Journal.

Communication Design ended up positively being my favourite course, I really looked forward to my Fridays with Karen and sad I never really got to be in person with my classmates. Throughout this course, I learnt how to develop my own creative style, interpret, break down and analyse briefs and apply my own creative interpretations to the questions at hand. This course allowed me to think critically and develop technical skills that will be used throughout my degree. This tumblr has allowed me to process and make links between our course content, workshops and assignments, furthering my design knowledge, history and skills. Overall both the “Hello, my question is” project and “ask me anything” have developed skills in conceptual and critical thinking and refined my skills in both Indesign and Illustrator.  

the worst cropping anyone has ever seen

My finalised zine

Some examples of work I did but didn’t use in my finalised zine

Finalised Zine

My zine is finally complete and I can’t say I'm feeling relieved due the the 3 other assignments due on this date, rather more frazzled and slightly glad it is over. I think this was a great assignment in developing more technical design skills and overall stepping outside of my comfort zone. I can’t say it’s particularly my style but I've enjoy exploring a designer who was extremely minimalist and used colours that I honestly never would. I apologise in advance for the pink I tried to cut some out, but overall had a lot of fun doing the zine once I stopped trying to make it look like a super professional publication instead more light-hearted, humorous and even a bit messy. 

some illustrations I made for my zine

Not really my particular design style or aesthetic but just experimenting and showing my thought progress along the assignment 

I'm not sure I'll actually use any of this in my finalised submission, but it’s been really enjoyable taking a more laid back approach to the assignment 

After some feedback from Karen, here are some other examples of ideas I've played around with for my zine, less on the written content and more playing around with colours and layouts that reflect my interviewee

Also the mention of coding, artificial intelligence and barcodes may have resulted in some unintentional zoning out. In saying that I did really enjoy seeing Karen and Andys own design piece “live draw” and “trumpet of the swan”