Masters Research

  The next image mindmap we were told to carry on creating mindmaps with images, this time I came up with more ideas trying to be even more free-flowing and trying to keep away from my original ideas. The first set I started on was these; I started with a piece of graphic design by David Carson whose work I absolutely love, starting from this image I found myself looking at things to do with counter culture as he was very much a part of that. I put images of punk and grunge bands up alongside his work and strangely enough I found myself coming back to brutalist buildings which I found fit really well into this aesthetic of grunge, punk and counter culture. Along with this, I put in images of a PS1 and PS2, I'm not really sure why I did this but thinking about it now after the fact they really do seem to fit into the style and feel that all these images create (and that is very odd to me). Thinking about this idea of culture I moved on to the cold war as this is a real passion of mi...

  Our first task was to create a set of mindmap ideas that we are interested in and could do for our Masters, for this task we had to avoid using words and rather focus on using images to not cement our ideas. I have never done this type of ideation before, trying to keep my ideas free-flowing and open, I think I'm going to find this hard as I keep finding myself wanting to finally decide on an idea but hopefully if I force myself to keep this open type of ideation then I will be able to create a stronger project. This is the first of my mindmaps, focusing on mental health and the focuses around it, this was the first mindmap I created and at first, it was hard to start but once I found my rhythm I was able to just find images and place them onto the page without much issue. My thoughts began to diverge from just mental health to the hospitals that deal with it and how many of us suffer from mental health and how invisible it is. The second of my mindmaps was focused on global warm...