Research file on how to create a really fucking cool diary.

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“It often helps when we communicate our feelings and problems to others. A diary can offer an acceptable alternative to verbally venting your beliefs about people, places, or events which have happened in life.

The act of writing is also therapeutic because penning problems on paper is an active practice.�

- Rutkevich 2019.

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Field of study & History

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Book inspiration

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Trips to London

‘Guled to our phones’ research

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Science based research

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Documentary photography & research

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94 Case Studies

117 Questionaire and results

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Planners & Journals

Febuary test run

151 Bibliography

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This book holds the background research to creating a diary. It will inform you on papers, binding, other publications, editorial layouts, photographic case studies and more. Recapping on my last project there are a few things I want to do differently in this one.

In my rationale before Christmas I stated that I want to focus on making more publications this year. I am very happy to know that this is possible for my final outcome. I have also been told that we have to create a research journal which this is and is something I am really looking forward to. I really enjoy spending my time on quirky layouts and being able to incorporate this into something that is compulsory makes me so happy. I have said that I want to try and create lots of prototypes along the way to help increase my body of work ready for interviews.

The next thing I need to make sure I do in my FMP is be confidant. Be confidant in what I create I tend to delete everything I don’t like which isn’t useful so this is something I need to do. I also want to try and move away from just black and white print. Every project so far I have kept my work too black and white and this is restricted. I think for my FMP I need to experiment with colour more.

For the first time at University I am beginning a project with a solid plan. For my FMP I decided to create a research project about

my life. I will be documenting my everyday life for the month of March. Small details such as screen time, what I eat, what I do, people I spend time with etc will all be recorded. For my main text i want to write down my thoughts random ones I have through out each day to compliment photographs I will take. In terms of design I want to really focus on my typography and layouts as this is something I love. The way a layout can change how we see and read something interests me.

We have just been given an introduction talk for our final major projects in this I made some key notes. Something I picked up on is that this year we should not seek praise which I don’t feel I do anyways. I am quite independent with my work and don’t run to Tom for advise every week. If anything we should be seeking criticism. The most help we get to change and develop our designs the better. I need to show Tom my ideas more instead of hiding my work and the things I don’t like because he won’t be able to help me then.

A comment Tom made is that a research project where I have to create content everyday is very methodical and it suits me and my style. This is good because it shows Tom supports my idea and feels it is a strong and confidant route to take. My next step is to go away and research editorial designs and typographic layouts that I can use to influence my work.

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What am I doing???

What is the purpose??

Why am I doing a project like this?? Why is my project important / relevant??

me making my content unique.

Everyone likes to lose themselves in other people’s lives, I know I spent too much time flicking through Instagram at what other people are doing. It takes you away from the stresses on your own life and allows you to forget for 5 minutes.

I want to do a project delving into my mundane life just to see and analyse what I get up too every day. Try and focus my attention on the things right in front of me that I normally may not notice.

This project is very personal and something very unique compared to what most people will be producing. I am using thoughts from my days to produce body text to layout into a diary style book. I think creating a project that is so different is powerful and shows graphic design to be something other than just what people assume which is branding and app design.

Editorial design is a market that is falling seeing as so many things are now designed digitally. The need for print is dropping but we do still have magazines and book companies out there. I think my project is important because it’s individual, no one else would have the same thoughts or images as

Where is it going to be used?? Where could I see my work being shown??

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I could see my diary shown in a gallery space. (hahaha cocky I know). But what I mean is I go to the Tate Modern often and I always see documentary projects on display. Photographs from different time periods people capturing moments in life they know they can’t get back. I could see my diary being placed in an exhibition surrounding these artists work. I would want people to be able to touch and engage with my diary just like how I hope people will at the graduation show. The content I produce in my diary will be original and meaningful, I don’t want to hold back on anything I wouldn’t normally say. I want my outcome to be real and for people to get a true representation of me without even meeting me. I think it would be interesting for people to analyse me before they’ve even met me like we do every day to people on social media. We are judged

by the way we look, smell, what interests we have etc. I just happen to be producing mine into a diary form.

Who am I doing it for??

Who would want to look at my work??

I am creating this outcome for myself as a self-reflection project.

By documenting everything I do in a day I can see maybe what things effect my moods etc. I want to also understand why I do specific things example being how I am with friends, what I spend my time doing, why do I like specific things.

With the help of a student at the University of Nottingham I will research into more science based studies to benefit the why behind my project.

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“a periodical publication containing articles and llustrations, often on a particular subject or aimed at a particular readership.”

Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press in 1440. From printed bibles, newsletters and religious materials print then moved onto subject matters of people’s interests and social cultures. In 1731, Edward cave published ‘The Gentleman’s Magazine’ in England. Edward was the first person to use the term magazine taken from the Arabic word makhazin.

He wanted to make a magazine that included essays, stories and poems that a variety of people would want to read.

Shortly after a magazines were published in America in 1741. Andrew Bradford and Benjamin Franklin both created the first ones to be sold.

In 1818 the first specialized magazine was created focusing on natural sciences and geology. In 1830 the first women’s magazine was created. This included artwork, cleaning tips and hands on homemaking advice.

In 1842 illustrations were introduced in magazines. After realizing that colorful sketches and illustrations contributed to magazine sales, Ingram a British newsagent began publishing The Illustrated London News.

In 1944 Seventeen magazine was founded. The publication was the first American magazine created specifically for adolescents. The magazine’s original mission was to “encourage teenage girls to become well-rounded human beings”. This magazine focused on beauty, fashion and work.

There are many ways in which magazines are distributed some can be delivered door to door, most are sold in shops but recently magazines have been published online for people to read quicker over the internet.

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People have been publishing information for thousands of years. There’s no way we could possibly illustrate every innovation in publishing since prehistoric man painted on cave walls, but we wanted to give you a brief timeline to show you how changes in the industry have really picked up since ancient times. ~30,000 B.C. – Cave walls become the first medium when ancient humans draw two rhinoceroses and one bison in Chauvet Cave in France. These are some of the earliest known drawings. ~4000 B.C. – Egyptians first use hieroglyphs inscribed on pottery jars and ivory plaques that would then be deposited in tombs.

Brittanica presumes these markers identified the dead. ~3300 B.C. – Cuneiform, a combination of writing systems, sprouts in the Mesopotamia region.

The system uses pictographs, and documents are written on a clay tablet with a stylus.

196 B.C. – The Rosetta Stone is cut in three languages – hieroglyphics,

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Egyptian demotic, and Greek.

Translators were able to use the Greek inscription to decipher the hieroglyphics in the 1800s, more than a millennium after they had gone out of use.

copies within three months and became the best-selling work of the 18th century. With the advent of digital technology, however, self-publishing has been made incredibly easy.

~105 A.D. – The Chinese invent paper.

1800s – The “penny press” arrives in the U.S. Newspapers were available for just a penny, allowing the masses to consume this information for the first time instead of just the elites. By reducing the barriers to read news, citizens began writing letters to the editors with more regularity.

Michigan State University’s Brian Thornton said no first letter to the editor has been officially recognized, but that they increased with the penny press.

868 – The Diamond Sutra, a scroll of Buddhist text created through woodblock printing, is created. It is found in 1900 in China, and it’s one of the earliest books found with an exact date.

1456 – Gutenberg prints the Bible in Germany. It was the first book produced on a printing press anywhere in the world.

1690 – Publick Occurrences, the first English-American newspaper, debuts.

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1731 – The first general-interest magazine, The Gentlemen’s Magazine, is printed in London.

The magazine ended in 1907.

1776 – Thomas Paine anonymously printed Common Sense. The self-published book sold 100,000

1899-1967 – Magazines explode, with several of today’s household names making their first appearances. National Geographic, Reader’s Digest, The New Yorker, Newsweek, Seventeen, Playboy and Rolling Stone all release their first issues during this time period.

1940-1971 – The first e-book is published, though Wikipedia contributors disagree with which was the first.

1970s – Punk rock and DIY zines become popular. According to Duke University, however, the first sci-fi fanzine was published in 1930.

Early 1990s – Leonard Riggio ­installs the modern version of the Barnes & Noble superstore. Riggio commented on this expansion in a 1992 New York Times article.

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H I S T O R Y

Documentation is such a huge part of projects and our lives really. Many people conducting projects now call it vital to document their findings and work. “The importance of documentation is so tremendous; many project managers are now terming it their top priority while managing any kind of work.”

I think that knowing the history of background to a project is essential for current work and being able to move forward in the future. Focusing on my project I am looking at university students in particular and any student will document their work as it helps with remembering things, it shows work is being done, Documentation is evidence of a good project management. It helps you track activities related to the project and helps with finding out if time constraints are being met.

Not just in projects we document our lives every day without even thinking about it. Taking photographs, recording videos, writing notes etc. There’s something about keeping track of our lives that gives everything we do a deeper meaning. When you write something down it matters, and you’re more apt to remember that it ever happened. As people grow older the ability to remember weakens, and it’s harder to remember memories. Our notes, photos etc will be a record of our lives, and a reference for the experiences that organically fade with time. I think there is an importance of documentation and a reason why it would be interesting for me to focus my whole project around it.

Interestingly, the first recorded use of “basic research” was in the 1920s and had nothing to do with the ideas we associate with the term today. It was a line in the 1921 Year in Agriculture Report describing the functions of the US Department of Agriculture: “the basic work of the department is in the field of research”.

But in the early 20th century context of war, scientists across the globe felt increasing pressure to justify government spending on research that did not directly contribute to the very real problems society was facing.

Use of “basic research” depended on the audience — amongst themselves, scientists used the term to describe ‘pure’ or ‘fundamental’ work, but when talking to decision-makers, “basic science” was touted as a source of knowledge for applied research. This text I found was written by trust Roche in 2018.

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I need to be able to understand my target audience so that I can create a product that will benefit or intrigue them. I’m doing this project of documentation for myself mainly to analyse and understand my daily life and routine. I think it is something different and interesting that I want to achieve and in our graduation show will interest people because it’s not something you would typically see at a design show.

My research will be looking at 20-24-year-old design students and how they live their lives. Meaning my audience is probably going to be a similar age group as people of the same age will be interested in what their peers are like. I do also think adults who work in areas of psychology and sociology will take an interest in my project as I will be studying how I spend my time and what myself and others do on a daily basis. I do think I want to take quite a theoretical route with my work because I think the deeper I understand why we do things the better and more in depth my project will be. I think my project will really take interest from researchers, the fact I want to let people inside my head and really get to know me, what goes through my mind, how I think etc without even meeting me is something cool and unusual.

I am envisioning my outcome to be very well put together with a really simple grid used. I want my outcome book to be easily read by lots of people. I normally do quite quirky and detailed designs but this time I want something stripped back where the content is the main focus. I also already know that for a change I want to spiral bind my work. Every other book I have made is perfect bound because I just think the finish is neater but for this a special bind works better to open the pages and lay the book flat. I think my audience will prefer a spiral bound document too as its easier to hold and flip.

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Because I have such a love for editorial design I have begun my research with looking at examples of layouts I like. This being for my research book and my designed outcome. I have chosen some publications I have and love to help me with some inspiration. With this project I really want to focus on enlarging images and having photos dominate the page instead

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of lots of text which is something I seem to always do. I think a strong editorial design is really appreciated and something I want to show I can do confidently to clients after university.

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Last year my tutor Catharine Slade Brooking introduced me to a book called Circular 19 which she has been lucky enough to receive from a GF Smith store. Being a tutor at a University they gave her the publication free. I thought I would try my luck and call GF Smith in London to see if I could bag myself one. I didn’t have to lie and pretend I was someone else like a tutor, I explained that I am a university student and that I feel in love with the publication and I asked if there was any way for me to get my hands on one. The lady on the phone said she would try for me which was kind, I didn’t think she would actually go through with it but about 6 weeks later I got a call saying she was sending one to me for FREE. I am inspired by this publication for its use of type and how they have been able to keep each page vibrant and exciting just through the use of type and colour. With the size of the publication being A3 its

more challenging to fill the space.

I think the use of negative space is really clever and the different body text grids they have experimented with work perfectly on each page.

I am also drawn to the colours they have used, red, black and white work really well. The red stands out so much but I like how runs the whole way through the publication but is also changed up with colourful pages every so often this adds variety and is something I should try to do more in my work.

The contents page in this publication is amazing. I love the confidant mix up of layout and that they have been able to pull off such a unique and different way to presenting information. I want to take a few more risks with my layouts and experiment with abstract designs like Circular 19 have.

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In my tutorial with Tom he recommended me to read Wolfgang Weingart: My Way to Typography.

Since the 1970’s Wolfgang Weingart has had a huge impact on type development. Countless designers in North America and Europe have been inspired by his teachings and lectures. The first thing I love about the book is where the page numbers have been placed instead of having one number on each page, there are two one under the other on the right page on the top right hand side. This is something different and something I may copy. I enjoyed reading the book and hearing about design decisions he had made throughout his career.

Some of the abstract designs he made lead him to become a creative typographer known for his bold experimentation. “In the late nineties I designed a collage with the capital letters UCLA, a four-color catalogue cover for the University of California at

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Los Angeles. Instead of layering films or printing colored collage elements on the letterpress, I used a rudimentary photocopier and produced multicolored images by changing the different toner cartridges from black to blue.”

“As he learned to master the techniques of letterpress printing, his work with typography became more experimental. It started with letter and type elements composed in a circular ring, the Round Compositions. This composition came about as a result of an accident – where he dropped a type drawer on the floor. It was filled with the small type—six point, semi-bold, Berthold Akzidence Grotesk. During the two day lengthy process of putting each character back he had a strange idea-to fill a cardboard ring with the type standing on end, letter surface positioned upwards, until it was packed solid. Creating a surface to be printed rather than individual characters. This was a technique that he would revisit throughout his career.” – Shillington Design Blog.

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Before showing a sketch I met with the client to reach general agreement on the hierarchy of information, relative type sizes, typeface, color, and paper; the meeting usually concluded with my suggestion of how I visualized the result.

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I found this publication on a book shelf when I was visiting a friend who studies at the University of West England. This publication is the extension of ‘The Medium Is The Message’ project a student was doing there. She allowed for me to keep a copy as I fell in love with the layouts inside. The content isn’t as important to me as I am not intrested in deep meaningful statements about life but I was however intrested in the scanned in imagery and sketchbook like feel it had to it. I loved that by printing on grainy material and slightly off white gave the black a rustic feel that didn’t completely sit in the paper making it more grey than black. I also love the typographic layouts and how she has used typography to create imagery.

Each page is different and each

layout mixed around still keeping to a similar grid. I want to try this for my project. This publication reminds me of a newspaper with powerful large titles, this is something I also want to try. I think that creating my research book into a newspaper style would look really cool. Her random placements of her images is also something I love. By having images dotted around the page it opens the page up and allows the negative space to breathe and then the text has space.

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For our 21st birthday I went to New York City and next to our apartment was a magazine store with thousands of magazines and publications in stacks. Huge A2/ A3 sized ones and some smaller A4 and A5. The texture and colour of this publication stood out to me, with a ridged texture covering the publications front and back and blue pages the bold design choices drew me in. This publication is predominantly image based but

where the text is spaced out the layouts are great. With the size of the publication being A3 there means there is a lot of negative space around the text which is needed with such heave imagery.

It looks as though there has been a really simple grid used. The page furniture is also minimal and compliments the simple layouts.

I like how the layouts mix form central to left and rights. I tend to fall into a habit of sticking to what

I know with layouts so maybe something more abstract might work too.

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Suited magazine is why I started every book I have ever made with a quote. It’s a little thing I do so that each one of my publications flow even if the layouts, style, colours etc don’t go.

Suited magazine is another I brought in New York but I have seen in places like Magma and Magculture in London. I have used this book for inspiration as I love the heavy text based pages. The columns are very wide and take up a lot of space which is heavy and a lot to read but graphically looks nice. Inside this publications quotes have been used too and presented in large balancing out the pages with heavy body text. There is also two dominant typefaces used in this publication one being a san serif and the other a serif. Normally one is only used throughout but like myself I choose to disruption the norm and try something new. Suited is all in black and white too which I LOVE. I don’t know what it is about a publication but when it is stripped back into black and white and find it some much more visually interesting being able to see shadows and the where the light hits more.

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This is another publication found at the University of West England.

The unique thing about this is that each third year student that was studying Graphic Design all chipped in to complete a group publication. There was a few leaders to the overall design and layout but each student participated in giving imagery and content which I think is a really cool idea. The part of this publication that stood out most to me was the interesting was how they had manipulated the type to look broken and cut. This was the inspiration for me to create a glitch effect on my imagery. I wanted to experiment with something new and try cutting so I thought this

would look cool on my images. It is also going to contrast my printed based newspaper style layout of the book as I will juxtapose this with glitchy images you would only get from computers etc. I have always been one for experimenting this may look too messy but I am going to break rules and try it.

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Perfect binding.

Spiral binding.

Three hole stitch.

Japenese stitch.

There are many different ways to bind a book.

Perfect Binding is one of many methods to book binding. Hot glue sticks individual papers together to a cover. Perfect binding is probably the most popular technique as it gives a professional look and is used to make ‘typical reading books’. The process is completed with a machine though some people have attempted to do it themselves with glue and a clamp to press the pages tightly together. The perfect bound book has a flat spine where the cover wraps from the front to the back of a book.

I think I will use this technique for my book as it is something I have had a lot of practice doing on the machine. I also feel it will make my work look professional and this is what I want when it comes to our graduation show a neat looking piece of work to show off.

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Spiral Binding, also known as coil binding is a type of binding where a plastic spiral shaped rod is weaved through papers to hold them together. The long coil is twisted through small holes that are punched along the spinal edge of the papers being held together.

The benefits of spiral binding are that pages can be opened fully.

Pages can be folded back upon itself allowing the book be seen at 360 degrees. Unlike other binding techniques spiral binding allows the document to stay in place as the pages have no spinal tension in them. Spiral binding also

allows you to have as little and as many pages as you want where as something like perfect binding limits you because the more pages you have the harder the book is to open. When I began as a designer I used spiral binding all the time as it was a quick way to make my individual pages a book. Now 3 years on I never use it I don’t think it looks very professional and should be used for documents like dissertations and work with lots of formal body text not designed pages that would look nicer in a magazine perfect bound type of way.

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A three-hole stitch is an easy and quick way of binding a small number of pages together into a booklet. To begin with the papers for this must be folded in half. I always use a tool to score down the pages to make them flat and sharp. With a pin or needle mark the centre of the papers and pierce a hole. Between the edge of the paper and the middle mark another point in the centre point between them.

This needs to be done both side of the centre dot so then the papers are left with 3 holes evenly placed.

Once the holes are made you take a needle through the middle hole and back out either of the other holes. Once back out the side you started you take the needle through the far hole that hasn’t been sewn through yet. After this the needle comes back through the centre hole and is then tied leaving you with a perfectly tight sown booklet. I find this type of binding really helpful when I want to bind my loose papers or when I create mock ups and thumbnails that I want to hand in in a slightly neater way.

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There are four basic variations of the Japanese stab bind: Kikko Toji (Tortoise Shell Binding), Asa-NoHa Toji (Hemp Leaf Binding), Koki Toji (Noble Binding) and Yotsume Toji (Four Eye Binding). Yotsume Toji, the most common variation which I have added to my research.

To begin with you mark out the pints in which you want your holes to be, 4 of them evenly apart. Then take a clamp and press the page’s down to hold them in place. Threat you needle though and tie a knot.

Then put your needle though the

next hole next to it, wrap your needle around the spine and then back through the same hole.

Complete this for the second and third hole and then tie a knot. This technique would be used for thick books that you want an authentic look too. The only thing about this type of binding that isn’t something I like is that the spine eats into the book meaning it is hard to open the book flat so I would recommend only doing it with a smaller amount of pages.

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For every book I have created in the past I have always thought so carefully about my paper stock.

I feel think good quality paper can change the look of a book and make it look more or less professional. For my last few projects I have used GF Smith paper. The quality of their papers are incredible and especially when I want a thick paper maybe 100120gsm they provide many colour’s and shades that would take my heavy black ink based designs and not seep through. For my outcome this project it is a diary based book so I want to change from GF Smith paper to a more realistic paper choice that people may use for their diaries. I still want to use a premium paper that will complement the work inside.

Shocked that Ryman would be my best bet but thought I’d try it. I found many packs of paper that I hated in there but there were a few I thought might look nice for my outcome especially. I chose white laid paper in 100gsm. The paper looks slightly textured and has faint lines running horizontally through it. Normally I wouldn’t like this as it’s a distraction but for a diary it reminded me of how people write on lined paper. My research file will be sent off to print on good quality paper provided by Mixam as their sieves will help me create a professional looking book to show alongside my diary outcome.

I was advised that Ryman would have papers that I was after.

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Tyanna and I have decided to take a trip to Magma. We both don’t want to wait until our group London trip as a class because that’s far away and as I want to start designing now I want a head start on looking at for inspiration.

Arriving in Clerkenwell I was overwhelmed with the amount of publications they had in Magma.

For an editorial loving student, I was in my element. I spent ages sifting through all the publications they had there. I photographed some of my favourite ones.

Counterpoint was my ultimate favourite as they have used a

risograph to create a grainy print on the whole publication. They also used fluorescent pink which printed so nicely and really stands out throughout the booklet. (not that you can see obvs all my pics are black and white but just trust me, and go buy one) I also found a publication called TG. Inside this has some really simple body text layouts with images all dotted around the page. This scrapbook effect is actually tough to do as you still need to stick to a grid by try and disperse the images to look random

I love coming to magazine shops as it reminds me what printed media’s aren’t dead. That there are people like me out there who like magazines instead of reading everything online. I feel good when I’m in a magazine shop because it reminds me why I am doing this degree. To be able to work for one of these magazines one day.

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As a part of our work we must undertake a case study portion. For this I think I am going to give 4 students disposable camera and see what they take photos off just like Shore has done here. It will be interesting to see what they photograph of what is in front of them.

As a class we took a trip to the Tate Modern. Inside I found a lot of useful exhibitions that would help me with my project. Firstly, I saw this created by Stephen Shore in 1947 titled ‘American Surfaces’.

This is a series of photographs of everyday scenes. Shore took the images during a dedicated road trip across the US between 1972 and 1973. The project marked an important stage in his career when the concept of the road trip because integral to his work. His snapshots of urban scenes, hotel interiors, food and street sign-age build a portrait of the social and geographical landscape of the US in the 1970’s. What I think is fascinating is what he documents.

The small details he shares of things

he looks at and of what is in front of him allows a viewer to really understand their life and makes them feel as though they are there with them seeing it.

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Can colour’s remind us of a particular place or time?

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William Eggleston born in USA in 1939, created a series titles ‘Chromes’ in 1970-3. In the Tate are 4 photographed untitled from the series. Eggleston photographed the everyday world around him.

He finds ways to make ordinary objects look extraordinary. A reason for this is his use of intense colour. To achieve this, he uses a complex process called ‘dye transfer’, where the colour’s are separated and printed one at a

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time. Eggleston was one of the first colour photographers to have their work displayed in an art gallery.

Before this, to be taken seriously as a photographer you had to shoot in black and white. I have focused more on the landscapes he has photographed. And the everyday objects he has come into contact with. It is interesting seeing what other people lived in a different time period and comparing that to now is also something fascinating.

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As another small piece of primary research, I thought I would go out and speak to members of the public. When in London and around Farnham Town I conducted a little social experiment.

I asked members of the public if I could photograph them and ask for their name, age and what they do for a living. I only have answers from 5 people as many people shut me down and understandably didn’t want to give me their information. I think it takes a lot of balls and determination to speak to strangers for a project but the responses do always help so it is always worth trying.

I wanted to ask people these details because in my head I am going to pre guess their name, age and profession and see how far off I am. The point of this is we always judge a book by its cover. Well I do anyways. And people will be judging me on my book and what I share about my life so I wanted to experiment with others.

“ I bet you she’s a student looks young, probably 22 and she looks like an Emma, something boring and plain lol sorry. ” - Katie, 26, dental nurse.

Just realised sorry if ur name is Emma or Katie... But not my fave names but I knew it boring name. Was way off with the age she looks too young to be 26?!

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“ An old women’s name- Anne or Margaret, got to be over 70 and well I’m guessing retired ”

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- June, 81, retired. “ June is a lovely name and the other two were a given”

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“ Paul he looks like a Paul, I’m gunna go with 53 and job ermmm maybe some sort of labourer ... ” - Graham, 55, Lorry Driver. “ Ok yeah he does look like a Graham too. Very close with the age.”

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“ Julie, 38 and she looks like she has money sooo either doesnt work or maybe a receptionist kind of role ” - Louise, 35, Owns her own business. “ She looks like a mum who hasn’t celebrated her 40th yet and I should have given her more credit, own buisness fair play Louise! ” Figure 53.

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“ Ermm Chloe, 15 and Amy, 13, both still in Education ” - Ruby, 15 and Shannon, 14, both at school.

“ Quite pretty names, ages were a given and so was school”

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I found an article online analysing strange fashion trends that are very popular at the moment. Many of my friends have gone through phases of wanting to change their look or style because they are bored and needed a change. Hair styles and colours are a huge part of this.

In this article it states “It seems this hair trend is the perfect way to be both fresh and jaded by being both young and gray. Oh yeah, mom, and get it right, starlets like Lady Gaga, Rihanna and Pink are said to have silver hair, not grandma gray.”

Individuals want to follow their celebrity icons to be like them and follow the kinds of things they like.

They want to experience the retro and trendy look their icons go for.

Another current trend is septum piercings. This is a ring that is put through the cartridge that hangs below the nose. The Mamiverse Team explained in their article “While the septum piercing has

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been popular in rural areas of India, Nepal, and Bangladesh forever, it may seem like your septum-ring-wearing teen, who had hers put in last month, has had it like forever (!) as well. The good news is moms, that if your teen is pain phobic he or she may not go through with it. The nasal septum, which is the cartilaginous dividing wall between the nostrils, has several nerves running through it, so these piercings can be especially painful, and take about a month to heal. Oh, but why did Scarlett Johansson have to look so darn cool in her septum ring?”

As we grow older we develop an understanding for different cultures and trends they follow. Individuals begin to start thinking about the styles on themselves and testing out more looks they might like. Again with a celebrity pulling off a look it persuaded people to want to try it too.

Before this project I hadn’t thought too much into style and how items we buy express our moods, feelings and interests before. I have always just brought clothing and accessories because I liked them but actually these earrings, shoes, tops etc that I buy show the style I like to have.

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I have looked at fashion trends that teen vogue believes we will see everywhere in 2019. Avery Matera a writer for the website suggests that we are moving on from lots of denim shorts and the colour Barbie pink and moving fashion to focus more on exaggerate tailoring. Something we will see a lot more of in 2019 is oversized puffers. Celebrities are embracing the warmer cosy style and wearing puffy clothing. In the eyes of teen vogue colours that we will be seeing

a lot more of are coral. Pantone had recently announced their “living coral” will be the colour of the year.

Animal print is another print that is making a comeback. I wear leopard print at least 3 times a week just because I love it, I have clearly been swept back into the trend where snake skin, leopard and zebra print are in. One last item of clothing that is making a comeback is cargo pants. “With a ’90s and earlyaughts closet currently filled with logo-clad sportswear, slip dresses,

dad sneakers, and mom jeans, the newest addition comes by way of cargo pants. Whether slim, like we saw on the Prabal Gurung runway, or more wide-legged, as debuted

by Sies Marjan, these utilitarianinspired bottoms are about to make a huge comeback in 2019.”

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Moments is an app that I made one of my best friends use for 5 days. I conducted a little mini experiment with her to track how much time she was spending glued to her phone. The app aims to show people how much time they spend and on what apps but also to help people divide their time better and spend less time on their phones.

It logs how many times you pick your phone up each day, it breaks down the day and shows you what time you were on what app, it also sets alarms for you to help your stop and get off your phone when just aimlessly scrolling for the sake of it.

I did ask a handful of students to download it but 4 of them didn’t want to know or didn’t have any more space for apps on their phones. I found it amusing that some of the girls didn’t want to know it was like they already knew it would be a lot but didn’t actually want it bought to their attention.

My female friend Ellie Fairchild aged 20 however did decide to download the app. I asked her after 2 days how it was going and she sent me one of the days from the app. This was a breakdown of her time spent on that day. She sent me the screenshot at 12.07 so this wasn’t a full day yet just her morning.

Ellie had almost spent at hour

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of her morning on her phone she admitted to me it wasn’t for anything useful either just social media and messages. She said the 39 pick-ups were probably because she had been messaging her 4 group chats and her boyfriend that morning too.

After a normal working 5-day week I asked Ellie again how she had been getting on. She then sent me another screenshot. Over 5 days Ellie had been on her phone for 14 hours and 6 minutes. Breaking down each day to around 3 hours.

I found it interesting that I know Ellie has a laptop which she does most of her university work and research so her phone couldn’t have been used for that. When I called her about her results I asked her how she felt she said that she was embarrassed but not shocked at the results. She said the app most defiantly persuaded her to try and do something else with her time like reading. Ellie explained to me that she can be sat talking over messages to her friends for ages and mainly scrolling through social media twitter and Instagram specifically for hours. She said she get so caught up with other people’s images that she doesn’t realise how long she is doing it for.

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As I complete my outcome of documenting every day there are things I see and notice and want to research alongside while I complete these 30 days. Today I went to Starbucks to sit and do work and after about 4 hours of looking at my laptop screen I finally looked up for a break. When I looked around everyone was glued to their phones.

We live in a world now where everything we want and need is on a screen, because of this moment I have decided to ask 9 students to share with me their average screen time over the last 7 days.

On iPhone’s there is an app which keeps track of what you spend your time on and for how long. I want to see how long students are on theirs for. I guess that it would be between

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3 and 6 hours. Reasons for this may be videos, apps, social media, texting and calls etc. I have kept the names of each person anonymous as some people are embarrassed about their screen time.

Interestingly most students spend way longer on their phones that I thought they would. This is based on a 7 day average meaning some days are worse than others. I also find it interesting that nearly all of the top used are social media, Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter.

I was expecting this. I think it is unhealthy for a students average to be over 4 hours a day but people loose themselves on their phones and forget how long they have been sat there scrolling on them for.

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Social media is second nature for our generation. Texting, Tweeting and posting all come as easy as breathing and eating. If you do not have social media accounts, you lose credibility in today's society.

It's like an unspoken rule: anybody who is anybody has a social media presence.

The glamorized world of social media is a blessing and a curse.

You get to pick and choose what the world knows about you.

You have control of how you market yourself as a person.

The application, Instagram, is a photography and videography app that allows functions such as posting photographs, videos and gifs on your profile. You can show your approval of post by "liking" it.

This world of Instagram has created an alternative universe people of our generation can live in how they choose despite their real lives. The problem with this is the blurred distinction between someone's life online and life in reality.

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As a young adult in today’s society, following someone on Instagram is how you basically come to know that person. People spend hours figuring out how to take the best selfie, which filter looks the best, or which pose makes you look skinniest. Some people will live their life solely to take a photograph to post on Instagram to show the world that they’re doing something. People take photos of their lunch, their pets, their view from their apartment and their parties. If all of this is happening, then how are we supposed to genuinely enjoy moments in our lives without pulling out a phone to capture the moment?

Gaining approval of your life by comparing “likes” you receive on photographs and how many people follow your profile is not a real way to live. Social media is just a presence. It’s not your life in pure, genuine, raw form. Instagram is so much fun without a doubt. But, it is slowly deteriorating society by making what things look more important than how they actually are.

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I have decided to analyse some young adults Instagram Pages.

Following on from the article I have read it is clear to see that social media is such a huge part of our lives now I thought it would be interesting to see what some of my friends have shared about themselves online. The two people I have chosen are @Mattdade a 21 year old male from Camberley and @morganshipley_ a 21 year old female from Farnborough. I have purposely chosen these 2 people from different areas but that are the same age.

Matt Dade’s Instagram is full of partying he clearly wants to show people that his is having a good time. He probably likes looking back on photographs that bring him back happy memories. He seems to be very smart looking each photo showing himself at his best when he’s dressed up. There are a lot of images with topless boys posing including himself. He is showing off his abs and this is something a lot of boys enjoy to do.

Being able to flash their muscles empowers a lot of men with the added bonus they will probably get a lot of likes with this.

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photographs places she has been for example Tokyo and the diverse streets they have there. This is educating people like myself that have never been there and probably won’t go. Allowing me to see the world through someone else’s images. She has also posted images that are probably seen as quite arty and colourful showing off things she likes and colours she enjoys.

By looking at peoples Instagram I have been able to understand their interests and a small part of their personalities just through images they have posted.

Morgan Shipley’s Instagram is very different to Matt’s there are more images of what’s in front of her rather than images of herself.

Over all I can see that her page is very busy with lots of things going on in each photo. Morgan also

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Megan Crabbe is a public figure on social media in particular Instagram. On her profile she mainly talks about body positivity and feminism. I wanted to research Megan as she is a female in the world today that is pushing for people to love themselves. With a following of 1.1 million followers she has taken over so many photo shopped models and celebrities with her natural unedited uploads showing a naturla female body that many people in the world will have.

Megan questions young teenage girls on how many of them have body insecurities from being too fat, too soft, too jiggly etc. She explains how women spend a lot of time talking about specific parts of our bodies that they’ve been taught to see as flawed: stomachs that aren't flat, thighs that aren't smooth, arms that wobble and backs that ripple. She says how we don't talk enough about what all those supposed 'flaws' have in common, and why we've been taught to see them as flaws in the first place. I wonder wether any of my images in my outcome book will give the same uplifting empowering feeling in my images that Megan gives off to her fan base.

Megan has a variety of images on her profile. Some selfies, some motivational posts, some type, some screenshots, some drawings, she shares a range of womanly photos that aren’t all perfect like models.

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I wanted to look up a profile of someone promoting body cofindace because I always find myself looking at beautiful girls and feeling shit about my body. I always wish I had a flatter stomach and less body hair but I need to remind myself there are many many other girls out there feeling just as shit as me all wishing we were someone different or that we could change something about ourselves.

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I want people to look at the simple photographs I have taken of my mood, the bags under my eyes, the state I look in when I wake up, pictures I take of myself in a bad mood etc.

I want to have a variety of images in my outcome just like how

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Amanda is an illustrator who lives in Los Angeles. She has 848,000 Instagram followers that enjoying looking at her daily posts of her art work. The reason I have looked up Amanada is because she sometimes draws women as they are every day.

So many of her pictures I found to be really relatable and it actually made me feel so much better knowing she was voicing things that I find embarrasing that I do.

She picks up and shows off the things some women try to hide because they are embarrassed. She regularly draws hair on female’s legs in her work showing how some women like that or can’t be arsed to keep up with the look we are told we should have. Her drawings make body hair, moods and everyday male and female lifestyles normal whereas most of people on Instagram would hide their true selves and just post what they think people would want to see. I know many of my friends lie about things just to portray what they know people want to believe and see on social media. An example would be moods. A friend would post a picture of herself laughing with our friends showing she is having a good time when actually in reality she is miserable and fuming because she is hungry or annoyed at something.

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Amanda says that she is enthralled by the way people behave behind closed doors. Intimate moments we never get to see. Those are moments that can’t really be documented because if they where it would alter the way the person behaved, so she draws them. I also find her drawings to be really intresting too, they are cartoon like water colour drawings. They are very simple line drawn illustrations filled with lots of colours. I think by following Amanada I have definitely become more open about what I do with myself and situations that actually happen to me. Like I talk about periods more and around boys I will pop my spots etc. Her page has normalised so many things for me and I love it.

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I have asked a student at The University of Nottingham if I am able to read through and analyse their twitter for my project. I want to see what students tweet about on a day to day. Twitter is an online news and social networking service where people can write their feelings etc or communicate by ‘tweeting’. I want to see if I can understand a person from what they share with the world about their moods etc.

After looking on Hannah’s twitter I have seen that she isn’t someone who writes her own tweets a lot more so ‘retweeting’ other people’s tweets. Retweeting is when someone likes someone else’s tweet and then wants it posted on their pages because they feel the same or can relate to the comment someone has made.

Hannah retweets a lot of tweets that relate to University. One example being a tweet by an account called @christiancalgie on March 12th when they tweeted ‘Me handing in my dissertation’. The photographs attached to the comment show someone to be stressed and giving up. By retweeting this Hannah is showing that she feels the same way that her mood fits the tweet someone has written. Sometimes

a photograph can explain so much more than words. In terms of my outcome I need to include lots of photographs to compliment my body text and help express how I am feeling throughout a day.

I think by being able to see what someone shares on social media gives a real idea of how someone is in that moment. Another example from @hannnjackson’s twitter is when she retweeted @alexmeyerr when they tweeted ‘does anyone else write things they already did in their planner….’ From this I take that Hannah is sharing that does the same thing meaning she does the same as the other 66,000 people who retweeted it and the 404,000 people who liked it.

I think this individuals twitter shares the funny side to them. The comments on their profile shows them to be humorous and witty. I have found it interesting dissecting

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someone’s profile in a way that I have for my University project.

Looking at Twitter in a different way to what I would normally would had shown me that people may read things in a different way which is something I need to be careful with my book.

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With social media playing such a huge part in our lives it would be silly of me to not include a page in my research on Snapchat, one of the most used apps today. Snapchat allows people to send pictures, make conversation and create stories for their friends to see. 10 billion videos are viewed daily which means there is a constant crave for filming and sharing snippets of our lives. Relationships and conversations are relied on being over phones now and not even in person.

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“Using social media more as a communication platform can also create mental health issues, specifically low self-esteem and loneliness.

College students are in danger of becoming lonely when those virtual friends are not in their real life. Low self-esteem can also arise when comparing their lives to others via Snapchat.

Psychologist Leon Festing from an article published by Cornell University said, “negative self-comparison is when users compare their lives with that of others. Social media sites are the platform for this comparison, setting the stage for insecurities to flourish. Selfies can also create low self-esteem when college students do not receive the recognition they thought they would. According to Omnicore, 50 percent of male college users share selfies and 77 percent of female college students share selfies. When college students share selfies it allows room for low self-esteem to occur.” (theodysseyonline, 2018)

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I love snapchat for the fact I can send picture messages to my friends quickly and easily. The photos don’t stay forever which is also good so it doesn’t take up phone space. I also love the filters that are given with the app, these are fun filters that warp your face. Some are funny, some are cute they can add to an image to express a mood.

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“Although social media is sought to be a huge distraction for college students, it also helps with their learning and adjustment to “college life.” Social media opens a whole new technological world for students, however students choose to adapt to the new “world” is the ultimate decider of their academic success.” (Harrison, 2018) I think it will be interesting to see why my friends like social media so much. I know that I love to go on Instagram to lose myself in others’ lives, because I’m bored or just because I’m interested in the kinds of photos people take.

As well as being a positive to University life social media has many negative aspects. Everyone has insecurities and a lot of people compare themselves to others photos which can knock their confidence. “Getting worked up with anxiety or envy from what we see on social media keeps the brain on high alert, preventing us from falling asleep,”.

(Barr, 2019) Some peoples mental health is affected by social media. “In March 2018, it was reported that more than a third of Generation Z from a survey of 1,000 individuals stated that they were quitting social media for good as 41 per cent stated that social media platforms make them feel anxious, sad or depressed.”(Barr, 2019) Said by Sabrina Barr on the Independent online.

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I found a website called The Peace Times where a female named Kelsey Harrison has written a blog post on her views of how social media has affected students. Some of the most used social media apps have taken over people’s lives. Twitter, Facebook, Snapchat and Instagram are a few of the most used apps today. Kelsey openly talks about the positives and negatives in her opinion about how social media affects us. “Using social media to cope with academic frustrations can be a good outlet, especially if the student is connecting with another student that is having the same problem,” (Heffer, 2019) explained Heffner. “Social media allows students to discuss class material via social media as well as help them network.” (Harrison, 2018) Some people use social media to interact with others to learn more about the world. Majority of people go on social media to avoid doing a task they need to do or because they are bored.

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I asked 4 University students to give me a positive and negative they have found with social media and these were the responses I received:

Morgan Shipley, 21.

Graphic Design student.

3rd year - University of West England: Positive: “I find lots of visual inspiration for food, fashion and design on Instagram.”

Negative: “The amount of time I waste on it is a joke. Seriously sometimes I’m sat thinking what am I doing.”

Josh Hitchin, 20.

Sport science student.

1st year - Oxford Brooks University.

Positive: “I found it helped me get closer to new people when I started Uni and moved away from home.”

Negative: “The fact I have to give access to my private information when I create accounts”

Hannah Jackson, 21.

Psychology and cognitive neuro-science Student.

3rd year – University of Nottingham.

Positive: “I like seeing what fun things my friends do so I can find more things id then like to try and do.”

Negative: “Access of information, you’re able to stalk peoples where abouts & sometimes I feel shit looking at peng models bodies.”

Sam Leggatt, 21.

Film Production Student.

2nd year – University of the creative arts in Farnham.

Positive: “I’m able to communicate with family members and friend’s no matter where I am of they are in the world.”

Negative: “It has birthed such a toxic mindset of body negativity and has pushed more eating disorders and mental health issues.”

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Angela McRobbie and Jenny Garber are sociologists that have studied and created an essay on “Girls and Subcultures”. They were interested in how adolescent girls’ leisure practices differ from males.

They argue that girls are told not to engage in crime yet to stay in their bedrooms in the safety of their computers and TV. During her research she found that girls were more likely to stay inside as they were more likely to be accused of sexual impropriety and are more likely to face psychological hardships, due to factors such as lack of self-confidence than their male counterparts, meaning that they are safer in their bedrooms. It is stereotyped that for teenage girls in

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particular, the bedroom is a sacred place; a place where they can meet and gossip with their friends at sleepovers, a place where they can cry over boys, a place where they can spend endless hours on the internet.

Another article I read was “the rise of ‘bedroom culture’ spells trouble for our children” (Smith, 1999) written by Andreas Whittam Smith.

Smith wrote about the fact that parents had admitted to knowing their children spend ‘very little’ or ‘none’ time outside the house.

They are more interested in their PC’s, video games, TV and music.

I wonder whether these habits individuals get into have a huge effect on them in later life. I think so.

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In New Zealand, Perpetual Guardian have become one of the first big companies to switch to a four day working week. They believe that there is a 20% rise in productivity which has helped with increasing their profits and staff well being within their company.

They changed 240 members of staff to a 4-day week and still maintained their pay. The trial was monitored by academics at the University of Auckland. Details of an earlier trial showed the biggest increases were in commitment and empowerment. Staff stress levels were down from 45% to 38%.

Work-life balance scores increased from 54% to 78%.

Applying this research to myself I have realised that I don’t stop working. I spend 10 hours a day just doing work where I actually don’t get much work done I sit for hours and try to focus on my work but I can’t maybe this is the environment I’m in, I probably get caught up with notifications lighting up on my phone and other things. I need to set a time to do work my focus for a couple of hours then have a proper rest from my work not merge things all together because this isn’t helping me or is productive.

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Visual Learner I wanted to understand more about why we do specific things?

I want to dig deeper than just guessing and actually understand the different ways of learning etc.

In our second year in we spent a lot of time learning about our own learning and achademic styles. We all have different ways of learning and taking in information. There is now a theory based on it. VAK theory. There are 3 styles which are Visual, Auditory and Kinaesthetic.

We have traits of all of these in us but some are more dominant than others. I wanted to remind myself of these as they may help me to remember what I am like.

Auditory Learners: They are very verbal; they like to talk a lot about what they are doing.

They pick up emotions through tones of voices and listening to people. Their memories are usually very good and they are usually quite academic. Some people are distracted with noise. Auditory learners usually brainstorm ideas and time manage well. They like to learn from text books and speeches.

Visual Learners: They learn by looking and observing. They tend to not remember information very well but pictures better. Lots of visual learners relate to colour and their imagination. They usually remember faces not so much names. Visual learners like to highlight information to remember it. Also usually quite organised 66

and they like to use a lot of graphs, charts and drawings to show information.

Kinaesthetic Learners: Don’t tend to listen very well.

They learn best when touching things and moving around. Don’t read much. They love games and physical ways of learning. They like to listen to music to work to, can’t keep still for too long – easily distracted. Many athletes are kinaesthetic. Traits of being active, lively and energetic.

I think I am a visual learner and this is why I find it easier writing down and photographing things like for my outcome book how I take photos to remind myself of my moods etc. I have researched and delved deeper into some more traits that come with being a visual learner that I think I have.

r To carry on from what I have learnt about different types of learning styles, I have so researched Honey and Mumford learning styles. They have identified four distinct styles of ways that people learn. For this project I want to understand my learning style as they may effect what I do day to day and help me to understand how I take information in. The four different learning styles within a VAK style include Activists, Reflectors, Theories and Pragmatists.

Activists: These are people who learn by doing. They love to experiment and try new things out. They can be quite daring characters.

They usually have a get up and go attitude they don’t enjoy to plan out ideas first. Activists are very open minded people. They learn best by being thrown into too deep end and working their way up. They are good at solving problems and controlling group activities. Traits that they have that hinder then are that they don’t like to sit for too long and concentrating in lectures are really hard.

Reflectors: These are people who learn with observations. They like to explore every possibility before moving forward with an idea. They spend time listening to what people have to say. Reflectors best learn by giving themselves lots of time for completing work in time for deadlines. They are cautious people

when it comes to bold movements.

They don’t like having to rush for deadlines.

Theorists: These people learn by understand theories behind ideas. They like to know facts and background information on ideas first. They analytical. Theorists tend to be tidy people and well organised. They like to be able to get to the root of an idea. They learn least by being around activists. They find them distracting and ambiguous.

Pragmatists: These are people who are keen to experiment with ideas. They enjoy getting on with things and become quite impatient with discussions. They are not as fussed about the background of an idea just being able to test and create ideas make them happy. When they realise an idea won’t work they don’t like to waste time on it as it won’t be beneficial. They like to hear feedback a lot. They don’t like theory work or when there are no straight guidelines on how to complete something.

After reading these I feel that I am a mixture between an activist and a pragmatist. I am always keen go get up and go, try ideas out because it can be creative and fun

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I learn more in situations where I am surrounded by people who I bounce ideas off of and that learn the same way as me.

I love to use colour in my work. I always relate colour to emotions and feelings these reflect in my outcomes. I use bold colours when I want my work to have an impact.

I spend a lot of time on layouts. Probably more time then I should.

I always want each design I create or page in a zine to look aesthetically pleasing. I like when I look at zines and how my eyes follow the words and images on each page.

I am someone who is always aware of things that go on around me and how I can include them into my designs. For example: things people say. The way people dress. News articles. Trends. A huge part of me which is why this project is so important and I know something I am going to love creating.

I have noticed I tend to draw arrows, speech bubbles, lines and circles on my notes. This is to help myself see short cuts to more important information I’ve found or to highlight key areas.

I find lots of fine artists work inspirational because they use striking colours and experiment with abstract ideas shown in different outcomes like collages, sculptures, paintings etc.

Every day I go through my photo albums because they bring back happy memories I then replay over in my head and smile at. – each time I do this it probably helps me build a clearer picture of what happened at that time.

My learning style helps me to experiment with designs. Because I think so much over in my head I usually already have a plan of what I want an outcome to look like. When this doesn’t go to plan which is most of the time I am forced to try new things and make a new outcome.

I dream a lot this is very personal to me but it shows I am inventive and imaginative with the thoughts that I create in my head at night.

Videos with illustrations help me to remember the words to songs easier like with the video to the right.

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After researching into different learning styles, I want to change up my research slightly and find out why we do specific things. I am hoping somehow I can find a student who studies as science to help me look into anything about the brain or a more scientific approach to different topics like drinking or socialising or social media. After posting on multiple Facebook pages a student from The University of Nottingham came forward and offered to help me as researching science based studies and theories is not a field I am strong in. S.Bayliss who studies Psychology and cognitive neuro science private messaged me. Degrees in this subject offers a scientific approach to the study of human behaviour, with an emphasis on neuroscience explanations of human behaviour and neuroscience methods. It will develop your understanding of the processes that influence people.

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She was unsure on exactly what I was after, and to be honest neither was I really. She had 8 pages of studies and write ups on topic such as sex, drugs, drinking, social behaviour. We facetimed twice as I asked if she would go through the slides with me to help me break them down into a way I could actually understand. After around 4 hours’ worth of facetiming from Tongham to Nottingham I have been able to say I understand some science based studies and reasoning and facts as to why people act the way they do.

Any perception, cognition or behaviour that is influenced by people’s recognition that they and others are members of a distinct social group.

Most research into intergroup behaviour has focused on negative outcomes: • In group favouritism: treating own group with a preference over out group • Ethnocentrism: feelings of superiority over another group • Collective violence and social unrest e.g. protests • Stereotyping, prejudice and discrimination • Dehumanisation; reduce them to animal status, makes it easier to enact violence against them.

Intergroup behaviour is regulated by people’s awareness of and identification with different social groups. Interactions can be faceto-face or perceived threats from other groups e.g. when people claim foreigners take our jobs.

Not based on an objective reality.

Social behaviour is influenced by the social categories to which we belong, and the power and status relations between those groups, these often indicate how we will react. Wouldn’t see effects if they didn’t care about being that specific in group.

Real life examples: • International wars/conflicts/ disputes • Intra-national conflicts e.g. civil war • Negotiations between unions and management. Form of conflicts between employees and their employer • Competitive sports teams Underlying principles: theories explaining intergroup conflict.

The social conditions that foster intergroup conflict can be grouped into different theoretical perspectives: • Economic perspectives. Realistic conflict theory.

• Motivational perspective: relative deprivation, social identity theory, terror management theory • Cognitive perspective: selfcategorisation theory. (us and them) Social identity APPROACH is made up of social identity THEORY and self categorisation theory. Made up of motivational and cognitive perspectives.

Meta-theory with two distinct theories. SCT designed to address limitations of SIT. SCT provides an explanation for how social identity differs from personal identity.

Both theories compliment each

other. Overall understanding that we have individual personality (which is different to others) but also the groups we belong to. Try to understand when we move from our self categorising our own identity and our social identity.

Self-categorisation theory: although SCT offered no explicit motivational analysis, cognitive contrasting of ingroups and outgroups is implicitly understood to be a strategy designed to promote separateness, perceptual clarity and social meaning.

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Cocaine is a psychomotor stimulant; like amphetamines.

Psychomotor stimulants elicit (in humans) sensorimotor activation, alertness, arousal and excitement.

If there is a right dose of cocaine, it has immediate positive effects.

Derived from the coca leaf, grown in south america. Culturally the raw leaves of coca was given to Bolivian miners to help them work long hours. Cocaine itself is herbal, but it can be made into a synthetic.

Injecting cocaine would need a much smaller dose than smoking crack. sniffing/oral results in a rapid peak in blood concentration, the effect wears off quicker.

Humans: Effects differ from lower doses/high doses/severe use effects. • mild/moderate use. Mood amplification, euphoria, dysphoria, heightened energy, sleep disturbance, increased libido,

hyperactivity, anorexia, inflated self-esteem. • Severe effects. Anxiety, extreme energy/exhaustion, total insomnia, incoherent speech, decreased sexual interest, total anorexia, delusions of grandiosity, extreme violence.

These effects do depend on the dose, rate of administration, pattern and duration of use and the environmental context. Effects all intermingle with each other.

Rats: behavioural effects are similar.

Tested whether cocaine distorts time perception and whether it changes the stopwatch mechanism that allows rats to measure time. Rats previously trained in measuring time, given a timing task. There was a marijuana group, cocaine group and control. Control had normal time telling, cocaine was hyperactive and time is fast, marijuana rats time is slower and acted mellow.

Brain changes: Sympathetic nervous system changes; rush of feeling high, vasoconstriction, hypertension, possible strokes, haemorrhages.

Dopamine concentration increases with cocaine use causing euphoria.

Dopamine concentration decreases with cocaine craving causing dysphoria.

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Neurons need to communicate with each other to cross a barrier to release chemicals; and many drugs of abuse mess with this process. Chemicals crossing the synaptic cleft have travelled down from vesicles, which release neurotransmitters. Transporters then remove this chemical from the synaptic cleft and put it in the terminal for reuse in order to regulate the level of activiation of the postsynaptic dopamine receptors.

Cocaine has the ability to block that transporter; meaning there is more dopamine around as no reuptake.

Cocaine is not directly a dopamine agonist as it does not mimic it but it is a form of one.

Not all drugs are drugs that are a form of agonist cause addiction however, aqua morphine does not produce addiction/euphoria even though it is a dopamine agonist.

Product of sugar fermentation by yeast= ethyl alcohol/ethanol.

One of the most socially accepted drugs. Can measure harmfulness by looking at physical harm, dependence and social harms.

Development of drug harm scale by Nuff et al 2007, experts assigned score 0-3 for each parameter (physical/social harm and dependence) then averaged parameters to get an overall harm score. This puts alcohol as more dangerous than ecstasy, ketamine and benzodiazepines. Nuff et al 2010 tried to improve criteria and weighting of scale, put alcohol as most harmful drug. The suggestion that alcohol is more harmful than crack is based on expert assessment of drug harms to users and drug harms to others. Few cognitive functions or behaviours escape the impact of alcohol.

Alcohol induced memory loss; amnesia. Alcohol interferes with memory, especially the encoding of new information into the longterm declarative memory. Alcoholinduced anterograde amnesia may range from small memory lapses to fragmentary of complete blackouts if large amounts were consumed rapidly.

White et al 2002; asked 772 undergraduate students if they had woke up after a night of drinking

where they were not able to remember thing you did or places you went. 51% of people who had ever consumed alcohol answered yes.

Possible mechanisms of alcohol induced amnesia; State dependence. Information is encoded/learnt in a drugged state, may be remembered better if then they are tested in a comparable drugged state rather than being sober. Context-dependent retrieval; experiments testing for state dependence including 4 groups in a 2x2 design.

Effects of alcohol aren’t always pleasant: alcohol related problems since the beginning of the school year by gender. Hangovers reported 82% males, 81% females, miss class due to hangover 45% males, 42% females.

Why do we still drink it?

Alcohol stimulates our reward system. The mesocorticolimbic dopamine system of reward. Rewards activate mesocorticolimbic dopamine transmission, which enhances the activity of the system by interacting with it at different stages. There is a larger dopamine release into the nucleus accumbens and the ventral tegmental area. To measure this: intracerebral microdialysis to measure neurotransmitters, and the amount of chemicals reflecting the neurotransmitter amounts. When doing this we find drugs of abuse increase dopamine transmission in the nucleus accumbens.

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gym, went to university to do work and chilled out. This is a typical start to a day for a University student I believe. From 5-11pm she seemed to have chilled out more, cooked food, studied a bit more and made some more food. Most University students don’t have loads of money meaning their evenings are very chilled out at home with the other people they live with.

Hannah has made her day seem very relaxed and lazy, watching TV and chilling. The only thing I can’t grasp is her mood through these photos. I think content is so important and if I do this project I 100% want to include content to balance the images so they work together.

From all the photographs Hannah sent me I have come to the conclusion that she is a very bubbly and sociable person. I want to say that she is very chilled but but this mini project was only composted over a 24-hour day. I think if I do some more primary research I will give the person more than one day to see if I can gain more about them over a longer period of time. From 10am-3pm Hannah went to the

I have found doing this mini project really useful. Being able to see where my project can go from a different point of view is something I’ve never done before and really helpful. I can then see and understand more of what my audience will want from my images. I am someone who picks up on the tiniest details so at the 6pm photo I was interested in what was on the window shelf or the programme they were watching on TV, these details are the things I look at and perhaps what others will too.

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I asked a student (Hannah Jackson) living in Nottingham if she would take a photograph every hour of what was in front of her. This is a test run for what I could potentially do for my project - photograph and document my day to day. I thought it would be interesting for Hannah to do this so I could take a back seat and become a viewer instead of the creator. This way I am able to actually take in some of the objects I come in contact with every day that I don’t normally think about. I am understanding this student without actually giving away her full identity. I am able to understand her personality and day to day routine just by looking at some photographs.

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Richard Billingham is an English photographer and artist who bases his work around his family and the place in which he grew up in the West Midlands. Now 48 he has a collection of documentary photographs ones in which have done expectantly well are in his book ‘Rays a Laugh’. Richard lived with his alcoholic father Ray in a council flat just outside of Birmingham. Aged 19 Richard has received a camera in which he decided to photograph his family.

Ray would never leave his room unless sit was for a toilet he would just spend his days drinking.

Images Richard has taken of his father were him laying by the toilet drunk, eating and more.

‘His pictures, surreal, claustrophobic, gave meaning to the idea of “too close to home”.’

(Adams, 2016) The distrusting images shocked viewers to see how someone was raised. I think his images were so incredible because they were so real nothing about them were staged or made up this was how him and his family spent their lives. I think its really interesting a lot of people would have seen his photographs and automatically compared his childhood to theirs. I know for sure my is different to Richards even the

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way his parents lived in clutter and mess and the rooms just looked filthy and dirty. Documenting his mother Liz in her raucous patterned frocks poring over her 1,000-piece jigsaws, surrounded by knick-knacks and wild-looking animals with her fag in hand just showed her personality in one still image. Richard Billingham’s work is a massive help to my project. It is also warming to know that there are people out in the world who also share a love for documentary photography and research projects shared through strong and powerful visuals.

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‘He creates his own image of society, which allows us to combine an analysis of the visible signs of globalisation with unusual visual experiences. In his photos, Parr juxtaposes specific images with universal ones without resolving the contradictions. Individual characteristics are accepted and eccentricities are treasured.’ (Weski, n.a) A recent documentary project titled ‘Beach Therapy’ caught my eye. In this Martin Parr uses a telephoto lens to photograph people at the beach relaxing. I like the way he has shown lots of different people instead of focusing on one person. Parr has documented lots of different body shapes and sizes, different faces and clothing. I like the way he has shown the real life, there is so much to look at in his photographs how people are interacting with each other some cuddling, some chatting, some alone etc all of these things are interesting for me to analyse. I have also found that when looking at his photographs I build profile and personalities for the people in the photos without thinking about it just by studying their body language, facial expressions and what they are wearing. I think Martin Parr is a really interesting photograph and the way I enjoy analyzing his is something I want to experiment with maybe if I give out cameras to people and let them have a try I could study their photos or look at social media too. I think it’s interesting seeing something through someone else’s eyes.

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Martin Parr is an iconic British photographer who documents images that ‘offer us the opportunity to see the world from his unique perspective.’ – Thomas Weski. Viewers call his photographs original and entertaining in the way he photographs the mundane everyday of how we spend our lives and what people do he shares realistic portraits of people’s lives.

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Tracy Emin was the creator of the powerful instillation “My Bed” that was featured in the Tate Britain in 1999. In 1998 Emin suffered a break down where she spent 4 days in bed asleep at one point she went to get a glass of water and looked back into her room to see the state it was in. From this Tracey decided she wanted to document her bed and the objects surrounding it and share it with others in a powerful exhibition sharing her story and her life.

When creating the exhibition Emin felt sad being reminded of what her life was before. Her bed was surrounded by fag buts, used condoms, empty vodka bottles, rubbish, pills, a pregnancy test, money and more. All of the objects around her bed don’t relate to her anymore but in 1998 and at the time of her break down they were a huge part of her and her unfortunate journey.

I find her work inspiring because of how open she is about her life and making sure the minute details were included This contemporary art is something no one has done before leaving viewers in a state of shock the minute they see it. As a viewer I look at the objects surrounding her bed and I start to build a profile for the creator without even knowing them. I think it is really interesting being able to understand a person and their mind set just by what they document and show of their home life.

“I think because it caused such a fuss at the time, and people remember it, and because I’ve never seen anything like it before in my life in an art gallery, ever. So I think it still is seminal, it still has a presence, because almost everyone has been there, to a certain degree, and can relate to it. People respond to it in a very human way and take it far more seriously now than they did 20 years ago. I don’t think people hate it anymore—I think they hated it because they hated contemporary art and they hated new ideas, or they hated to be exposed. Basically, I’m just exposing their own lives, in an even more extreme way.” (Youtube, 2016)

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sport and art. Henry explains that “When you have a still life in front of you, it’s not just going to run away”.

Henry Leutwyler a Swiss photographer once said ‘objects talk’. I like this very simple, clean and obvious. And I agree they do. They talk to us and give us emotions, stories and meaning. In a recent personal photo book Henry has documented objects for over 12 years into a book that consists of 208 pages.

In Henry life he has sold work to Vogue, Vanity Fair and The National Geographic. He is mostly known for photographing celebrities but has recently experimented with some very minimalistic photography.

In his photo book called ‘Document’ he has filled the pages with interesting objects owned by people from history, pop culture,

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“Leutwyler created a list of personal items to pursue, starting with his childhood heroes James Dean and Jimi Hendrix. “I started to figure out what object from what person would be interesting enough to share with people who believe they know everything on everyone,” (Campagna, 2016) Where Leutwyer used celebrities I will be using University students for my project case study. I will have a different audience to him as his audience is focusing on the fans of the celebrities he’s got objects from, mine will be less specific and more general to a wider group of people who perhaps focus on objects in exhibitions. My work will also be different to Leutwyer’s because I want text with a story or an explanation with the photograph not just the photograph on its own like he has done. Although I feel with the text it does slightly distract the viewer the image it still added a story and meaning to the object.

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In January 1973, Christian Boltanski sent 62 handwritten letters to museums of art, history and anthropology around the world. He proposed an unusual exhibition in which the objects belonging to a recently deceased individual would be assembled, classified and displayed according to the museum’s normal protocols within one of its galleries.

The exhibition has images of objects aligned neatly on a board 8 images down and 13 images across. All images were black and white and they all belonged to a young local man in Oxford.

The objects that were presented were mostly everyday essentials.

Razors, cards, books, pans, after shave, a pillow, chess board, whisk, newspapers, photo frames and more. The objects that have been shown all give us a familiar connection to a world we live in now and objects that everyone of us use. In order to appreciate the work in front of us, we must always and study each individual image to really focus

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and understand the object that is there.

We start to question why choose that object? why that brand on the product? why has something been tampered with? why are the clothes creased? why this material object? As a viewer we want answers to questions that were just thinking of ourselves that have all come just from staring at one object.

The simple yet very effective exhibition eaves its interpretation somewhat subjective, yet subtle. You start to feel like you understand this young man’s interests, his lifestyle you try and piece different objects together. Did this go with this?

The exhibition indirectly pushes viewers to actually think for themselves which is exactly what I want to do.

From this incredible work I can now start to think about how views will look at and study the objects I choose. I can see how Boltanski has stripped back his work by using aged plain textured slabs. He has also considered shadows this is something I hadnt thought about before. Does this add depth to the objects?

Its intresting piecing a person together just by the objects they photograph. At some point I want to give out cameras to people to see what they document about their lives.

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Youtube, an American website that has been taken over from google for $1.65 billion is such a huge platform where young individuals can post videos for the world to see. I use Youtube nearly every day I love to watch this morning news TV on it, documentaries, make up videos.. the list could go on. There is a video for everyone and every type of viewers. What I find fascinating about Youtube is how people make money from sharing their everyday lives. By sharing videos of themselves, what they do and more builds a person a following where general public can subscribe to watch their channel and follow the many videos they post.

I have decided to look at some famous young adults aged 20-24 (my target audiences) and try to understand why some people have such a high following and see what it is about their videos and their lives that people are so desperate to watch and follow.

Instantly I could tell that this girl is very sarcastic and didn’t give a fuck what people thought from the things she was sharing about her life. Her sex life the money she makes, he obsession with drugs etc.

I found it crazy how such a young person has such a huge house with lots of things inside it that aren’t needed or ever used just there for aesthetic. I did find myself enjoying the video, Tana wasn’t interesting to me but seeing how her house had been designed was fun to watch. I do always wonder with videos like this if I can see and understand the layout of her house, anyone can and with some strange people in this world it would be so easy for them to break in and know where she keeps all her expensive items. When documenting my life I like that I will be in control of everything that is shown meaning anything I want to share will be shared but anything I want to hide I can.

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To begin with I have found Tana Mongeau. A 20 year old female from Las Vegas. Her YouTube channel has earned over 3.7 million subscribers. She also has over 2.9 million followers on Instagram. I decided to watch her video “official tana mongeau house tour 2019”

this video has 2,454,181 views and was posted on 4th Jan 2019.

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Brent Rivera is another youtuber who I have found to research. He is a 21 years old from Huntington Beach and has 6,982,196 subscribers. I have decided to watch “How I clean my room” seeing as I am doing a project where I am analysing and documenting people’s lives I thought this video would be amusing.

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For someone that has so many followers I was exciting big things.

To begin with and throughout the whole video I couldn’t stop thinking about how fucking annoying he is.

The video showed him working out, eating food and taking selfies. His video was unrealistic and I didn’t believe this was his morning but that was the point. He is obviously a vlogger that tries to be funny just not something that I found funny.

He is too enthusiastic and loud for me so I wouldn’t watch him again. The only good thing about his videos are that they are very short only around 4/5 minutes long instead of some people who vlog and make videos for 30/40 minutes.

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Lele Pons is someone I have never heard of before but this 22-year-old female from Caracas, Venezuela has a staggering 13,545,126 followers on Youtube and is very well known for her fame on the internet. I have decided that I am going to watch her video “Why do I stress?” This is something I can relate to and a topic I would normally google and seek help in.

Straight away her video reminds me of a typical American comedy with shit acting and cheesy story lines. Her whole video felt like it was set up for a TV programme with the friends she had enlisted to be a part of the video all of which were acting too. I did find her videos boring which is why I am so confused she has such a high following. The whole piece didn’t really relate to the title either which is maybe why I was disappointed as I thought I had chosen a video I would enjoy. The only part of the video I did crack a smile at was the part where she called her mum this is something I do ALL THE TIME.

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Another Youtuber I have looked at is Joe Weller. He is a 22-year-old British vlogger from Brighton.

Because he doesn’t live too far from where I live I have heard of Joe Weller before. His Youtube channel has 5,138,988 subscribers where he has posted many videos. The video I have chosen to watch is “Getting my tattoo lasered off � which has 970,000 views and was only posted 48 hours ago. (10.02.19)

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I think this video will be different to the others I have watched as it is a short video following what Weller does for a day when he gets his tattoo removed. This is something people get done often so documenting a normal day to day task will be interesting to watch.

Notes I made from this video were that I actually found him quite funny and I enjoyed watching him

because he was so honest. He spoke about how he had made mistakes which everyone does but showed how he had overcome them. I liked that he did a voice over of himself taking the piss this is something different and added to the overall humour of the clip. I think I have found that videos are much more engaging when the viewer can relate them to their own lives. I defiantly want to photograph my life and parts of it that other people can relate to.

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When researching online I have found a trending subject of bags. This is where celebrities show the items they have in their bag. People are so interested and nosey to see what celebs have and hold on them at all times. I think the objects we hold in our bags show a lot about us and interests. For example, my diary will always be in my bag it is something I can’t go anywhere without incase I make plans and double book.

Scarlett Moffatt is someone who I have found that has shared the insides of her bag for a video.

Scarlett is someone who became famous from her part in the TV programme Goggle Box a show recording people watching the telly.

Her funny and outgoing character stood out allowing her to then take a place on I’m a celebrity get me out of here.

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Inside Scarlett’s bag she has her phone, a smaller bag with make up in it, keys, eyelash glue, a 50p and her own book. I think this is a pretty standard and boring bag, which goes to show that celebs are just normal people too even though they are on a platform and that they don’t hold special expensive items in their bags.

the table this in its self is showing her personality and how she orders her life and the things she does. In Taylor’s bag she has a travel pass for her dog, her purse, a Cartier jewellery pouch, a boarding pass, sunglasses and a case, a full pack of hair ties, another pair of sunglasses, a pen, hand sanitiser and her house keys. In my outcome I defiantly want to have a look through my bag I think this would be really fascinating and would show a bit more of how I am through the objects I keep very close to me every day.

Taylor Hill a 22-year-old female American actress who has been recorded sharing their bag. Firstly, I found it interesting the way she emptied her bag, she flipped her bag and dumped the contents on

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I found Stephen Shore’s work, ‘American Surfaces’ where he photographed urban scenes, hotel interiors, food and street sign-age building a portrait of the social and geographical landscape of the US in the 1970’s. From this I have decided to create my own case studies. I will be giving out 4 disposable cameras to 4 different design students. I want them to photograph what’s around them. I will choose 2 males and 2 females so I hopefully get a variety of photos. I have purposely given the students no clear instructions apart from the fact I want them to document their lives and what they see in front of them. I want to see what they come up with and choose to document. I think it is risky leaving them to do what they want but I won’t get a real outcome if I tell they what I hope to see.

I would like to see their bedrooms or a private set up that would be really interesting but I doubt that the idea to photograph that would come up. I hope that whatever they all choose shows off their personalities, I know my diary outcome will defiantly show off mine.

I have considered who to give the camera to for a while and I have chosen Kristen Fraser, Chloe Alexander, Billy Watson and Chris Seal. I have purposely chosen these four students. I chose Kristen as I have been in a class with her for 2 years but I don’t really know loads about her so it will be interesting to actually gain a different perspective on her and what she likes. I have no idea what Kristen will photograph. Chloe is a funky student who loves vibrant colours and had a real eye for editorial design and has some photography background anyways so I am expecting this is shown through her disposables. I have chosen Billy as I know outside of University he has a busy social life and I am sure he will document it and 96

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Finally, I have chosen Chris as out of all the boys in our class I know that he lives the typical student life, away from home living with friends always drinking at the SU. So I am expecting to see some very ‘studenty’ photos by this I mean socialising, home life and being at University a lot.

This unusual case study I am doing reminds me of Richard Billingham’s work and his photographs have helped me with inspiration so much. I think it will be interesting to see what I get back and I am intrigued for the outcome. Relying on others for content is hard as the work is out of my hands and up to someone else but I know each of them will try hard to help me and my project.

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I found these case studies so interesting. I think the images I received were perfect and showed off them in different lights. I also found the images to show off their personalities which was nice to see. I hope I give off good impressions when it comes to my diary. When I took each camera back I asked each student if they had any comments they wanted to make about what I asked them to do.

“Ermm.. I liked being able to use a disposable again, was actually really fun. Also exciting because I can’t remember what the hell I actually took photos off so will be interesting to see what comes out. Sorry if they’re not what you’re after. I tried to take some edgy pictures cause I know that’s something you would have liked to see.” – Chloe Alexander.

“Cool concept. I didn’t know wither the pictures actually took or not so some may be blurry, some may have not even taken and some might have multiple. That’s the only bad thing I’d say is you can’t see the outcome straight away which is annoying. Guess there is the element of surprise with that though which is cool.” – Billy Watson.

“I tried to keep my picture diverse so you got a lot of different ones.

Dunno if they’re right or not but yeah. I took most of them on one day instead of over the two days we were given but that’s just cause I knew if forget otherwise.” – Chris Seal.

“I hope they’re ok! I can’t remember what I took but I know there is my cat on one or two or most of them. I did get stuck with how many picture I had left to use and how many I had used so I just kept clicking and then left it after a while so think and hope it is ok.” – Kristen Fraser.

I found a lot of the pictures to be quite dark. A lot of Chris’ picture came out quite dark which means I don’t think he used flash when maybe it would have been best too. I loved every one of Chloe’s photos. The angled shots that she had really considered were my faves. They seemed like they could be in magazines or on posters. She clearly has an eye for a trendy photo and good building shots. Billy’s photos were exactly as I thought him surrounded by friends. I was glad to see her showed the fun side to himself as well as the hard working side. He also added a selfie in which no one else did. This again shows his personality that he’s fun and doesn’t mind being centre of attention in a photo. I was intrigued most by Kristen as I didn’t really know her as well.

I feel that I gained a lot more of what her home life is like. Her set up looks very peaceful, relaxed and neat. She seems like quite a homely person which I didn’t realise. I found this project so helpful and useful by looking at what others in my class share about themselves. I want to make sure I focus on photographs such as meals, my surroundings and my facial expressions. I feel by sharing my face like Chris and Billy did will allow someone to appreciate me more.

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After undertaking the case studies.

I looked at all the disposable photographs I own. I love disposables, I love the grainy effect they have on them. I wanted to take a look back at some of my old memories as this project is similar I am just documenting the future instead of collecting photos from the past. I have started to analyse

and note the different objects I carry on me a lot. That being make up, sunglasses are always on my head. These looks are things I need to make sure I photograph or mention in my daily write ups.

Selfies are cringe but they do sum up my moods and allow me to show myself smiling with friends so I reckon adding a few into my outcome wouldn’t hurt. It makes it more personal and warm in my opinion.

Memories make objects become alive, making them more interesting, more relevant and imbued with meaning.

Recording these memories online (whether by aggregating pre-existing content or inserting it manually) and linking the object uniquely with it, means an object can act as a key to virtual groups of memories. Every individual that interacts with a object adds their own interpretation and meaning. The interlinking of these memories and views give the object a new identity, a “soul� almost, something that sums up the essence of an object. The object ceases to simply be a thing but becomes something of significance. (Bloom, 2010) My physical diary itself is a story. A story of my life shared in a book format for people to lose themselves in and forget about their own lives for 5 minutes. I think this is a better way to lose yourself in a book over the television.

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For a previous project I brought a book called Museum of Broken relationships. There global project has actual museums in Zagreb, Croatia and LA, USA where objects are presented with stories alongside them. As I can’t get over to these places the book seemed like a good way to read about the project. The whole project is about treasuring and sharing the heartbreak stories of peoples failed relationships.

The stories express emotions and memories people have with simple objects that link to their relationships. The museums aim is to help people overcome grief through creativity.

There is now an online website for people to add their stories and images too. They are always anonymous but state where in the world they are form. One story that stood out to me when reading was a post from someone in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Titled “White underwear with embroidered 116

flowers”. This story was about a young female aged 18 who felt pressured to lose her virginity to someone she loved to then find out he had given her chlamydia and that he in fact had a girlfriend who was pregnant too. This females object being her underwear is a symbol of her past and the sad times she went through. I think reading a book like this with such personal stories inside really draws you in and makes you sympathise with someone you have never even met. Being able to understand what a person has been or is going through is something really interesting to me. This is why analysing someone else and what they choose to do with their lives fascinates me as well as sharing my life and being able to let people see what I do with my life and how I am as a person.

This particular story relates to many young people at 20-24 and the pressure society puts on people to be a specific way.

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Taryn Simon curated a really phenomenal project over the course of four years where she travelled and photographed lots of people from all over the world their profiles and the stories explaining what they had been through. I found her careful and selective consideration for the whole project mesmerising. For example, within the photographs and the laid out grid for the outcome some spaces were photographed blank these spaces were held for individuals that would be photographed for reason such as religion and more. I thought the consideration for these people was smart and thoughtful.

I love the stripped back feel for this project. I feel like the portraits were enough and along with the expressions on the individuals faces they spoke for them. “to organize this material in classification processes characteristic of the archive—a system that connects identity, lineage, history, and memory.”

This was taken from an online article written for the Wall Street International Magazine. I think this line sums up how much of a personal project it was really understanding an individual and everything about them. The project really digs deep into a person, documenting their stories/ experiences, the way they dress, how they speak, being able to look into their backgrounds and understand all the sadness that lies behind the portrait they’ve had taken.

The way this research has been presented for a gallery is really unique too, allowing the photos to speak for themselves. Setting the images out in a grid to me makes people seem more like a number in a neat row than an individual. In another article I read that “The popularity of the grid derives from its advantages

as a formal mechanism. It lowers the emotional temperature of any subject it embraces, making images seem more like items in a naturalist’s catalogue.” (Woodward, 2016) Maybe this was the point so many people have been through such traumatic experiences they all deserve to me added and this is the best way to showcase them.

For this work I have really started to consider the WHY? Elements to a photograph much more. Why are people sat at that angle? Why are they looking a specific way? By starting to consider and analyse art direction it will really help me when I come to create me outcome.

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Without thinking about it I do follow a routine throughout my day. There are many reasons why we have routines in our lives. For example, by having a routine it reduces the stress of having to make extra decisions a day. When we are finished with one task, we know what comes next without much thought. Activities become standardised and we become more efficient as a result. Routine most importantly creates structure in our lives. By giving ourselves order and it adds a structure to our day which we then fall into habit of and it becomes normal. Rather than make these decisions on a daily basis, we already know what we need to do and in what order because we have carefully planned it. By already prioritising in our heads the order of what we want to do with our day allows us to fit hard tasks into our routine to then make time for them. When a set of tasks and activities become routine, it reduces the chance that we will procrastinate doing them. It becomes ingrained into our system and we almost do it subconsciously. I know I use lists

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- Wake up and shower.

- Put deodorant on.

- Sit with a hairdryer on me warming me up straight out the shower.

- Brush my teeth.

- Dry my hair.

- Put my bag together.

in my day to help myself feel like I’ve completed something, once I tick off something from my list I feel better in myself that I can move forward onto another daily task.

Not every aspect of our lives needs to be scheduled or incorporated into a daily routine. There is a time and place for leisure, relaxation, and ‘non-doing’, and adhering to a routine frees up the time for it. Our routine makes us become better and more efficient at performing certain tasks. This means that we often spend less time completing the tasks listed in our routine via repetition.

I have decided that I am going to make a questionnaire to find out what people do with their mornings. What routine do they follow in the morning to prepare themselves for the day.

As my target audience is mainly students I am going to restrict my questionnaire to 20-24 year olds. I may have some people who aren’t students respond but that’s fine.

I just want to know what people my age do with their mornings. I want to know the first 3 things they do; I have left this as a free answer box so that people can comment as their response. I think without realising people will run through their mornings in their head and respond in the order that they do things. I would do that If I was answering. Listing things helps me to remember the order of things I do. I know that with a lot of my friends they don’t sleep in their own beds much they are either

away with work, at their boyfriends etc. I wonder whether this messes up an ordinary routine. I have asked question 4 because I know for myself I will set an alarm at 9 but not get out of bed until at least 9.30. I think it will be interesting to see the different times people are up in the mornings some will be early and others much later, this all depends on the person’s lifestyle.

I never eat breakfast ever and I always say how it probably messes me for the day as I only eat when I get hungry at 2/3pm. I want to see what people eat for breakfast so that I can take some tips for my health and to see through the month of March if I can improve my eating and breakfasts. They say breakfast is the most important meal of the day so the people who do eat it probably have more energy for the day ahead.

I think my results will be varied.

I really want 50 people to reply to my questionnaire as I feel a large number of people would help me collect my results.

1. How old are you?

2. What are the first 3 things you do when you wake up in the morning?

3. How often do you wake up in you're own bed?

4. What time do you set your alarm for in the mornings? And what time do you actually get out of bed?

5. What do you usually eat and drink for breakfast?

6. Do you wake up feeling any of these moods?

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65 I was blown away to come back and see that 65 people had completed my questionnaire. The more responses you get the better it is to calculate and add up what people have written. Most of the people that completed my questionnaire were 21 and 22. I guessed this would be the case as a lot of students are between 20 and 22. I wanted to start the questionnaire with a simple age question as more ordinary questionnaire you would fill in this would be one of the first questions.

Next I asked about the first 3 things they do when they wake up. It was nice to get such different answers.

Wake up and go on their phones was the top reply when I added them all up followed by going to the toilet and having a drink that being coffee, tea or water.

So interesting to see that after I studied peoples phone times to see that most people are on their phones straight away the minute they open their eyes.

I was surprised by question 3 I

thought a lot more people would stay in others beds other than their own. But I guess some students have Uni and others work so need to be up early in their own bed.

Only 1 person stays in their own bed once a week, I do wonder how this effects their lives and day to day or is it just normal for them?

What time do you set your alarm for in the mornings? And what time do you actually get out of bed? Nearly every one of these were different. I guess people have different things to be up for in the morning. I know my alarm goes about 8-10 times before I get up. Lots of people seem to be up around 7/8am. And snooze their alarms for no more than 20 minutes or so. I feel sorry for the people who set their alarms for anything between 5am and 6a poor things.

Asking people what they eat or breakfast was an important one for me. As I don’t ever eat breakfast I wanted to see what kinds of things people ate, so that when I start my

diary I may be able to break up some days with some interesting foods. I doubt I will but the idea is there. More people than I thought also don’t eat breakfast, a lot of people have overnight oats, some just run off coffee, cereal was another popular answer. One person has an avocado bagel and a smoothie.

God they must be healthy.

I found completing a survey really useful and something I would use again in future.

Maybe If I had a design I wanted views on from the public.I do think the answers that were a tick box gave me an easier chart when I received the results. It was longer going through and reading everyone’s individual written answers in the comment box question. So if I was to do this again I would probably change it but I felt it was necessary to let people have their own personal answer to questions are everyone’s morning is different so you can’t really categorise them.

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I swear by my diary. My actual diary that I write my plans in and occasionally my to do lists.

Normally I keep them both separate and my to do lists I write up on my laptop as most of the work I do is on my laptop so I can flick between my work and the list to tick things off. I would say that I use my diary every single day and at the end of each day I cross off the box.

I want to understand why we use planners and why are they so important to us? Firstly, I know it helps with time management.

A planner helps schedule time efficiently allowing you to weigh up tasks, how long they will take etc and when they need to be completed for. Planners are there to organise tasks for you, categorise them and leave you to know what extra time you can have for yourself.

Another helpful reason for planners is they help you to keep track of previous tasks. Being able to look back at previous dates help to add in ones for the future. I find that having a planner that I always keep on me means when I make plans I can jot it in straight away and not double book plans.

I found a blogger online who has shared her daily set up of her bullet

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journal. A bullet journal keeps hold of plans like a diary but also incorporates tasks etc. It is designed by you and something I might give a go one day. I wonder if any students I know use a bullet journal or just a pre made one?

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“I like bullet journaling because it's a great way to track my day-to-day activities and experiences, as well as my long-term goals. Planners/ to-do lists typically only focus on what you're doing in the future, and diaries typically focus on what you did that day. But all of these things give us the complete picture of who we are. Before I started bullet journaling, the idea of keeping my diary and my personal to-do list and my work tasks in the same place seemed absurd. But now I understand both how to organize that, and also why it makes sense to do it that way.� (Buzzfeed, 2016)

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I asked 2 students to send me pictures of their diaries. I wanted to see what tasks they jotted down and how they presented their lists.

Morgan being a design student has lots of Graphics based lists in her diary. She also scribbles out things she has completed which is something I also do. I asked her why she puts boxes around information and her reply was just that she was procrastinating.

Using a dairy to also doodle in is a very art student thing to do. I can also see that Morgan changes up from crossing information out to just ticking them. Is this because she wants to still be able to see

what she has completed? Another student I asked sent me pictures of her diary. Her’s is used for much more basic day to day tasks rather than Uni work. Her diary is used more for reminders such as doctor’s appointments and lunch dates. She has also added a key to her diary to help her quickly categorise her plans, this is something I have never thought about doing. I prefer to use colours as a key.

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I have realised that my diary is a mess. After looking at others and now coming back to mine. I have information all over the place.

Sums up my life really plans all over the place always double booking and messing people around

because I’ve made a mistake. At the end of each day I scribble out the box so I know that day has been completed, I then look to see my future plans so that I can remind myself what I need to do the following day etc. I feel satisfied at the end of a day when I scribble out my plans. My life is basically just one long list. That’s how I treat it. I keep my different lists separate as this dairy is too small to fit all my information in.

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On our trip to London as a class I found a publication in the Tate Modern shop that was perfect for my project. It was titled ‘Fuck! I’m in my Twenties”. The small just shy of A5 book was designed by New York actor and writer Emma Koenig.

“Everyone has that moment- the realization that adulthood has arrived, like a runway train, and there’s no getting out of its way. In an attempt to express the contradictions and anxieties that come with being over-educated, minimally employed, mostly single, and on you own, Emma Koeing turned to the blogosphere. In the collection of her most popular posts (along with over 50% new material) Emma harnesses the power of illustrations, graphs, checklists, and flow-charts to explore this twenty-something life.”

Emma Koeing’s work is exactly what I want my outcome to be like.

EXACTLY. She adds drawings and illustrations which I want to experiment with. She adds her thoughts in and all of them are so open and honest. I don’t even know what the women looks like but straight away I am building a profile of her in my head what colour hair I imagine her to have, how tall she is etc. Like we lose ourselves in social media, it’s just the same but in a different form and this being a book. I also love that there is no right or wrong for her book. It is so personal to her and what comes out of her mouth that no one can say something isn’t right. The way she has presented her text looks like a sketchbook layout with messy handwriting, I like this but for my outcome I would like mine to look slightly more designed. I also want to copy the style Koeing has gone for with black and white. Having everything stripped back allows you to really take in the information being presented.

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Because I have such a love for documentaries and understanding other people’s stories and lives I went to see Stacey Dooley give a talk on her experiences as an English television presenter, journalist, documentary filmmaker, media personality and author. At 32 Stacey has explored hundreds of countries where she has documented how people live, their beliefs, what they do day to day etc and more. I have loved her since I saw her documentary Blood, sweat and t-shirts on BBC about 10 years ago. I think the way she documents lives in camera is incredible and she’s very brave. I think this talk was good to go to help me with my project because its someone else sharing their life and their experiences. The way she documents every small detail is fascinating and exactly what I want to do just with what actually goes on in my head.

The first half of Stacey’s talk involved her being interviewed about some of the things she has seen and felt. One that stood out to me was when she explained her feelings when she met a man called Pat from the USA in a place called Miracle Village where sex offenders live. Stacey is such a normal human being she felt angry about his past but still spoke to him to hear his side of the story. I think the way she can balance things to tell a story is amazing. When making my outcome book I need to remember my point of the work/ What do I want to get across to people? What am I or others gaining from the book that I create?

I think Staceys talk has helped me with my work because she was voicing her experiances just like I will be doing. Her content is raw and something I want to mimic. I want to have people giving me mixed reactions when looking at my work I want some to be really engaged, some confused, some inspired. I think my project provoces a reaction as some viewers will be shocked as its not typical graphic design work but it is still me communicating my words through design just in a unique way.

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Stacey Dooley’s most recent adventure has taken her to the Philippians where she has been focusing on the worst places in the world to be a female. She has been investigating why young women today live in dangerous and degrading conditions. One example of an episode I have watched is called ‘Saving the Cyber Sex Girls’.

Here, you watch girls who are rarely let out and often underage must perform on webcams and be photographed for a global online audience. Stacey learns how poverty combined with cheap internet access has led to an increasing number of girls being exposed to online sexual abuse.

Why am I personally interested in knowing horrible things that happen in the world?

I feel obliged to watch what some people have to go through. It’s been put on the television to keep people aware of the horrid things that happen in the world today so I feel I shouldn’t hide away and not watch it. We can’t pretend these things don’t happen so it’s better to educate ourselves I believe.

110 people from the UK tried contacting ‘sweetie’ a 10-year-old girl online. I think it’s scary but I like knowing if my country is involved in the programmes I watch.

Another thing I like about her documentaries is that a lot of the time she gets access to undercover operations its very remarkable watching bad people get caught for the disgusting things they do. I find it interesting seeing the process the goes into catching the people.

I like watching Stacey’s documentaries because they are so raw. You really do understand and see everything. A lot of the time you feel like you’re there living it with her when things go wrong it’s all on camera it makes it feel really real and in the moment not just fluffed over because it’s for TV. The whole reason I wanted to analyse Stacey Dooley Investiagations is because I wanted to understand why we care about other peoples lives so much. Stacey has created a career for herself in story telling and sharing peoples stoires.

The same way I am glued to watching her documentaires is similar to people reading my diary and wanting to know more about my life as they read each page.

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Nicole is a textiles tutor for students at the University of Creative Arts who runs workshops in screen printing, indigo dying, block printing, foiling and more. She runs University sessions, hen parties and also does lots of corporate work.

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In her workshops people are shown process’ and helped to create outcomes. She mainly focuses on abstract shapes within her lessons. Nicole has many videos on her website showing the different kinds of things people can get involved with. By watching a clip, you can see how fun and creative her job is and the fun that people have learning how to print in a messy and arty way.

To begin with we started by drawing simple shapes and patterns on paper.

Nicole wanted us to relax and draw freely without trying to be critical. I’d say her approach is very messy, fluid and loose. This exercises were fun but I did find it hard as when I draw I like to do very bold line drawings and shapes not easy work. Quick sketches aren’t something I am good at. We then moved onto materials and how they could help us develop shapes and designs. I picked up some circles made from plastic we started to jot down different words we could think of that reminded us of the shapes this was easy and helped me to brainstorm ideas for designs. Once we had created some images we were then showed how we were going to screen print them with a tutorial from Nicole. We began by taking a screen and sticking our designs to it. We used masking tape to hold the paper down so that it would ruin the screens. Once we had our stencil on the screen we placed fabric or paper on the table to print onto. Around the outside I would put newspaper so that no ink would be able to get through to other parts of the fabric.

Next we used huge long and very heavy weights to secure our screen to the table. This meant that there were no gaps between the screen and the fabric they were tightly compressed together meaning the ink couldn’t spread. I then found some black ink specific ink that is used for fabric as Nicole had two different types with her. Coloured ink for fabrics and some for paper. I spooned the ink onto the top of my screen horizontally making sure I had placed enough on. I was always able to put the extra ink back into the pot so it didn’t matter how much I used on the screen. I then took a squeegee with both hands and pulled the ink towards me dragging through the screen. I needed to make sure I only tilted the squeegee slightly not all the way down as the ink would then get stuck in the utensil. I repeated this 3 or 4 times reusing the same ink on the screen. I then lifted up my screen and peeled the fabric away to then see my prints. I then went and cleaned my screen ready to experiment with another colour.

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Stefan Sagmeister is a New York City based graphic designer and typographer. He is a massive inspiration for me as a designer and I have always followed his work. In 2009 Stefan spoke at TEDGlobal about ‘the power of time off ’.

Every 7 years he closes his design studio for a year to spend time and focus on experiments and designs he wants to do. He explains in his talk how over time in a regular working life he gets bored of things easily this is something I really struggle with especially with my projects. One year he took himself out to Bali he spoke about the wonderful inspiration he felt from the area this is something key for a designer and something Tom always tried to drill into us. Get out of the classroom change our surroundings and find some different inspiration.

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In our class critique Tom was speaking to holly about her work and where she is at. Her project is Publishing her dissertation into an A1 spread where she has been experimenting with typographic layouts. Tom asked me to look at her work and help with the layout of the different texts that she had printed and brought in. We sat together experimenting with the print outs placing them in different positions and directions. One thing I knew I could help with was balancing the text out on the A1 board. By this I mean if Holly wanted quite thick heavy text covering the top she needed to do the same at the bottom whilst having negative space in between.

I think her work wouldn’t look as effective if she had a group of block images together in one area, they needed to be spread around the A1 allowing the spread to breathe and for a viewer’s eyes to then be moved around the spread instead of just drawn to one area.

envisioned would have looked nice.

Sometimes it worked better and sometimes it didn’t. I explained to Holly that not all of the A1 needed to be filled. By having negative space on the board it allows the whole piece to feel bigger and less intense. Her work is incredible and I loved being able to help her with her layouts of text. It’s nice to feel that my help is appreciated and fills me with joy knowing that I have skills that people think are good enough to help others with.

I didn’t hold back when it came to putting my ideas across I would pick up something she had done and move it just to see if what I had

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As I have time managed well so far I am going to do a pre outcome little test run. I want to act as if I am completing my outcome for 3 days. I will be able to see what I struggled with, what worked well and overall if the kinds of images I want to take will look good or not. I am treating this test run like a prototype just instead of a print it is my idea. I think I am going to find it fun and easy to do as I am always doodling, writing down my thoughts and taking photographs.

The hard parts will be trying to remember the small details like what I eat for breakfast, lunch, dinner etc. Who I call in a day, things like that.

I have chosen these topics as I think the outcomes are going to be really interesting. I think people would find it funny and intriguing to know little details such as what I wear or what I am thinking. I have also decided that I don’t want to hold back at all with what I think.

Even if something offends someone they will have to suck it up because I want this diary to be real and to feel as if someone is actually inside my head listening to everything I think and feel. I have also begun to lay out how I want my diary to look once I have all the content. I want it to be in a style where everything is a mess and all over the place – inspiration from my actual diary but still designed graphically.

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The things I have decided to focus on are - Breakfast - Lunch - Dinner - Snacks - Calls I make to my mum (because I make A LOT) - Interesting conversations I have.

- Train conversations I over hear. (weird but cool idea) - Outfits I wear in a day.

- Films I watch.

- Any arguments or dramas I have.

- My moods.

- Social media likes.

- Tinder swipes.

- Daily screen time.

- Illegal things I do.

- Friends profiles.

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1st FEB – 12:47 - The train is absolutely rammed which is a first. I normally have the train to myself on my trips to Nottingham but I’m glad I bagged myself a window seat with a table so I can do some work. (online shopping).

12:50 - Observations – Not one person isn’t staring at a screen mainly phones, a couple laptops.

My guess is they are bored like me or have work to do again like me.

13:40 – BRILLIANT. A man’s just sat down opposite me and wacked out his pack lunch. I don’t know what it is about people’s home lunch but they freak me out. Think it’s the smell. Really hope he doesn’t have a smelly lunch.

13:46 – can confirm the lunch didn’t smell - his ham in brown bread is all good.

14:27 – Hannah’s just picked me up from the station and I am buzzing.

The 4-hour journey was worth it when I saw her and she was happy to see me all ready to go and get pissed now.

18:04 – We have monged around and watched some TV. Waiting for the right time to get ready for the evening. Catch up chats talked about boys, Uni stress, our home friends and what to eat this evening

Figure 237. and we’ve decided a deliveroo Wagamamas is what we will have.

Chuffed to bits.

20:37 – FEELIN GD. LOOKING SEXY. Pink gin and lemonade in hand. Ready to party. Feel slightly nervous and anxious because I’m going to be out with a load of people I don’t know but I’m sure I’ll make friends. Hopefully lol. Will need someone to go to the toilet with ofc.

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2nd FEB – 06:30 – FUCKING HELL. I AM NEVER UP AT THIS TIME. I have a train home at 7.30am to get back home for 11 to drive to work for 12.

I’m tired but I knew this was what I had to do to be able to come up to Notts. Plan sort myself out order my uber and go get a coffee while I wait for my train.

07:10 – You know what I don’t even want a coffee. I don’t want to be kept awake on the train I feel like shit and I want to sleep. Just ordered some Caramel Frap thing.

09:47 – I am dead. Don’t even want to comment on my mood right now.

Hungover as fuck.

11:50 – HOW HAVE I DONE THIS. I have actually made it home. 4 hours later I am in work getting changed about to start my long arse shift.

15:22 – First part of my shift done. Taking home £15 in tips we get to keep two thirds of our tips the other goes in a pot for the bar and food runners. Just called Mum and have decided on getting a McDonald’s lovely veggie burger no mayo with cheese sounds perfect right now.

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17:05 – Sat in my cousin’s house saying goodbye to my cousin James, he’s off travelling to Australia for 2 years. Can’t lie I’m jealous but I know my turn will come. Strange thinking, I won’t see him for ages now. Were the same age and in the same friendship group so it’s going to be weird him not here.

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17:48 – Uh. I reallllllllly can’t be fucked to go back to work. Its shit leaving early knowing I have to go back. Split shifts are the worst. And I’m going to be rushed off my feet because it’s a Saturday night which means it’s going to be really busy. Only positive is it means I won’t be spending money on going out which is good.

23:26- Finally finished work. Very good mood. Wasn’t too bad of a shift. Actually didn’t pick up until about 8pm and even then it wasn’t crazy busy probably because of the snow.

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00:30 – Sat in my cabin because my mum was too scared to go down on her own haha. Charlie (my brother) had 20-30 friends around this evening for pres as it’s his birthday, now actually and mums a clean freak so she wanted to clean it up straight away. Nos canisters have been thrown everywhere.

Mums gunna be pissed.

11:19 – Just woken up and I honestly had the best night’s sleep mum gave me a new pillow and

with the long day I had yesterday I slept like a baby.

13:22- I have no motivation to do anything. Times like these I think Uni isn’t for me as I just don’t want to do any work. I have 100% lost any love for Graphics and it so hard to try and motivate myself to do work when I feel like this.

17:01 – Mmmmm lets not talk about the last few hours.

19:29 – about to go out for my brother’s birthday dinner without him as he was too drunk last night that he is now asleep in bed. Soooo me, mum and dad it is. I don’t care I’ll eat cake on his behalf.

14:23 – moods been picked up from looking at old photos of the boys in class. Good mood because we’ve all got distracted from our work.

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So things that worked well were that my photographs came out good quality. I also have decided I want everything to be in black and white. Stripping back the colour from the images in my opinion allows you to focus on the text more. I don’t want to do any edits over the images either because the page details are going to make it look messy enough. I want to add some hand drawn elements or writing to my outcome too this will make it look more authentic.

I also think I am going to stick with this font choice. I spent so long trying to choose a font for each book. Minion pro is simple, elegant and reminds me of an old school diary typeface too. I want the smaller details such as what I eat, screen time etc to act as my page details and I want these all over the pages in small. Dominating the page, I will have images and my thoughts. I also liked how I ended up adding the times on too.

This gives the book more structure as someone is reading through each day so I will keep on doing this. Tom has also spoken to me and said ‘don’t feel like you can’t blow images up, have a few double page spread of images throughout.’ I completely agree with this I think images need to support the text but also break it up as there will be so much. I think that by completing the test run and the case studies I have been able to fully prepare for my outcome.

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Figure 1-2 – Playboy magazine.

Figure 3-5 – Pintrest editorial book layouts.

Figure 6-9 – Circular magazine cover.

Figure 10-12 – My Way to Typography book.

Figure 13-15 – “in an Extension of ” publication.

Figure 16-19 – Revue Magazine.

Figure 20-21 – A magazine stand in New York City.

Figure 22-26 – Suited magazine.

Figure 27-30 – University of West England publication.

Figure 31-32 – Perfect bound book.

Figure 33 – Spiral bound book.

Figure 34,35 – Three hole stitch process.

Figure 36 – Japenese stitch process.

Figure 37 – GF Smith paper showcase.

Figure 38 – Ryman paper stock in Farnborough Town.

Figure 39 – A collection of images taken in Magma, Clerkenwell.

Figure 40-41 – Stephen Shoe’s exhibition in the Tate Modern.

Figure 42,43 – Tate Modern typographic exhibition.

Figure 45 – William Eggleston’s ‘Chromes’ series.

Figure 46-48 – Typographic plaques in the Tate Modern.

Figure 49-53 – Documentary photographs of people around London and Farnham.

Figure 54 – A septum piercing.

Figure 55 – Bella Hadid modelling cargo trousers on runway.

Figure 56 – Moments IPhone app.

Figure 57-63 – A collection of data charts studying people’s screen time on IPhones.

Figure 64-67 – @Mattdate’s Instagram page.

Figure 68-69 – @bodyposipanda’s Instagram page.

Figure 70-71 - @amandaoleander’s Instagram page.

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Figure 72 – Twitter social media screenshots.

Figure 73-75 – Snapchat app example filters.

Figure 76 – Hannah Jackson’s Facebook profile picture.

Figure 77 – Morgan Shipley’s Facebook profile picture.

Figure 78 – Sam Leggett’s Facebook profile picture.

Figure 79 – Joshua Hitchin’s Facebook profile picture.

Figure 80-81 – Photograph’s from my Facebook album ‘When we were young.’

Figure 82 – A collection of photographs taken by Hannah Jackson every hour n a day.

Figure 83-85 – Richard Billingham’s ‘Rays a laugh’ book series.

Figure 86-90 – Martin Parr’s documentary photography.

Figure 91-97 – Photographs from ‘My Bed’ exhibition in the Tate Modern.

Figure 98-100 – Henry Leutwley’s documentary object photograph titles ‘Objects talk’.

Figure 101-108 – Exhibition screenshots from ‘Objects belonging to a young man of Oxford’.

Figure 109-123 – Youtube video screenshots.

Figure 124-133 - Kristen Fraser’s disposable camera photographs.

Figure 134-153 – Billy Watson’s disposable camera photographs.

Figure 154-173 – Chloe Alexander’s disposable camera photographs.

Figure 174-185 – Chris Seal’s disposable camera photographs.

Figure 185-191 – My disposable camera photographs.

Figure 192-194 – Museum of broken relationships related images.

Figure 195-196 – Taryn Simon’s Tate exhibition space ‘A living man declared dead and other chapters’.

Figure 197-200 – Survey Monkey survey screenshots.

Figure 201-202 – Online bloggers diary spreads.

Figure 203-208 – Student’s diary spreads.

Figure 209-215 – My list and diary spreads.

Figure 216-220 – FUCK I’M IN MY TWENTIES book spreads.

Figure 221-228 – Stacey Dooley documentary video screenshots.

Figure 229 -230 – Nicole Line screen-printing workshop.

Figure 231 – ‘The power of time off ’ Ted Talk by Stefan Sagmeister.

Figure 232-235 – Photographs of another students Final Major Project.

Figure 236-241 – Documentary photography of my life through the 1st,2nd and 3rd of Febuary.

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