Design statement

writing a design statement for graphic design senior project

1. Writing a Design Statement Design Studio: Senior Project

2. What is a Design Statement? Your Design statement is a written description of your work that gives your audience deeper insight into it. It may include personal history, the symbolism you give your materials, or the issues you address; Your statement should include whatever is most important to you and your work. 

3. What is a Design Statement? A general introduction to your design project. It should open with the work’s basic ideas in an overview of two or three sentences or a short paragraph. The second paragraph should go into detail about how these issues or ideas are presented in the work. The final paragraph should recapitulate the most important points in the statement.

4. You can include the following points:

5. You can include the following points:

6. What an Design Statement is NOT: Pomposity, writing a statement about your role in the world. Empty expressions and clichés about your work and views. Technical and full of jargon. Long dissertations or explanations. Lectures on the materials and techniques you have employed. Poems or prosy writing.

7. How Should I Write It? Emotional tone Theoretical Academic Analytic Humorous Antagonistic Political Professional

8. Ask yourself “What are you trying to say in the project?” “What influences my project?” “How do my methods of working (techniques, style, formal decisions) support the content of my project?” “What are specific examples of this in my project” “Does this statement conjure up any images?”

9. Questions 

10. Getting Started Writing An Design Statement  Describe your work: Describe the project that you are currently working on. Do it quickly. Don't worry about grammar, jargon, or finding the right word. There is no format to this, no structure. Just get down on paper everything that comes to mind about the piece. 

11. Writing the Design Statement  Prepare an outline or diagram of your ideas.  Write your thesis statement.  Write the body.  Write the main points.  Write the subpoints .  Elaborate on the subpoints .  Write the introduction.  Write the conclusion.

12. The introduction should attract the reader's attention and give an idea of the project’s focus. Begin with an attention grabber. A Fact about the Problem An story or quote  Summary Information A few sentences explaining your topic in general terms Each sentence should become gradually more specific, until you reach your thesis.

13. Parts of an introductory paragraph Hook: The author Aldous Huxley once said, “To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.” Transition: As I consider the pet I would like to have share my life, it’s Huxley’s quote that sums up why a dog would be the best choice. Thesis: Because of its sense of loyalty, its ability to protect you and its great companionship, a dog is the perfect pet.

14. Body Paragraph 

15. Essay Writing: Sandwich Diagram

16. Finaly Make it clear and direct, concise and to the point.

17. Timeline