The Chelsea Graphics Guidebook
A definitive guide to successful design
A designer’s potential for improvement largely rests on the comments and feedback given to his/her work, be it from a peer or a tutor.
The project aims to investigate the successful outcomes to various briefs covered on the Chelsea graphics course, by asking professional designers / tutors / first class honours graduates, to identify and articulate what makes each project successful.
The intent is to demystify the approaches and reasoning behind successful resolutions, and produce a publication that would help both future design students and young professionals in the industry.
http://chelseaguide.blogspot.com/
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I like your idea Justin.
Im just not sure in which grounds would you base your "students guide for a better learning".
You mentioned making questions, but in what form woud the answers be presented?
would it be a book of facts and/or opinions? or something else?
try to explorer which interaction options will the user have with your final peace.
in the end, it should:
be universal enough for the average chelsea student to be related to (you will get that if in fact your source of material are the students themselves and their experiences which is the case right?).
and
good and bad things, better and worse experiencies will emerge. patterns will be drawn.
When such happens, you will have to be determined in define from the start if your position is critical (where in the end you ´ll have to give a vision, an option, a solution to the problem) or representative (representation of reality)
and
it should be an object that enhances our experience at Chelsea. that promotes the very nature of our course Communication.
(in this case you also have something in your advantadge, currently there is nothing that unites all the students in the campus.)
hmmmmmmmmmmmm
it could be the first publication 100% made by students for students at Chelsea. A pioneer move that would represent a cornerstone on freedom of speach, criative freedom . It could work as an email account to which all students at chelsea would have acess, or any other platform or media, and could freely speak their minds and/or show their work/opinions/thoughts. Then you would select those that would better draw a narrative line and make the publication.
it is an idea that has a lot of potencial.
it´s good.
keep on and polish it.
refine it.
see yaa
Andre
Firstly this will be a great way for you to meet people within the industry but in terms of content and the fact it's from direct sources will make it a guide that students will actually want to pick up and read (or maybe I should have put that the other way around ;) ).
Am sure you'll get some exciting, inventive and creative responses from graduates and I look forward to the progress of this. Sorry, am just reiterating yesterdays enthusiasm around the idea via blog...
Best, Lisa.
'Good to go' with this project, however I agree with the comments so far that you need a little time to esatblish and define an editorial policy, ie: there are many things this publication could do- so source the best and most informative outcomes.
You will need a good script before you go out and meet contacts in order to get the right level of content to then work with as a designer.
I still think, at its core that the project is a about tracing the movement between studentship and professional life. A good start would be to make an appointment with Frank Cartledge who did some CLIP CETL research last year on; 'What is it that GDComm does that the GDComm industry wants?'
GTS
'Good to go' with this project, however I agree with the comments so far that you need a little time to esatblish and define an editorial policy, ie: there are many things this publication could do- so source the best and most informative outcomes.
You will need a good script before you go out and meet contacts in order to get the right level of content to then work with as a designer.
I still think, at its core that the project is a about tracing the movement between studentship and professional life. A good start would be to make an appointment with Frank Cartledge who did some CLIP CETL research last year on; 'What is it that GDComm does that the GDComm industry wants?'
GTS
Justin,
Southampton Institute students came out with a book a few years ago in a slightly similar vein - a series of simple interviews with contemporary designers and their practice.
Can't remember the book title but the guy in charge was Craig Toomey - I met him last year and he said it sold well, ended up in many designy bookshops, got him internships etc.
There were 2 volumes, about A4-ish size, embossed white onto soft cardboard covers (if you're out looking for them).
Editorial was simple B&W with one photograph and text only.
I would be very interested in buying your book, actually helpful, not just a flicky one.
Thought > potentially very easy for this to rest entirely on it's informative laurels and become a simple typeset library book (mediocre). Southampton's book worked off the back of it's beautiful production and bravery with different layouts/typechoices/papers etc.
I'm not saying do a circus poster but there's the danger of going into a shell when you could pull off a much stronger design.
ps. props for doing print design when your strong-point (I'm guessing!) is Flash. Karma normally sorts you out when you walk this road.
Gavin
ps. HORT runs something called The After School Club with kids in primary schools in South England, based around teaching youngsters design methods and getting their feedback (which is normally just HB pencil drawings of famous album covers, but its hilarious).
The results get published in their own book. Think there's 3 volumes out at the moment.
Gavin
Interesting to contact this guy after one of his graduation projects last year:
http://www.jamesmusgrave.com/view.php?id=17
Thanks guys for the comments so far - very helpful.
Gavin, I sent you an email asking if you could give me a bit more information on this Craig Toomey book. And i forgot to add the afterschool club thing as well - Atfirst i dismissed it a bit as its for kids, but i think its still worth checking out.
As for whoever gave the link to James Musgrave. Thanks alot for that, as i now know a bit more about how i want to approach my topic, based on the fact that i want mine to be different (and better) than his.
I intend to send him an email within the next few days to try and get a look at it, and perhaps ask him about how he approached his topic.
Thanks again for the comments.
-Justin
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