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New semester! That means we will get a new PBL teacher; this time, our semester topic is just design, and we are designing things to change the world.
At the beginning of the semester, we focused on learning the core elements of art and finding real-life examples of them. For instance, when studying the element of space, we learned how to represent it by placing a single figure inside an empty room to emphasize the physical area around it. The main challenge of the assignment was to arrange examples of all seven art elements together on a single page. The project was designed as a guessing game: the teacher had to look at our page and try to identify each element based purely on our visual presentation. On the very next page, we provided the actual answer key. If the teacher was able to guess every single element correctly, we would earn a top grade for the assignment.
Once we finished that art project, we moved on to a research assignment. For this project, we had to find sources that clearly defined and explained a specific problem. A major part of the work was analyzing whether our sources were actually trustworthy or not. For example, we learned that using a platform like Wikipedia isn't considered reliable for serious research, so we had to evaluate our findings carefully to ensure our information was highly credible.
After this, we started to learn what SDG, and we will make a logo for the SDGs with some old magazines. We will take care of some materials in the magazine, and then we will give them a logo design. Here is the logo we made and the original one:
As you can see, there is a lot of material that is related to war and peace, and all this is made by our hand; we search through a lot of magazines, and made this by hand, and need to include elements of art and principles of design.
After this, we started to do a practice of doing a project, including research and design. Our teacher gave us some of the historical figures for Taiwan's Minority groups, and we need to research what they did, which minority group this person belongs to, and we need to design a bill that includes materials about this person. And the historical figures for Taiwan's Minority groups we picked are Mona Rudao, and here is our bill design :
As you can see, the main part of this bill design is Mona Rudao's face, and the background is the Central Mountain Range, which can also represent Taiwan, and there is a shape of Taiwan's landscape next to it. If you focus on the texture of the bill, you can see some totems represent Mona Rudao, just to add some indigenous community material to it.
After that, we started to make project pitches, and made a moodboard for around 3 weeks, and we set up our project for a week, making changes based on the questions our classmate asked and the feedback that our teacher gave to us, and we made the second pitch for the project. Before this, we made a moodboard, but there should not have been any words on there, because we are trying to use the moodboard to tell people what the thing we are working on is, and the thing we are going to talk about is Taiwan's Minority groups. Here is the moodboard:
This is our moodboard, this is our first draft of the moodboard, because our project is originally talking about the Amis indigenous community, but because none of the members in our team are a part of the Amis community, we changed our topic to Taiwan's Minority group. In this moodboard, you can see a lot of Amis community-related material, it is inculded some images of Amis people and some artwork made by an Amis artist, so it might make you understand the moodboard easier and make you know more about this community
After that, we started to design our logos. We made a lot of changes when we were designing, because we changed our topic multiple times. During this, we did a thumbnail drawing, and we drew 50 of them and came up with this logo after a lot of discussion:
The meaning of this logo is misunderstood between different communities. And the reason why we are picking these colors is that they can let us do an easier job on designing a magazine, tangible, design, and process poster. Everyone in the group doesn't want to make it too messy, because when we are printing the shirt, we need to buy ink in different colors, so if we make the logo with too many colors, then it will feel like a mission impossible to print a lot of colors on a shirt, and every shirt we print is all processed by ourselves, so there will be some mistake in the shirt that can proove that we hand printed it, insted of muchine.
After making the logo, we started to do drafts for our magazine. We did 5 different versions of the magazine draft, and the one you saw on the exhibition day is the 5th version we have done after a lot of feedback and suggestions. Different versions of the draft got different usage; for example, the first version of our magazine draft was only used for layout management. The thing we put in the first version is the management of where we are putting images, information, and titles, then we will start to put on some images and information on it as version 2&3, we will receive feedback between them by the way. Then we will come up with version 4, the last version of the draft before the final product comes out, and version 5 is the version you saw on the exhibition day. Version 4 will be the version of almost perfect, but before the feedback, and version 5 is the perfect version of our magazine draft after the feedback.
After making the magazine, we start to make our tangible design and the learning journey poster, to show the step-by-step process to people, and show the thought we are trying to give to people through our tangible design. We will give it away if the visiters they listen to everyone in the group's presentation, that proove they already understand and respect our project.
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