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Projections [02] – Final Week

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.

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Projections [02] – Week 5

This week, I expanded on my use of digital collage, blending it with a legacy process from my previous illustration work in printmaking. The result is a series of images intended to spark questions. Instead of explicitly illustrating the meaning behind each image, I represent the sayings literary, creating some absurd realities.

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Projections [02] – Week 4

My final project explores the intricate relationship between vernacular language, local culture, and bilingualism, aiming to question the agency of graphic communication design in the mobility of language across cultures. It focuses on translating traditional Colombian sayings bridging the lexical gaps between local expressions from my mother tongue, Spanish and my everyday language, English.

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Projections [02] – Week 3

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.

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Projections [02] – Week 2

Are there any other ways to visually translate orality which I haven’t explored? Why is orality central to translation and how does it differ from visual communication? What happens when oral communication turns visual? What if the relationship between recording oral communication and the development of alphabets for the preservation of culture and history?

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Projections [02] – Week 1

In projection 2, I want to go deeper into the idea of cultural convergence through language but with a shifted focus in my exploration of memory towards a more personal, almost biographical approach. My aim with this final project is to explore visually and physically the nature of collecting memories around language and how those shape our identities and perceptions of the world.

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