The Brief.

BA (Hons.) GRAPHIC DESIGN LEVEL 05

BRIEF TITLE 
SUMMER BRIEF: WHAT INTERESTS ME?

The Brief
Good design begins with a good understanding 
of a subject. With that in mind, you will prepare 
a body of research over the summer that you 
will present to the class in a workshop at the 
start of the academic year. You will also need 
to show your research on your blog.

Initially, you will research into three things that 
interest you that are appropriate to graphic 
design – a hobby/interest, an 
invention/discovery and a person/place. You 
may choose to research into three ideas from 
one of these categories (for example, three 
hobbies), or you may choose to research into 
an idea from each category. This initial list of 
three will then focus your research down into 
one thing that really interests you, and that one 
thing will be what your presentation is about.

Whatever you choose to focus on, we want to 
know everything about it – facts, history, why 
you think your subject is interesting and what 
other target audiences exist for it. Make your 
presentation interesting visually; if it helps to 
bring in physical examples or items to help your 
presentation, please make sure you do so.

In addition to this presentation, you need to 
write a “To Do” list for the forthcoming year. 
What skills and processes do you want to try? 
What would you like to improve upon? What 
interests you as a graphic designer that you 
want to learn? This is an opportunity to take 
control of your future and put strategies in 
place that will help you to establish and achieve 
your goals – whatever they are.

Mandatory Deliverables
A 3-5 minute Powerpoint (or similar) presentation.
A “To Do” list of skills and processes you want to 
learn or improve upon in the coming year, posted 
to your blog.

Entries on a new summer research blog that 
document your research into your chosen subject 
matter over the summer break. This blog should 
be named in the same way as your level 04 blog, 
but using the tag SB. So, for example, it would 
look like the following URL:
a-student1215-SB.blogspot.co.uk
Please label your blog as “Summer Brief”.