Such as the question: Will the problems in typesetting make your collection fall short? Including natural light, most of the collection training institutions pay great attention to the typesetting of students' overseas work collections. When interviewing the admissions officers and teachers of various colleges and universities, they also talked about the importance of composition of the collection of works. However, many students have doubts about this. Is not the most important work in the collection of overseas art works? Can typesetting make my collection fall short? Will the admissions officer ignore my work because of my typography problems?

Admissions officers do not directly deny a collection of works because of typography problems, but some problems caused by typography may directly lead to the admissions officers not understanding your collection of works and misunderstanding the contents of some of your projects, which will indirectly lead to missing out on Dream School.

Today, I would like to combine the opinions of the Natural Light Admissions Officer Alliance and the work collection trainers, Take a look at what typography problems will make your collection fall short 。

　　 Class I: problems of typesetting and writing of works

　　 First, let's talk about the role of "characters" in the works.

Although the collection of works is a creative project to display art and design, in some cases, students need to add text descriptions in the collection of works to make explanations and supplements. However, note that in "some cases", the text description is not necessary. If you simply look at the project map of your work and cannot fully understand the content and meaning of the work, you need the help of text. However, if your project map has perfectly interpreted all your expressions and contents, there is no need for text explanation.

Here we take an example. The following figure is a collection of works by students majoring in natural light pure art. The work itself is very abstract. It is difficult to understand the students' intention just by looking at the work itself. It is even more difficult to see the experiment and deconstruction of the font design direction used in it.

Exhibition of student works of natural light

So in the collection of works, students used large paragraphs of text to explain their motivation and ideas for making this device, as well as the media and technology used in the device. To improve the integrity and completion of the whole project.

Language introduction in composition of student works of natural light

        Picture and Form Composition of Works Collection

However, the situation is different for the following group of works. The college submitted illustrations and manual calligraphy works, focusing on pictures and forms, so students did not do too much text introduction, but directly displayed the works.

Layout of graphic design works of natural light trainees

        Text problems in composition of the collection:

After understanding the role of literal interpretation in the works, let's talk about the problems that "literal" may bring.

Some students will worry that the admissions officer will not get their own intention, and will use large text to add Collection of Works for Studying Abroad Some students even want to communicate with the application tutor and submit a supporting analysis document.

Can you do that? Certainly.

But is it necessary to do so? This is not necessarily the case.

Some professional contents, such as works collection, are difficult to vividly and intuitively display the students' works, and text description is necessary. Like installation art, pure art photography, etc Mainly abstract expression Without annotations, it is difficult for the admissions officer to understand what you are doing. For example, the students who used behavioral art videos to show their clothing design works have also written a long text explanation to explain the body behavior of the model and its relationship with her design concept.

However, some majors originally advocated "talking with pictures" and "talking with pictures". Too many words would be tedious. For example, few students give a long speech on the structural drawing of the building. What they need to do in this step is to use diagrams to show the design concept in detail. Words are only auxiliary functions.

So, to sum up, Too much content will lead to tedious procrastination; Too little content will lead to ambiguous expression The text content of the collection does not have a quantitative, more or less. It depends entirely on the content of the collection, so we must communicate with the tutor and the admissions officer. You can also send your own collection to students and friends of the same profession to see if you can get your expression clearly.

　　 The second type: the logic of composition of works is confused

If the word problem will affect the look and feel of the work collection, which is at the performance level, then the logic problem will affect the content and framework of the work collection, which is at the core level. Therefore, logic is more important than words.

Many students have strong basic painting ability, creative ideas, self-study and self-discipline ability, and DIY progress step by step. They are fully capable of preparing their own collection of works. However, when the project is completed and enters the typesetting stage, some problems will appear that they are not aware of. Most of these students' collection of works are: Put all the works together and annotate them slightly 。

First of all, we have said countless times what is a collection of works. It is enrollment oriented, showing your personal ability and understanding of professional and pan professional works to the admissions officer. Therefore, we should arrange the logic of the collection of works according to its functions. However, it is too simple to list your works together to show the admissions officer something about you. It does not mean that this is not good, but that it can not improve your personal competitiveness.

How many kinds of logic can a work collection have?

Today, we will simply list several

linear

Divergent type

Combined type

　　 The first one, which is best understood but most easily misunderstood, is linear Many students think that the layout of linear thinking is to arrange the items in the collection in the order from beginning to end, which is wrong.

But according to From scratch The order is your initial conception, research after conception, collection of materials after research, and subsequent experimental operations, as well as the process of starting to make a collection of works and then the finished product of the collection.

　　 The second kind of divergence, focusing on ideas and themes, uses different projects to interpret the theme We had a student majoring in photography who lived abroad for many years and seldom met the elderly at home. She wanted to express this relationship through her own works, so she decided to do the theme of ancestral memory.

The three projects in her collection are all based on this theme, including film photography, digital photography, blue drying techniques, portraits, landscapes, still lifes, installations combining photography with pure art, and photography manual books. She has integrated some interdisciplinary fields of pure art, graphic arts and books, and has also made many attempts and demonstrations in the direction of photography, but they all closely follow the theme of ancestral memory.

Just like the student I just mentioned, this form of work collection is Gradient Compared with the traditional form, it is more three-dimensional, does not have a single feeling, and shows this student's ability and ideas more fully.

　　 The third combination , is to use different projects to show your ability in all aspects, is also a very common way of typesetting. There are often students who have prepared several projects, but the themes are very different, and it is difficult to integrate various projects. Then we can take these projects apart. There is no problem with two or three independent projects in a work collection.

However, it should be noted that the parts of each project, as we said in the linear part, should show all the thinking attempts from scratch. And different projects should correspond to different investigation points of the selected specialty.

That's all for today. So back to the question raised at the beginning of today: Will the problem of typesetting make the collection fail? First of all, a good typesetting method will be a plus for you. When everyone's abilities and ideas are on the same ladder, clearer expression and more complete display will push your collection to a higher dimension!

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