Assessment 1 Tips
Looking forward to seeing your posters on Wednesday. Here are a couple of things to keep in mind as you work toward finishing...
1. Remember that this Assessment builds towards Assessment 2: you’re working on a larger project and this is your first opportunity to produce work for further reflection as you develop your major work.
2. The research questions are designed to be suggestive, exciting, arousing: a place from which to begin and a site from which to build your work. Don’t get too bogged down by ‘answering’ the question in a literal, singular sense. Let the question guide your practice-led research but don’t let it determine or restrain your investigation!
3. A poster is a form with an interesting and diverse history. You have the freedom to push the constraints in whatever way(s) you want. Think about the material, graphic and textual components and how they interact with each other and your developing project.Â
4. Above all, remember that this is a studio course and this Assessment is an artwork/designed object. It’s not a report, or an ad. It’s a work that’s part of a larger in-progress project, and an opportunity to test out, map, play with and consider some ideas for your second assessment. Think like an artist/designer – what can you do with a poster? Think expansively and push the boundaries!
4. Almost anything is possible, so what matters is how you make the case in the work itself. This course is all about trying to shift the focus from the ‘what’ (what does it mean?) to the ‘how’ (how does it mean, how does its meaning change our understanding of contemporary practice?)
 Have fun and good luck!
