Wk 3: Animation & Printing

Some experiments from Friday’s workshop with Lizzy Hobbs: The material properties of animation. Preparations for this week’s printing experiments. The Amazon river drawn in charcoal, and a set of stencils, ready to screen print the river in many accumulating layers. When animated this will show the river coming to life, reaching out into the country. …

Iterate Week 2: Written Component 1

Written Component 1 In short, my iterative process in ‘100 screengrabs’ is a response to impulses within graphic communication design to simplify and reduce complex systems and ideas to snappy and digestible slogans and messaging, and to neo-colonial tendencies towards a supposedly universalising and democratizing minimalism. It is an argument for increased nuance, subtlety and …

Week 1: Investigate

Testing, testing. 1, 2, 3. Deciding on which category to choose (space, publication or interface), exploring different investigation methods for each – how would these investigation methods transfer to the other categories. Which sites could I choose for each? Settling on Publication: The LRB, and starting to investigate, through written and verbal description and documentation; …