Dyslexia Support Dissertation 001

I attended a Dyslexia support session to receive help for my dissertation, this was something that i felt that i needed to keep on top of and make sure that things are going to the best of what i can produce. In this session i managed to:

     - Re-write my Dissertation proposal & found sources to find from 
     - Got a new selection of dissertation books for research 

First Dissertation Session Back

My Tutor: Jenny Hutton
Email: Jenny.Hutton@leeds-art.ac.uk

All students are only allowed 4 hours each
(6 x 30 minutes sessions)

For feedback to be given you must submit your work 3 days prior to your tutorial


DEADLINE FOR DISSERTATION -    14/02/12    -    4PM
Sign it in at room G23
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Structure 
- Four chapters
- Plan a structure
- Don't be to ambitious 
- Move from general to specific
- Focus


How to go about this
- Solid underlying methodology
- Critical depth & balance
- Clear & ambiguous
- Logical progression
- Argument development
- Triangulation (with three sides to an argument there has to be one side with more weight)

Form Format & Function

This is the most relevant concept to graphic design 


modernism - emerges from the consciousness of the machine age 
this is mostly about the effectiveness of coming from the idea of the machine age 


Form follows Function - louis sullivan 1896




most applicable to TYPOGRAPHY




Beatrice Warde - The Crystal Goblet 


Good Design is invisible.   (Watch Helvetica again) 




Modernism would be a much more socialism style of audience and approach to this




Typography - international typographic style neue fragik 


adolf loos ' ornament is crime'


compare modernism vs postmodernism




READ ... Glen Warde - post modernism


The hand made VS technological






If done on this subject, you must mention these designers 
Adolf Loos
Danny carson
Louis Sullivan 




Ideas given from this lecture
Why is graphic design there?
What is the purpose of a designer?  (self publicise or to greater good of society)
Hand made typography VS Computerised Typography 

Dissertation Lecture

Make sure my dissertation is FOCUSED and  RELEVANT


Previous dissertation titles 
- the role of costume within the film "a taste of honey"
- did western society ever need cards, are they a necessity and how have they contributed to   the formation of the urban environment?


THE TOP ONE BEING MORE FOCUSED 


PRIMARY AND SECONDARY SOURCES
primary research - gathering your own original data
secondary research - making use of the research and findings of others for corroboration, disagreement, triangulation, theoretical underpinning etc.


Research Methods
Visual practice, experiment interest & enquiry (research and critical diaries) 
Questionnaires 
Interviews 
Case studies
Sites visits


Literature search 1 
Books
Journals 
Website / blogs / online forums
Videos / DVD's 
CD's / Tape cassettes / Vinyl recordings
TV / Radio
Newspapers / Maps / Reports 
Printed ephemera (ephemera - flyers for gigs, beer mats, things that wont last) 


Literature search 2
Knowing where to look most effectively
Effective use of catalogues (narrowing and broadening search terms, using related terms)
Use of contents page and index 
Reading the introduction or abstract 
Using a books own bibliography to inform other readings 


Book Search
Leeds college of art library
Leeds metropolitan university library
University of leeds (SCONUL)
The british library in boston spa 
COPAC

Dissertation Start Up...

Make sure that i pick something that i really enjoy cause ill be doing it for 5 months worth of critical analysis. 

Choose area of interest  /  collect research for that area  

MAKE SURE TO GET RESEARCH DONE OVER SUMMER ... THIS IS VITAL!!

Fill out the online proposal for, which can be found on the VLE (once started you cant go back, it must be completed there and then) 

Try write a brief version of this and then show this to my supervisor and see what they say about it before doing the hard copy


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DEADLINE  -  7TH JUNE 


down to myself to find support 


Work slowly but consistently as the dissertation is long so keep on top of things


2ND WEEK OF FEBRUARY IS THE FIRST SUBMISSION HAND IN


so start to think about what i want to write about now (make it personal)

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Sign up on Moodle to the talks to help back up my idea generation process (x3)

1. Form and Function 

THIRD 

YEAR 

STARTS 

HERE 

Final Essay Draft

Open publication - Free publishing - More album covers