Monday 5 November 2018

Extended practice briefing

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