graphic design/ illustration dissertation question?

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anyone out there got any ideas on what i can write 6000 words on cos im buggered if i know?

Answer 1

Fine Art vs Graphic Art/Design (who influences who ?)

Artist or Illustrator (Choose an appropriate subject/person and try and define whether or not their work can be classified as art or illustration ( the cistine chapel is considered to be a great work of 'Art' but Michaelangelo was commisioned to paint it and given the subject matter to depict which is essentially communicative in nature, doesn't that make it an illustration?)
The Illustrator Brad Holland wrote extensively on this subject, and it can be applied to many 'artists' Gustave Dore, Klimt, William Morris, Alphonse Mucha, John Heartfield, Lissitzky, Tatlin, Rodchenko, Shahn. The list goes on and on........
This essay can be quite challenging as it almost forces many people to re-appraise their ( often rather lazy view of )how ilustrators are defined.

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Steer clear of Graffitti, as it opens up the same old trough of half-baked observations, lazy insights, cliched definitions from poorly documented sources....

Answer 2

Graphic Design Dissertation

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Graphic Design Dissertation Topics

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Speaking as someone who trained and worked for a number of years as an illustrator and is now a graphic designer, I can point out several obvious differences: • It's less soul-destroying when someone rejects a design you've worked on for seven straight days than an illustration; • It's much cleaner; • You can make a decent living in graphic design. In answer to your other point about Fine Art vs Illustration, I always thought that the main difference was that Fine Art is intending to provoke a reaction or emotion, whereas Illustration is intended to reflect it - or 'illustrate' it. Take away the text that accompanies it and an illustration should still say something about the subject.

Answer 5

Try comparing an illustrator or Graphic designer with another designer or artist. I investigate whether Brian Froud was influenced by Hieronymus Bosch for mine.

Remember you can prove you initial question wrong or unprovable through the dissertation. As long as your analysis is logical, concise and covers any possible holes.

Try and find something your vaguely interested in eg. if your into Graffiti try comparing Banksy with another political/social commentating artist like say Warhol

or anime/manga = compare Miyazaki with Disney

Also make your question very focused on a single point, rather than 'Compare and contrast Banksy and Warhol?' try 'Does the work of the graffiti artist Banksy make the same comments about our consumer society as Warhol did in his Can of Soup?'

Also check before you start that there is plenty of books you can get research from. Most exam boards demand that 75% or more of your research comes from books rather than websites or TV.

Answer 6

I think you're stuck on the volume of words you feel you have to write. Forget that for a minute. The following questions are more important.

Have you got something in mind you'd like to write about? Why are you interested in this subject?
Answer the who/what/where/when/why/how questions.
(See, that's a good chunk written already, and makes a good start.)

Now, you need to look at other aspects of this thing you're interested in. Did it influence anything, like another art movement? Did famous people write about it? Who and why?

In other words, how is it significant?

You need to do a fair bit of research over the next few weeks, but once you get stuck into the project and have a direction, it'll be fine. And you'll probably find that 6000 words just isn't enough ...

Answer 7

There are some juicy books out about the influence of "modern art" and European experimentation on graphic design from the late 30s on, to about 1960. Paul Rand, Bradbury Thompson, Lester Beall, Alvin Lustig and others filtered Euro influence into American graphic design in interesting and personal ways, creating a new language of modern graphic design in the process. This is one of the my favorite design eras, 1939-1959...

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graphic design/ illustration dissertation question?
anyone out there got any ideas on what i can write 6000 words on cos im buggered if i know?

Answer 9

The Feminisation of Men in advertising... i went all they way from suffragettes, both world wars and modern men's products.

to put it plainly...
woman were the house wife's and mothers, women then got the vote, women were then called in to replace men in the factories during both world wars, men were then displaced as women become more powerful in society ( for example Maggie thatcher became Prime Minister Power dressing of the 80's etc..), then men started to become more conscious about their dress and personal looks (the birth of the Metro-sexual showing how masculine men e.g footballers and rugby players who are icons for young men, were also advertising aftershave, hair gel etc..)
Finlay ending with a summery on what could happen next to men with the developments in medical technology.

I got a high 2:1.

Good Luck don't think about the amount of words just the content mine was 6600 (10% over which was allowed.)

Answer 10

I did mine on football jerseys! How there design has changed from being a just a functional piece of sports equipment to being an essential branding tool for any club/country.