Applying Graphics Practices To Field

After a sufficient amount of research and thought-provoking lectures, I think that beginning to creation process will help the most to push my ideas and a general understanding of the project much further.

At the start of Level 5, Within graphics I was tasked with a project aptly named “100 Marques” we were introduced into a process called the “Double Diamond structure”.

Within the “100 Marques” project I was given a single week to execute the first half of the first diamond within the structure, giving less care to the quality of the outcomes, all 100 of them were logos for what may become my own graphics-based design company. I found this to be very useful as an activity to stimulate ideas. by making them quickly I was not being overly concerned with the quality of outcomes, but more so trying to achieve a large number of outcomes, giving me a much larger spectrum of work to analyze, annotate and look back on throughout the project. While I do not think it would be particularly feasible to attempt to create 100 ideas for this project, I certainly think it would be possible. Now that I have a strong potential theme and audience for my art piece I could draft up 20 potential sculptures, 20 potential light pieces and a portion of potential miscellaneous concepts that use mediums such as nature-based pieces or interactive works. These drafts will be firstly quickly created digitally as that is the medium in which I am most confident in, I will then pick some of the best looking and meaningful pieces and then take those forward to become much more refined digital outcomes, and then potentially I can look at creating these outcomes physically in a small scale model in order to see what they look like when lightning and other environmental effects are applied to the work in order to achieve a clearer picture of what would happen to my work once it will be placed within Cardiff.

This exercise is to help to pinpoint what area I want to explore, by creating multiple different ideas within many different mediums, I will hopefully by the end of this ideation process, know exactly what type of structure I would like to create.