Introduction Field of Study History Focus Case Studies Literary Review Conclusion
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CONTENTS
Introduction
My Final Major Project is about my experience studying in the UK, and I collected a receipts for shopping in the UK. I categorize the information on the receipts and display it on the calendar. The dates of the receipts are from September 23 in 2019 to April 30 in 2020, and December 12 to January 3 go back china. a total of 218 receipts were collected. In this way, I hope I can learn more about my own life. Michel Foucault once proposed a concept such as “Technologies of the self �, the ultimate goal of this technology is to achieve a happiness, purity, wisdom, perfect or immortal lifestyle. That is to find the life you have thought about. This is my first time living in the UK, everything is a new beginning , a new environment, a new experience. Will my body also have different "Technologies of the self " to make me more adaptable to the environment here?
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Field of Study
Information visualization lnformation visualization is the study of visual representations of abstract data to reinforce human cognition. The abstract data include both numerical and non-numerical data, such as text and geographic information. The naming of subfields is sometimes confusing. One accepted definition is that it's information visualization when the spatial representation is chosen, whereas it's scientific visualization when the spatial representation is given. Since the emergence of data graphics in the late eighteenth century, the visual expression of abstract information has been used by people to reveal the mysteries of data and other hidden patterns. The graphical interface that came out recently during the 1990s allows people to directly interact with visualized information, thereby creating and driving more than a decade of information visualization research. Information visualization attempts to clarify the meaning of abstract information by using human visual abilities to enhance human cognitive activities. As a result, humans with fixed awareness can control increasing amounts of data. 03 04
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History
Jaques Bertin In 1967, Jaques Bert in of France tr ied to uni fy the graphics and presentat i on in his wo r k S e m i o l o g i e G ra p h i q u e. I t p rovi d e s great insight and can generate information i ntu i t i vely to better understand stat i st ical analysis.
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Edward R. Tufte 1983 Professor of Statistics, Yale University, USA R. TuRe published data graph theory. The theory of Bertin and TuRe is well-known and influential in many fields, which has led to the great development of informat i on v i s u a l i z a t i o n . I n t h e d eve l o p m e n t of information visualization, the emergence and development of scientific visualization played a decisive role in promoting it.
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Isotype design
Isotype (International system of typographic picture education) was a method for assembling, configuring and disseminating information and statistics through pictorial means. Its initiator, Otto Neurath, described it as a 'language-like technique' characterised by consistency in the use of graphic elements. The basic elements are pictograms - simplified pictures of people or things, designed to function as repeatable units. From its beginnings in Vienna of the 1920s, Isotype spread to the Netherlands, Britain, the Soviet Union, the United States and elsewhere. Its potential for communicating with people of all ages and nationalities was explored in a wide range of projects and publications through the 1960s. The story of Isotype presents a case study of the Modern Movement. It also reveals a pioneering method of visual communication that has exerted an undeniable influence on the design of information. 01 02
XU BING
"The Book of Earth" is an art project that Xu Bing has been continuing since 2003. He compiled a book with the collected public signs as a unit, regardless of the cultural background or education level of the reader, as long as he is involved in contemporary life, he can interpret it. Its commonality in visual ideology makes it a book that can be published anywhere without translation. Organizing and designing this set of "text" can be called art in the museum. If it is introduced in the fields of semiotics and font design, it is something else. 21 22
Focus
Receipts
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I arrived in the United Kingdom on September 23 and started collecting receipts for each shopping. By April 30, I spent a total of 198 days in the United Kingdom, with 218 purchases each. I hope to discover my “Technologies of the self � through infographics. This is a unique experience and this is my first time living and studying in the UK.
Gabriel Kuri "Untille"
I started to investigate the works of some artists on receipts, in the form of information on small tickets o r u si n g s m a l l t ic ket s. S o w h a t i s t h e m e a ni n g of t h e re c ei pt s, i s i t a evi dence of shoppi ng, or i s i t cr i t ici zi ng the current rapi d consumption form.
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Monochrome Till Receipt (White) Ceal Floyer
Monochrome Till Receipt (White) is a till print-out of a list of goods purchased by Floyer at Morrisons, a UK supermarket chain. Despite its title, the paper is in fact yellowish-white in tone and the information is printed in blue ink. The list itself comprises ordinary objects that are all white or have the word ‘white’ in their name, including flour, hand cream, mozzarella cheese, toothpaste, t issues, white chocolate, milk, salt, sugar and cotton wool pads among many other items, amount ing to forty-nine purchases in total. When exhibited, the work is attached to a bare wall in a vertical orientation, without any framing device.
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Lost in May life Rachel Perry
Using the detritus of daily life, Rachel Perry produces installations, sculptures, photographs, works on paper, performances, and vi deos i n wh ich she explores h ow i d e nt i ty i s b o t h s h a p e d a n d s u b s u m e d by contemporary consumer culture. Misdirected phone m e s s a g e s, s p a m m ai li n g s, re c ei pt s, a n d m e d ic a l records are among the materials she collects—often in vast quantities—and crafts into her meticulously composed, witty works of art. In her “Lost in My Life” series (begun 2009), for example, she photographs herself almost entirely camouflaged by such consumer byproducts as takeout containers and stickers on fruit. Simultaneously personal and universal, Perry's works map her own life and reveal patterns in ours. Or, as she once said: “What I am doing here is trying to comment on the daily life of one small life on this planet as it may relate to art and that is all.”
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Calendar research I want to use a calendar to show my shopping, for example, how many times a week I go to the supermarket, how often do I buy a pizza or whether I still maintain the Chinese eating habits, like to eat rice and pork, and live in the UK for a long time In addition, my eating habits have also changed. I hope to express myself in this way, the main thing is that I can observe my changes as time flows.
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Case Studies 1
Case Studies
Aesthetics of Existence Dong Yang Yi Fan
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Dong Yang Yi Fan believes that the relationship between the individual and the self is a political elationship. I want to manage myself, and then obey, respond to or oppose this kind of management, just like the relationship between the government and the people, the self is actually a law that can be constantly modified. So she manages her life by punching out.
In order to get a better life, she developed her own "technolog methods to understand her lifestyle, and then built a system to deepened her understanding of her lifestyle and contradictions w
gy" to understand her life. She designed various self-recording o organize what I have and regulate her behavior. This process with the system
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Case Studies 2
Lost In My Life RACHEL PERRY
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"Lost in My Life" references the endless organizing, cleaning and shopping that form the business of living. These things are what we have to do. They gradually occupy a lot of our time. We can't really get rid of them. These jobs have become a part of our lives.
Receipts
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Playmobil
Price+Stickers+(dress)
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Perry-Standing+w+Round
Twist+Ties
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Silver + Twist +Ties
Foil+Wrapped+Boxes
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Cereal+Boxes
LIML+(Chiral+Lines+3)
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Case Studies 3
One Year Performance (1980-1981)
Time Clock Piece
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Artist Tehching Hsieh entered the art class with performance art. This work is the second of the artist's three one-year performances. The artist will punch in every hour for a year, and use photos to record the punching process of the entire project. .
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Another significant theme that the artist took up is time. Hsieh outlined the premise which forms the basis of each of his one-year performances: that a fundamental ‘precondition’ of all life is the passing of time, or that ‘life is a life sentence’. In his work, Hsieh explores this precondition by stripping down his performances to a few basic activities such as ‘waiting’ (as in Time Clock Piece) or ‘walking’ (as in Outdoor Piece, in which Hsieh spent a year on the streets of New York and documented his daily perambulations on maps). As a riposte to readings of his work which overdetermine Hsieh’s Taiwanese identity and ignore Kafka and Dostoyevsky as key inspriations, Hsieh clarified that his goal here is not to attain some kind of transcendent, zen-like state. Nor are his performances about passing time: rather, his performances are passing time, as emphasised in their long durations. This is one way in which Hsieh attempts to bridge the gap between ‘art time’ and ‘life time’.
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Exhibition in TATE
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Case Studies 4
Janice Wu "Receipt"
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We’re all guilty of finding pieces of, well, crap, in our pockets and bags every now and again. Whether it be receipts (particularly prevalent), loose matches, pen lids or bits of tissue – sometimes emptying it all out can even be kind of embarrassing. Potential hoarder Janice Wu absolutely loves all that stuff and collects it all as a kind of memory cue-card system, each small and seemingly worthless item representing different valuable places and times in her life. Her meticulous drawings of the endear ingly familiar detr i tus are the work not just of a true draughtsman, but also someone wi th a lot of pat i ence and a desi re to champion the overlooked.
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Lost time Alice Murray Lauren Priestley
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4 March i s the fi rst day women get pai d i n 2020 in the UK – a choice day for Pentagram a s s o cia te p a r t n e r A lic e M u r ra y a n d c re a t i ve director at Redwood London Lauren Priestley to launch their passion project, Lost Time. Wanting to visualise the UK’s gender pay gap of 17.3 per cent in the most impactful way, to raise awareness and funds for the cause, the two designers have created a calendar that shows those 63 days a year that women effectively work for free as “invisible”.
T h e p ro j e c t sta r te d w h e n M u r ra y s a w a b r i ef from Desi gners Speak (Up) calling for posters for an exhibit i on on gender imbalance. “This sparked a discovery about how the gender pay gap could be quant i fied in days,” Murray explains. After the exhibition, however, the duo – both New Zealandborn, London-based creatives with tons of experience among behemoths of the design industry, Murray a s p a r t of A n g u s H y l a n d ’ s te a m a t Pe nta g ra m and Pr iestley currently at Google via Redwood – wanted to do someth i ng more. “A calendar i s a universal representation of time and serves as a daily reminder,” she continues, “highlighting the time lost with ‘invisible’ days seemed the perfect way to get people’s attention. The gender pay gap conversation is so often talked about in monetary terms, but we wanted to shine a light on the impact of time. After all, time is money.” 79 80
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Literary Review
What is Technologies of the self?
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" T e ch nologie which permit i effect by thei or with the he certain number on their own bo thoughts, cond of being, so as themselves in o a certain state purity, wisdom immortality.
s o f t he self", individuals to ir own means elp of others a r of operations odies and souls, duct, and way s to transform I order to attain e of happiness, , perfection, or 87 88
Self-design
Today, we can say that these avant-garde anti-design concepts have long faded, and avant-garde design has become one of many design styles. This may be why many people today think that the commercial design society we are in is just a landscape society, a game of nothing behind the appearance of simulation. However, there is a problem with this statement, that is, to observe the landscape and the position of the viewer behind it actually does not exist, because the design is already an overall behavior, you can no longer watch it from the outside, the design does not exist outside . Every individual must design himself. It has replaced religion as a creed. Interestingly, modern design has transformed the entire social space into a display space, but the sacred viewer is missing. Individuals are both artists and works created by themselves, and art and politics can no longer draw a clear line. For example, the headscarf of Islamic women, its existence can be said to be a design of political power, but if you imagine that Gucci or Prada also began to design the headscarf, it is difficult for you to distinguish whether the headscarf is Islamic The doctrine symbol is still a commercial product. Or the design of a suicide attack, or the design of an alternative political movement, in these cases, the design is the product of dissent (this is very similar to the dissent that Honcier said). Today our mourning that politics is becoming more and more a kind of image rather than substance is overlooked. That is, in the field of modern design, politicians are precisely using the mass media image production to express their arguments, not exactly what they are Proposed content (we can think of an example from China: Red Song, or Taiwan Election). Unlike a relatively stable image, the content is always changing, so it is irrelevant.
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Therefore, modern design is a challenge to the difference between Kant ’s fair and objective aesthetic considerations and profit-driven pragmatism. For Kant, this selfless view is always higher than pragmatism, because it represents the existence of the human spirit. However, since the end of the nineteenth century, this revaluation of value began: the lofty position of vita comtemplativa was completely replaced by vita activa, which became the ultimate task for humanity to pursue. So today, design is accused of inducing people to be controlled by ubiquitous advertising, lose their vitality and initiative, and become weak capital slaves. The way to get rid of this curse is to let people see the truth and shake people with this hidden situation. The question now is whether this reality still exists, or whether it has disappeared behind the surface on which it was designed.
However, in fact, in self-expression, self-design and selfdisposition, we can no longer talk about fair aesthetics because the divine and fair viewer no longer exists. Once people cared about the appearance of their souls before God now people's interest lies in how their bodies appear around their political environment. Truth is equally important here, but this truth is not used to shake the designed surface, but to ask questions about self-design skills and practices. Beuys once said that everyone has the power to see himself as an artist but now this power has become a responsibility. At the same time, we are blamed for this.
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Conclution
B a s e d o n t h e re s e a rc h , I fi n a l l y d e ci d e d to u s e the calendar to show my final work. It is easier to express the topic of " Diary in UK� in the form of a calendar. The writer of this diary is my body and my experience. As my life style changes in the UK, I am more willing to try some British food, Pizza Haggis or Cheese. These are diets in China There is nothing in it. A small ticket may not be able to represent a person, but continuously collected receipts can represent a person's behavior or lifestyle. This is the charm of receipts, just like big data. In China, I almost always use Alipay or WeChat to pay. Cash or credit cards a re b a sic a l l y ke pt a t h o m e. Li fe i n t h e U K i s a new experience for me, and I want to record this experience with my work. Because the information on the receipts will disappear with time, does it mean that this experience has also disappeared.
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Peronal Reflection I already have a self-feedback on my Final project and the experience of studying in the UK this year. My future plans and my views on the identity of a designer.
The concept of my work is from the French philosopher Foucault ’s “self technology”, Technologies of the self, which permit individuals to effect by their own means or with the help of others a certain number of operations on their own bodies and souls, thoughts, conduct, and way of being, so as to transform I themselves in order to attain a certain state of happiness, purity, wisdom, perfection, or immortality. I think that each of us should pay more attention to ourselves . My initial expression was to use tables to present my ideas, but tables did not show visual continuity and the theme of "Diary in UK”. I finally decided to use the form of publications to express. The size of my publication is A3. I think that my visual effect will be more prominent. I chose the black and white colors as the receipts, which can also emphasize the contrast. I used to try to use dark green before. In the end, I thought it would be very troublesome if there were color differences during printing. I chose black and white in the end. In the initial survey, I thought that the information on the receipts was like big data, and the above information was our personal privacy, so my initial survey was about personal privacy and surveillance. It was not until I read Foucault's concept of "Technologies of the self" that it made me realize that in fact everyone has their own technology, so studying in the UK is a new experience for me. A new technology to adapt to this kind of life, then the receipts is the medium of my expression. 95 96
In a year in the UK, I have deepened my study of graphic design, and at the same time I have a deeper understanding of the identity of a designer. I think a designer should have multiple identities, be it a designer or a writer or a curator. Such multiple identities can bring different viewing angles, and more interesting works can appear instead of being confined to a medium. Â
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https://www.artsy.net/artwork/rachel-perry-lost-in-my-li fereceipts-seated Jenny Brewer (2020) https://www.itsnicethat. com/news/alice-murray-lauren-priestley-lost-time-graphicdesign-090320 Liv Siddall (2012) https://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/ janice-wu
TATE (1999) https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/floyermonochrome-till-receipt-white-t12894
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