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Function Vs Form

As a designer, I always work on the function of a piece first and form follows. This seems to be what is expected of a graphic designer....

The Subversive Nature of Graphic Design

In an article on Prophetik Soul they seem to argue that graphic design, itself, is subversive in nature. Initially, I struggled to find...

The Guy Fawkes Mask

In a previous post named 'What is Subversion?' I mentioned Guy Fawkes and whether his activities were subversive. This is what made me...

Subversive Design

I wanted to collate all the subversive design research I have completed into one place. I looked at a couple of articles throughout the...

Subversion: A Poster

As mentioned in my previous post, I selected a few words that I felt best represented my initial understanding of subversion. From a...

The Many Words of Subversion

I conducted a brainstorm where I wrote out all the words I could think of relating to subversion. Rather than creating a mind map, as I...

Brainstorming: Subversion

After researching a range of definitions, I felt it necessary to complete a brainstorm of sorts. However, as we are looking at...

What is Subversion?

If you google subversion, the definition given is that Subversion is "the undermining of the power and authority of an established system...

Understanding Subversion

To get a broad understanding of subversion I took to Wikipedia. I am aware it is not the most reputable source in the world, however, I...

Surrealism

One of the things I have looked yet but am yet to post is my research on surrealism. I conducted this research for another project but it...

Digital Sketchbook - Sketchbook 4

After sketchbook 3 and decided to make notes on the visuals I had collected. Using the images I collected as a result of New Wave Design...

Collage Experiments: Part 2

I found this difficult when I first had a go a creating these collages as I didn't have a brief to work on and very little images at my...

A Change of Plan

I have begun to experiment with different materials for my collage when I started to doubt whether this would be the best way to test if...

Collage Experiments: Part 1

As mentioned in my plan of action, I have begun to work on collage as a form of subverting my practice in response to my research on New...

Paintings

I have been struggling to find elements I can use for my experiment so I decided to create some watercolour washes that I could use in my...

April Greiman and New Wave

When looking at New Wave I decided to do some further research on April Greiman in particular. I came across an article about Greiman...

A New Wave of Inspiration

When reading the Design History article, mentioned in my previous post, I collected names of designers that I could research for...

Digital Sketchbooks - Sketchbook 3

Digital sketchbook 3 starts with a lecture on the iterative process. When reading through my notes I came across types of reflection in...

The New Wave of Graphic Design

Over the last week or so I have been researching design movements that, at the time, may have had some opposition and, therefore, may be...

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