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    Masters Completed!
    Gemma Elaine
    • Nov 18, 2021
    • 2 min

    Masters Completed!

    It's been a long time in the making but I've done it! I've completed my Masters of Design and my major project is a beautiful picture...
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    Week 12: Finishing the Sketches & Ordering a Hi-fidelity Prototype
    Gemma Elaine
    • Oct 17, 2021
    • 3 min

    Week 12: Finishing the Sketches & Ordering a Hi-fidelity Prototype

    This week I finished off the sketches for the books' spreads. I had originally intended to be further along in the illustration phase but...
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    Weeks 9-11: Rewriting the Book, Thumbnails, Prototype 1, Sketches and planning the Exhibit
    Gemma Elaine
    • Oct 10, 2021
    • 6 min

    Weeks 9-11: Rewriting the Book, Thumbnails, Prototype 1, Sketches and planning the Exhibit

    Book rewriting Before I could continue with the illustration process I needed to come up with an approach to bring in the reader...
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    Weeks 6-8: Building the character and style
    Gemma Elaine
    • Sep 17, 2021
    • 2 min

    Weeks 6-8: Building the character and style

    So.... Work has started on the book! Here's how my miro board is looking right now, the deliver column is definitely filling up, and you...
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    Week 3 & Break: Coding Research & Collecting Inspiration
    Gemma Elaine
    • Aug 18, 2021
    • 1 min

    Week 3 & Break: Coding Research & Collecting Inspiration

    Research Organizing my ideas Here's a little snapshot as to how my idea organization is at the moment Coding my survey results This was...
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    Week 2: Coding and Starting the Exegesis
    Gemma Elaine
    • Aug 5, 2021
    • 2 min

    Week 2: Coding and Starting the Exegesis

    Project Work Influencers This week I caught up with a bit of research I intended to do weeks ago. I went through Instagram to find some...
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    Week 1: Getting back into it
    Gemma Elaine
    • Jul 30, 2021
    • 1 min

    Week 1: Getting back into it

    Research It was a bit of a slow start this week. My initial call out for participants in my research survey only yielded 12 responses. So...
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    Week 12
    Gemma Elaine Duffill
    • Jun 3, 2021
    • 1 min

    Week 12

    I discussed my AR integration idea with my classmates today and whilst they thought it was a cool idea my teacher pointed out that as a...
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    Week 11, design sprint & playing with ideas
    Gemma Elaine Duffill
    • Jun 3, 2021
    • 2 min

    Week 11, design sprint & playing with ideas

    Accelerated design sprint This week myself and of my supervisors other students got together to have a workshop based on a design sprint....
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    Week 10, Questionnaire questions & final project plan
    Gemma Elaine Duffill
    • Jun 2, 2021
    • 2 min

    Week 10, Questionnaire questions & final project plan

    Refining questionnaire questions This week I worked on finalising my questionaire questions. As I’m trying to make the qualitative...
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    Week 9: Building my Questionaire and a book survey
    Gemma Elaine Duffill
    • May 26, 2021
    • 1 min

    Week 9: Building my Questionaire and a book survey

    My Questionaire This week I wrote my preliminary questionnaire. My first attempt was definitely too open-ended for an online survey and...
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    Gemma Elaine Duffill
    • May 17, 2021
    • 1 min

    Week 8: Narrowing my project into a design project

    Feedback from my presentation and from my teacher this week reiterated the importance of making sure my project sounds like a design...
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    Week 7: Researching the effectiveness of Picture Books
    Gemma Elaine
    • May 5, 2021
    • 4 min

    Week 7: Researching the effectiveness of Picture Books

    The illustration book order has arrived Firstly, this week I got my order of picture books that focus on birthmarks. I now have four:...
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    Week 6: Presentation & Feedback, Researching Picture Books
    Gemma Elaine
    • Apr 30, 2021
    • 2 min

    Week 6: Presentation & Feedback, Researching Picture Books

    I presented my project this week and the feedback was mostly good, the main issue that was pointed out to me was that my research has...
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    Week 5: Preparing for my Presentation & David Sargent
    Gemma Elaine
    • Apr 30, 2021
    • 1 min

    Week 5: Preparing for my Presentation & David Sargent

    Not too much to show for my work this week after coming back from a well-needed break mid-trimester. This week we went over a brief...
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    Week 4: More refining the project and Case Studies
    Gemma Elaine
    • Apr 9, 2021
    • 4 min

    Week 4: More refining the project and Case Studies

    New Project Description My project is focused on how we might use visual communication design to explore positive representations of...
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    Week 3: Methodologies, Qualitative research
    Gemma Elaine
    • Apr 9, 2021
    • 2 min

    Week 3: Methodologies, Qualitative research

    My Research Question This week I got even closer to my project questions final form! I entered this week with the following as my...
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    Week 2: Narrowing the focus and researching the topic
    Gemma Elaine
    • Mar 24, 2021
    • 4 min

    Week 2: Narrowing the focus and researching the topic

    My Question This week I continued to try and narrow my focus and come up with a research question that is narrow enough that I can...
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    Week 1: Choosing a Project Focus
    Gemma Elaine
    • Mar 17, 2021
    • 2 min

    Week 1: Choosing a Project Focus

    It was my first day on campus and it was good to be back at my old animation alma mater again - this time as a design master’s student....
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    Masters Completed!

    • Nov 18, 2021
    Masters Completed!

    Week 12: Finishing the Sketches & Ordering a Hi-fidelity Prototype

    • Oct 17, 2021
    Week 12: Finishing the Sketches & Ordering a Hi-fidelity Prototype

    Weeks 9-11: Rewriting the Book, Thumbnails, Prototype 1, Sketches and planning the Exhibit

    • Oct 10, 2021
    Weeks 9-11: Rewriting the Book, Thumbnails, Prototype 1, Sketches and planning the Exhibit
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