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!

FASHION

My first draft for the fashion poster! Not quite finish I need to add in some passport style photos of people on the left! First bit of work I've done in a week! Stupid stupid stupid stupid chicken pox! Who gets them when you're 19? really???

Invite/ generic poster

Riiiight this is finally finished I think! All the tutors say its great which is pretty sweet! Im happy with it soooo.....im going to stop making changes because I have plenty of other imagery to do!

This is more like the previous work I did...I got really stuck with the Fine Art one...I wanted to do monoprinting but I caaaaant at home :(

I dont really know how i feel about this...

First time ive ever properly attacked the sewing machine! The poor little thing had a hard time and kept breaking but it just about managed! The background image was solvent printed and i used the sewing machine to do line drawing over the top and also sewing in some patterns/images I found around the studio! I dont even care if it doesn't look that good because it was pretty fun!

This afternoons achievements! Cyanotype for the background and camerrrra and collaged bits and pieces on top! I wanted to get the composition a bit more interesting but gave up after about half an hour of failing!

I did these this morning...yesss its not even 10 yet! lets be a little more obsessed yeah? anyway...the top fashion one was inspired by Owen Gildersleeve who did a similar thing using electrical wire! i thought it looked pretty cool! hands down better than mine but to be fair...wool is hard to handle! and the bottom textiles made out of buttons was inspired by this typographical piece i saw in my Playful Type book! In that one they left the letters blank i.e. outlined the letters in bottons but to be honest i didnt really find it that comprehendible so I decided against doing that and went for the simple, i will definitely be able to read that, way! Again, they wont be used just on their own i highly doubt but i plan to use them within other imagery!

Solvent printed a photograph of the fashion room and did a quick illustration over the top! I then collaged some images over the top which i thought really communicated the studio and then overlayed some text on photoshop! And BOSH...we got this! Thoughts???

I saw a piece by Kenneth Do which i really liked...so i tried a similar thing out...how they are there wont be used for the posters but its still experimentation and i guess i could probably put it in that magazine im having to make! score!

The typography isnt right...but me and lauren had fun doing them! cheers again for the help lauren!

Black and white or colour?

I was just playing around with simplifying my studio idea but illustrating a long desk as you can see! I dont really know how I feel about it, its ok, its more how a promotional poster should be looking I guess but is the slogan a bit cheesy? Is the typography right?

But also I made a mistake when I was playing with it on photoshop and ended up with the top image which is just text but I quite liked how simple it was! I wont use it for the project...but i still think its pretty cool!

I boshed together a couple of collages of the doodles I came across in the studios...these are the results! They will not be used for my final designs...BUT maybe in fanzine/magazine...we'll see!