T E N 01 — The Everyday Narrative

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‘TEN’ is a monthly research publication allowing me to curate, design and produce research content relevant to any project on which I am currently working

Whilst the overarching theme of the ten catalogued ideas changes from issue to issue the main premise is that it helps me to visualise and interrogate ideas, thereby strengthening my understanding of the currently explored topic.

Making such a document represents an engagement with the subject matter and a depth of research that produces definitive results, whilst I am in the process of informing myself. Furthermore, I can begin to develop and test viable solutions to further direct future study, projects and solutions.

Much of my work is very strictly typographical and I find that the best conclusions are drawn in design when I am able to distill a concept down to a rational, simplified idea. ‘TEN’ affords me an opportunity to experiment with those ideas and practice those skills of reduction.

This particular issue ‘The Everyday Narrative’ helped inform decisions that I have recently made regarding a proposal for a period of extended self-directed study, for assessment at university.

Having compiled a list of ten interesting words, topics and subject areas for potential self directed study I began researching in national newspapers looking to find a statement or argument of interest relating to each of the words in content. Each news story was then interpreted into a simple typographic piece that demonstrated playful abstraction of the headline.