OUGD603 (60 credits)
Deadline: 07.05.2019
Creative, social, ethical and/or commercial roles in Graphic Design
Aims
- To provide practical outcomes or artefacts to a standard that demonstrates a sound basis for progression to professional practice or post-graduate study.
- To engender independence and professionalism through an individually negotiated course of study towards an identified area of specialism.
- To enable students to demonstrate a synthesis of prior learning, practical and conceptual understanding in the resolution of a self-determined proposition.
Learning outcomes
6A3 (knowledge and understanding/critical awareness)
- Informed by recent research in the discipline
6B3 (cognitive skills/ critical awareness)
- Briefs need to be thorough
- Bring together knowledge, understanding, skills etc.
- Doing things for a reason, questioning things and whether or not they are all appropriate etc.
6C3 (practical and professional skills)
- Appropriate methods of professional presentation combining visual, verbal and written techniques
- Blogging well
- Don’t be negative about projects, analyse critically but in a positive way
6C4 (problem analysis/ visual quality)
- Demonstrate the thinking behind the research and how that has been applied to the design
- How the problem analysis and visual quality work together
- Informed design is important
6D3 (key transferable skills/ critical awareness/problem analysis)
- Independent judgements and reasoned arguments
- Thorough review and evaluation
Make sure that all of the briefs kind of fit together to then create an overall fluent portfolio.
Due 25th:
The initial statement of intent to identify the following:
- Themes, subject matter and lines of enquiry
- Research methodologies
- Practical development (media, methods, production skills)
- Contextual and theoretical references
- Approaches to documenting
- Project management
PART 1
Design practice
PART 2
Project journal
In addition to blog, show a weekly timetable on paper or something … use google calendar and print that off at the end