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. 

I start the term with a broad question which I hope to explore through my studio practice: How can graphic communication design spark a conversation around memories of place? This blog post will be slightly longer as I reflect on my learnings from unit 1 and 2, and discuss my current influences (things I'm inspired by) and recent studio experiments.