PR-Graduation Design Exhibition Research

The theme of my undergraduate graduation design exhibition is a music exhibition for the deaf and mute. It is a visual music exhibition with the deaf and mute as the audience. It can be classified as a graduation project on social topics. The graduation design works at the undergraduate level are always slightly immature. I have also done some self-reflection and summary in the past few months.

In this preliminary survey, the first thing I want to do is to see what topics my peer designers are paying attention to. I also want to understand how they express themselves in design language or what problems they are trying to solve.

The scope of my research includes but is not limited to: MICA、CCA、RCA、UAL、GSA, etc.

Wake Up It's A $cripted Reality by Rhys Atkinston

A graduation design work on social topics: the authenticity of information in social media. His design works revolve around conspiracy theorie, David Dee, costly signalling and other topics. The work is from Rhys Atkinston from LCC, UAL.

Unstable Complexions by Riccardo Righi

The work revolves around the meaning of skin and body. There is a very interesting sentence ‘The skin becomes the site for cartographic prophecies and violent inscriptions which attempt to make ‘objective’ sense of the body.’ The work comes from Riccardo Righi from LCC, UAL.

Glasgow School of Art Official Website

Most of GSA’s student works are very abstract and difficult to interpret. After reading a collection of the design works of Communication Design students, I found that most of the topics they focus on are about some unsolvable（or temporarily unsolvable） philosophical issues. At the same time, most of them use strong design language to express these thoughts, such as strong contrast, minimal graphic composition, unconventional typesetting layout, and so on.