, so I thought it would be appropriate for me to share some from my latest trip into London, for the full post with picture details please visit my collaboration photography website with Reiss Cleal and Scott Coleman: Frozen Reflex Brick Lane Graffiti: Glass building: Great Fire of London Monument stairs:... Continue Reading →
Icon Concepts & Ideas
Just a very quick post showing where I'm currently aiming my thoughts. I've progressed onto thinking about how icon's should be made up. Circle, square? Pointed edges or rounded? Border or not? All these questions I have to ask myself. I have also been toying with the idea of using a similar system to the... Continue Reading →
GDP 4: Initial Stages & Test Concepts
I just thought I would give a brief overview of what I have been doing so far, in regards to my Graphic Design practical project for my degree. First things first, the initial ideas I came up with, basically these are the things i felt I would find interesting to do a practical project on: Re-design a... Continue Reading →
Graphic Design: Initial Thoughts on Proposal
Well, I believe I have finally discovered what I shall be doing my Graphic Design brief and thesis on! It has been too long in coming to me this idea, and I was starting to get worried that I would never find something interesting and with enough scope, to get me through the year. However,... Continue Reading →
How do you Progress Forwards in a Backwards World?
Agreed, right from the off, this is a little different to what I normally write about in posts and is a little off topic from my actual blog, but as part of my new approach to the blog (updating regularly) I am going to add in this little rule: post about anything I find interesting,... Continue Reading →
Visually Interesting 