Vicky Kafkaki – Graphic Design MA Falmouth University

The task is to communicate an emotion you perceive your city or location is about. Take the word and use an appropriate material, form or medium – 2D, digital, 3D or immersive. This is the first map of the area where I live – created by Captain John Smith on 1608. (https://www.chesapeakebay.net/discover/history/captain-john-smith) “Captain John Smith Read more

For this week we had to create a project, representing our current skills and skills that we want to acquire. I first created couple lists: I created this image – I used couple fish – the ones next to me are representing what I know (“what I already caught”) – the ones swimming in the Read more

 What would you like to be doing that you are not doing in your work?   Simon Manchipp, SomeOne : So, the funny thing is, I don’t really think I would want to do anything else… I really like the radically different mindsets that are required for each of the projects… To give you an idea, at the Read more

The ‘evil eye’ I pick the ‘evil eye’ – I have at least 10 of them in the house (different sizes). We can apply the Ethnography research. The evil eye is a curse from Greek culture that has been passed through many decades and still exists today. It states that when someone is envious of you, Read more

Why and how? The role of research in graphic design: Semiotics, Analysis, Communication, Theory, Systematic, Approaches, Semantics, and Discourse theory by Noble, Ian & Bestley, Russell In this book thee authors talk about why we do what we do and how, through testing, feedback, and some other approaches. Method – is a way of proceeding Read more

Go out – look, explore and record I went for walk in main Street in Bel Air (this is where I live, is a small town in Maryland) I took many pictures I was looking over and over at the pictures – what I haven’t notice before are the different front doors – different colors, Read more