Magazine Spread

This project introduced us to InDesign, yet again we wernt allowed to use any other programme... Learnt alot about it so it was helpful! We had to choose an article and illustrate and redesign it. I was way to indecisive about what article to use so i ended up opening a random page in the newspaper and using that one ha! it was all about student beauty pageants at Londons top universities.

These are 3 typefaces i had to design... we were set the task of coming up with an appropriate typographic layout for a profession. The first is Clumsy Magician, the second Graphic Design student and the third was Accident Prone Acrobat. These were done when i was just getting to grips with illustrator. We had certain limitations with this project, the first being that we couldn't use photoshop or any other programme other then illustrator, this was to help us get to grips with it quicker.. we were forced to use it and put outside our comfort zone which was actually really good :) The second limitation was that we wernt allowed to use imagery. This rule stayed for the whole of our Typographic Studies project, up until the final project.

September to december cont.

The colours a bit fucked up... it looks blue on my screen for some reason ha.. its really not mean to be that colour!

we had to come up with a typeface design for our name... pretty basic... we had like a week to do it and it was the first time i had used illustrator so it was pretty informative and useful!

september to december

I thought it was about time i uploaded some of the work i had produced beginning of my first year! its gone pretty quick and I'm pretty scared about no longer being a fresher. I wish I'd tried harder on these projects but first year life was too much fun ha! its all pretty average stuff... nothing to be proud of, but I'm hoping that by uploading it i'll see how much i will have progressed over the next few months!

The first piece of work was for a project called Colour (its a quarterly magazine from United Colours of Benniton, its been pretty controversial in the past). We had to create an A4 design showing one thing that we value. I chose the quietness of my home town and its history. It was pretty rushed.. i reckon i could of done better to be honest ha!

flashhh!

so we've moved on to the next project.. finally learning flash.. we had our first encounter with it today.. the simple bouncing ball and turning it into the shapes and stuff.. all pretty basic stuff but its the first animation i've ever done so it was quite good! alot to take in.. think its going to take a while to get to grips with!

Im working with my mate Ellen on this project.. we have to find 2 sets of statistics or facts that suggest inbalance... so far we've got:

a sloth only moves when its most neccessary, but when its being chased by a predator its top speed is 0.17mph.. where as its predator the Jaguar can reach a speed of 65-70mph! 

so basically the sloth is fucked.

we're yet to come up with our second one!

Bauhaus campaign

I've just finished a 2 month project in which we were put in groups of 6 or 7 and given a design movement to study and to create an exhibition for... we were asked to write a 5000 word essay between us, create appropriate layouts, covers and generally just turn it into a professional book... it ended up looking pretty good :).

we had to come up with loads of merchandise as well! so we made notebooks and rubbers and tshirts and bookmarks and god knows what else.. nauman got a bit carried away ha.

Simon in our group created this amazing poster which seemed to go down well with our course leader which is always good! we also had to come up with a presentation which is yet to be given yet due to our class all having mumps ha! bad times.. 

Me and two other girls in my group, Kate and Helen.. had to design and make a model to represent the movement... we must of come up with around 7 designs before both our tutors felt happy with it.. The model above is in Bauhaus 93 font, with text down the front in Universal. when we first got the B's cut there was a fuck up, and the guy in charge of our group got it cut the wrong size and font... we tried to make it anyway but it was a disaster so we had the best moment in the entire project of completely destroying it... it was amazing :) and so we recreated it how we wanted it... in about a day and a bit.. pretty stressful but ended up looking alright!

Everyone else in the class created brilliant campaigns.. they were all so different... particularly liked Art Nouveau and Arts and Crafts... they both looked so professional and really pretty :)

It was a really good project, dragged on a lot! and there was conflict with certain people but for the most part it was pretty fun :) i wish we'd got given a different movement as Bauhaus stood for functionality and everything was pretty simplistic.