{"id":99,"date":"2016-07-24T22:20:58","date_gmt":"2016-07-24T21:20:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/graphics.learningpictures.co.uk\/?p=99"},"modified":"2016-07-24T22:20:58","modified_gmt":"2016-07-24T21:20:58","slug":"initial-observations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/graphics.learningpictures.co.uk\/index.php\/2016\/07\/24\/initial-observations\/","title":{"rendered":"Initial observations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the moment I feel a bit like I am flying in all directions so I decided to blog about it as a means of journaling my process. On this basis it is probably more a stream of consciousness than it is fully formed reflections.<\/p>\n<p>The books I\u2019ve ordered have starting arriving; they include the recommended reading as well as a few others that attracted my interest. I\u2019ve been skimming each of them as they arrive and noticing what captures my attention.<\/p>\n<p>While on the one hand this is giving me a good introduction to Graphic Design I am conscious of skipping from history to theory to psychology to designers and back again. Now that I feel pretty immersed I need to refocus and concentrate on a few areas, this is not unusual for me and is an approach I found has worked in other courses. A number of interesting things have emerged to date:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Much of the history both on and offline seems to concentrate on graphic design\/visual communications in the west (accepting that most do include Russian Constructivism)<\/li>\n<li>As with other art historical texts I wonder where the women are (although to be fair some do bring in key female figures in the later periods). This blog on Central St. Martins Exhibition \u2018<a href=\"http:\/\/www.itsnicethat.com\/articles\/a-plus-100-yrs-of-visual-communication-by-women-at-csm-150216\">100 years of women graphic designers<\/a>\u2019 is an interesting counterpoint and confirms my observations<\/li>\n<li>Graphic Design along with other human endeavours is contextual and has both influenced and been influence by its political, social, and economic environment<\/li>\n<li>I am starting to look differently at things around me, noticing with fresh awareness how ubiquitous graphic design is<\/li>\n<li>I am fascinated by the debates around ethics and authorship \u2013 I recently watched Century of the Self which seemed to me to highlight issues around the state\u2019s involvement with visual communications and those who<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>My next steps are a very quick historical timeline, probably in my sketchbook and then on with my postcards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the moment I feel a bit like I am flying in all directions so I decided to blog about it as a means of journaling my process. On this basis it is probably more a stream of consciousness than it is fully formed reflections. The books I\u2019ve ordered have \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/graphics.learningpictures.co.uk\/index.php\/2016\/07\/24\/initial-observations\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[4,20,17,18,19],"class_list":["post-99","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-learning-log","tag-graphic-design","tag-history","tag-journalling","tag-reflections","tag-women-graphic-designers"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p89kH4-1B","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/graphics.learningpictures.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/graphics.learningpictures.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/graphics.learningpictures.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graphics.learningpictures.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graphics.learningpictures.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/graphics.learningpictures.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115,"href":"https:\/\/graphics.learningpictures.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions\/115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/graphics.learningpictures.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graphics.learningpictures.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graphics.learningpictures.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}