How can graphic communication design facilitate cross-cultural dialogues around localities and their nuanced narratives? Since before finishing my BA I was really interested in the unique qualities of localities, as I pursued projects like exploring the shoe trade in Norwich or looking at the industrial legacy of the city. Just thinking back and seeing how my work for Unit 3 has cycled back and helped me articulate my core interests, serving as a starting point to pursue further focused research in this area.

One of the most important pieces of feedback from last tutorial was to let the content guide my exploration of medium. This week, as I focus on exploring form, I've bring to the table the Natural History Album from Jet Chocolates which has become a Colombian cultural icon tied to multiple generations up to this date. I want to explore this particular medium as a catalyst for starting a dialogue around Colombian vernacular language.

Making has not been necessarily the end of the process, but at this stage, making serves as a point of reflection on how I work as a designer and on how my work materialises, projects, comes together into a congruent form. Today, I will be reflecting on some of my learnings from the first part of the unit and making sense of where I find my practice to be at, and how I think it might project further.

The Gestalt cross-year studio with Michela provided a really good reference point and context for my exploration of image making in relation to memories of social eating. It also provided an interesting evolution point from my visit to Moriyama’s exhibition the previous week. Through this workshop I started to consider how composition can become a more active element in my practice, and also, how using “fragments” of discarded things or “repurposing” of information can become even more prevalent in my visual vocabulary.