Charlotte Knibbs

Determination

We have just started the second third of the first unit “context”, where we work to develop a brief based on all the formal experiments we have carried out on the Square’s form in part one. We find an area of focus and look to investigate it further and create the physical outcome for the final piece (part 3)

I have alot to catch up with, I found it really difficult to get into the swing of the new brief. Plus “investigting a square” was incredibly broad, in my opinion, so it took me a while to find an area of focus. But now I have narrowed it down to two options… either, the square in type and layout (looking into how the square is used in grid formations, layout, print and type) or… Juxtaposition of the square (looking at the implications of the positioning of the square either in “real life” terms or metaphysical)

The juxtaposition one is much more creative, I get to do lots of experiments, or on the other hand, the type and layout version has lots of potential for research… whereas the other one doesn’t.

It boils down to what area would I rather have difficulty with for the next 3 months.

The unit now over laps with another project that has just started called Design Discourse. The contextual part of the first unit which involves alot of reading, I will post separately about that because there are videos to accompany it and this could get confusing!

Basically stuff just got complicated. It is going to take a great deal of hard work, I feel like I might actually have a stress induced stroke!! I hate squares -.-