Also, totally forgot to share some photos I have take on workshops from previous couple of weeks.

Each workshop was very interesting and inspiring,also helped a lot to understand the right way in making 100 outcomes on "The City" topic.Here are some outcomes I got on the workshops I liked the most.

Visualisation of sounds workshop. We were asked to come to the location and collect different sounds around us,remembering to mention how loud,how far and what kind of sound it was.Then in pairs we were visualising the map.

Rhymes workshop with Ben. Love this workshop, really gives you big space to think and express.I also like the topic of sounds so I have found the workshop engaging and fun. Second picture - "Invisible cities" workshop. All of us were given a piece of text about a city and asked to create a typeface for it.

"Utopia and Dystopia" workshop, as far as I noticed- the most popular one.At first we were making collages,to recreate the space and make it unusual.On the photo left city is mine and right is my classmate's Maria's.Next picture is landmark I have made in a group with Ingvar and Maria in Museum of London yard.It's meant to be a model of a big glass landmark with sightseeing balconies and flat escalators inside.

Had a really useful bookbinding workshop today,got a chance to try almost every way!One with bookbinding screws was new for me,also made a successful perfect binding notebook, might use it for sketches and notes.I wish we had this workshop time ago.

web: http://www.calverts.coop/

Recently our class was given an opportunity to visit some great design studios.My first visit was to Calverts studio which is located at Bethnal Green.

First thing that lifted up my mood on that rainy day was kind and friendly stuff,as soon as we arrived we were offered drinks and after that we arrived in the workshop room.

Room was small but cozy, table was full of different books, magazines and leaflets, which I instantly wanted to examine, so bright and pretty they looked.

Our lecturer was Arthur, one of the "Calverts" crew members.Our lecture started. First we were told about different kinds of paper, overview of print techniques and technical details. I learned a lot about coated and uncoated paper, shame on me, but on my previous works I dind't put enough consideration on paper choice. Arthur showed us different examples,made at the studio. After that we were showed different printers and were lucky enough to see the real printing process on litho printer. The end of the lecture was dedicated to possible bindings, cost, best ways to deliver your work to the studio and a lot of other interesting and useful topics. Also we were able to see examples of books printed at "Calverts", some of them were really nice and brought me some ideas for the City Project.

Overall, I really enjoyed my visit. Learned so much new, got to see the process and got inspired. Will definitely work with them in future! You can also take part in this creative presentation - the studio runs free workshops at the moment, don't hesistate and take the opportunity so you won't regret later!

Unfortunately,I've missed cropping workshop,but here is what I've done myself,thank you BB!

We were asked to explore E&C once again,this time to find and capture different grids,systems and organisational patterns...I'm not sure I got the exercise right,bet here is the result!

In the afternoon we were divided in groups and asked to make up our own layout using maskingtape and magazines we've brought

Diksha Alma Natalie join forces-result:)

I really enjoyed this workshop.Typography is a big,independent study,and I've always questioned where should I start from...
On this workshop we had a bit of everything:both theory and practice,we played a type game and started discovering Indesign.

The second part of the day was devoted to research around E&C to find different kind of type,that was quite fun,E&C has loads of this!Afterwards we divided types on different groups:

Graffiti

Branding

Public Signs

Various

On Friday 14 I had my first workshop -  Text & Image.

I really enjoyed this workshop.Full of discussions and different exercises,it made me think about things that don't normally occure in my mind.We were divided in groups and discussed text and image,where do we see it,what is it,how both ways communicate the ideas to the audience.My group was discussing text,sometimes it was hard to view from a different side,but I think we did well on this all together.Everyone in the group was new for me,but also very friendly:)

Next question was "Who is the author?Designer or a client?"
Myself I couldn't decide on the side-I think that author is a collaborative work of both:designer creates,client shows the way to create.Also,designer uses something already created and changes it in a way...

Then,we got to semiotics. The exrecise was to use a word "chair" and communicate something else with it.Our group was given "office".After ten minutes of sketching our ideas,we decided on one.Firstly,my idea of office space was taken,but after a bit of discussion we decided,that it's not obvious enough and made a 3D "office"...That's obvious enough!

In my opinion,we could just use a table to communicate office,cause we didn't need that much detail to make it obvious.Less=better!Other groups did really well with this.I really liked the "bench" one,smart,clear and obvious.

Other excersise was about changing meaning of the image with a text.We were given a few images and some words to create a story of it.Our story went too complicated,we really enjoyed making up the plot and had a big conversation about it.Can anyone get what the story was?Highly doubt it haha,but it was a nice expirience to create a story working in a group like that,I had so much fun kkk

The last task was to put a word into the image,so it works like a poster.We had a debate again,working in a group sometimes hard because of it...In the end we decided on putting text on the image in a way so it does not catch a lot of attention but puts a meaning,so we used grey colour and "interracted" with the image itself.

 Notes
what is text?
It's a code,a system.A visual form of a word. 
how do we understand image?
Image is seen by all individuals differently,depending on their background,experience,ideology etc.