So…third year has begun! In our first seminar group meeting, we looked at the areas of design we were going to be looking into. Between us, we will look into what crime, climate change, branding, critical design, research, gender and creativity are, and how they affect design.

Included are a few photos of us brainstorming each of our topics, and I will follow with a more detailed description of climate change and the affects it has on design. Through doing the mind map, I felt I got an insight into topics which I had not previously studied, and which I didn’t know much about. It was interesting to find that most of the topics overlapped, particularly branding. We found that because branding had a lot to do with the advertisement and identity of products and services, this linked with a lot, as the advertisement of products is important in most areas.

In climate change, the advertisement of products which are eco friendly, and the image that eco friendly and renewable products and services give across, is very important to designers when introducing new things to either clients or colleagues. The branding of a product has a huge impact on the success of that product.