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Apple make so many products, new ones over and over again constantly using resources to make mere identical product all for the sake of FAT growing economy products. why don’t they be clever and have mac’s which are upgraded through parts be clever. but no that would reduce an already huge profit they have the potential to create genius products how about they take into account ECOnomy  and be revolutionary? rather than boring themselves to unoriginal series based on a 1,2,3,4,5. the people who build their own laptops have the right ideas if only they created a commercial all over concept for it. 

Q. What is semiotics?

Well there are a lot of things you can associate with this word. Icons being the main one here but how do we know what they all mean? how did we develop this iconic relationship how did the question mark become the symbol of something that requires an answer or thought?

ARE YOU WATCHING CLOSELY?

Q What is the purpose of Design?

We tease with the meaning of design what is its purpose? Well i could not establish a clear answer because there’s hundreds we as designers manipulate the world you see around us, design work that people aren’t used to and make them understand why it is better. We are the people that fuck with your thinking

Q3 where was i born. pretty simple answer..minus the newspaper getting it wrong…I am not the one in the top left I’m in the bottom right..I am not Indian i’m afraid hehe

byzantine:

Adobe Fuel

Heh, its got a lil bit more popular..yaay ^_^ just gonna join in on the people reblogging it..adds to the numbers so why not :D cheers Byzantine person :)

Q2  Age how old am I? well..typed it into this clock site set my D.O.B and boom i am as old as this ticker goes..Thought for some reason its a few months out! :/ but hey don’t think the tutors noticed that..

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sliflousli:

Adobe Fuel a creative drink, a project by graphic designer Christian Baranowicz.

awesome :P

Starting Tommorow 1 new project will be posted a day, a tiring 56 briefs were answered set by our university.

Feel free to try the questions yourself if you really dare

WHAT

The brief for this is to answer the questions or instructions listed below

HOW

This is an assignment style brief, so whilst the questions are specific the answers are not; there is no such thing as a wrong answer but some answers are better than others.

Although listed in numerical order, there is no requirement to follow this sequence. You may choose which ever order best suites your individual approach.

There are no opt-out questions.

The brief will be supported and supplemented by a series of taught day, or half-day, workshops/talks – see separate second year workshop timetable for dates times etc..

WHY

This brief is intended to provide you with a body of work, ideas, experiences and stimuli 

The Brief:

QUESTIONS & INSTRUCTIONS

1. Name?

2. Age?

3. Place of birth?

4. Position in family?

5. What are your Hobbies?

6. Where do you live now?

7. What is the most beautiful thing in the world?

8. What is Graphic Design?

9. Re-draw a famous logo from memory with your eyes closed.

10. Make an image using thumbprints.

11. What annoys you the most in others?

12. Print a T-shirt with a design that promotes something inappropriate.

13. What languages do you speak?

14. Describe the synopsis for a famous film in fifty words or less, and make it into an A2 poster using a combination of analogue and digital processes.

15. Learn a new skill and record yourself doing it.

16. What is psychology?

17. What is semiotics?

18. What is your favorite colour?

19. Re-design a rainbow.

20. What in your life is your greatest source of pleasure?

21. If you were a teacher what Brief would you propose?

22. What is abstraction?

23. Using info-graphics, construct a ‘portrait’ of yourself.

24. What is Dogma?

25. Make a large folded-paper aeroplane, paint a slogan on it, which you think will revolutionize your life and film it flying somewhere.

26. What is sacred?

27. What is profane?

28. Recreate, improve, alter, destroy, an iconic image.

29. Who is the most important person in your life?

30. Make a structure out of paper and either; photograph it/ film it/ animate it.

31. What makes you happy?

32. Make a film of yourself being an animal.

33. Why are you here?

34. What happens after death?

35. Make a contemporary memento-mori / ‘vanitas’ image.

36. What is greed?

37. What is waste?

38. Make a pin-hole camera out of something disposable and take a picture with it. Present the ‘camera’ and photograph at the crit.

39. What is success?

40. What is failure?

41. Explain the Zen doctrine in twenty words or less, typeset & print it.

42. What do you think are the qualities of a life fully lived?

43. Make a piece of work using a book.

44. What is the purpose of Design?

45. Design and make something to sell. Make twelve of them, sell eleven. Bring the last one to the crit, along with the object/s you bought with the money you made.

46. What is leisure?

47. Make a looped animation sequence of a mundane activity.

48. What is re-appropriation?

49. Make a video from content lifted directly from the YouTube homepage. (1 min duration).

50. What is theology?

51. What is secular?

52. What is a shaman?

53. Design a gravestone for a famous designer.

54. Re-stage a specific cultural event/moment/image and document it.

55. What does this college need?

56. Complete the project you outlined in response to
question 21.

Relate to your present, it relates to your future.
Your classmates are your world.
Embrace Failure.
Recognize your weakness and do something about it.