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  • DEFINE Visual Research – ‘How Symbols and Brands Shape Our Humanity’

    The lettering I have been trying to develop for this project has been quite representational – eg the writing about trees is modelled on tree branches I photographed. As I wrote here…

    00 MA Project, 02 DEFINE, Reading, Symbols, Visual Research
  • DEFINE Visual Research – Natural Ink

    I recently spoke to Ella Brett about her project – she is setting up a natural dye-making print studio which runs workshops. We decided to try an online dye-making session with Sian…

    00 MA Project, 02 DEFINE, Visual Research
  • DEFINE Visual Research – Paper Marbling

    During my tutorial this week, Stuart and I discussed the need to find more textures to illustrate different elements of the project. After looking at Stephen Gill’s ‘Co-existence‘ project where he hand-marbled…

    00 MA Project, 02 DEFINE, Visual Experiments, Visual Research
  • DEFINE Deck of Cards

    I have scanned in some of the experiments (with varying degrees of success, due to the 3d nature of some of them). To get started, I have begun to mock up some…

    00 MA Project, 02 DEFINE, Cards, Ideation, Visual Experiments
  • DEFINE Visual Research – Paint Experimentation

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    00 MA Project, 02 DEFINE, Visual Experiments
  • DEFINE Visual Research – Water Walk

    Prompt: Walk to the nearest body of water I semi-planned this route, by looking for the nearest bodies of water on google maps. I only intended to visit one but there were…

    00 MA Project, 02 DEFINE, Dérives, Visual Research
  • DEFINE Dérive Research

    Having been stuck in a rut for quite some time now, I have been trying to find ways to motivate myself and get some clarity. Unsurprisingly I decided to go for a…

    00 MA Project, 02 DEFINE, Ideation, Visual Research
  • DEFINE Field Exploration

    A two-part day. This morning I dragged my housemate out for a walk to test out the cards in an urban setting (I’ve only tried them out once before and that was…

    00 MA Project, 02 DEFINE, Cards, Collaborators, Ideation
  • DEFINE Visual Research – Tree Alphabet

    As discussed here I have been thinking about how to create more of a link between written language and the natural world, and decided to try and create some letterforms. Didn’t really…

    00 MA Project, 02 DEFINE, Typography, Visual Experiments, Visual Research
  • DEFINE Visual Research – Challenging Perceptions

    Yesterday I went to see Among the Trees, an exhibition at the Haywood Gallery. “By turns poetic, adventurous and thought-provoking, this group exhibition explores our relationship with trees and forests. Among the…

    00 MA Project, 02 DEFINE, Visual Research
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