This is the end of Research and Communication Skills module. After doing every task during 9 weeks, I have learned a lot in some aspects.

Start from making appreciation of the short film the Terminal Bar I learned about the importance of combination between background music and handover from a frame to another another frames. The photos in this film are changing-over, appear and go following the beat of background music. What impressed me most was that at the last part of the film, the photos appear in a form which is like a phantoscop. It is really interesting.

I learned about what I can use for reference through the comparison of two artworks from task 2. Because work to find the similarity and connection between two artworks can inspire me to get a new point. Furthermore, the designers working method is like a guide which I can follow by.

The research of counter culture from the 1960s to the 1970s bring a great impact to me, because I have never known about this period of history before. The The scope of knowledge is expanded. I realized that artworks are link with everything in our lives. It can relevant to politics or other problem in society and influent the development of society. The posters about counter culture used the bright, vivid color with exaggerate collocation. That remind me how powerful the color composition is and push me to deep think it again.

What is more, I am quite interested in a part of postmodernism which is the visual culture of hip pop. One of the typical method for creat this style of artworks is collage. It remixed many kind of elements in an image. I have created an artwork about hip pop before, now I have more developing idea after research.

The most enjoyable task is task 7 Publish and Perish. Because compare with dry facts of history, this task allowed me to do some research that I want to do. During looking at a lot of interesting works, it helps me found my favorite discipline which is graphic design. These beautiful design bring me visual enjoyment. Gunter Ranbow also impressed me in the way he works. He finds inspiration of artworks in life and takes some common themes in his life as creative elements, plus artistic treatment, so that he has some other symbolic meanings. I would like to catch the useful points if the special personal style of work for those designer which I have researched.

The most important factor in working is critical thinking. It pushed me to constant reflection and exploration through a series of researching and the ability of critical thinking is improved gradually. It is positive. I realized that a graphic designer is that kind of occupation workers, they will be some social things condensed into a visual symbol by morphological changes, marking and code, which has become a kind of political, economic, religious and cultural movement value of things, and in order to show any subject.