Teaching Responsibility
LJMU Schools involved in Delivery:
Liverpool School of Art & Design
Learning Methods
Lecture
Off Site
Practical
Seminar
Tutorial
Workshop
Module Offerings
5204GD-JAN-MTP
Aims
- Support students to propose and undertake graphic design projects that reflect their aspirations, foster their emerging practice and contextualise it within graphic design practice and the broader creative profession.
- Support students to develop the skills to communicate and present a body of work that articulates their practice in a manner appropriate to professional graphic design contexts.
- Introduce students to self-directed, independent and collaborative working.
- Support students to develop the skills, knowledge, and agency to articulate their own voice and plan for L6.
Learning Outcomes
1.
Demonstrate and analyse media, skills, techniques and working methods relevant to contemporary graphic design practice.
2.
Propose and execute a self-directed project that reflects their emerging practice in the context of contemporary graphic design practice.
3.
Present a body of work that articulates the development of their current practice in the context of their future plans and professional graphic design contexts.
Module Content
Outline Syllabus:
This syllabus is indicative:
This syllabus is indicative:
- Projects: Writing your own briefs. Responding to studio-led briefs, self-directed briefs, live briefs with external partners, or collaborative briefs.
- Project management: Team management, timescales, design meetings, shared resources, working to strengths, task scheduling, collaborative tools.
- Professional Skills: Collaboration, Pricing, Self-Promotion, Copyright.
- Presenting projects individual and group, presenting for an internal and external audience, verbal and written presentation.
- Career Mapping: Introduction to the multiple specialisms within the broader field of graphic design, examination, and research into scope of design industry, values and purpose, personal ambition, mapping to position practice and plan for the future.
- Designing and producing a portfolio: curation, voice, project descriptions, website design, social media, printed matter.
- Introduction to Internships, work placements and introductions.
- Industry practitioners: workshops, crits, presentations, Q&A.
- Studio tours
Module Overview:
In this module you will work across a range of briefs informed by external contexts and socio-cultural themes to develop and assess self-directed, independent and collaborative working methods, and to cultivate a professional approach to your practice. The module culminates in the production of a portfolio that positions your work within contemporary graphic design practice and the broader creative industries.
In this module you will work across a range of briefs informed by external contexts and socio-cultural themes to develop and assess self-directed, independent and collaborative working methods, and to cultivate a professional approach to your practice. The module culminates in the production of a portfolio that positions your work within contemporary graphic design practice and the broader creative industries.