Friday, 31 January 2014

Weather project -Day 1


BBC weather wrong pro
Effects travel - cars, trains, planes
Umbrella
Boots
Hats
Coats
Scarfs
Glasses (skiing)
Prints
Using weather to effect the design 
Raindrops 
Spiderwebs with rain on them 
Shoes 
Book format (print) 
Electronic 
Street art 
David Hockney 
Adverse weather conditions
Songs 
Climate change 
Oxnorone
Words about weather 
Weather menus 
Bad hair days 
Weather behaviour

 Ed ruscha 
Louise bourgeois 
Daniel b book from a poem 
Cal guo qiang
Marion bataille pop up book

John Salisbury presentation  - red bee media   Design director 
Motion graphics- channel branding, 
'Graphic design on the move'
Software based 


Milton glaser
Paula scher
Film - catch me if you can, ,kiss kiss bang bang (reminds me of monsters ink end credits), superman, seven

Title sequences - match of the day, dexter, Luther, 

Imaginary forces (web) 
Watt he show is about see the characters that are in it 
Updatable 
Info graphics better chance of understanding your view 

E.g. Social media and you, reinforcing what the voice over was saying 
Hand outs etc become crampt 

Channel branding - one  CBbc channel, Dave, net ept, junctions channel before what's consign up next or later etc 

Events - bt, honda, 02, Rihanna 265 bad production), one direction 

Dimension of time
Paul rand - private studies 
Imagie.... MG from them using PR work 

Lama gauge of form, texture, space, balance, scale 




After brain storming different types of ideas for the weather project I thought about how the weather effects effects the food we eat e.g. Donuts and hot dogs represent sunny weather and Speggette in perhaps wet cold weather.
In my opinion I need to research more on the types of food reales to the different types of weather there.  The note above show he notes I took from a motion graphics lecture explaining different ways of using motion graphics and could help develop and improve my work.
 

Wednesday, 29 January 2014

Illustration covers - Day 2



From the evaluation from the previous blog I have used the digital element to these designs, among this I have improved the origanal design and used the character 'Penny' fom the Big Bang Theory' so that it would relate even more to the theme. The image on the right depicts the same features as before but I have added a extra feature using circulars to show the amount of planets there are in the solar system.

 This was another theme using media control 

  
I have used the idea of a remote control as a remote control controls the tv which then controls people that watch telly regularly as some information from media can brainwash people into thinking what they want them to.


I felt that I genarated a varity of different design for a a collection of themes I'm my opinion if I had more time I would of developed these designs even more as I felt that two days isn't enough time to create a finalised idea.

 

Illustration covers - Day 1




I thought back to the Barbican, The Pop Art gallery as I thought it was a good starting point for the theme 'the new big bang' using geometric shapes etc. I initially I thought about magazines and that they use some sort of pop art structure within them. Andy Warhole is another great inspiration for this theme aswell. The actual title 'The Big Bang' itself comes in am formats the second thought I had was the proggram 'The Big Bang Theory' I thought about using these characters from the proggram in my illustrations. 




Before I associated the 'The Big Bang Theory' I looked at the word 'bang', the word bangs in America 
It another name for fringes I then took this idea furtur to make a poster which depicts a girl that has 'bangs' (a fringe) and use the planets from the actual  Big Bang; use them as the girls jewellery to depicts the 'New Big Bang'.

In my opinion I think the image above works well as it balances an origanal design but not taking away from the actual theme. I origanal ly used colouring penicls and fine liners just to see a rough idea on what the design would look like. To improve this design is perhaps use a digital version of this design I could aswell develop this idea further using the characters from the Big Bang proggram.
 

Alphabetype -Day 2


I thought of a few new other ways of representing the alphabet. I used the paper itself to create the letters, as I was folding them down I realsied that they made an unusal shape, I used this idea to develop, drawing that shape to create a whole alphabet using unusal shapes and symbols.


Another development, I used fishing wire to create some of the shapes I had already designed one of them perhaps if I had more time I would of created the whole aphabet  and attached them all together to create a 3D sculpture.



From the work of Julie cocksburn I created a simular idea using  embroidery threads likewise in her work to create a a symposia tic, and abstract piece of art work. I felt this gave a good appearance as it's not what it seems this could also portray different languages that different cultures don't understand?



 

Sunday, 26 January 2014

Alphabetype -Day 1



Some inital ideas when I was brain storming; thinking about particular words perhaps the word it's self would represent that particular object.
 When I was looking back to previous fonts for the alphabet that I could inspire me  to think about more ideas for the concept of the aphabet.
I preferred the symbolism used in the second photo on the left hand side of the image,as in my option it is easier to read and locate what letter the symbol is representing.

I thought that previous work I created helped me a lot with thinking about more creative designs and layouts for this theme.

 

Thursday, 16 January 2014

Data translate - Day 3




These pages shows the different types of designs from henna inspiration, I've also used the research of the servays into these designs to relate the design back to the brief.




 I have also incorpreated the work of Stefanie Posavec among the first research I found depict that traditional data translation are mainly circular designs.


Overall I thought the final outcome of this project was sucsesful as I used all the relivent information to create these designs perhaps one improvement I could consider; if I had more time to develop my work I could adapt the final design onto a different surface like skin using henna to draw the pattern, it would bring the design back to the theme even more as tattoos what to be created on skin.
The lambs above was the last development I created but I felt that the origanal design I made (using henna on the paper) turned out better as it had more texture (grainly) and related better the the theme further more it brought more feeling within the image as browns, red and oranges links to pain like burning and blood  this is directly elated to tattoos as tattoo artists use needles to translate the image onto a particular part of a persons body.


Tuesday, 14 January 2014

Data Translate - Day 2



I have researched the history of henna, (plant) this has led me to use the shape from the henna plant in further developed pattern design.



I tried to use the centrists of 24% of people have a tattoo 24 connects to 24 hours in a day, also is double of the perfect number 12 therefore symbolises harmonious equilibrium. The star represents the 17%; balance and as a star of love peace and promise.


I think these first developments relate back to the brief excellently as the pattern itself links back to the certistics I now perhaps need to think about differs patterns of portraying these different certistics.