Well.. lets just say its been awhile, and i'm deeply sorry, I kept meaning to update it with new work, inspirational pieces and daily thoughts.. but university got the better of me, but as it is now second year and i'm obviously a much more mature student, I shall commit to updating this blog frequently.
Merry Christmas!
Wednesday, 22 December 2010
Sunday, 7 February 2010
Magazine Layout - Jan Tschichold
The second piece is complete!! I had to get my Tschichold time on and design a magazine layout using modernist principles (hierarchy, path for the eye and strong use of negative space), Tschichold is one of the fathers of modernism, writing the first typography 'how to book'. If the truth is told I spent a lot more time developing the Brody layout, I felt it was best to have one really good piece than two mediocre pieces. The design is based on one of his posters for an exhibition, I liked the simplicity and elegance, inspiring me to appropriate the style. All in all, I particularly enjoyed this project and feel that magazine design is possibly the area of graphic design I would wish to go into.
(For a full view click the image)
The next project begins early Monday morning (Ughhhh!) despite this fact i am looking forward to the brief (developing TV idents), I have a few ideas buzzing around my head already.
Au revoir! xx
(For a full view click the image)
The next project begins early Monday morning (Ughhhh!) despite this fact i am looking forward to the brief (developing TV idents), I have a few ideas buzzing around my head already.
Au revoir! xx
Sunday, 31 January 2010
Magazine Layout - Neville Brody
Happy new year! (a little belated). Back for another term of wonderful design and innovation at BAGC1, UWIC.. Only three weeks in and already on to our second assignment, one in which we learn about designing running publications such as a magazine; grids, columns, type hierarchy and type harmony are all included in this assignments teachings,
The brief: To produce two magazine layouts, one post-modernist and one modernist. Chose one a designer from each discipline, write an article about them and their work then appropriate their style to your design.
Post Modern Layout
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To start with I was struggling with come up with an aesthetically pleasing design because I had to work in the style of someone else, After looking through 'The Graphic Language of Neville Brody' I found some inspiration and end up with the piece of work above. I am currently still working on the Modernist layout, when its complete I will upload.
The brief: To produce two magazine layouts, one post-modernist and one modernist. Chose one a designer from each discipline, write an article about them and their work then appropriate their style to your design.
Post Modern Layout
(For a full view click the image)
To start with I was struggling with come up with an aesthetically pleasing design because I had to work in the style of someone else, After looking through 'The Graphic Language of Neville Brody' I found some inspiration and end up with the piece of work above. I am currently still working on the Modernist layout, when its complete I will upload.
Thursday, 17 December 2009
Letter form
One of our first assignments of the term was to design our own letter form, At first I didn't like theoriginal outcome, but the final week of term was giving to us to revise our final pieces. Im now content with the piece..
Saturday, 12 December 2009
Guess who's back?
Its been quite a while since my last post, but as the festive season drew in, with its parties and excitement, alcohol and presents.. I was busy completing assignments and writing essays, The life and times indeed. Now with the first term over and done with I now have the time to update this glorious blog.
As of this weekend I am back home, and will be for roughly a month, I intend on seeing family and friends as well as relaxing.. alot, Well deserved I think, Its been an extremely busy term.. And overall I came out with a pretty decent grade.. B-
Over the next few days I will begin to upload work, inspirations and other things of a similar nature
Peace x
As of this weekend I am back home, and will be for roughly a month, I intend on seeing family and friends as well as relaxing.. alot, Well deserved I think, Its been an extremely busy term.. And overall I came out with a pretty decent grade.. B-
Over the next few days I will begin to upload work, inspirations and other things of a similar nature
Peace x
Saturday, 7 November 2009
Extraordinary Pigeons.. Yeah
in doing research for a visual metaphor exercise in the library my team mate made a superb find, a book entitled Extraordinary Pigeons. I was quickly distracted from the work as I began flicking through this crazy book, It was quite hard to keep the laughter down.. I didn't mind the tears though. Absolutely Epic.
I love it when you call me big figure..
This project is has easily been my favorite one yet. The brief was to create either a good or bad character using a visual metaphors on an usual scale of 3(w) x 9(h) A4 sheets. Has to be said that working at this scale was a pain in the.. neck, Photoshop took ages rendering any minor changes as well as saving.
We brainstormed out ideas for awhile before deciding to tackle the brief of using a bad person. You were allowed to eleborate and develop the idea of the person being bad in any way you felt nessercery. Me and my team thought a corporate boss was a nice starting point, we quickly developed the idea by stating that he made all his earnings from exploiting third world countries via sweatshops.
After 17 hours of slaving away on our design we finally finished and made our deadline. We got a really good response from our classmates and our especially our lecturers. Another job well done i'm thinking. Looking forward to the next brief!
Ohhh quick question..
..why the hell does a PSD have a size limit of 2GB? It makes absolutely no sense.. And I like how they know your file is over the limit when you tell it to save, but it attempts it for about 15 minutes then decides to tell you your file is to big and that you have to save it as a PSB? Nice one adobe!
We brainstormed out ideas for awhile before deciding to tackle the brief of using a bad person. You were allowed to eleborate and develop the idea of the person being bad in any way you felt nessercery. Me and my team thought a corporate boss was a nice starting point, we quickly developed the idea by stating that he made all his earnings from exploiting third world countries via sweatshops.
After 17 hours of slaving away on our design we finally finished and made our deadline. We got a really good response from our classmates and our especially our lecturers. Another job well done i'm thinking. Looking forward to the next brief!
Ohhh quick question..
..why the hell does a PSD have a size limit of 2GB? It makes absolutely no sense.. And I like how they know your file is over the limit when you tell it to save, but it attempts it for about 15 minutes then decides to tell you your file is to big and that you have to save it as a PSB? Nice one adobe!
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