DP4 - Designer Ideology/Methodology Poster

The next design project will be both a research and a design project. You will choose a significant graphic designer within the historic lexicon, then conduct in-depth research about their professional life and practice.

Your research will include:

• Design Biography - where they were born, lived, family, education, associations, and employment. Any background information you can cull regarding their development and ideology as a designer.

• Survey of Design Work - a sequenced collection of significant design work, including information regarding the context of the design such as the client, audience, message, and design objective.

• Design Ideology - a description, written and visual, of their personal philosophy of design and it’s relationship to visual communication. This main change over time.

• Methodology and Practice - an in-depth analysis of their approach to visual communication. Their working process, coupled with their ideology, manifested by their visual grammar, conceptual point-of view, imaging, typography, composition, media and style.

• Design Case Study - illustrate their process with a specific design project, using a schematic and/or information graphic, complete with text, visual investigations and examples.

The second phase of this project will be to present this information as a compelling poster, indicative of the designer. The final size will be 26 x 40.

The final poster needs to include the following content and design elements:

• Name of the Designer (the way the designer would typographically express their name)

• Designer Quote and/or Subhead expressing the designer’s ideology and/or methodology


• A Timeline with Political, Cultural and Economic Influences

• Samples of Designer’s Work with references (work title, client, date, etc)


• A Short Designer’s Statement and/or paragraph explaining Designer's Ideology/Methodology

• A Dominate/Sub-Dominate/Subordinate hierarchy of visuals, information, and stylistic 
  conventions and methodology references

• Anything else you determine important.

But WE ARE ELIMINATING the following:

• The Design Case Study, and

• The Delineation of their Design Ideology/Methodology other than text

Post all of your project process (research, text and design) on your blog as you work.

Our NEW SCHEDULE is as follows:

Tuesday, December 5th - 
A revamped Comprehensive Design is due.

Tuesday, December 10th - 
The final printed Poster will be due.