Ampersand-wich //

The world better watch out!

Disruption - Mapping //

We were asked to map a chosen song from a short list compiled by our tutors. The idea was that we'd map the song in a physical way, whether that be by breaking down the song and mapping its respective parts, or finding another way of doing it. The song I chose was White Horses, a TV theme tune from the 70's. After about a week of doing the project, I realised that I didn't particularly enjoy the song, so I decided to make that point the focus of my mapping. With that in mind, I created a timeline of the 32 days of the brief and a Grand National inspired "race course" that mapped my journey through the song.









I find that I don't enjoy image making as much as I enjoy layout so I compiled a series of information that I was then able to present on a sheet. The final artifact is printed on A1.

I had a bit of spare time before the deadline after I'd printed this so I spent the next few days making an 'OS' inspired fold out map.

EMBLEM //

Got my hands on a David Crow publication yesterday. It's so beautiful, these scans do it no justice. It's a fluorescent orange with gold leaf stamped in the title. Inside's just as well designed. It's well good.

STUDY SKILLS SESSION - LAYOUT TWO //

Today we had to re-design a crappy leaflet. Unfortunately, I managed to leave my leaflet t uni, so can't scan it in to show. However, this is my version:

I'm pretty pleased with it considering I spent the majority of my time during the session dicking around...

Had a pretty good chat with my tutor about needing to leave my comfort zone a bit. I suppose I'm getting quite good at designing in my own style so it would definitely be a good thing to try something new. She wants me to go bold, so the next brief I get, I'm making a concerted effort to avoid the use of light fonts and simple colours!

This website is the perfect start:

http://www.designsymposiumnorth.co.uk/

This sort of design never really crosses my mind but it should, it's bold, yet still simple.

Group Project Continued //

Here's the fold-out my group and I made as an end product for our 1 day project.