MODULAR TYPE

Playing around with the chosen design layout. I forgot to say that we were working in a group and each had to design a modernist poster for Germany- we came up with a colour scheme and format and they looked great as a series.

My final design is just on my pen drive for some reason so I will upload that when I can get to my usb pen!

These are my actual modernist poster designs! Again, these are just a few examples of what I was playing around with. I was working a lot with a strong grid and negative space, trying to keep it simple but bold. It was a lot harder to focus on typography when we could start being in other elements.

Modernist typography poster. I started off this project in the wrong mind set. During the time period we studied (1920-1960 Germany) designs began to create Dada designs like these. These did not have the modern principles which the brief was asking for...so....I started again (which is always fun). I thought I should stick these up anyway...I don't really like them but still good to show.

This is the final chosen design. I played around with font, sizing, spacing and positioning before deciding on this as my final piece to take to the studio for critique.

These are a few of my layout options for a project in which we had to design a poster advertising a lecture by a chosen typographical designer, taking inspiration from their work. There were a lot more layout designs that I came up with but I kept it to the minimum as to not bore you. We had to include a strong grid system and it would only be black type on a white background and also a square format.

For this quote I had to develop my own typeface using a letterform which I had found in Shoreditch. I had to come up with a set of rules and a grid to form each letter. It took a bit of work and alterations with particular letterforms but I think I got there ok! Im not a very typographical person, I prefer using typography within images so I think I made a good go ok it?

This was done a while ago but I've only just found the time to upload everything I've worked on so far this year. These 2 sets of alphabets were existing type/found objects or shapes which I found and documented in Shoreditch London.

Cross-stitch

I took a trip to Whitstable the other week and we went into a shop which was selling these really cute little cross-stitch items! It really made me want to give cross-stitch a try! I could tell it would be one of those things that I would just get addicted to..and yes, it is! Always good to try out different bits and pieces no?

I like the bee one I did, its really simple and took me no time at all! I made it into a necklace! My friends really liked it so Im making a few for them as well!

Summer Project

So...the brief was to create a font that represents who you are as both and designer and person and to then present your name in the hand made font. This is what I have so far! Had a nice bit of brainstorming time and took on the fact that i played the cello for 10 years which allowed me to develop creativity in a musical sense as well as an artistic sense. Once I started to look closer at my cello I realised I could find and create all of the letters of the alphabet which quite obviously was a great relief. Once I started to play around with the photographed parts and put them together I thought it started to look pretty successful! Plus its a bonus that you can actually read it...assuming you actually can?

So yeah, this is the idea I'm going for, I was originally going to go for the symbolism of where I live i.e. it being a seaside town so theres lots of great typography along the coasts etc but turns out my friend was also doing the same idea. Therefore, I decided to think a little deeper and use a smaller and more personal aspect of myself and then BAM we have this!

Posing away with my work!

This is the main poster for the exhibition, I simply used the same generic image as I had for the invites and added the information at the bottom...it was pretty cool seeing this up in the college printed on A0 size paper, bit crazy!

I also had to design a map which would be displayed around college during the exhibition. Here it is...

Better late than never...these are the final outcomes of my FMP- well part of the outcome, these are the posters for each pathway! It was said that they catch the essence of the studios well, with all the busy-ness and creativeness! I pleased with them and im glad I was able to keep some continuity within each of the posters!

Lens Based

First draft!