What is Creativity?
Oxford languages defines creativity as 'the use of imagination or original ideas to create something; inventiveness'. For me, creativity...
Understanding Creativity
I decided to follow the same thought process I had with subversion, so I had a look on Wikipedia to get a broad understanding of the word...
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...
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...
Plan of Action: designing through subversive practice.
I have completed some initial research and documented what interests me from my findings and gathered imagery for inspiration I need to...
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...
The Shopping Trolly Chair
Frank Schreiner's 'Consumer's Rest Chair' (1983). Note. From Design is Fine. History is Mine. (n.d.). This is an example of Frank...
Digital Sketchbooks - Sketchbook 2
In the second digital sketchbook, there is more detail regarding Archer's 'The Nature of Research'. We were asked to create a short story...
A story of my thought process and battle through procrastination
A question of research! A question of research… Even the title sounds daunting. Moments before I was almost too excited to begin my...
Digital Sketchbooks - Sketchbook 1
During this project I have been photographing my notes and sketchbook work and collating it in a digital sketchbook. I have uploaded some...

















