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what is consumerism Consumerism is the idea of increasing consumption of goods and services this done by manipulative advertising and marketing practices to encourage consumers to buy and consume more this is from the media to shops experiences to gain with the consumer. consumerism refers to a tendency of people living in a capitalist economy to engage …
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Today was the first dissertation design class, we had a workshop with David which was a really useful editorial nudge to. remind us all about how impactful using different typefaces and sizes work in an editorial outcomes. At the start of the online class David introduced our editorial brief involving our dissertation in which we …
From the start of this brief there was the ideas I really want to identify and show the world about however I didn't want to limit myself off from exploring other ideas and that could be really dangerous to do as it could make me just design a simple outcome where another idea could of …
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what is critical design Dunne & Raby website discusses what critical design is, it describe critical design as a design method that uses speculative design proposals to challenge narrow assumptions, preconceptions and givens about the role products (and other things) play in everyday life. It is the opposite to affirmative design, which is design that …
Todays was the second day of the criticality project, this week is about discuss and issues trying find what the issues that I want to use and make a project on and to really dig deep into an issues so I can visually make it seen to others without having too much information selling the …
the frist afterlife meeting started off. with jack Renwick from the Jack Renwick studio, ive met jack in my frist year of univistiry at the London design show . Jack Renwick is a board member of D&AD, external examiner, advisor, speaker and writer while director and owner of the studio, while she's a busy women …
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term two of any year at university always includes a field project and this year field is a project where I have to Criticality got to a explore an issues, while the brief doesn't as a graphic based design out that needed or the issues to be solved this project. Is about finding a issues …
Today was the last day of the 5 day penguin book competition that part of my course while it's the last day it means it's an Formative assessments with peers and my two tutors where they see my design and get to know the concept and will give back some feedback to change and improve …
In any university project it's important to track the development of the outcomes to show how you got from A to B, even though this project is a couple of days long it's important to show my tutors the start and process of changing elements and moving them to get a final outcomes ( an …
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colour choice while I picked my digital colours to use for the book cover designs I was still stuck between doing the ideas of ice cracking or the crack layer ideas that could represent the different layers of global warming we are entering so I wanted to keep the colours a bit icy but also …
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Georgia Smith 