MAGCD Elva 
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.
☞ 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
Monday 26th February 2024.
For today’s tutorial I have showed two production iterations + all 21 guided meditations.
Guided Drawing Meditations Pad experiments:
1 x Full colour with sheets printed in violet, indigo, turquoise, green, yellow, orange and red
1 x Black & white version
☞ Tutor Feedback :
• Ai narration doesn’t bother but ask your audience. You can use it until you get the meditation narration polished and then narrate yourself.
• If you want audience to add their dates, you can add a space such __ / __ / __ for them to write the date on it.
• There’s an issue with the visual hierarchy of the pad. Try making QR smaller, make grid larger and add a cut line for people to tear off outcome drawing.
• Try making some more iterations with coloured paper, coloured lines and variety of cover experiments.
After the tutorial I printed all 21 sheets on regular paper for tests and asked all classmates who wanted to participate to try the meditations to gather more feedback.
10 students participated, most / all of them don’t draw nor they meditate — their feedback is listed below:
General Feedback:
• The activity is very relaxing.
• Some of the prompts resembled them a colouring book.
• Try get feedback on this activity from people who are not into arts or graphic design.
• Variety of grids more fluid and organic, less rigid.
• 3D grids are liked because it let’s imagination flow.
Audio track feedback:
• Slower, leaving a larger gap to breath at the start.
• Give a notice when reaching 5min and have a longer track for those who wish to continue.
• Most students felt 5min was too short but at the same time very approachable and less intimidating than longer time. Ideally, give an option to extend the activity over 5min.
• Ai narration doesn’t bother – it’s ok.
To this tutorial I brought in this table and prompts created from it.
“Get out of your head” 49 graphic design meditations – which I realised 7 of them for the tutorial.
☞ Feedback & Tutorial Notes:
• Consider adding an element of voice over guiding the audience through the meditations
• The Musical Note is confusing
• Realise all 49 of them to see what works and what not.
⭐︎ Peer review feedback:
A student from MAGCD tested the above prompts at the library after class and gave the following feedback:
“I think the exercise helped me in two ways. First, by thinking about repetation and rhythm I started to notice how my thoughts became clearer. For example, when I was drawing the icosaedro, it started as a very frustrating process which eventually turned into something more enjoyable as I mastered the shape. Second, the exercise helped me to take my mind off the things that were frustrating me and the confusion that my creative project was causing. By concentrating on a single, unrelated thing, I felt freer to narrow down my thoughts.” – Evy Prentice
E. Prentice, 2024
✐ TUTORIAL NOTES
⭐︎ Feedback :
• What’s the context? – What Am I applying this to?
• Find the content to work with.
• Narrow down “Anxiety”
❤︎ References :
• Joost Grootens
• Superdot Studio – Modular Design Book
• Type Radio (podcast)
☞ Next :
• Find own angle/content/context
• Experiment
✎ Other notes | thoughts | ideas | questions:
• Anxiety drives creative process
• Can anxiety be aesthetic?
• How to visually communicate Anxiety? Example: What does an anxious line or design look like?
• ASMR – James Taylor Foster (curator of exhibition)
• Sensory Overload – What does it look like? How can it be visually represented?
• How to design for Calmness? How to stimulate calmness?
• How to visually communicate different types of anxiety?
• What are my questions about inclusive, accessible and universal design?
☞ Tutorial notes:
• Too rigid.
• More iterations
• Leave room for surprises
☞ FEEDBACK: