illusions - more research

from the crit i received feedback that i should look into more of an illusion based design for the waves poster rather than a decorative one.

Anxiety UK - bokklet images

These are some of the images i have chosen to work with for the Anxiety UK phobias booklet.

Crit - Wednesday 21st October

Feedback -

Brief one = Anxiety UK posters and brochure:

• brochure looks too corporate, using colours from the logo isn't always the best idea.
• choose best idea for posters and create a series out of the best ideas and work on them til they are great! Better than having lots of posters done to an average standard.
• Working with patterns so to utilise time stop drawing out ideas when same ideas can be made much faster on illustrator.
• The symmetry poster and claustrophobia stood out the most.
• The paper type poster lacked an overall finish and attention to the background.

Brief Two = Headline - Urban outfitters edition posters:

• Need to try out more ideas
• Horn to be wild is funny but started looking at ethical and green headlines at first so try go back to original idea to create something with more depth.

Brief Three = British Library exhibition - SciFi Utopias and Aliens

• Liked idea of crop circles but ideas would look better on illustrator.
• Need to get a loy more done as it is a big brief.

Overall feedback:

Started all briefs but now need to focus on one rather than jumping to and from all the time, When i get a good idea run with it till ive tried as much as possible rather than jumping to something else. Have more focus within a brief once the initial research and ideas have been sorted.

poster development

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Here are my developed posters to do with phobias...

Paer typeface design

Typeface design for phobia of paper to go with the series of posters based on phobias for Anxiety UK.


Here is the poster i designed using a paper typeface i created using folded paper i then scanned it in an cleaned it up in Photoshop then set it out in Indesign to get nice straight lines of type.

poster ideas...

leeds public art...

Here are some of the spreads i worked on with Caroline for a Leeds city council - public arts brief. We had to design initial artworks for a couple of spreads to show the client how the publication would come together.








Tried to get a balance between spreads that had more white space and contrast this with full photo spreads. We chose to do full photo spreads on the images that we thought reflected the public arts project well and what the client thought were key points to get across. For example the green door shows the reflection of the children getting involved in the project and taking the photos. We spent a lot of time finding the typeface we thought would fit well with the project as the publication would be going to people in the council to review, but the client didn't want it too corporate or formal as the publication was about art and needed to reflect this.

So we made a bit of a mess of this brief to be honest.

Did not intend to at the beginning! was a great opportunity and we threw it away.

Presentation skills were appalling, looking back now the stern advice to not hand anything in that looked as poor as our print outs did is needed.

Ergh what a screw up.

Not to mention the mix up with the title for the project, - pay attention to the client.

Although i could easily just forget about this experience and shrug it off, i think i have learned valuable lessons:

1.) Presentation is what sells the work, so don't be an idiot and rush it.
2.) Listen to client and clarify anything that could cause confusion straight away!
3.) This project will remind me when things go rubbish so ill take better care in the future, because i didn't just let myself down.

I am now looking forward to cracking on with my other briefs, and creating some exciting ... well presented work!

Horn to be wild - Headline brief

This is the start of my designs for an Urban Outfitters competition brief called Headline. To design a piece for a screen print exhibition based on a headline or news story.

The headline these designs relate to is, Horn To Be Wild. About an OAP who took his motorised scooter onto a busy dual carriage way to test out his horn, he was traveling 8mph so build up a mighty tail back!!!

Cymophobia or Kymophobia- Fear of waves or wave like motions.

I have started looking at optical illusions using waves, i plan to experiment with this idea creating a typeface based on this. Here are some examples of the illusions:

Making the work usable... Phobias

I want to produce some typographic posters and a publication on phobias so i decided to research into companies and charities that deal with anxiety and phobias,

From the NHS website i found links to these two sites that were most prominent and useful. I have decided to choose to work with Anxiety UK for this brief as the visual identity is stronger than TOP and there seems to be more services available that i can make copy for, for the publication.

Phobia of long words:

The longest word in any of the major English language dictionaries is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, a word which refers to a lung disease contracted from the inhalation of very fine silica particles, specifically from a volcano.

The longest non-technical word in major dictionaries is flocci­nauci­nihili­pili­fication at 29 letters. Consisting of a series of Latin words meaning "nothing" and defined as "the act of estimating something as worthless", its usage has been recorded as far back as 1741.[4][5][6][7]

"Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious", the 34-letter title of a song from the movie Mary Poppins, does appear in several dictionaries, but only as a proper noun defined in reference to the song title. The attributed meaning is "a word that you say when you don't know what to say." The idea and invention of the word is credited to songwriters Robert and Richard Sherman.

antidisestablishmentarian-ism

The 58-character name Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch is the famous name of a town on Anglesey, an island of Wales. This place's name is actually 51 letters long, as certain character groups in Welsh are considered as one letter, for instance ll, ng and ch. It is generally agreed, however, that this invented name, adopted in the mid-19th century, was contrived solely to be the longest name of any town in Britain. The official name of the place is Llanfair­pwllgwyngyll, commonly abbreviated to Llanfairpwll or the somewhat jocular Llanfair PG.

deinstitutionalization and counterrevolutionaries, with 22 letters each.[20]

[wikipedia 2009]

List of phobias:

Claustrophobia
Fear of being trapped in small confined spaces.
Arachnophobia
Fear of Spiders. Half of women and 10 per cent of men have a fear of spiders.
Arithmophobia- Fear of numbers.
Asymmetriphobia- Fear of asymmetrical things
Bacteriophobia- Fear of bacteria.
Chromophobia or Chromatophobia- Fear of colors.
Cymophobia or Kymophobia- Fear of waves or wave like motions.
Graphophobia- Fear of writing or handwriting.
Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia- Fear of long words.
Linonophobia- Fear of string.
Mechanophobia- Fear of machines.
Papyrophobia- Fear of paper.
Pogonophobia- Fear of beards.
Sciophobia Sciaphobia- Fear of shadows.
Symmetrophobia- Fear of symmetry.
Grassophobia - fear of grass.

SCI FI research - visual

This research is for a brief for a ISTD past competition brief for the British Library, Exhibition called SciFi: Utopias, aliens and robots. I have to design the logo the posters and a publication for the exhibition.

Major topic to look at in this genre are the mountains of Sci Fi filmsNasa and space and future technology thought up by fiction writers.
Binary code could be interesting to look at and see how it could link to the Library system for organising books. The Dewey decimal system.
I find blueprints to be quite visually appealing and technical drawings so i think ill look into this a bit further...



Typography orientated i have to look at different ways of using type in this genre...