This week Megan and I met up and begun working on how we perceive the field site for the coffee community. We began brainstorming maps of the community and relationships between different components. This resulted in our completed field site map. The community as a whole is obviously directly influenced by coffee, meaning that cafes, … Continue reading W2: the online landscape of coffee
W1: my love for coffee
To be honest, I’ve really struggled to settle on my media niche and I’ve seen others saying this on Twitter, Discord or even in their blog posts. But, for some reason others seemed to be struggling more with choosing just one of their interests , whereas, I was facing a predicament where I just wasn’t … Continue reading W1: my love for coffee
Task 2: A reflection
Task two has been a great opportunity to developed my skills within both digital design and visual design. The first to parts of task two, the ransom note and monogram pushed me to focus on pre-existing design elements around me. The ransom note helped me to center on text and font and how the two … Continue reading Task 2: A reflection
Research: a Note to Self
Hindsight is a wonderful thing, and there are many elements of my research project that, in hindsight, I would have done differently. But I suppose that is all part of the project. To try and fail and try again, because the best way to learn is to sometimes make mistakes. If I was able to … Continue reading Research: a Note to Self
THE MONOGRAM
This week we are focusing on monograms. A monogram is usually composed of interwoven letterforms to comprise a unique symbol. The letters are typically initials of a person or company. Monograms were first used by the Greeks as early as 350BC to imprint their coins with the first two letters of the cities names where … Continue reading THE MONOGRAM
Part 1: Ransom
This fortnight I have begun focusing on my ransom quote task for project 2. I wanted to find a quote that spoke to me as a designer and was also a visually appealing piece of text that would translate well in the ransom note composition. I began by looking into all the listed designers but … Continue reading Part 1: Ransom
My Research Proposal
I have always been a big believer that your surroundings and environment can have a major impact on your life and wellbeing, in fact, this is what first inspired my research topic. In my short live experience I've had a diverse scope of living situations, I've lived at home with family, lived alone in a rental, … Continue reading My Research Proposal
Part 2: Illustration
Herbert Bayer was an Austrian American designed known for his role in popularising the Bauhaus design movement. Bauhaus is characterised by a modern, streamlined, straightforward simplistic design that would be easy to mass-produce. The origin of Bauhaus design lies in its namesake, the Staatliches Bauhaus, a German art school established in 1919. Staatliches Bauhaus operated … Continue reading Part 2: Illustration
Stage 1: Letterforms
The past fortnight I decided to look into a few periods of design history, the ones I was most drawn to being Swiss Modernism and Bauhaus. Upon researching these styles, I was able to come up with a few compositional strategies that I think characterise these styles. To discuss the stylistic elements of Swiss Modernism … Continue reading Stage 1: Letterforms
Hollywood Films in Asia: Cultural Discount and Performance Predictability
What are the differences and similarities in Eastern and Western film and why do audiences liken to Eastern or Western film more: Western to Eastern Film flows. In my research, I attempted to find answers to the overarching question: what are the differences and similarities in Eastern and Western film and why do audiences liken … Continue reading Hollywood Films in Asia: Cultural Discount and Performance Predictability
Phoebe Mae 