A Question of Research

 This is now my third project update, before this, I would have said I was confident feeling like I knew what I was doing, what I needed to research, and what it was going to look like. However now after thinking more and more about my manifesto idea, I have decided to throw it out and this has caused me to feel a bit lost again, while I know I want to look more at theory and do something around that I'm just not sure right now. It's tough on me having had what I felt was a good idea a few weeks ago to now feeling like its a bad idea and deciding just to throw it all out, but while writing this I need to remember to keep pushing at it all the way back to the start of this project I felt a bit like this lost and not sure of where to go next. However, I fixed that by just starting and looking at things, in the post where I decided to forget the manifesto I said I wanted to look more at theory so that's what I will do and just start it. I'm sure I'll get somewhere at s...

Before starting the poster I made sure to create things that I would need beforehand, all this included was writing a short paragraph that would be included in the poster giving a bit of information about how I'm feeling in relation to the project. This is what I wrote; Since the start of this project, I have been confused and stressed trying to understand how exactly I am going to approach and answer the question and project that is laid out before me. These feelings were overwhelming and made me feel like I was constantly going in circles at the start. But now having persevered and kept working away at it I now feel I am finally getting somewhere, I have a direction I want to head in and a way of really improving and changing the way I work. I am now more positive than ever when it comes to this project and what sort of outcome I will create. This is exactly how I feel about the project currently and it's actually quite nice to have this sort of breakthrough in my thinking to...

  Today we had a lecture where we had to create a story for how we are feeling about the project so far, I think the first two lines sum up exactly how I feel currently that being "Fucking Stressed"(sorry for swearing but it gets the feeling across better). I believe the stress to be coming from not knowing if what I am doing is correct, is this the right thing to be doing or is it a stupid idea that I can't use properly, along with this I also wrote about how I'm currently feeling like I'm spiralling downwards which is partially true. As I feel more like I'm repeating myself over and over again constantly looking into the same things and not really getting anywhere with it. I'm currently writing this in-between my lecture and seminar with the seminar happening next, hopefully, in this seminar, some things can be cleared up and I'll be able to understand what the hell I should be doing.

 I know this is still the start of the project but I feel like this is a good place to do a bit of self-reflection, I have started to do some readings into design theory, having broken down the question and focused on this idea of "rules" within Graphic Design I got some books out of the library looking at Graphic Design theory that being Grid Systems which I know a lot about and The Futurist Manifesto as I felt they fit well into this idea of looking for "rules" in Graphic Design.  I really like this idea of looking at both Design theory books and Manifestos from within the art history, as I think they could give me different insights and perspectives when it comes to answering the question. In relation to answering this question, I feel more and more like I should try and create a final piece for the project that can in some way answer the question. I'm not sure what this could look like yet but I think it's a good way in which I can apply what I learn dur...