A Question of Research

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Manifesto: Exploring Materiality and Print Design in Reflective Practice Understanding letterforms involves experimenting with different materials, which evokes a strong sense of materiality that can become part of your reflective practice. By exploring typefaces through such experimentation within different materials, you can transform the letter in a tactile way, which becomes the visual focal point throughout. The purpose is to allow room for an iterative process of experimentation, this adds breadth to the physical and tactile form of a single letterform. This adds value towards a deeper understanding of how we can deal with letters in ways that become experimental by applying them to different mediums.  Print design allows for a visual perspective and adds value to typography as a form of expression through visual communication. Whether it's through unconventional materials, innovative printing techniques, or spatial manipulation, each experimentation becomes a narrative in it...

After all of the exploration within my practice-based research looking at different print mediums, I have finally made a series of posters. I decided that posters would be my preferred choice of outcome, as this supports my own practice and visually shows materiality as a tactile response to the work within the realms of communication on a larger scale within print. My main objective was to fully explore typography using the Hebrew letter Alef as a lens towards experimenting with type and how materials can enhance the overall aesthetics through printed medium.   Video that shows the final making stages of the posters (Jones, 2023) I have now come to the final stage of producing the screen-printed posters. I wanted to make sure that I would explore different ways to visualise the Alef letter. I decided again to print on different paper stock and cards that would enhance the print...

Now that I have finalised my poster designs and have done lots of visual exploration within print design, I decided to use this time to respond to the advice from Dan who mentioned in a tutorial about considering writing up a manifesto to support my working practice. I decided what better way to find out more than to actually google it and see what's out there.  Funny enough, I ended up discovering lots of information and examples on this.  My take on this is that a designer's manifesto is a clear declaration or given statement that outlines their beliefs, values, principles and intentions. It is their way to respond to their methodology approach, they can be personal and represent the designer's ethos.  Ms, L. V. F. (2021, December 30). A Designer’s Manifesto Written by a Writer - A Designer’s Diary - Medium.  Medium .  https://medium.com/diving-into-design/a-designers-manifesto-written-by-a-...

To understand materiality, there should be elements of experimentation. Such experiments have allowed me to adapt a better understanding of my practice, my thought process and one of my design outputs being screen printing.  So, have I answered my question yet? How can materiality enhance the user/audience experience within your practice?  I feel that the main idea behind materiality for me is the use of materials that can enhance my design process. For me, I wanted to show how print design still holds great value within design communication that reflects modernity from the perspective of materiality.  In essence, to this and within my own practice I have continued to explore the art of print design within different designs through rigorous practice-based research, whilst trying to somewhat understand materiality in a visual way that is personal to me.  Through the lens of typography, I decided to continue to explore how we can see typography through different print ...

After establishing a plan of action, it was now time to use the ready-made screens that I had prepared previously. The reason for this supports my own methods of working, as I spend most of one day printing the artwork out via the large format printer as they can print A1, these are then waiting to be exposed via the screens that had already been coated with  emulsion and fully dried out from being in the ovens. I feel that I have mastered this process very well now as I spent most of my BA getting my timings right and allowing the screens to dry fully before exposure happens next. Now that I had the designs exposed to the relevant screens, it was time to use these screens to print with.  The images below are the initial stages of when I set my screens for print. This was a new discovery for me working on this large scale. I had to check on the overall size of the screens to see if t...