Reaching the end of this project has given me the chance to step back and look at everything I have done, learned and overcome during GDE750. What began with one research question, why does the visual representation of dialect matter in an increasingly globalised design culture, has grown into a full body of academic and creative…

Bringing Everything Together and Preparing for Hand In This week has been about bringing the whole Final Major Project together and preparing it for submission on Friday at 4pm. It has been a strange feeling reaching this point because the project has been such a long process, moving from early ideas and research all the…

Developing a Cohesive Visual Language and Testing the Methodology in Practice After a difficult Week 21, Week 22 became a turning point where the project moved forward with renewed clarity. This week was entirely focused on developing the design outcomes through the methodological structure I had built across the previous weeks. For the first time,…

Rebuilding Confidence and Reconnecting with Purpose Week 21 was the most challenging week of the project. The shift from structured academic writing into open ended design work created a sense of uncertainty that affected my confidence. I kept comparing my early experiments to the expressive work of designers I had researched and felt that my…

Activating the Methodology and Using Workshop Insights to Shape Early Typographic Tests This week marked the formal shift into the design stage of the project, and for the first time I began applying the methodology in a practical context. Having the six stage framework in place gave the studio work a clear direction, but moving…

Strengthening the Conceptual Structure and Designing the Participatory Tasks This week has been one of the most significant turning points in preparing the Studio Practice. With the initial version of the methodology drafted in Week 18, the focus of this week was to refine it into a clear, rigorous and fully justified framework. A key…

Translating Research into an Actionable System This week marked the first concrete development of the methodology that will underpin the Studio Practice. Drawing on Schön’s concepts of reflection in action and reflection on action, I began constructing a framework that could guide both my own decision making and potentially other designers exploring dialect based work.…

Preparing the Intellectual Ground for the Methodology Where Week 16 was about gathering and deepening research, Week 17 focused on shaping that research into a coherent structure for the Studio Practice. This meant selecting which sources genuinely advanced the project and discarding anything that did not serve the methodological or practical aims. I refined the…

Expanding the Visual, Cultural and Contextual Foundations This week marked the beginning of a more focused transition from essay writing into the visual research phase of the Studio Practice. Although the Critical Report is now complete, I realised that the Studio Practice demands its own form of inquiry, one that builds on the academic foundation…

Finalising the Report and Bringing All Sections Together This week has been focused on completing the revisions and finalising the second full draft of the report. After the restructuring I did last week, this stage has been more about tightening tone, improving clarity and filling gaps that became obvious once the new sections were in…