So firstly before I can carry on with this project, I firstly need to pick a theme to base this project on and to create said outcomes for it. Theo suggested to write out a quick list with the topics that myself is interested in and then go from there and do further research into the topic and from there start creating some initial ideas to present to Carol and Theo in the tutorials.
What I am Interested in:
- Make up (Beauty)
- Rugby
- Cricket
- Sports
- Fitness
- Gym
- World War 2
- Native American History/Culture
- South Africa
- Blood Diamond
The main subjects I am interested in the list above is Native American History/Culture and Blood Diamonds or also known as “Conflict Diamonds”.
To understand more about Blood Diamond, I decided to do more research into this specific subject, I put all the information into a mind map as you can see above. Even though Blood Diamonds were more present in the 1990’s, it is still happening in this present day but at a lower percentage which is still quite alarming as peoples human rights are still being affected in today’s era which is quite concerning. I want to highlight this issue as not many people know about this topic and customers will buy diamonds thinking they are sourced in a safe environment when in reality some of them aren’t.
Doing research into what themes you would like to take further into a project is vital as it gives you more incentive and more understanding of any specific theme you do choose and when I was researching I found that I was drawn more towards Blood Diamond than any of the other ideas I put down and as a graphic designer doing research is very helpful into deciding what route you would want to take on further to the project as you get more information and from this create mind maps to get the ideas out quickly onto paper etc and from this starting collecting a range of initial ideas, this is why carrying out research is vital to a graphic designers practice.
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