Essay Project Plan

DD2000 Contemporary Design Essay Plan

Liam Roberts

      Essay Title:

      Sustainable Design's effect on the World's Graphics

      Essay Question:

       How is sustainable design and the principles behind it affecting graphics and products across the world?

     Why this question & essay:

  ·    Interested in how global warming is affecting all visual and computerized mediums.

·       To know what actions are being undertook to combat global warming through design.

 ·     To understand how different mediums are using the actions undertook to make their products less globally damaging.

 ·        Interest in Digital Mediums and how they affect and get effected by global warming.

 ·        Experience in Digital mediums including Video, Web Design and Graphic Design.

 ·        Broad spectrum of information that can be fleshed out for graphics over the internet and books

      Topic areas to research:

    In the Sustainable Design Area I will look at:

 ·         Sustainable Design, what is it

 ·         Principles behind the design theory

 ·         Mediums its effected and how

·       How does it differentiate from normal design principles

 ·        Advantages and Disadvantages

 ·         How it came about

·         Past, present and future of the concept

    In the Graphic Design Area I will look at:

·         What graphic design is

 ·        What it does

•     Other mediums it effects

·        How graphic design is normally created

·         Effects on society. Good & Bad

·         Effect of sustainable design on Graphic Design

·         What sustainable design is doing to the medium, has done and will do.

Research Key Areas :

·         Sustainable Design's affect on Graphic Design

·         Sustainable Design's affect on Society

·         Sustainable Design's affect on Global Warming

·         Sustainable Design's affect on other mediums such as architecture and agriculture

·         Sustainable Design's advantages and disadvantages as a whole

Research Materials :

·        Books/ Magazines

·         Images

·         Internet

Timetable:

Week No'	Dates	Topic Title
1	31/10/2012 - 06/11/2012	- Essay Project Plan Hand in (printed) - Gather research materials such as books, images and internet URLs - Create a base draft for the essay
2	07/11/2012 - 13/11/2012	- Hand in for 1st Draft - Develop the essay further after 1st draft
3	14/11/2012 - 20/11/2012	- Sustainable Design mediums and comparison to Normal Design on blog - Sustainable Design in Graphic Design Research on blog - Continue with essay draft (adding the more in-depth research)
4	21/11/2012 - 27/11/2012	- Graphic Design, what it affects on blog - Graphic Design in Visual Mediums on blog - Graphic Design & Sustainable Design Connection on blog - Continue with essay draft (adding the more in-depth research)
5	28/11/2012 - 04/12/2012	- Hand in for 2nd Draft - Advantages and Disadvantages of Graphic Design on blog - Advantages and Disadvantages of Sustainable Design on blog
6	05/12/2012 - 11/12/2012	- Focus on Essay Plan utilising both the information needed in the drafts & more in-depth research created.
7	12/12/2012 - 14/12/2012	- Final Hand in of Essay Project Plan