OUGD406 // It's Your Choice // Brief and Starting Point

BRIEF

Select a brief, task, response or product that you have completed as part of the programme and improve on it. What will choose & why? How will you improve it and for what reason? Review all the work, tasks and workshops that you have been involved in since september and identify an opportunity to revisit something that you wish you had more time to complete, could change the decisions that you made or should have researched / developed more thoroughly. You can only select from briefs that you have completed and not those that are currently under development.

Background / Considerations

What we are asking you to do is simple - that doesn't make it easy. This brief is offering you the benefit of Hind-sight, a second chance or another attempt. It is a lifeline to revisit and rescue a good idea from a lack of time, a bad decision in an otherwise promising body of work or an opportunity to take an concept / idea / or product further. How will you make the most of this opportunity. We are not asking you to just re do a brief. Whatever you choose should act as starting point that offers you the chance to develop a substantial exploration of an problem, idea, concept, process. Can you extend your initial ideas into a range of products, a deeper investigation of context / function / format or review your response to a group project. Concept I have decided to take the project i enjoyed the most and really wished i had more time on. This was the NATIVE AMERICAN (100 Things) Brief which was the ironically the longest brief we worked on, so i probably should be sick of that but i feel this was my most successful and enjoyable brief. Most of my ideas for that project came towards the end of the brief and i still had many more that i wished i had the time to carry out. I wanted to experiment with different media more than anything and feel that this project was the best for me to do this in. After the sessions on type, grid and layout, i have been recently obsessed with editorial publications and really wanted to have a chance to create some sort of publications of my own,  so this seems to be the route i will be going for. I have also been looking at different sized paper and styles of publications and risograph printing that has been really influential to me as a designer recently. I wanted to experiment further with this to help push my knowledge in this field and also push this project even further than i already have. I also wanted to experiment with different media and techniques. Hopefully i will be experimenting with combing different types of stock (colour/texture/trace) and also different ways of printing onto stock and maybe even sewing onto already printed stock which is something i come across recently which i really liked the concept of. I decided originally to create some initial design sheets for me to brainstorm my initial ideas on how to improve this project in this direction...