View Larger BA(HONS) Graphic Design: Poster Project
We are given 2 days to create a poster about our professional practice lecture. These are lectures where people from the industry come in and talk to us about their work, themselves and to answer any questions. This week I created a poster for Laura Carlin’s talk.
BA(HONS) Graphic Design: Photography Project
I really like the colour and patterns in these two pictures that I took on the Undercliff walk.
BA(HONS) Graphic Design: Photography Project
Along the Undercliff walk at the bottom of the wall between you and the beach/sea there are small tunnels, like the ones pictured here. I found I could have a lot of fun experimenting with the photos I took through these.
BA(HONS) Graphic Design: Photography Project
This was me experimenting with how much light I let into the camera. I was shocked to find that the dark metal clip was so detailed when I took the photo on a higher exposure.
BA(HONS) Graphic Design: Photography Project
This was me experimenting with how to focus my camera. I know the top one is out of focus, but for some reason I still really like how it looks.
BA(HONS) Graphic Design: Photography Project
In the 2nd year we get to choose another subject to do alongside our Graphics work. I chose a photography one because i wanted to learn more about how my camera works. The theme for the photography project is ‘journey’.
I decided to go and test out the settings on my camera first of all. These photos were taken with a very quick shutter speed. This is the sea whilst walking along the Undercliff walk in Brighton. I especially like the surge that I captured in the first image.
BA(HONS) Graphic Design: Mapping Project
I picked out of a hat ‘cycle routes’. This then became the topic of my project. I had to find something to do with cycle routes that I could map within a 2mile radius of the Brighton Clock Tower. I decided to mark on a map how where I saw parked bikes, moving bikes and signs about bikes and how many of each there were. This took quite sometime, but luckily the weather was lovely, so I didn’t mind at all.
Once I had gather all my data I digitalised what I had found and removed the map. Each colour represents the area made by either bike signs, moving bikes or parked bikes. I decided this wasn’t very clear though and so went back to the drawing board.
This is how I developed my data. I decided to have the dots on their own (not joined together, making shapes). I feel this is a more accurate representation of where I saw the bikes on my route, you also get a sense of the route I took. I have a thin line drawing of the coast and pier for navigational purposes and a small key at the bottom, with a distance referral point. This was printed A2 and here are my 2 favourite designs. What I liked most about how these came out is how the dots have a low opacity, so when layered they create lovely patterns, just like a group of bikes chained up next to each other do. It’s a shame the quality of the image once uploaded doesn’t show you this.
BA(HONS) Graphic Design: Batch Book
This project was set by George Hardy. We had to create a series of 5 books. They could be the same, they could be different. We had a budget of £5 and had to push the boundaries of what a book can be. One of the questions to answer was how to show it was yours if it was picked up in a bookshop years down the line when you are famous. I dealt with this my putting my face on the cover as well as my name.
I initially started with the idea of a Russian-doll-style book, so a book within a book within a book. The subject matter I chose to link to this structure was food chains. The idea being that each book would consume the next and each book would be about one animal, so in theory the biggest book (predator) eats the smaller book (prey) and so on and so forth. I liked the idea of the book showing the food pyramid as well. So, when the book(s) are flattened/layered on top of each other you get an accurate food chain, with the predator at the top. I designed two different books because I couldn’t decide which I liked more. One has pockets on the back page, which holds the next book. The other is sewed together down the spine, but gives the same effect when flattened.
BA(HONS) Graphic Design: Editorial Project
By far my favourite project of the first semester of my second year. Given a list of topics to chose from or to follow a person, you had to create a book on that given subject. I chose nanotechnology because I loved learning about it during Chemistry at A Level and thought it would be nice to revisit. I chose to create a book based on the structure of a nanotube. These are microscopic vessels, which transport substances into the body. I chose to focus on the medical uses because that is the area I am most interested in. I chose the colour scheme red and blue because these are the colours that show whether a disease is present or not when using nanotubes in tests. I had a lot of fun with this, and it pushed me a lot - especially designing the net for this on InDesign!
BA(HONS) Graphic Design: Print Week Brief
Set a live brief to create a front cover, which demonstrates the power of print over digital. I created a lino cut of printed matter in 1st place (gold medal), digital devices i.e./ laptop and iPad coming second (silver) and social networking sites coming 3rd (bronze). Seeing as the Olympics had just finished, I felt a topical cover was relevant.
