Task 1 - Proposal

Shawn Aquilina Case

Mcast Art & Design – Mosta
Unit 6 - Critical Studies - Task 1_Proposal

The transition of music ganres from underground music to popular culture design.

1.       What do you intend to investigate? 

I am intended to investigate as how from music, a style in graphic design evolved. My study will be based on how punk/grunge design became a thing after the explosion of pop culture in the 70s, and from the style that the music adopted, fashion have followed and the style evolved as well in the graphic design industry both during the 70s and followed till the day of today.

2.       Why is the problem that you are investigating interesting in terms of practical/political evidence? Why do you considerate non-trivial?

The subject that I’ll be investigating will be relevant, as such style evolved somehow differently from how other styles have evolved, such as neat designs just like the grids evolved as from the beginning of writing/printing have always been based on how general people write such as from left to right; top to bottom which includes most of the world, excluding Asians which such writing can be read on every way possible and African/Arabic which one reads bottom to top; right to left and obviously publishing have always been placed on the paper’s spread and then evolved to be sectioned in different grids yet still in a formal way. My study will be significant to explain that in a lot of things, the un-traditional ways works as good as the traditional.

3.       What have other researchers/authors came up with that relates to your problem? 

As a subject that I’ll be investigating on, in my opinion has/had a lot of controversy around it as it was almost a now and then change which shook everyone, this reason was that the traditional ways were destroyed at a sudden moment and we all know that although change is good, it’s sometimes hard to accept something that you’re not used to.

4.       Work done so far (mention any important limitations in your work that you wish to overcome in the future)

I           must say that in the past years that I’ve spent in the institute; there was always a part in every scholastic year‘s work which I’ve done myself as such research was based on punk designs. This is obviously because I love such music and the style itself, which makes me work in my comfort zone. I have found some obstacles because of this, where I got to re-do my work in a formal way as it was thought to be careless, yet I had to understand that everyone has his own style and sometimes you’ve got to go with the flow just to at least learn the basics and the style we’re in these contemporary days.

5.       Work plan:

-  research for links & books that might be helpful in further studies

-  Go through links & books, read and save the most relevant information

-  See how many relevant work collected, search for more for future reference if needed

-  Read carefully relevant research and start documenting and rephrase accordingly in own words.