Entry 1: Analysis and exploration of essay questions.

Before choosing a preferred topic, analysis and exploration of the questions is needed to determined.

1. Review and discuss the key ideas in a major publication written by a thinker or theorist in the field of media. Relate the ideas to current news events or design developments.

This essay question is to mainly discuss about the ideas of current

events or design elements/ development by major publications. It has

to be written by a theorist or a thinker.

2. ‘Form follows function’ (Modernist graphic designer and illustrators); ‘Form swallows function’ (Postmodern graphic designer). Which of these statements corresponds to your view? Discuss, offering evidence for your arguments

There are different types of designers out there in the world, however

these two types are chosen to be selected to explore. Evidence and

arguments are needed to support the function of our choice/

statements.

3. Words and buildings: When the page is a city, what are the singular problems and possibilities of lettering and typography? Compare these with the way in which type works on a page or on a screen.

There are many problems and possibilities in life. Relating to

designers have its own sets of problems too such as typography and

lettering. These problems could be related to book lovers.

Why? When it comes to travelling, book lovers have to carry their

books regardless if it’s on page or on a screen. Which is type works

better? From this context we know that research, evidence and

arguments is needed to support the problems and to select which type

works well.

4. Compare and contrast modern and postmodern design. Should designers favour one ‘ism’ over another?

Each movement has great impact and influence to the world and

changes perspective at every aspect in life. However which movement

should designers look into and should favor more than the other. By

doing so, each movement should be compared and be supported with

a few famous artworks that were inspired and used up to today.

5. Conduct a semiotic analysis on a piece of political propaganda using any of the set of concepts.

People tend to forget about the semantics on a piece of a political

propaganda. This is where, we designers’ step in and analysed the

political propaganda by relating to the concepts of semiotics/

semantics.

Semiotics are known as design language. Their concepts vary from

the binary opposition, paradigm, syntagma, denotation, connotation,

iconic, symbolic and index signs.

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Entry 7 : The favorite one

Which one should I favor more ? As we all know the objective of this blog is that which “ism” should designer favour more. Personally, I view that designers have a variety of art styles in terms of how they play their colors, space and the list go on and on. I believe that there isn’t exactly one “ism” that designers should favor. However, there’s a certain style that designers tend to pick on, let’s take modernism for an example as have mention at the previous blogs modernism is all about the simple forms, smooth finishing and the use of white space. There are multiple brands out there that embraced these simple forms which is Muji. They are well known for their simplicity in their products and packaging. On the other hand, postmodernism was the era they all rules of style were broken from there was freedom. Remember when I explained about the “I Love NY” campaign has similarities with the Kozmo Blocks because they are simply colorful and humorous? There are multiple br...

Entry 6: Later Applications

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Do you know what it is ?!! “The new avant grarde literature” know as postmodernism, the term itself was born around 1970s from scepticism and suspicion that challenges the notion of the universal certainties and reality. The movement itself is simply a reaction against the essence of modernism and it’s known to embraced the complexity of meaning based on experiences of every individual. It simply drew a line on philosophy during the late twentieth century and it supports every individual experiences was more a concrete rather than abstract principles. To certain extent the movement itself had defies the definition as there is not one particular postmodern style or theory, as it has embraced multiple approaches toward art making in which it has collapsed the distinction between high culture and mass culture of our everyday life. It simply broke the rules about styles and from here we know that the era of freedom has begun. References: Tate. A. (2019). Modernism. [onlin...

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