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