Isotype (WorkShop)

I'm not quite too sure but I think Isotype signification meant 'information system of typographic element'. For this workshop, we looked at symbols which could give out information visually without using type. For example there was a sign which had a figure of a man and a dog beside it facing right; at first I didn't quite understand why it was placed like that until I read on top of it the word come. I then though to myself that there was no way someone would understand that type of symbol indicating to 'come'. Beside the 'come' symbol there was the go symbol but it didn't leave much of an impression that it was a go sign.
After we worked in groups using some statistic research (why homeless people become homeless) to display it in a visual way people can look and understand without having to read any text. we had some statistic about why they become homeless and we quickly decided on how to display the result through paper man.
The two images above are the making process.
Below shows the images of how the outcome of our hard effort came out to be.

Contrast

With my partner for the work, we collected images which were a contrast to each other. The contrast theme we had was Much-Little. So the images we used were what we though was what london has and the first images we used were money; 1p and 2p coins for little and loads of £20 notes to represent much. The second example was about small space for little and big family for much. We then got them on a4 landscape and folded it.

Mapping and symbols

This session was based on mapping; we were to draw our way from home to university and we did it in three steps:
-use only line and shape to show distance
-use only text to show the distance
-use only drawings to show distance.For me it was a bit tricky to get on paper because the distance from my house to university is quite far but i had managed to get it down on paper. i still confirmed that the exercise was a bit tricky because we only had ten minutes for each plan travel.
Here are the images produced.

Timeline on POP ART Comic Strips

I chose to focus my VCT Timeline on pop art comic strips from where it got inspired to the laters pop art comics.

Back to LCC for final project!!!

Holidays are over and now is time to head back to LCC to work my back on this new upcoming project. London, London, where can I start with the multi optional choice to look at?? to be honest right now I don't know but I will have to manage and find something that would show my view on London to others.

Random Doodle Design

I did this design while waiting for a session to start. I didn't really know where that was going to take me and whether if it was going to look good or not, i just went for it. You could say i was inspired by one of the t-shirt design which i posted previously as they are just lines forming shapes and being repeated. I first started as a booklet and then started drawing on top of it and decided to also draw the inside. In the end when i did stop i though to myself that the outcome was interesting and that maybe i should try developing it further for instance into a pattern.

More books design

At first i did not realised that the birds were flying both ways which i though was a nice thing that had been done there. The image is simple and i also liked that they only used one colour for the cover which i think is what makes this illustration really appealing as it does not divert any focus by the colours fighting to stand out.

book jacket

Has I was looking through different sites I then found this interesting book design; interesting because of the flip book cover which makes it stand out. The design is originally from a graphic communicator Rachel wells who was trying to make a book with the theme heroes. She mentions that the reason for using the flip page cover was to show a collaboration of the teamed up colours. I though this was an effective and simple way of showing what she wanted to do for the collaboration.
Has it has always been said in the sessions, the more simple the outcome of the design is the more appealing it is to others.

my illustrations design

The two images below are basically the illustration i have done. The sketch is where i started from as i like to draw my images first then scan it and improve it on the computer.
As you can see i have done different version of them to see which one is more effective.

t-shirt illustrations

As i was looking around for a design book, i found this book called '1000 garment graphics' and i though the cover was interesting but did not really expect much from it until i opened it and looked at the design which were inside...i was totally wowed by the designs that i decided to get them. The design in the book are clothing design which i think they can work as well on posters too. What i have realized by flicking through is that most of the illustration are quite randomly produced and out from the ordinary which has made me change my view about neat illustration. So from now on i will be random with my illustration...hmm...maybe doodling may help too check out future post to see what i have done but for now the images below will give a little outlook of some designs from the book.......enjoy!

Workshop (magazine design front cover)

The workshop consisted of helping with how to design a cover of a magazine. For our own practice, we had been asked to redesign ...... magazine. The images of the following covers are what I have designed by playing around with the different aspect it may look like. Almost forgetting the main points...the text had to be in helvetica and the colour for the text was restricted to black or white; the idea of having helvetica for the text was ok but I had little problems with keeping to the colour restriction but eventually had to work with it... but i decided to change everything and add colours.
I didn't complete it so that why it still looks a little rough.