19.12.10
16.12.10
INTERPRETATION //
A collaborative project between myself, Jan Agulto, Leona Bell, Jonathan Buschenfeld & Bekki Guyatt.
We had to interpret the quote; "Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them" and then apply it to one of a selection of filters. The filters included an Ikea instruction manual, an Advent Calendar, the Pantone Colour System among many others. The filter we chose was the Recorders exhibition which is on at the Manchester Art gallery. What we took from the filter was the high level of interactivity.
With that in mind, we found occasions in history where people have had to eat their words. We created mechanisms that disguised the quote and was then revealed to the viewer as they interacted with the piece. Each mechanism was specific to the context of the quote.
We presented our work in a number of different ways, we had a film clip, a series of posters, and an accompanying booklet.
Here's the film:
the posters:
We presented our work today to 5 judges, our tutors and the whole year group. Amazingly, we won, gaining an unbelievable score of 50.5 out of 50.
Ampersand-wich truly smashed it!
14.12.10
25.11.10
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.
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.
23.11.10
EMBLEM //
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.
21.11.10
14.11.10
Competition entrant //
7.11.10
6.11.10
I HAVE SOME NEW OBJECTIVES IN LIFE //
1) I'm going to post something new everyday on this blog.
2) I'm going to do something else in my life every now and then that doesn't have anything to do with design.
3) I'm going to start running again too
2) I'm going to do something else in my life every now and then that doesn't have anything to do with design.
3) I'm going to start running again too
STUDY SKILLS SESSION - LAYOUT ONE //
30.10.10
Disruption Group Project 26.10.10 //
To kick start the new Mapping project, we had a day working in groups where we had to map a particular series of information based on the songs that form the new brief. Each ring represents a tutor and the coloured lines represent the songs and the choice of a member of our group, the length of the line reflects which tutor was picked for that song. Hopefully the key is good enough that all of that makes sense without a description...
We are intending to make a map/book from the imagery we created so keep a look out for that, it's gunna be good
23.10.10
Restriction //
Spread 1 //
Spread 2 //
Spread 3 //
Spread 4 //
For the Restriction project we were given a list of words to choose from, I chose Forgotten. We had to explore the chosen word and create 4 double page spreads each with very specific restrictions. The first spread was an exploration, the second had to have 10 words in it, the third 50 and the fourth 500. You were also only allowed to use font from the original Helvetica type family.
Taking the word Forgotten, I researched the way that people are able to retain specific information, which led me to looking at how people can remember countless amounts of digits of Pi. I found out that Mnemonics play a large part so I took 500 decimals of Pi and got 20 people to make a 25 word sentence using a sequence from the number Pi. This then formed the 500 words in the final spread. The previous 3 spreads are intended to create a journey for the viewer that eventually leads them to the final 500 word spread. This includes information about mnemonics as well as information about the current world record holder in Pi decimal memorization; Lu Chao...
The intention was to have a circle laser cut out of the middle of each page so that there was a big hole running all the way through the spreads. However time restraints meant I couldn't do this to a full size version of the magazine, so instead I just made an A5 mock Up:
Spread 2 //
Spread 3 //
Spread 4 //
For the Restriction project we were given a list of words to choose from, I chose Forgotten. We had to explore the chosen word and create 4 double page spreads each with very specific restrictions. The first spread was an exploration, the second had to have 10 words in it, the third 50 and the fourth 500. You were also only allowed to use font from the original Helvetica type family.
Taking the word Forgotten, I researched the way that people are able to retain specific information, which led me to looking at how people can remember countless amounts of digits of Pi. I found out that Mnemonics play a large part so I took 500 decimals of Pi and got 20 people to make a 25 word sentence using a sequence from the number Pi. This then formed the 500 words in the final spread. The previous 3 spreads are intended to create a journey for the viewer that eventually leads them to the final 500 word spread. This includes information about mnemonics as well as information about the current world record holder in Pi decimal memorization; Lu Chao...
The intention was to have a circle laser cut out of the middle of each page so that there was a big hole running all the way through the spreads. However time restraints meant I couldn't do this to a full size version of the magazine, so instead I just made an A5 mock Up:
7.10.10
Travel Journal //
23.9.10
A is not for Apple //
6.6.10
23.5.10
Mad shit //
http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2010/05/21/8-years-in-103-seconds/
I like the beard at the end
I like the beard at the end
Birthday surprise //
5.5.10
Why be a Twonk?
30.4.10
Elephant In the Room Leaflet/Poster Concept
11.4.10
9.4.10
22.3.10
19.3.10
17.3.10
16.3.10
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