CECILIA JACOBS

I thoroughly enjoyed my Studio 1 Communication Design experience. The course, being split up into Essentials and Studio, provided me with a vast range of skills and knowledge.

The Essentials classes gave me a great insight into industry practice, as we learned how to write a project proposal, manage a project and plan a project. The skills we learned in Essentials will stick with me not only in this course, but in my future careers.

Moreover, the core classes of Studio 1 broadened my creative horizons, inspiring me to think in new ways about food and design. Taking on the topic of ‘tacit taste’ my class was challenged from the beginning, as most of us hadn’t heard of a tacit recipe. I loved how personal the responses were, as most people’s tacit recipe’s were something nostalgic or meaningful to them. When focusing on something so close to the heart, creativity definitely flows. Class activities such as the exquisite corpse and painting with food opened up opportunities for design, whilst giving us inspiration for our final pieces.

Week 13 | Food Event

Week 12 studio | Editing

Week 11 Studio | Editing

Runaway spice sequence

Week 11 | Lecture 

Gemma Warriner’s “Twenty-Fifty”

In this publication, Warriner uses food as a way to visually display some of the most shocking data surrounding the global food crisis.

The image on the left uses a mushroom to represent food production, indicating that a 70% increase in food production will be required by 2050. The image on the right uses a garlic to depict food waste. It shows that over 1/3 of the food produced for human consumption is lost or wasted globally every year.

Week 10 | Studio 

Week 9 | Filming

Week 9 | Lecture

The Growroom at Chart Art Fair - by SPACE10, Mads-Ulrik Husum and Sine Lindholm

Sustainability & Design

In this week’s lecture, we were shown an example of design used to educate and inspire people about growing food sustainably. The Growroom is an installation set up in various cities, open for the public to enter and enjoy.

“WE'RE INVITING YOU TO STEP INSIDE THE GROWING GREEN HAVEN, SMELL AND TASTE THE ABUNDANCE OF HERBS AND PLANTS, AND HOPEFULLY IT WILL SPARK PASSION ABOUT GROWING YOUR OWN FOOD IN THE FUTURE.”

Spice Chain

Week 8 | Preparation for film

After establishing the necessary props for my Tacit Taste video, I began working out exactly how I am going to achieve the idea I have in mind.

The concept of my short film is about my attempt to follow my uncle’s Gluwhein recipe, but not being able to. This is due to the uncooperative ingredients, which turn almost human-like in the film. The spices begin to wriggle and form an alliance in their effort to run away from the hot mulled wine pot.