Author: Thea Dubois
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Societies II
for this workshop led by Abbie, we planned a visit to BT archives in Holborn, where we were given a tour of BT’s history through images, leaflets, advertisements, letters, and objects. This was an interesting tour as we got to see original copies of designs for the telephone boxes and telecommunication poles, as well as…
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Infrastructures II
In this cross-year workshop, we explored needle and thread to express an idea or feeling and how it can be used as a form of design. We were separated into small groups and given the brief to create a blanket for our younger selves depicting our fears when applying for university at CSM. The aim…
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Written Response
For this piece, I decided on the following readings: The Medium is the Massage by Marshall McLuhan and Quentin Fiore to communicate the ideas of Metahaven’s Sealand: Uncorporate Identity. McLuhan and Fiore present a cacophony of images, bold typography, and provocative juxtapositions to embody the notion that the medium is not merely a vessel for…
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Methods of Translating
Final Presentation I started to explore translating my chosen poem into different images after feedback from my tutorial suggested that various translations of the poem used different synonyms, each altering the meaning in subtle but significant ways. This led me to highlight key words that sparked specific visuals in my mind, using these as the…
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Labour 1
In our studio facilitated by Matthew, we worked in groups to discuss a series of prompts from the brief drawing from the required reading: Neil Cummings, ‘Common’, in Distributed, David Blamey and Brad Haylock, eds., Open Editions, 2014. We agreed that a ‘common’ is a resource that is freely available to everyone, while a ‘vector’…
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Written Response
Foster, H., 2010. Design and Crime (and Other Diatribes). London: Verso, pp. 16–17.
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Methods of Cataloguing
Part I Chosen Collection: Curiosity Collections “What Women Want to Know” Methods of Cataloguing Recontextualising Classifying Captioning and Subverting Part II Feedback from my tutorial was that my third method of cataloguing where I turned the collection into a booklet was the most effective form for the message I was trying to get across, which…
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Storytelling and Editorial Illustration
Part I In a 6-hour workshop hosted by editorial illustrator Sunnu Rebecca Choi, we set out to make our own illustration based off of an article. Firstly, we started with a series of exercises based on idioms, the first being to create a mindmap of words and objects we associated with the text. Mine was:…
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Societies I
In our first societies workshop hosted by Abbie, we explored the types of societies connected to a piece of writing and images we were given. Our given article was about “dazzle boats” used during the war. As a group, we brainstormed and devised several communities the article could be written for, written by, or appeal…
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Written Response
Caledonian Road’s exit from the canal, weaving through the north of central London, is a place I pass by almost daily, a seemingly unremarkable site amidst the urban flow — easy to overlook and just another path on the way home. This path has become the focus of my observations, evolving from a familiar pass-through…