Kandidatuppsatser / HDK-Valand (2020-)
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Item Att nära en bilderbok(2022) Graas, Hanna; University of Gothenburg/HDK-Valand - Academy of Art and Design; Göteborgs universitet/HDK-Valand - Högskolan för konst och designAdults read less and less for their children and this project wants to advocate reading, as part of children's language development and for building relationships between children and adults. The intention of the project is to tell a story to children and their adults through pictures and words. It is also to investigate what an exploratory approach can look like in a picture book process and whether it can make the result more genuine. During the process, imagery and dramaturgy have slowly taken shape. Choices of technique, themes and aesthetics are discussed and tested. The result is a story about dreaming of your own room, where the characters are children in the form of skeletons. The story also shows a sibling relationship, and how important it is to sometimes just have your own space.Item Din och min plats(2022) Quach, Pia; University of Gothenburg/HDK-Valand - Academy of Art and Design; Göteborgs universitet/HDK-Valand - Högskolan för konst och designThe project is focusing on how design can prevent cultural identity crises in relation to language. Language is one of many factors that shape one's identity. If, for example, you are multilingual, you constantly create and recreate your identities through your language choices. In today's multicultural society, it is a great challenge to maintain one's mother tongue due to lack of educational resources. The process has consisted of workshops with bilinguals and multilinguals about the subject, and it has been shown that they often feel that they need to justify their ethnicity through their language skills. This in turn can create cultural identity crises because some have knowledge of speaking in their mother tongue but not reading or writing. The project explores how an artistic approach to your mother tongue can build an individual relationship to the language. The idea of the artistic approach and the individual relationship is to increase self-affirmation about their cultural heritage and decrease the need of affirmation from other people. The project has focused on building an artistic approach to the Chinese language, where the results have taken shape in artistic interpretations of Chinese characters in three-dimensional shapes.Item Look! Ett fanzine om queer historia(2022) Löfberg, Anna; University of Gothenburg/HDK-Valand - Academy of Art and Design; Göteborgs universitet/HDK-Valand - Högskolan för konst och designLOOK! Ett fanzine om queer historia (LOOK! A fanzine about queer history) is a project aiming to shed light on the often forgotten queer parts of world history through the medium of an illustrated fanzine. Aimed at young people, the fanzine discusses a number of queer concepts and persons who have existed throughout history, in order to show how queerness have been a part of humanity for as long as humanity have existed. The project documents the creation of the fanzine through research methods, illustration-making and by exploring how different design choices are motivated on both contemporary and historical bases. The medium of fanzine is scrutinised and reflected upon, pitting modern mainstream design against its underground origins to see how and if they can coexist. Finally, the finished fanzine is discussed and the process is reflected upon, as well as possible ways to continue the project in the futureItem Släpp formen fri – Bokstavsklubben(2022) Widell, Nora; University of Gothenburg/HDK-Valand - Academy of Art and Design; Göteborgs universitet/HDK-Valand - Högskolan för konst och designThis project has gone by the name “Release the form” and later on got the subheading “The Letter Club”. The purpose of the project has been to explore various playful methods that generate letter-forms and make this available for other future graphic designers. The personal aim in this project has been to approach typography in an enjoyable way. The methods have been explored by inviting other people in to the process by designing different workshops, both with children and other design-students at HDK-Valand. The project resulted in a concept called “Bokstavsklubben”, a club for students at HDK-Valand that are interested in exploring typography with others. In this concept a club-kit has been designed with a clubmagazine and letter-stencils, intended to be available in the school-library at HDK-Valand. The intention of the club-magazine is to inspire the making of letterforms and giving examples of how you can use the stencils, both by yourself and within the club. The concept of the club should be seen as a beginning of a structure to be continued with and the magazine as a stepping stone, a future school paper that could be run by and with other graphic interested students at HDK-Valand.Item Under Pressure(2023) Andersen, Elin; University of Gothenburg/HDK-Valand - Academy of Art and Design; Göteborgs universitet/HDK-Valand - Högskolan för konst och designThis project aimed to explore the relationship between tools and design; more specifically a printing press and design. The idea emerged from a longing of being able to work with printmaking, the lack of a workshop with the right tools and a feeling of hopelessness in not knowing where to find the resources. The aim was to design a printing press that could encourage presence in the user, instill calmness and joy in a time-consuming craft where the actual pleasure always seem to lie in the end result. By focusing on the tools used in creative work, would it be possible to shed a new light on these objects which aid us in constructing new things? A process of designing and constructing a tool, offered knowledge about machine processing, materials and the need for precision. It all culminated in a functional printing press. Seemingly ordinary, the machine itself may not express all the layers of creative work and philosophies which nonetheless became the purpose of the project. Thus, it has not only been a way to explore the balance between form and function but also to discuss the concept of tools as something more than just means of creating.