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54 post(s) in Contemporary Practice
MacINTOSH IMPRESSIONISTA – MY MACBOOK CAN PAINT!
My Macbook's first masterpiece
Last workshop challenge for this module. I have to admit, I am relieved. It was an intense twelve weeks, and ...
Finishing off, Last Week Jitters and Plain old insanity
This week was probably the most intense and overwhelming throughout the whole module (other that the one were I thought I was going ...
New Steps: Ideas in a Different Space, Problem Swap, Cultural and Paradigm Shift – Part 2
The second
lecture of this week was a podcast between Susanna Edwards and Mazier Raein. The
conversation revolved around where is graphic Design standing now ...
New Steps: Ideas in a Different Space, Problem Swap, Cultural and Paradigm Shift – Part 1
Graphic
Design has evolved immensely over the last hundred years. In the beginning of
the 20th century, there was a level of craftsmanship involved.
Looking back ...
WHAT LIES BENEATH: DECODING MESSAGES AND INTERPRETING INFORMATION – THE LEAFLET
As part of this week's task, we had to lay out the synopsis we wrote in in the form of an editorial piece. ...
What Lies Beneath: Decoding messages and Interpreting Information
In 1995, local singer John Bundy won the ‘Ghanja tal-Poplu’
award with his song titled Pajjiz tal-Miki Maws (Mickey Mouse land).
The song is a ...
Mananni – Ta’ Gorg Pisani
I finally got round to completing the font book for the poem I chose last week. In all honesty I could have produced ...
Breaking News 2.0 – TRENDS AND ENVIRONMENTS: LIGHTING UP THE MESSAGE, SYMBOLISM AND SEMIOTICS OF THE NEW – PART 3
I really enjoyed this part of the lecture. It was a tour of the installation named Breaking News 2.0 by Patrick Thomas. It ...
Trends and Environments: Lighting Up the Message, Symbolism and Semiotics of the New – Part 2
Case study: The Olympics Branding Through the Years
Various Olympics logos
This part of the lecture is about comparing a common concept in different cultural ...
Trends and Environments: Lighting Up the Message, Symbolism and Semiotics of the New – Part 1
Symbolism and Semiotics
Symbolism has always been used by humans to represent and communicate what otherwise is abstract. It has played an important role ...