Research.

Referring cataphorically to my research proposal I stated that would create an 'interesting documentation of a collection of 'favourite outfits', however, after another crit it was mentioned that there was not enough reasoning for this. So I decided to try and concentrate on 'product and promotion'. My product being clothes and the promotion would be what I was designing. Altering my p

roposal for more commercial intent.

photos of fashion supplements to come.

I also stated the ways in which I would research for this brief.

PRIMARY methods o

f research

How?

I will create questionnair

es that I can gather q

ualitative and quantitative rese

arch

from.

Reading articles in magazines, online blogs, newspapers and other media.

Who?

I intend to gather inf

ormatio

n from a wide variety of people to create a fairer investigation, by going into Leeds and asking p

eople quick questions that they can answer quickly, althou

gh

friends at college will probably b

e more

willing to fill out more exte

nsive written questionnaires. This will obviously limit my findin

gs however through using different medias I hope to make a fair judgement as far as I can.

SECONDARY m

ethod

s of research

How?

Fashion magazines

Fashion blogs

Other researc

h carried out by others if poss

ible.

Online, videos/youtube etc

Art by others, Mark Howe's photography

Who?

I will use the internet to res

earch initially but hope to also investigate interviews/transcripts, tv programs, books and magazines to hopefully broaden my investigatio

n

and make it more interestin

g. I will look at design work that is related to fashion, how the audience di

ctates how things ar

e designed and possibly define

some rules or results.

Some of my secondary research can be found on my design co

ntext blog

However I carried

out some primary research. I asked 100 people what thei

r favourite pieces of clot

hing were. Here are my results:

Images to come.

Questionnaire results.

Info Graphics.

We had a workshop with

Amber which concentrated on using facts and figures and interpreting them into visual information that was not instan

tly connected to the informa

tion it communicated.

A couple of examples to contextualise my work on this but more examples on my

design context blog.

I wanted to investigate interpreting my research into some info graphics. I created a straight forward (pretty ugly) pie chart and hope to make it more aestheti

cally pleasing.