Reflection (Week 1)

Today is our first GD in Content class.

For today class, my lecturer give briefing about the projects that we should done in GD in Content part 1and 2. In the course, we will do a lot of research and make use for it when we are doing our project. Basically the module of this course is separated into few parts which are Practice, Position and Professional. There are 9 projects we need to for this course, so these projects will be separated into two parts. We are having a long semester for this semester, so we are going to cover most of the projects in this semester.

Each course has its own learning outcome. For this course, we are asked to do research, try to make use for it, and apply these information into our project and thinking about the material/media that could help us convey the message. Different target audiences may have different message to convey. These few learning outcomes should be assessed when we are doing the practice or position parts. For the professional part, we need to identify, develop and investigate areas of interests, and create a portfolio of design work that reflects your own practice.

Today, we are going to start our first project which is "I am Amplifier". This project about shifting the context of the message from its original state.Our lecturer has shown us some examples so we can further understanding. There is an example that I am interested which is an artwork that created by Keith Haring. I knew this designer when I was in Foundation. There are many of his works include sexual allusions that turned into social activism. He achieved this by using sexual images to advocate for safe sex and AIDS awareness. There are also other artworks which created by Gorilla Girls and Fahmi Reza are be shown as examples. From the examples that our lecturer has shown us, we can learned that all these poster/campaign are a Symbol, Loud (straight forward), Active, Urgent and Approach people.

The topic of our first project is "how design are used to turn us into a buying machine." Before starting this project, we have a group discussion. We need to read an article and answer the question that posted on BlackBoard. Then only continue doing this project. Before trying to design the typography GIF, I think I should have my main topic and start doing research about it.

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Reference list:

Editor. (2020,14 April). Keith Haring. Wikipedia. Retrieved from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Haring