CC GLOSSARY TEST:
15/05/2024
MAGCD Elva Tag: Work
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.
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MAGCD 3 | 2 • 07 ✧ Print Proof
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.
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MAGCD 3 | 2 • 05 ❉ Work Progress
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.
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MAGCD 3 | 2 • 01 ✏︎ Projection II
☞ TUTORIAL NOTES:
- Abstract: shorter and no process notes on it.
- Reflect on what’s the intention of you work, to be illustrative or engaging? (think of audience)
⭐︎ 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
Thursday 29th February 2024
One more iteration of the Guided Drawing Meditation Pad ready for the midpoint assessment:
GCD.Studio
https://gcd.studio/pages/guided-drawing-meditations
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.
★ FOCUS GROUP :
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.