Current Project

At the moment I am currently working my final project of university (Graphic Communication) called The Big Idea. I have to create, through any media, a piece of design, which communicates the word PREJUDICE in an new light, visually. Through research I have become very interested in the psychological side of design, which is a key part in communicating a message.  I have learnt this over the 3 years I have been studying Graphic Communication.

What I have become fascinated with is how incredibly fast human brains can form an opinion. Looking into material such as 'Blink' by Malcom Gladwell, which is the study of cognitive thinking and how we judge people within the first seconds of seeing or meeting someone 'thought with out thinking'. Rapid cognition is a key part in Prejudice. I am interested portraying the way that prejudice can be a useful technique to use because looking at why it is bad for society has been done over and over. I want to prove to my audience that prejudice can work in your favour. I will post my final outcome in 2 weeks...

Stamp it and move on

Wax sealing has been around for decades. It involves heating up the wax and stamping an already engrained emblem or figure on top in order to seal a letter. I have always thought since I saw this the first time that it was an incredible way of communicating a personal message and a final statement. This technique has brilliant connotations of using your own personal symbol to seal the bounding envelope. The wax also leaves a really nice, smooth imperfect surrounding, around the perfectly hand made shape or symbol imprinted into it. It is such an old technique but just using that stamp, thrives passion of a graphical design representation. 

With my graduation creeping up on me this stamp represents another stage in my life that I will hopefully have completed and put my personal mark of achievement on. This is not an end though, this is just the beginning of the next adventure!