Typography project

This was a project on typography where I was given three words at random, and we had to try and show the meaning of the word using the correct typeface and images etc, but we had to keep images at a minimum, because we weren't meant to illustrate the word we were just meant to give off it's meaning.

My research was to find out about the history of typography, and to research into all the correct terms in typography, kerning, leading etc, so i could then use them later on in the project to explain what i had done.
I did a lot of in depth research into typefaces and tree shapes to use for my design, and when i found one of each which i liked, i decided to try them together, i changed the i to an upside down '?' and then including all of my development this is my final piece.

It is a pencil drawing of the tree which is detailed but not too detailed, with some of the letters partially hidden behind the branches to give off a 'mysterious' feel. To finish it i went over the lines with fine liner just to make it stand out that little bit more. If i did this project again i think i would go with a different approach, maybe masks hiding the letters or some letters missing from the word, but overall i was really happy with the outcome.

Carried Away

This bag design was for a project named 'Carried away'. My primary research for this was to collect carrier bags from any store and see how they looked, what materials were used etc. From the start when i chose Topman as my chosen store, I knew i wanted to try out an aztec design as it's contemporary and suits the store perfectly. I created the bag all digitally using illustrator and photoshop. If i did this again, I think I would experiment more with mixed media and also the alignment of the text on the bag even though I think it looks good it in the centre.

Contextual studies poster

This was for a group project in contextual studies, which we were given an art style different to everyone else to recreate, and we had to do a poster or book cover the style given to us and our style was Punk. Our chosen film was night of the living dead and we decided to create a poster for that.

Our inspiration was the classic punk style of newspaper letter cutouts for texts as well as bright splashes of colour. We wanted to carry on the rough sketchy appearance of punk art. 
When the initial ideas were finished we scanned in the letter cutouts and each separate version of the face. Once we had that done we collated the images and placed them onto a document in Photoshop. We then tested which filters and layer styles created the best looking poster. Our choice was a half-tone filter for the bottom layer and with the ‘overlay’ layer style on the top layer. To finish we added gradients to the poster to allow it to draw more attention to the image in the centre of the poster.

I like the final outcome and feel that we did well in creating this film poster in a punk style, I also like how the shadows give the poster a 3D effect to give more depth. I am happy with the overall poster and if we did this again i don't know anything we could improve.

On the surface

These are magazine covers for a project called 'On the surface'. I researched into a lot of different patterns, artists who created patterns and what sort of objects they placed their patterns onto. I chose the hi-tech category and based my final piece on 'Tron', so i had an idea of what colours to use etc. The shapes are pieces of technology, broken down into their individual shapes and placed together to create an abstract shape that still looked 'hi-tech'. The first one is an ipod, and the second is a camera, i got the ideas for this from my primary research (going into town and taking photographs of any hi-tech objects i could find). I drew the images to create initial ideas then used illustrator and photoshop to complete the pattern digitally. Looking back on it, i think i would rather have used a different gradient or type of colour fill for each instead of the same one, because they look really similar. I think i would also use two objects, which had completely different shapes, for the same reason. Overall i am happy with the final outcome of this project and the two covers complement each other which was the main thing.