Over the last few weeks I have been working with the 1st year Graphic Design degree students on their new brief entitled "alternative media". The overarching theme is working with the Beaufort scale and the forecasting system that is documented online and over BBC Radio 4 with its ever entertaining transcriptions of sea and wind levels. As the students have to consider use of alternative and unprecedented methods in which to visualize this system, they have been banned from using visual imagery the depicts boats, seas and suns.
As a experiment I wanted to see how the designers would respond to more of a 3d-2d project encouraging making then documenting their outcomes. The task was based upon Richard Serra's "verb Sculptures" and allowed freedom as to how each student would interpret the selected verbs. Each student was asked to identify up to 50 verbs as a starting point and share these throughout the group, they then went onto to select what verbs simultaneously worked with the descriptions or visual analysis they depicted themselves from considering the Beaufort number they were responding to. This then led onto the creation of a sculpture produced entirely from paper that was then illustrated in their sketchbooks at multiple view points.
This was part 1 of a two week workshop that would then later see these drawings digitally replicated and modified as to give them a potential outcome that would fit the nature of the brief. Some struggled, some engaged, and some excelled.
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