GDC, Week 1 : Reflection

In this lecture, we heard a lot about our course, how to learn, how to think, how to create projects correctly in order to get good grades, or rather those that we dream about. Of course, the expected result does not always come, but every time we have the opportunity to improve ourselves, our skills and allow ourselves to open up from different angles as a designer.

The project "I Am Amplifier" is an interesting topic where we saw many famous works of cool graphic designers who let people open their voice and support some kind of protest.

There were a lot of examples of the project that I liked, who big companies supported protests as well :

These are 3 questions that will accompany us due to the Project :

—How does a change of typographic language, materials and context impact on a message?

—How will an audience respond when these messages are brought into the same physical space?

—Can graphic design be used as a tool to amplify and recontextualise the hidden, underserved and unofficial voices of the local community?

We also learned about article "First Things First" that was touched by famous designers to reach out to other designers and students to continue to carry out this project together.

With my group we will read and discuss this article to make our conclusion together at the next session.

But what I understood from this session :

I think that the issue of this topic is to give people and maybe more right things to have their voice. Designers can help many global problems to be solved by using their advertising skills.. They could help more right things to be heard or to be upgrade on another level. Start prioritizing things correctly.

Start to globalise problems which are more than just an advertising of cigarettes or any luxury brand.

I think the promise is good, It’s like a hope that people need sometimes to be reminded of something.

If designers can solve advertising problems ( like how to earn more money on products ),

Why can't they help also with global problems which are relate to humanity which is more important for somebody than just money?