DURATION 1 WEEK; ASSESSMENT: SUMMATIVE; This workshop and project introduces the student to the use of text and layout using drawing, painting, indesign and creative writing as a means of production for Art and Design outputs. In a text and typography workshop students develop a set of sentences about humans, animals and archaeology and make 3 digital and 3 handmade text works using these creative texts. These text works can be made from any material such as wool, wire, soap, 
bricks, pebbles etc. and they can be 3D objects that are photographed or 
presented as works on paper. 
Students include rough sketches, photographs and designs and artist and designer references in the project research.

DURATION 1 WEEK; ASSESSMENT: SUMMATIVE; This workshop and project introduces the student to the use of scanning equipment and digital printing. It requires the student to test possibilities in alternative image making using scanning, digital capture and experimental mark making and placement for Art and Design solutions. Student collects objects to create imprints or stamps, creating abstract images using masking, cutting, pasting, spraying, montage, experiment with making images through chance techniques such as dripping, smudging throwing etc. Student scans results, inverts and prints taking account of resolution, source size, scaling, saving to destination folder and formatting, inverting. The link between technical realisation and experimental processes is an integral part of the project.

DURATION 1 WEEK; ASSESSMENT: SUMMATIVE; This workshop and project introduces the student to technical skills of printmaking processes associated with monoprint, woodblock, lino and screenprint, and other print processes. Students then use one process for example lino. Students are required to make a stylised drawing from a photograph or student ID card, screen shot, selfie, or make a drawing from a mirror and work directly onto lino as in the German expressionist woodblock prints and illustrated by the slide presentation.
The student then defines the negative and positive areas for a design in black and whites shapes, transfer the image onto the lino, cuting out the negative areas and printing the image. Steps on how to do this are supported by demonstration; Image transfer methods, manipulating the image through the computer, or use scans to give greater contrast, use the camera on the Mac -photo booth- to take passport photo and use smart phone apps

DURATION 1 WEEK; ASSESSMENT: SUMMATIVE; This workshop and project introduces the student to the possibilities of how 3d form and optics combine to produce images and patterns using maquette/prototype and model making techniques. Students make 4 Kaleidoscopes of varying lengths and widths and numbers of sides and mount them in protective cardboard tubes. They make 2 Phenakistoscopes with varying numbers of slots and images to be rotated in front of a mirror. Through experimentation the visual effects of the best experiments are filmed with their phones and uploaded to your project file. The phenakistiscope is regarded as one of the first forms of moving media entertainment that paved the way for the future motion picture and film industry and this is presented through silde presentation and demonstration.

Where possible during the VISUAL STUDIES blocks, the history of art and design and cultural studies courses will compliment the studio briefs, relating each studio project to an historical and critical discussion. Suggested topics: • The invention of perspective. • The role of the European Avant Garde. • Modernism and Modernity. • Image and Text • The Bauhaus • Semiotics