Session Due - Reaseach & Books

Now after searching over and over for books that relate to my ideas, wether it was posters, mounting, legal issues with posters and so on; I have discovered that for one of my subjects, the main Subject to search would be Flyposters and it's legal rules, books about the art of mounting and a bit of the whole history of posters (which I have a good knowledge about). As for the second subject, I am starting by searching about Dyslexia and it's relation to reading or writing, and I have been sketching ideas, where I am trying to figure out Typefaces that could be helpful for dyslexic subjects.

Books that I have at the moments and I am doing intensive search in, include:

• POSTER COLLECTION, Poster for Exhibitions 1980–2000, Essay by Stuart Bailey, Lars Muller Publishers, 2001.
• FLYPOSTER, Posters from the Anticopyright Network, Matthew Fuller, Working Press, 1992.
• UP AGAINST THE WALL, International Poster Design, Russell Bestley and Ian Noble, RotoVision, 2002.
• READ REGULAR TM, For More Effective Reading and Writing, Unknown/NotClear, Natascha Frensch, 2003.
• READING WITH WORDS IN COLOUR, A Scientific Study of the Problems of Reading, Caleb Gattegno, Educational Explorers, 1968.
• PRACTICAL STRATEGIES FOR LIVING WITH DYSLEXIA, Maria Chivers, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2001.
• UNDERSTANDING DYSLEXIA, An Introduction for Dyslexic Students in Higher Education, Jill Hammond and Fabien Hercules, The Glasgow School of Art, 2000 (Research Report).

Final Year Project at CSM – Session Uno

Well I have arrived finally to the last stage of my education - for the moment I think - and now I have to sort out a final brief for myself.

Pretty Hard to be honest, as I want something to actually be very attractive, act as a punch in the face, something unexpected and professional.

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Ideas that I narrowed down to: (1st part)

• 'There is no such thing as an empty space or an emtpy time. There is always something to see, something to hear. In fact, try as we may to make a silence, we cannot'. John Cage, 'Silence'
• Brazilian posters (Catherine Dixon talk) ==> Posters and illegal/visual pollution ==> solve or let be?
• Photographic burn – Link up to Posters
• Copyright: In songs, you're allowed to copy 8 bars from any commercial song – What about in Design? Copyright issues in question!!
• 'Aoccdmin to rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it doesn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny ipmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.' =====>>> probably look into typeface to work with this and dyslexia...... HA!
• Awkward moments and escaping them! A Guide.
• Music culture within an urban city: An interaction between the visitors and the city to indicate musical trends.

So after the workshop that happened on the 17th of Feb, it was narrowed down to working on the poster and photographic issue together, as one project. Perfect!

But I wasn't totally satisfied, some of those ideas seemed that needed to be dealt with soon, so I decided to take on also the Typeface idea /dyslexia!

So in the blog that follows, there were will be a division into those two projects.

Enjoy!