#szethrough

Week 9 - 22/Mar 

Feeling: CAN’T BELIEVE IT’S ALREADY THE FINAL LESSON

It’s the presentation day today, a chance to listen to other groups to introduce and talk more about their newspapers.

Looking back to the previous lessons, I found myself really enjoy and I always look forward to having the next lesson, there is always something new to learn.

- Definitions of design

- Definition of research (not only the common primary, secondary & tertiary research, but also observational research)

- Different levels of visual messages

- Context (important to consider while designing)

- Purpose of critiques (attitude of giving and receiving)

I love doing the class exercise and activities, I feel like this course is experiencing and exploring more than just simply telling conceptual ideas, which makes this course really fun and attractive.

Week 8 - 8/Mar

Feeling: satisfying

Our newspaper is out!!

Tina and I feel so satisfied with our work, we both paid our greatest effort to the outcome. Today we have read each others’ newspapers in class and gave them feedbacks, I enjoy reading them a lot, there is so much to learn from.

I like to layout of our newspaper, neat and tidy, easy to read and it looks like a newspaper. Our peers have gave us many feedbacks, some mentioned that the message deliver is clear, the colour scheme is calm, composition is easy to read etc. Other than that, some also mentioned that they like the Letter from the Editor part, it makes readers feel warm and the topic of the newspaper less boring.

To do better next time, I think we could add more colours on the first page, like pictures or some decorative elements. Many of the feedbacks are pretty much similar, like adding graphic to attract our readers, some also suggested to make the name of our newspaper stands out more.

Week 7 - 1/Mar

Feeling: smooth

Had many discussions with Tina today, we are required to fill in the google slides as a group. Our ideas are very similar, therefore there aren’t disagreements when discussing on audience, context and the container.

For the audience part, we are clear about what we want our readers to know, and how we want to influence them. We aim to inspire our readers and encourage them to make changes. Our target audience are adults suffering from stress (especially working class) and people who don’t feel like they are on the right track. By understanding what is lifelong learning, readers will be able to realise the importance of it, we hope this will further increase their willingness to make some changes in their lives.

Week 6 - 22/Feb

Feeling: surprised

Making my own field notes is more fun and interesting than I imagined haha

Week 5 - 15/Feb 

Feeling: long lecture today~

The main topic of the class today is basically talking about the levels of visual messages. After all the explanations, I have concluded the definitions of those levels in a simple way...

Lv.1 Representation: basically representing something visually

Lv.2 Symbolism: representing something in a simplified way

Lv.3 Abstraction: representing the significance of something in a more simplified way

Week 4 - 8/Feb

Feeling: so tired…didn’t sleep well last night

This week we submitted our symbols in different sizes, and also 2 versions: colour, black & white.

Week 3 - 25/Jan

Feeling: sad… having lesson at home… sigh

The class was divided into two parts, class critique and conducting group research.

Class critique: footprint has the strongest sense of showing the topic, but the circle one seems to be more interesting with the idea. The circle is formed by little circled that are closely connect together, except for the two circles that represents begin and end are just only touching one another. It symbolises the start and end of our lives, while those connected circles symbolises our life journey, including the challenges we overcome, the milestones we have reached etc.

Week 2 - 18/Jan

Feeling: very enjoyable  >_<

Appreciating others’ works gives me inspiration