October 2010
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Design Synthesis
Before I started studying first year design at Victoria University, the knowledge of design and art as well as issues surrounding the theory and and practise of design history which I had, was very vague. I had never studied art or design in an academic context and so feel that my knowledge was very fragmented. This course, which I found to be very logically laid out, helped to bring together...
September 2010
3 posts
Design and Identity
I feel that answering the question of who you are as a designer, is as hard as answering the question of who you are as a person. The issue of personal identity has always been hard for an individual to define or understand, and I feel this is no different when specifically design related. Our unique backgrounds, including the way we have grown up, our cultures, religions, genders and life events,...
Technology and Progress
The Bauhaus, or ‘The School of Building’ is the one of the most well known design schools in the world and known for its revolutionary principles of teaching, methodology and style. Founded by Walter Gropius in 1919, the school aimed to combine the artistic creativity and expressiveness of fine art, with the processes and functionality of craftsmanship and technology. This goal to...
August 2010
2 posts
Modern Vision
In ‘The work of art in the age of Mechanical Production’, Walter Benjamin voices his opinions on individuality and the affects of mechanical reproduction on art. Up until the invention of the camera, value of art was linked to it’s uniqueness and the ‘magic’ surrounding the piece, but nowadays what gives art it’s value does not seem to be so...
July 2010
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June 2010
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May 2010
8 posts
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WatchFinal stop motion video
Her Morning Elegance / Oren Lavie →
leighadesign:
Stop motion research
This seems like an inspiration for a previous students work I have seen.
April 2010
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March 2010
8 posts
If you are not doing art for yourself who are you doing it for?
Helvetica
“There’s a very fine line between simple and clean and powerful, and simple and clean and BORING!”
“The reader shouldn’t be aware of the typeface at all.”