Author: Paul Arindam Paul
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Precarity and Critical Design
Precarity and Critical Design The cross-years studio on Industry and Precarity was an eye opener. I came across a publication by Afonso Matos, Who can afford to be critical. The recorded conversations and thoughts about critical design, graphic design and industry and precarity in the book, were similar to conversations I had with my peers…
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Workshop by Bas Jacobs
Workshop by Bas Jacobs The type workshop by Bas Jacobs was essential in my main project of this unit. I attended the workshop expecting to learn how to make a font and publish it. I did learn how to make a working font, well, at least at a beginner level at least. But I took…
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Positions through essaying
Positions through essaying Video Essay Written Component For this written component, I have shared the transcript for the video essay in a typed out format, exactly as it is on the video itself. As a comparison on the same page as my inquiry, I went ahead and wrote the first part of my video essay…
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Positions through contextualising
Positions through contextualising Bibliography “We no longer have any desire for design that is driven by need. Something less prestigious than a “designed” object can do the same thing for less money. The Porsche Cayenne brings you home, but any car will do the same thing, certainly less expensively and probably just as quickly. But…
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Positions through iterating
Positions through iterating Bibliography “We no longer have any desire for design that is driven by need. Something less prestigious than a “designed” object can do the same thing for less money. The Porsche Cayenne brings you home, but any car will do the same thing, certainly less expensively and probably just as quickly. But…
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Methods of Contextualising
Methods of Contextualising For the fifth brief, I chose the third approach, killing rhythms. And as part of a 3 person group, after an initial discussion, we chose to work with the concept of time and the perception of it. We critically questioned the representation of time in the form of a ‘standard 12 hour…
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User Experience
User Experience Context Earlier this month, i got to be a part of a workshop at CSM, as part of our ‘signup workshops’. The one i chose for this unit was about an introduction to user experience. The workshop was led by Daniela Barbeira, who is a designer at transport for London (tfl). She is…
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Methods of Iterating
Methods of Iterating First Draft (20th January 2025) I have chosen to learn the medium Augmented Reality for the ‘methods of iterating’ brief. AR is something I came across when it first gained popularity about 8-9 years back. I wanted to learn more about the medium and tools surrounding this concept. I decided to use…
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Indexing archives
Indexing archives On our second studio brief on Societies, we learnt about indices and indexing. We did the activity in groups of 2 to 3. We worked with a previously chosen archive from the Bishopsgate archive. My chosen document was a publication called ‘The Lavender Letter’, it used to be a publication around the themes…