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Poster Process

Took all my own photos in similar lighting and then took these into photoshop cutting each object out. I then put them into a grid system and refined them using a threshold. I knew I needed to use an image treatment that made it more cohesive and belong to the same family of work.

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Final A2 Poster

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Poster Iterations Week 10

I tested using a borderline to contain and restarin my objects into the space. Testing this with text I found that this line felt disconnected and unnecessary.

I tested using a tartan fabric background in my spread to reinforce punk ideals and my textile background and passion. I found this to be far more successful than the flat red background as it adds more dimension and texture.

Using blend modes on Photoshop I trailed different screens and dilutions to blend my objects further into the background. I found having more objects having more clarity was more successful.

For coloration, I went with the deeper red tone as it showed up better in my print trials.

I trialed placing my name in the tartan fabric in a hand written font to show my analog connections. However, I found that this made my text less readable.

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Week 10 Tutorial

Why critique and feedback is necessary:

-think of it as a gift for growth and improvement, this goes both ways so don't be afraid to question and be critical of other work

-Be specific with your feedback, don't just say 'I like it' or don't like it. Share the reasoning behind your comments so the receiver can understand your perception.

Organisation and compsition

My grid system uses the juxtaposition of a grid with disruption to create interest and intrigue.

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Week 7 Tutorial

Understanding what I am being assessed on

Contextual Enquiry:

-investigating: develops and articulates relevant links to contemporary and historic contexts.

Looking into first and second-wave feminism and the Weimar period, using these contexts in a modern lens.

Research Skills:

-Communication: Utilises appropriate tools and methods to advance and document research materials.

Critical analysis:

-Reflecting: identifies, comprehends, and produces appropriate research materials to inform and support inquiry

Synthesis:

Integrating: articulate and integrate research thinking, process and findings, clearly and fleuntly to present ideas

Mediums to work in

Collage

Mixed media

Publication layout: I am leaning towards a magazine/ publication layout for my graphical system. Needs refining and a why.

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Concept Ideation and 4 x Designer Influences initial research

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Design research references 

Hoch, Hannah, German, 1889-1978. (1919-1920). The Beautiful G

irl. Retrieved from https://library-artstor-org.ezproxy.aut.ac.nz/asset/AHSC_ORPHANS_1071313484

Otto Dix. (1926). The Journalist Sylvia von Harden (Bildnis der Journalistin Sylvia von Harden; Portrait de la journaliste Sylvia von Harden). [painting]. Retrieved from https://library-artstor-org.ezproxy.aut.ac.nz/asset/AWSS35953_35953_30934861

Van Dyke, J.(2016). Dix, Otto (1891–1969). In The Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism. : Taylor and Francis. Retrieved 21 Aug. 2023, from https://www.rem.routledge.com/articles/dix-otto-1891-1969. doi:10.4324/9781135000356-REM798-1

Dix, O., & Tate Gallery. (1992). Otto Dix, 1891-1969. Tate Gallery.

Carolee Schneemann, Fresh Blood – A Dream Morphology, 1983/2004, c-type print 117 x 166 m. Courtesy: P.P.O.W © Carolee Schneemann

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Week 12 Crit

Received feedback on my essay. Improved the clarity of some points and re-formatted my bibliography

Peer post-it feedback

This exercise was really beneficial to share ideas and see other work in progress. Getting critiques from a fresh perspective form my peers who have not seen my work before allowed me to become aware of small changes to make to improve the clarity of my poster. Re set the text aligned for more cohesion and changed the threshold levels slightly to make some of my objects a little clearer.

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Creative Communities

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Week 8 Tutorial

Elements

Constrast 

Emphasis 

Hierarchy 

Variety

Unity 

Continue to iterate 

No blog = fail 

Blog needs no gaps 

Evidence of the work 

Research on the blog in and your work 

In class activities and SDL need to be on the blog 

Lots of different types of research 

Synthesis, integration, bringing it all together 

Take a position 

Ingredients, how much have you cooked it?

Contextual enquiry

 Some of your slides were incorrectly labelled e.g. you are the creator, the creation is your work, and everyone else is part of the creative community section. 

Good to see your draft poster ideation coming together on one slide. Foreground the ideas: what do these objects mean to you and why? 

More could have been made of your own work eg. reflecting on the ideas and themes that drive it (beyond the material, media), and the slides could have provided much more detail on your own work at the start. 

There is some good reflection on ideas and contexts (eg. Hoch, Schneeman, etc) and this could also have been pushed further e.g. art/design and activism, social change, etc. 

Research Skills:

There is no map of the creative industries showing clear links to you (eg. as we did in Miro in class). 

Critical Analysis:

Slides needed more extensive captioning. 

Good to see a reference list but also very hard to read. 

Synthesis, integration:

There are interesting ideas and contexts operating here, and which propel your work further, well done. 

This was a key strength and will serve you well in future. 

Some of the creators selected appear to be more directly relevant than others e.g. your influences across art and music seem more conceptually and contextually relevant than the NZ designers you profiled. 

What are you going to research about this object further? 

History, oral histories 

Leads on from contextual enquiry 

What research tools are more appropriate for each object 

(Do this for all 20 elements) 

What do I have to say about the research as a response? 

Then bring all this together to write about it further, flow chart rubrics 1-4 

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Week 11: CITATION 

Look into correct reference for 

-images, refer to figures eg fig 1 fig 2, place as close to the prt that you are referencing. Use captions to provide a description of the image, both a title AND an explanation of the image 

Figure one, Title, Year, Who produced the work, context and sources 

-ideas (paraphrased)

-cited 

Acknowledge the source 

Full academic reference 

Use foot notes, look into how to use

Turnitin

Upload early, atleast 48 hours 

Apa 7th guide on AUT Library 

5pm Tuesday 24th October 

Blog by the end of class 

PDF of poster as a spread, hand in a physical one too in the office, needs to be names clearly 

Min 1800

Max 2200 

Write an abstract 

Specfiaoislt subject knowledge you want your work to convey 

Specific crafts you want to hone 

What excites me in these communities

2 x blog posts feedback you have given and feedback you have received 

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Essay Draft 2

Refined and cited my resources. Cut down my word count significantly and was more concise in getting my ideas across.

Still a work in progress but beginning to take shape.

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Essay Draft 1

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Tutorial Worksheet | Task 4 

Student Name: Harriet 

Task 4: Individually, pairs or small groups [10-15mins] 

Analysis and development of your graphic system. 

What does all this analysis, reflection and discussion suggest for the graphic system you are currently using to communicate your set of elements and their potential stories and meanings? 

Describe the concept of your graphic system and how it works in practice. Consider the relationship between the form of the graphic system and the contexts of the elements (and their classification, and potential stories and meanings). 

Consider these prompts.  

Write and/or draw your responses below and overleaf. 

Is the graphic system coherent? Overall, would it make sense to someone with no knowledge of you, your design work and chosen elements? 

Your answer here. 

I think the threshold image treatment and the usage of enlarging the saftey pin allows to allude to punk sub culture ideals which underpin my aestehic appearance and values take place in my creative practice. I think the system is cohehernt and follows the rules while also using variables to create interest. The colours and imagery allow for the idea that much of the material is feminist based. I think the system is coherent to someone who may not know much about me and my creative process. 

Is it efficient? 

Your answer here. 

It is efficient in the same image treatment and gride system that correlates to the inventory list. The readability from left to right aligns with western culture method of reading.

Is it clear, concise and compelling? 

Your answer here. 

The copyrighitn is clear and concise and this is compelling by the imagery. The colours allow for a boldness that dominants the image but also doesn’t take away from the objects and enhances the creative notion of all belonging within the same space and world of my creative sanctuary. 

Is it the most appropriate design solution for your selected elements, and categories or classifications systems? What other graphic systems could you research and experiment with? 

Your answer here. 

The layout of the object scattered as if thrown in a random arrangement yet aslo meiticoulsy arranged into spaces allows for the range of different objects to make sense and be relevant at the same time as being part of a rigid system that encodes the ideas of my creative process as pieces of a puzzle that make up my creative sanctuary and in turn my process.

Does it speak to your preferences and strengths as a designer?  

Your answer here. 

The objects speak to my interest and preferences, music and art and literature and fashion. These are also my strengths and translate into my creative process. Fashion leaks into my design processes through textiles. My preferences are my strengths as these are the skill I hone and educate myself on more in both my own time and dedicate my university projects towards. 

Does it take a unique approach to the assignment reflective of you as an individual? 

Your answer here. 

The unique approach in in the essence and make up of my categories and inventory list. The relationship of all of these create a complex web of communities and themes that make up me as the designer. My own unique creative sanctuary in which was made for me by me to allow myself to thrive. This is my own little slice that I can chose to share with people. I think it is entirely reflective of me as a person with many different outlets and underpinned by political and feminist themes. 

How does it create appropriate connections with relevant creative communities?  

Your answer here. 

This allows me to start a grounding and understanding of what is important to me within the creative community and allows me to start seeking places I want to work within and communities I want to align with. Researching many different studios and NZ’s designers has opened my eyes to the range and diversity of the NZ and even Auckland design community. This excites me for my future as a designer to enlarge these  creative circles.

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Tutorial Worksheet | Task 3 

Student Name: Harriet 

Task 3. Discussion in pairs [15-20 mins] 

Share your responses with a partner.   Ask questions, give and receive constructive feedback.  

Consider your (and your partner’s) overall approach, and specific strategies and choices. Imagine you are a consultant offering professional advice, and the one receiving it. 

Consider these prompts. 

Write and/or draw your responses below and overleaf. 

Does your re-examination of typologies and approaches to classification suggest changes? Do all the elements fit in one category? Should they? Is this coherent or is   it limiting? 

Your answer here. 

Upon re-examinaiton of my objects through drafting my posters I revised some of the objects as I had settle onto my typologies and some of these did not fit into my categories. 

The categories are coherehent and non limiting, although somewhat limited to memorabilia in my room. As a collector this was not a problem as I have many pieces of memorabilia to use and influences of art. This comes from being a maximlist and enjoying having all of my special objects around my and tools in my creative sanctuary. This is where all my best ideas are made and work is produced. 

Would a category operate more effectively with more, less or different elements? 

Your answer here. 

Categories: music, textiles, fashion, tools, heritage.

The heritage category could operative more effectively visually with closer grouping to make this more clear as the means attached to the objects are abstract and only identifiable from the inventory list. However I almost like the fact that the objects all appear to be arbitrary at first and then once referred to they become more clear. I want to poster of elements to visually appealing and intriguing without giving too much way at the first glance. 

Should some elements be reclassified? 

Your answer here. 

The classification system is working. The over arching classisication allows all of the object to be easily linked as a part of my creative sanctuary and then the secondary classification is the typologies that will not be specific on my poster, but the links are there for the viewer to make on their own. I don’t want to spell everything out for the viewer and want them to piece to puzzle together on their own. 

Are there blind spots in your selection, editing or approach? 

Your answer here. 

Potentially a blind spot with the over arching theme of a creative sanctuary being too broad. I have remedies this into another typology system: 

-people and relationships who i love 

-places of importance (connection to germany through some object in my inventory list that links to my heritage and aslo links to my infelunces in the Weimar period, interested in my countries heritage, feel a disconnect and this allows me to reconnect with this side of my identity) 

- objects

-routines and practices (listening to music, learning to play music, sewing and tools that are routiones and practises, the blanket to enlvope all of these ideas into the idea of rest which is also impoatnt to allow me to keep going, rest is like negative space, you need it there to allow for all other elements to thrive.) 

Provide 2 positives (what is working well), 2 ‘work ons’ (key areas for development), and 2 questions for your partner to consider.  

 Positives 

-image treatment

-scale

workons

-pieces categorisations cohesively together

-negatice space treatement

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Tutorial Worksheet | Task 2 

Student Name: Harriet 

Task 2: Individually [10-15 mins] 

Analyse your categories themselves.  

Reflect on and respond to the ideas and questions below. 

Typology 

Typology could be broadly defined as the study of types, or the systematic classification of the types of something according to their common characteristics. Typology involves acts of finding, counting and classifying facts (or elements, etc.) with the help of the eyes, other senses and logic. 

Write and/or draw your responses below and overleaf. 

As a designer/creative, you could also explore creative, visual and non-logical methods to create new typologies, if consistent with your strategy. E.g., do you notice half the elements are pink in colour or hand-crafted? Is this interesting, helpful, or offer opportunities or limitations worth considering? 

My creative practise tends to have a set of constraints and variables in the formula of my wider body of work. Colour is a predominant theme where I work with limited colour palettes, yet materials are a variable in which there are no limitations. I tend to lean towards pink and red and black and white colour constraints. Hand crafted is another typology, where all of my ideas are crafted in their infancy by hand, wether this be as a written idea or sketch. 

-tactile

-hand crafted

-colour palettes

-tools

-music

-literature 

-fashion

-heritage

-textiles

What do your current categories tell you about the elements contained in them? 

Your answer here. 

There is a common tactile theme. I tend to like things with a physicality and weight to them whether this be in themes or literal form. The relationship between fine motor skills and hand crafting something that is also a common theme that comes up in my categories.

These categories reveal the nature of my objects. Music dictates my creativity and allows me to stay productive and focused. Having these objects surrounding me allows me to get lost in my own world that I have built and collected both consciously and subconsciously. Collection momentos through out my life allows me to catergorise these and feel safe and supported and nurtured in my environment.  

What underpins your categorisations? Are the elements grouped by a key characteristic, material or medium – or something else? e.g. typography, fluid type, poster design, etc? 

Your answer here. 

At the heart of all my catergorisations is me as the creative. All my objects link to an area of me and my life that holds significance to my upbringing and growth as a person, as a daughter, as a sister, as a woman.

Feminist themes lie at the centre of all of my objects as theses ideals underpins my life style choices. 

What do you these categories tell you about your selection methods, influences and biases? 

Your answer here. 

My choices reveal a definite bias towards punk sub cultures and the aestethics that I identify with. As well as a bias towards feminist culture and influcnes in art and desing and music. 

Bias towards textiles methods, a pattern in the things I reach for when starting a creative project. This is something I could reflect on to potentially widen my scope and enrich my designs however I also like that I have a certain niche to work within. Finding a balance within this could be beneficial in order to allow myself to be a well rounded designer .

What might these categories tell you about you as an individual, and your design practice? 

Your answer here. 

My categories indicate that I am someone who is highly influenced by surroundings and all types of art, literature, music and visual. That my design poractice is not linear and takes many steps and uses tools to become an idea and eventuate into a piece of work.

Categories: music, textiles, fashion, tools, heritage.

Textures and phsyciallity are important for me. I need to be able to visualise a project along the way and stay engaged through manual making rather than fine tuning and slow burn process to get results. I need the tactiity to keep me motovated and interesting and engaged. 

When seen together, what story do these elements and their categorisation tell an audience? 

Your answer here. 

When placed together all my elements create an alamgatmation of a bedroom setting. This was my intention playing with scale to create a point of interesting rather than laying them out in a conventional way that they would normally be viewed. I wanted to use scale to play with perspective and create a herieachy. The story they piece together is one of my history and heritage and what I really identify with. The blanket background provides a sense of comfort that embraces the viewer and indicates that this is a home setting, truely a sanctuary and a space of grow and creative nurturing. 

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Tutorial Worksheet | Task 1 

These exercises are designed to prompt you to think critically about your current selection of elements and the graphic system used to both classify and communicate them to an audience in your final poster design.  

Use these exercises to develop and refine your element selections and categorisations through analysis, reflection and discussion, and make timely and appropriate changes if needed.  

This critical thinking also extends to researching, developing and testing possible graphic systems to collate and most effectively and efficiently communicate this set of elements.  

You might also like to think of yourself as a kind of curator: selecting, grouping and interpreting elements and the stories they might tell, individually and collectively. How might curators' approach this in developing an exhibition structure, publication format, compilation, website, image sequence, playlist, campaign, etc? What is your overall strategy? 

Demonstrate how the elements tell stories about you and offer opportunities to nurture links with relevant creative communities. It is recommended you also re-read the assignment brief. 

Task 1: Individually [10 mins]  

Group your current selection of elements into relevant categories.  

This should be for all 20 elements to be included in your final assessment, or as many elements as you have at present. You can always add and/or edit some of the elements in response to this exercise.  

Name your categories in terms of the main defining feature: e.g.,  “Tools I use in my design work” or  

“Possessions of personal significance which influence my design practice”  

Some elements may be categorised in several different ways at once, such as the above example (a tool might also have personal significance and an important ‘back story’, etc…) 

Categorise graphically and/or in text form below and overleaf. 

Selection of elements -

-Cat Pirate Ring

-Safety Pin

-Paint Brushes

-Wiesbaden Key Chain 

-Hello Kitty Poster

-Sister Tee Shirt 

-Tattoo 

-Guitar 

-Belt 

-Guerrilla Girls Postcard

-Roxy-Gal

-Notebook

-Stereo

-Berina Sewing Machine

-Amy Winehouse Poster

-Watch

-St Pauli

-Ed Hardy Uggs

-Otto Dix Book

-Arm chair 

The idea behind my poster and inventory list is to showcase my design and creative process through the vehicle of my bedroom; as my creative sanctuary. 

Categories:

Heritage:

-Wiesbaden Key Chain 

-St Pauli

Tools:

-Paint Brushes

-Safety Pins

-Sew Machine

-Notebook

Music:

-Guitar

-Amy Winehouse Poster

-Stereo

Fashion:

-Ed Hardy Boots

-Sister Tee Shirts

-Watch

-Belt

Friends and Family Memoribilia:

-Hello Kitty Poster

-Roxy Gal

-Tattoo

-Cat Pirate Ring

Art Heros

-Otto Dix

-Guerrilla Girls

Elements in my design practise that improve skill and help me develop my practise.  

Tools:

-Paint Brushes: painting often begins my design practise to loosen up and create interesting gestural strokesy , using analog techniques allows me to begin to visualise my ideas from my minds eye directly onto paper, using tactilty to form my thoughts.

-Sew Machine: using textiles as another plain and medium in my work allows me to break boundaries of constraints to the screen. I like using soft materials and bringing them into my practise as they become usbale objects.

-Notebook: 

Community, relationships and what this means as a creative.  

 Friends and Family Memoribilia:

-Hello Kitty Poster

-Roxy Gal

-Tattoo

-Cat Pirate Ring

Expressing my love and appreciation and vice versa with my immediate community of friends and family is important to me. As well as continuing to express these relationship through these vices. For example one of my closest friends Lucy, and I, like to collect Hello Kitty magazines together. I also strongly associate Hello Kitty with my friendship with my friend Holly who is one of my childhood best friends who now lives in Wellignoton. Having Memorabial like this surrounding me allows me to keep them close to me always. 

Art Heros

-Otto Dix

-Guerrilla Girls

Surroundings, studio and sensory influences.  

Music:

-Guitar

-Amy Winehouse Poster

-Stereo

Fashion:

-Ed Hardy Boots

-Sister Tee Shirts

-Watch

-Belt

What do these do for me: 

Having my room my creative sanctuary inspires me everyday. I am someone who is very influenced by my envorienmnt and immediate surrounds. I can be quite particular about things and need my envornemnt to be a certain way in order to allow for my creativity to flow. Some practices I do to ensure this can happen are music. My stereo in my room is almost always, mood allowing to help me ideate creative ideas. My go to artists when I am needing to stay focused and get things done are Amy Winehouse, Lorde and Nick Cave. Also listening to the radio as white noice helps me sometimes or podcasts. 

Expressing myself creatively through the outlet of fashion is another love of mine. I creating outfits that are non conectional and break gender stereoetypes, as gender dyshporiua is soemthing I can struggle with. Breaking these boundaries makes me feel comfortable and confident and havig creative freedom in expressing different moods and statements through clothing allows me to build me creative sanctuary further.