DEGREE PROJECT PREP

one idea for helping you to organize your thoughts about your degree project is to think in terms of broad categories in which you're interested. then you can mix and match each of those categories to form a design problem or question.

media
ex: mobile screen, books, television, environmental, packaging, etc

design topic
ex: interaction, identity, kinetic typography, narrative

audience
ex: mountain bikers, salsa dancers, soccer moms, high school history teachers

so, questions/statements could be the following:

how can interaction on a mobile screen serve mountain bikers?
how can identity for salsa dancers be expressed through a book?
what is the potential for relating to soccer moms through kinetic typography on the television?
how might narrative be used in environmental design to help high school history teachers better do their job?

of course some of those sound a bit wacky, but you get the point. you can also start with your content, as many of you have done. that still needs to be rounded out with a couple of these categories, audience probably being the most important one. then the others would fall into place.

if you have content (problems with puppy mills), you need to decide who needs to hear that message (audience). then the media and/or design topic would be determined by how the audience prefers to receive messages.

the main point being that your final proposal will end up including basically all of these categories, so it may be helpful to start brainstorming on them now.