User:Chrissy/T6 Assessment

1. your individual contributions to the special issues (where relevant to your final project),
2. the development of your reading/writing practice across the 2 years,
3. the development of your prototyping practice across the 2 years,
4. your thesis (only a brief overview for context, as this has been assessed separately in depth),
5. your final work and research in the second year,
6. plans for final publication and grad show (with the understanding that you will continue to work on this after the assessment)

Special Issues

Special Issue 25

Lost Music: Boradcast 8 Lost Music was about the storage, the archiving and “owning” of music.

SI 25 event: [in Narration] together with Alexandria, Claudio, Eleni and Kiara

Sticker yay:

Performance:

Burning CD's in the categories: Shame, Guilt, Sorrow and Love <3

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Part of website design for Protocols for Collective Performance and SI 25 event website

Special Issue 26

Specific Lens with Kiara. Browser extension to learn and discover CSS Positions and Display on websites.

[| super visual hyper zine] as a collective zine with screenshots of all our browser extension experiments during prototyping from our class.

The milestone for me using Jinja and paged.js I guess :)))

Special Issue 27

[| Experimenting with the fabric of time𓂃⊹ ִֶָ ]

Reading and Writing

Prototyping

Prototyping in general, especially in the beginning of the 2nd year was the start point for my (b)logbook. Practice of documenting, experimenting, trying out: Prototypes

Thesis

graphic design is my pa??ion

Investigating alternative design tools as counterpraxis opposed to traditional graphic design, towards a process-oriented, anti-capitalist approach.

Introduction
Design and Rejection: "Good design", Exclusion, Capitalism, Education, Tools
Anti-design as counterpraxis: Radical design movement, The new ugly aesthetic, Process-based strategies
Tools while caring: Experiments, Stop normalising the grind, Encountered challenges, Implementation
Conclusion

Final work

counter-tools.xyz

(𝒷)𝓁𝑜𝑔𝒷𝑜𝑜𝓀 𝑜𝓃 𝒶𝓁𝓉𝑒𝓇𝓃𝒶𝓉𝒾𝓋𝑒 𝒹𝑒𝓈𝒾𝑔𝓃 𝓉𝑜𝑜𝓁𝓈 𝒶𝓈 𝒸𝑜𝓊𝓃𝓉𝑒𝓇𝓅𝓇𝒶𝓍𝒾𝓈 Website based on pelican, a static site generator

meme pile

meme-pile currently published as static page. These archival of memes on the topic of graphic design I collected during my thesis research. The (b)logbook and meme pile therefore contains both my observations on the counter-tools including the graphic design discourse through memes. With this approach I found a way to connect my praxis with my research in a low-threshold manner by including several voices. With this mode of production I re-generate and overlay these memes and incorporate my counter-tools.

meme-pile For the grad fest I wrote (mostly copied) a flash application, which allows uploading memes (or images in general) to the meme pile. The uploaded memes are visible in the whole pile as well in a designates "uploads" section.

The plan: after upload, the image gets dithered & compressed via ImageMagick script:

``` magick images/practice_HK.png -resize 100x -dither FloydSteinberg -remap pattern:gray50 images/practice_HK_dith4_small.jpg

magick images/practice_HK_dith4_small.jpg -resize 600x images/practice_HK_dith4.png ```

After that compression the meme prints automatically from the thermal printer; visitors can feed in space-the meme pile

After the grad fest I want to bind all the remaining thermal prints into a publication by glue binding. (gonna have an end date; since thermal print lasts for 5-8 years)

How to publish: I went to several bath rooms in WdkA (bathrooms on the list: freelance cafès, Gerrit Rietveld Academie , HKU University of Arts Utrecht) WHY BATH ROOMS lol: ………

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Grid idea for grad fest: