MAGCD Elva 
OUTCOME 1
CREATIVE CONSCIOUSNESS
GLOSSARY
Final outcome – Trimmed and drilled.
Unsure the pictures make justice – this is a satisfying item to hold.
OUTCOME 2
MEDITATION
The Method of Creative Consciousness
Final version completed with extended glossary.
MAGCD3 WRITTEN RESPONSE
VIVA PRESENTATION
CC GLOSSARY TEST:
15/05/2024
LAST TUTORIAL NOTES:
13/05/2024
• Glossary should take more space.
• Visual hierarchy is not working.
• Consider making a “Pantone” binding to build a glossary. – Print on cards.
LASER CUTTING SESSION:
14/05/2024
I decided to engraved the meditative pictures on to the disks instead of the sacred geometry.
I managed to get a small printing spot at the Publishing Workshop at CSM and did a Print Proof of my Meditation: Method of Creative Consciousness publication to keep working on it and show it on the last tutorial before handing.
Printed two copies, one on purple paper and the other on Crush Corn paper.
Below is the plain written content of the publication above:
I booked a foiling and laser cutting induction to test out different things.
FOILING TESTS:
I wanted to test how would the images look like foiled on different paper as I wanted to make a publication with different types of paper within. Tests didn’t really work. So I abandoned the idea to have them foiled on different paper and included them into the publication with gradients.
LASER CUTTING TEST:
In the laser cutting induction I got the opportunity to try out one of the designs I had intended to laser cut with sacred geometry.
I also meditated on the written content of the project and creative consciousness. The more I meditated, the more meaningful visualisation I would get. Like whole pictures rather than elements.
The below images felt different to the rest of elements seen previously, so I worked on them separately as a set and tested a few options on gradients.
Quick print test:
Written Content development:
After deciding the line of enquiry for Projections2 would be “What is Creative Consciousness” and I would answer it from a personal position, I meditated on it with the intention to sketch the spontaneous visualisations I would have to gather content for the project.
To gather as much as possible, I meditated on each chakra independently for 20min and sketched blindly on a paper everything I’d see.
Meditation visualisation sketches examples:
Which later I translated it to Illustrator:
At the end, I meditated also on the concept of creative consciousness and asked for the meaning of all symbols.
☞ C_I Tutorial Notes:
• Think: How do you decide what is creativity?
• Look at your body of work retrospectively – what is your positionally? (influences?)
• Work approach is Eurocentric.
• Research what are the negatives of prompts – Look at counterpoint view.
• Reflect on your own creative process and interventions — What looks like to you? What’s your methodology?
• ARTICULATE OWN PROCESS
• Question: SO WHAT? to everything you do.
◇ Reflections post C_I tutorial:
• It is normal my approach is “Eurocentric” as I am an European individual and most of my references are British, Dutch, French, Italian, German and Spanish practitioners, theorists and pedagogues.
• I understand the need to look for a counterpoint view.
☞ KIR NAZAROV Tutorial Notes:
• Making the invisible visible is often the graphic designer’s job.
• If what you want to do is to visually express your personal visual experiences while meditating, you could approach it by creating a publication about meditation.
◇ Reflections post KIR tutorial:
• Although I was not sure what I was doing by the time I had the tutorial with Kir, during the tutorial I realised what I actually wanted to do.
Both tutorials with C_I and Kir encouraged me to explore what creative consciousness is from a personal perspective.
☞ TUTORIAL NOTES:
⭐︎ SUGGESTED REFERENCES:
• The Polyhedrists – MIT Press
• Illegible Book – Bruno Munari
• Enzo Mari (Design Museum)
• Ettore Sottsass (Memphis Group)
✏︎ NEXT STEPS:
• Think of context and history
• Gather relevant theory