Reflection

Reflection

The first step of my process was reviewing and understanding the RSA brief and I presented it by designing. So after choosing it, I looked for Journalist, artist who had done related works, I researched and investigated by going to the university library to find related information and valuable data.

Then I wrote my key words on paper, I drew a map and try to find out what will be my next step. I displayed them by visual elements that I designed. Next I became a visual explorer for collecting the related documents; I went out to find related subjects and I took photos.  Also we could write our questions or statements and we could put them on the public places or even in the universities and get feedback from them or we could see people`s reactions and made them visual but I did not do that because I preferred to talk to people and see them face to face.

The next step for developing the design style was the Scenario; so I asked people to tell me their stories about the subject then I designed and illustrated on the paper and scanned it. After creating the scenarios, those designs leaded me to think about their situations and their problems and I made some questions which were my concerns. I figure out there is one question which was common in all of my scenarios, so I tried to focus on it more.

In my tool kit, I defined my general questions and ask people to response by giving them my questions table (set up in A5 paper). After that I put them on the Excel to find out the result then I made them Visual. My next step was focusing on the details, so I asked another questions by putting people on the situation and I asked them to show their feelings by photos or texts; also I made all their text answers to visual. For next step I wanted to find out the result; therefore I made one statistic question to understand if my supposed answer was right or not. After getting my result, I understood what elements were essential effect on my subject. (My diagram demonstrated Love was the answer of the problem due to increasing the depth of partner`s relationships).

The final step was the concepts which were my weakness due to my misunderstanding. I though after all steps we just supposed to find the solution and make it in visual like posters, logos, … but after concept presentation session I understood it is the way the designers choose to present their ideas. Beside that my other weaknesses were I could not find the way that I could display my solution. For instance I wanted to use my craft knowledge to represent my concepts but I did not know the way.

In general all the process were challenging for me because I had another imagination of MA Graphic Design but after semester 1, I learned about the designing process, sketching everything in my mind and make them visual and also I understood we need to pay attention to the details more and ask questions. Moreover we should develop them.