Year Date Project Unit
1 26/02/18 Course Website EGRD4007 Platform Rotation
Brief:
Design a lively, engaging and socially integrated website and social media strategy that represents the culture and personality of your course; BA (Hons) Graphic Design Epsom. This is a live brief that will be implemented and rolled out on behalf of you and the course!
Aims:
• Represent and communicate the excellence of the course as a centre for critical design thinking • Showcase students work • Showcase the experience • Put in place a social media strategy to allow students to take over the Instagram and other media channels. • Inform people about the course • Enhance our community • Raise the profile of the course, students, staff, alumni.
Audience:
This project must include:
Schedule
References/Inspiration
• Alumni and graduates • Future Students • Current Students • Staff • Employers • Partnerships and visitors e.g.. speakers • Other Designers and Illustrators • A new visual identity • Name could change but must keep the existing URL. Web URL: graphicdesign–epsom.uca.ac.uk / gd-epsom.uca • Consideration of style of photography • Consideration of the integration of social media • Consideration of how to populate website and social media on a sustainable basis (this could involve guest curators, reps from each year gathering and posting content etc) • Consideration of how to maintain a unified tone of voice and visual style • Consideration on how to generate traffic back to the website • Consideration on how it will look on different devices, such as the phone • Accessibility (this is not just about disability). • Information to use about the course that you can use here: https://www.uca.ac.uk/study/courses/ba-graphic-design/
Mon 26/02/18 – Briefing and workshop Wed 28/02/18 – Open day – collect info from prospective students? Thurs 01/03/18 – Group reviews to reveal findings from research questions Mon 05/03/18 – Group reviews / Ways to approach realisation of the project Thurs 08/03/18 – DEADLINE Group Critiques – 5 minute presentations using large screen, Room 201 https://thephotographersgallery.org.uk https://www.instagram.com/thephotographersgallery/ https://www.ycn.org http://showstudio.com https://designobserver.com https://www.ravensbourne.ac.uk http://designresearch.sva.edu https://www.itsnicethat.com https://www.goodgym.org http://hyperkit.co.uk/#1 https://www.lingscars.com Find previous designed course catalogues and identities