Physical Process; Typographic Transcription

  

Looking at bits of work from designers such as Josef Muller Brockmann, Lauri Rosenwald and Wolfgang Weinhart, I took inspiration and tried to develop my own letter forms using the letters anesg

I found this task quite hard but my favourite design was the last set as they are the simplest and i think would work the best when developing the rest of the alphabet.
I decided to simplify the last design a bit further in order to create the final alphabet as when i tried drawing out some of the letters in the same style they looked messy.

Seminar; essay feedback (conclusion)

In this seminar we were given feedback on the conclusions of our essays.

The whole point of the conclusion is to summarise the essay but it is essential to use different words, otherwise you end up just repeating yourself which is pointless. 

We were told to write down 5 key words that summarise our essays, and to make sure all of these key words were in our conclusion. My key words were; branding, fashion, beauty, magazine and bloggers of which i had used all words. 

Illustrator Poster

In this workshop we had to find an image to use related to action sports in order to create a poster, i chose to do mine on swimming. First we edited the image using Photoshop and then brought it across to Illustrator to finish the poster and add type.

Seminar; essay feedback (introduction)

In this seminar we brought along two copies of the introductions of our essays so that someone else could read it and give us constructive feedback.

We were advised to use a short statement to begin our essays with which i had done; 

my essay opened with 'Branding is one of the most important aspects in the success of a company.'  Some of the feedback i got included that my opening sentence was a good short, simple statement and overall my introduction was clear in giving a brief overview of what was going to be discussed. However, it was suggested that i create my own specific question that I would be answering. 

Lecture; Prequel/Sequel

nothing is original

everything we design comes from some sort of inspiration; legal remixing is fine, illegal copying is not - if your work fails to distinguish itself enough then you must attribute.

'those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing'
Salvador Dali

'Don't try to be original. Just try to be good. That sounds sort of naive but it's true'
Paul Rand

One example we were shown was of the design for the Tokyo Olympics in 2020. The photo on the left shows the design, however it was spotted that it shows too many similarities to the design on the right which was created by a Belgian designer who claimed his idea had been plagiarised.