Experimenting with the letter 'M' in CaslonPro!

 

For my poster brief I had to experiment with my given letter 'M' in the typeface Caslon Pro.
It was very exciting and I loved experimenting and coming out with these outcomes!

My poster for St.Brides library typeface exhibition!

This is my final poster design for St.Brides library of a Caslon Pro typeface exhibition.

I felt this brief went by very quickly but I liked my concept behind my design. looking back at it now I could make a few amendments to make it look better visually.

"When in doubt, use Caslon"

Lovely quote from Caslon, I was going to use it in my poster but think it's better if I come up with one of my own.

Adobe Caslon Pro by Marius Holtman

I came across this when I researching ideas for my poster for St.Brides brief.

It is a poster to advertise Adobe Caslon pro by Marius Holtman a Graphic Designer from Norway.

I love the idea of a Caslon pro family!

Contemporary Architecture - Type - cut and paste, final on in-design

My first cut and paste layout of type for The RIBA Stirling prize award 2011 brief, in In-design.

Exhibition - The particle

These are photographs from an exhibition i went to in October for my contextual practice studies.

‘The particle’ by Alex Posada is an exhibition on a kinetic sculpture that reveals an illusion through light, colour, movement and sound. 

 

Visual Expression - our modernist practitioner Edward Hopper

These pics are of our sculpture we had to make based on Edward Hopper a modernist practitioner.
Edward Hopper was born in New York, he was a American painter whose works are landmarks of American realism, his paintings characterized, isolation melancholy and loneliness. 








We created our sculpture on him, based 'Time square'. We made 'Time Square' a lonely isolated place. At one side of the sculpture is Hoppers paintings and some of our quotes for his work, and on the other side is a lonely man sat on a bench that represents one of his etchings called 'night in the park'.






We decided to add fairy lights  to create an ambiance of time square.
The sculpture was hit for us! 

Visual Expression - The Secret life of my object

“Hello, I am a key ring I own five keys at the moment, which belong to my owner and they all open certain possessions that lead to many discoveries. And I have two extra memorable attachments that signify my owner.

To begin with I am going to explain what keys I have on my rings.

I have a key that opens the locker in my owner’s workplace, another which opens the padlock to the gate of my owner’s back garden, which leads to the backdoor key that is also on my ring. I have a small key that opens the lock to my owner’s bike and another key that does not get used much, moving on, my recent attachment is the key that opens my owners new home here in Lincoln.” 

Visual Expression - Sandwich board!

Working in groups again, we had to design a sandwich board promoting different responses (one negative and one positive to a social/political issue.

Our issue was based on "should the elderly give up their homes for the new generation", here are our views.

We got praised for using our brains and not just the internet :) 

Visual Expression - my left hand drawing of a tea cup, with my eyes closed, oh yeh!

Another visual expression session, where we had to draw a tea cup with our left hand, our eyes shut, in 30 secs, we was all amused by our outcomes.

Visual Expression - Listening to various types music and creating art!

I loved this task.

We had to make make marks on a page that related to the different types of music we had to listen to. We was in a group of four and could use any art materials to create our marks, i chose to work with a scalpel and ink, every time the music changed we had to swap pages, in the group and materials to create a different look, this was our final outcome. 

Visual Expression - Group task, sculpture on us...

 

one of our first projects in Visual expression was to create a sculpture about ourselves in our group.

We decided to create a tree that had flowers that explained different aspects of us.

The pop-out (second photo) is our representation of a flower,

we chose to add this because we thought it would be fun and

it would engage our Graphic Design group.

The tutors loved the idea!

 

 

 

Starting uni!

So I have started my first year at University and I think it's time to start blogging again, so hopefully I'll be able to keep up with yet, here go's!

Photoshoot

First of all I took this photo for my A'level Portraiture project. I thought I'd add this because I think the colours and the contrast on the image are sharp and graphic.

To start of with I used face paint on my brother and turned him into a character of a clown, I painted this after but I thought the photograph looks better.

Embossed prints

These are embossed prints I made. The one on the left is of Marilyn Monroe. First of all I inked up a metal plate then I got a piece of thin paper and gently placed it on top, with a pen I started drawing my image. On the second piece, again I inked up a metal plate but placed material and fabric on top, then placed my paper on top and used the presser to get my final piece.

Observational Drawings

In our observational drawing classes we had to draw plants. First we had to focus into a part of the plant and do a quick line drawing of the plant, not taking pencil of the paper then (on the above) we had to start again but not as quick. It was a new technical experience of drawing.

Research and Sample work

These two pages are about my research and samples I have done. It is related to a brief we have been given on everyday objects. The objects I chose are a butterfly necklace (on the right page) and perfume bottles. We have to create a outcome in our pathway from these objects. So on these two pages I researched textile artists and looked at some of their work that was graphic including Tilke Scwharz. The page on the right shows how I experimented by hand sewing and machine sewing over photocopies of some of my objects, I used thread and string going around the outlines of my objects.

Collograph Prints

This is a collograph and print I made using the sketches I did on our visit to Robin Hoods Bay. I cut out card in the shapes of my houses I sketched and stuck them onto the collograph, I left spaces in between them so when I printed it, it would transfer. I used different coloured oil paints and used a cloth to rub it onto the surface making sure I filled in the gaps. Then I used the presser to transfer my print, on the right is one of my final outcomes.

Photography-Cities

These photographs were taken in India. They show culture and are vibrant that is why I chose them. They both show two different elements, one that is not that busy and one that is really busy. Again they both have a focal point where they all join together to appeal to the eye.

Photography-Buildings

These two digital photographs are separate photographs. The one on the left was taken at Pickering rail station, I thought the way the rail track curved round the bend of the platform  made a focal point to image as your eyes follow the track then to the bridge then to the building of the wall, like a triangle.

The photo on the right is at Sheffield rail station. I thought the brick work on the building looked very rough so I made the photograph black and white to create a different contrast.

Portraiture oil paintings

These oil paintings I did are from A'level. My project was on portraiture and caricature.
So I made my own version and I got my friends to make faces and painted them. I used a clear background and took a shoulder length shot. I wanted to make it look realistic.

Ceramic Vase

This is also another ceramic piece I made of a vase. I used clay and different coloured slip casts, coloured pigments and used a carving knife  to create the patterns on the vase. The designs are linked to a textile piece of art we created using carrier bags.

I think the pattern on the vase is detailed with a lot of striking colours.

Ceramic Pebble

This is another piece of work from my foundation course. I made a ceramic pebble by making two semi domes of clay and slip casting them together then i painted my designs on them from my tissue paper ideas (on the right and left of pebble) from Robin Hoods bay, then i glazed my pebble and had it fired to create the shiny effect. I think these designs are very graphic and the colour schemes go well together.

My own T-shirt designs

These T-shirt designs are from my Foundation course i am doing now. I created them by hand and on Photoshop. I got my inspiration from a visit we went to in Robin Hoods Bay. On this piece of work i made my ideas from different materials including ink, charcoal, photographs and Photograms, i did my final touches on Photoshop.
I hand made the tag on top of the t-shirt designs, i thought that this could become the label on the product. 

Patagonia T-Shirt sketches

I had been set a brief to create t-shirt designs for Patagonia. I looked into Patagonia and about it's welfare and promotions and found out that they are very economical. I looked at some of their recent T-shirt designs and they were very simple and outgoing.
So i began to produce my own sketches (above). Number 2, for example, is of a light bulb and says 'Kill the lights' i wanted to create a sense of humour, I added colour to help them stand out and added annotations so i can understand what is happening.

Net of Shoe packaging

I also added this. It is a net of a shoe packaging idea that i created in A'level.

This is a different design but i think the vibrant colours and blocking appeal to the eye.

I designed lots of different types of nets and then hand made mini versions of them, I thought they all worked out well.

Shoe packaging idea

This is another Graphic Design piece from A'level. This brief was about shoe packaging, i looked at different types of packaging and ideas and got my inspiration from an illustrator called Gary Newman. I used my own techniques of finding new ways to create ideas. On this one i took a photo of my shoe and a bracelet and placed them on a background i created, i think the colours and composition work really well together.

Album Cover

This is one of my Graphic Design pieces from A'level.

This piece of work is from a brief where i had to create a CD cover for our own song choice.

I looked at several illustrators and designers and got my influences from them.

Here one of my influences is from an illustrator called Aasha.