Quotes Exhibition. Brief. There will be three Themes to this Semester A project; IMAGINARY MUSEUMS RICH MIX / MULTI-CULTURAL ENVIRONMENTAL GRAPHICS

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1 There will be three Themes to this Semester A project; IMAGINARY MUSEUMS RICH MIX / MULTI-CULTURAL ENVIRONMENTAL GRAPHICS This is NOT about a fine art practice show, it will be an informative exhibition such as those you find in venues such as V&A, Science Museum, Expo s and Museums such as the Museum of Childhood in Bethnal Green. At the same time you will be split into groups and asked to work on one of the themes. Start looking for venues to place your exhibition, funding, budgeting, technology required and working visuals that show clearly your developing ideas. In the beginning of January you will be reviewed in the AVA Gallery where you will set up working models and the visualisations of your ideas. This project may cover many possibilities of design from Architecture, Motion Graphics, Fashion Design, Packaging, Typography, Signage and Publication As a project our group had to decide what theme we would work on for the exhibition, after a length of research and group discussions we decided to work on a environmental graphics we each looked into different ideas and concepts and in the end we all agreed to work on quotes exhibition, we all looked into different ways of exhibiting our quotes and ways of producing them such as light projection, posters, graffiti ect. As the final idea we came together and decided to produce our quotes as stencils which than included looking into ways of making these such as laser cutting, spray painting. In the end we decided to save on cost by making the quotes ourselves by designing them and getting them printed and cut by us, its a lengthy process however we had to keep the costs in mind. Than when it came to putting the quotes up we couldn t use spray paints due to the health and safety regulations so we opted for marker pens, a much lengthier process but with a good outcome. Brief

2 What Is Environmental Graphic Design? Environmental design is a field without borders, and is therefore commonly misunderstood. As a multidisciplinary profession merging so many different fields, it s easy to understand how anyone not directly involved would get confused. That lack of clear definition, however, is arguably one of the profession s strengths. As we go through its history and spectrum of design disciplines, we ll try to plainly answer the question on most people s minds: What is it? Along with the lack of clear definition and boundaries, part of the confusion stems from the many different terms used to describe what we do. Environmental graphics, architectural graphics, wayfinding, signage, and supergraphics are just a few of the terms that have been used the history of our profession. Anymore the term environmental graphic design is the most widely used by industry professionals. Environmental graphics

3 Whenever there is the element of group work there will always be disagreements and problems occurring due to people having to work together, whether it is from group members not being able to communicate or meet at a certain time. To help us communicate and to keep track of what s going on withing the group I created a facebook group which allows all the group members to post messages, pictures or links to their work from other sties such as dropbox, or video links from youtube. This allowed us as a group to come together in a sense and comment on peoples work. The great thing is unlike sending an once its posted on a facebook group all the group members can see and add comments. This way you can see that all the group members are doing work and participating with the project and exhibition. The only drawback is when a group member decided to leave the whole project he than left the facebook group and deleted his posts as well as other peoples ones than again the project was near the end so loosing old posts wasn t that big a problem. Overall with the rise of social networking sites a Facebook group allows for a free and easy way for a group to communicate. Facebook Group

4 After agreeing to have the exhibition about quotes and creating them with stencils we each had to design 5 each, with 5 group memebers that will give us 25 stencils around the AVA building. After designing mine the group found out that we were not permited to use spray paints inside the builiding which meant a change in my stencil design, originally they were designed one big peice which will be printed and cut than spray painted over. Quotes and Stencils

5 Since we couldn t use spray paint we had to use marker pens to make our stencils, so save time on doing so I re thinked my stencil design and decided to cut out each letter as a stencil and than put the quotes togheter that way. This method was much quicker to put up on the wall, also it was much quicker to get printed and cut as unlike with a one piece stencil you print and cut one letter individually and reuse it in every word required. A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z,. Quotes and Stencils

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7 For the final exhibition all the groups from the module had to agree how to present their work in the exhibition space available in the AVA. The final agreement was for each group to have produced four A2 sized posters, one A0 and a one minute long video about the views and opinions of the project. My part in this was the one minute long video (stills). After gathering each group members opinions I than put it together into a minute long video sharing their view and opinions. Software used Corel Video Studio ProX3 Exhibition

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