Saturday, September 28, 2013

Field Journal


We were asked to flip through the pages and look through all the images of our textbook.

I suddenly stopped on one single page. On the 23-120 of p.520, I see the banknotes of my own country. The text on the next page mentioned the graphs on these banknotes represent the culture of the country of issue. The shown notes are Hong Kong’s banknotes. Beyond this, those are the banknotes I use since I was a kid, till now.


On front sides of the banknotes, we could see the animals of Chinese legends. On the other sides, there are the views of certain famous place of Hong Kong. Yes, the graphic design of the banknotes should be able to represent the characters of the certain country. Users should be able to know the country of issue by looking at the banknotes. Nevertheless, I am here to put forward the failure of graphic design of Hong Kong’s banknotes. Let’s see the comparison!


Hey! What's that?! Mathematic? Or certain kind of sight we see when we get drunk? This shown graphic design here should be on a higher-level mathematic book, instead of being on a ten dollar note. This purple banknote is exactly the new ten dollar note of Hong Kong, but I just don't understand what characters of Hong Kong it represent to. Nowadays, I realized that some of the design run far away from the principle and never come back.

I know that everyone has different sense of beauty. Reading the histories of graphic design, we should always ask ourselves what the histories teach us. Histories are incredible because people learn from histories. Histories are nothing if no one learn. While reading this book, it's always good time to think about WHY people made good design and HOW the designs become remarkable.



Works Cited

Meggs, Philip B., Purvis, Alston W., Meggs History of Graphic Design: Fifth Edition. Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, 2012. Print.

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