Lecture No.4 Reflective Visual Journal

The Reflective Visual Journal or RVJ for short, is going to be the most important part of the course, it will act as a HUB for my initial ideas, developing the ideas, analysing and criticizing my own work to develop it further. Since it's not digital, most of the input is going to be done by hand, meaning sketching up ideas, using different materials and processes and writing. Not to say you can't stick different media into the RVJ, photographs can be used as a source of inspiration or combined with traditional drawing. It's important to try and record our thought process clearly, so other people other than the one who is presenting the RVJ can understand, usually not everything in our heads will instantly communicate with others, so that's why it's important to lay things out not neatly but some what with style or sense.

I also learnt that while writing up ideas with words it's also a good idea to draw images at the same to get take the images from our mind in put them down on paper, doesn't have to be artistic can be as simplistic as you want, for then when it comes time to use the sketch or doodle you will have something to devel

op and to have a thinking process on how using that particular sketch will fit into an overall design.

The example above shows the person drawing the first thing that flows into their head while drawing up a map, and it made things easier to visualize the general area, though there is one thing missing, annotation but I think the person was more focused on using images more then words. Very simple and could be developed into something more with the miniature images he has drawn up, it also shows how the person see's things, from Road Signs to Logos, Graphical indeed.