Typeface Design

Using Fontstruct, design a typeface A-Z uppercase only. I really like the style of this Typeface but it is not appropriate. It does not work very well and therefore it needs developing further.

Typeface Design

Typeface Design

Typeface Design

Using Fontsruct, design a typeface A-Z uppercase only. My leaf Typeface was inspired my leaves. I love the roundness of leaves and the sharpness of the ends. This is the effect I was trying to achieve.

Typeface Design

Using Fonstruct, design a typeface A-Z uppercase only. This Typeface is interesting I think the hard jaggered edges gives it a nice structured quality.

Who is it part 4

When me and my partner put both our histories together we then had to produce a poster with information on our person.

Business Card

A retired architect, Gordon. W. Crayston designs extension plans and also gives clients planning permission. Mr Crayston has asked me to design him a business card. Here is my first idea developed idea. Initial sketches will be posted soon.

Pecha Kucha presentation

During the summer i were given a brief to produce a Pecha Kucha presentation and present to the rest of the class first day back at university. The presentation consisted of 10 slides with:

a good and bad example of a logo

a good and bad example of an editorial

a good and bad example of an advertisement

a good and bad example of a poster

a good and bad example of typography

The Heart attack advertisement is very effective it creates impact on the viewer immediately. The imagery is also very strong and works well with the slogan.

The second advertisement is boring, I think there is to much going on in order for it to work effectively. There is a bad use of imagery, typography and also colour.

I really like the design of the natural history logo, the imagery inside the type gives the N a sense of depth, its clean, crisp and well designed.

Although I really like the WWF logo I think it is about time the logo changed slightly. The panda is something that everyone relates to, the logo is achieving its purpose however i think it can be changed and still achieve its purpose.

Vince Frost's close up editorial design is one of my biggest influential pieces. It is the perfect example on how to crop images if necessary and also how to use Typography effectively along side strong images in order to balance it.

The second editorial piece is too boring. There is too much information and poor use of imagery.

The Glastonbury poster is probably the worst i have seen so far. I do not like the use of Typeface it looks childlike and also the use of colour is too childlike.

The poster for band advertising is interesting in the way it is made up of various images and typefaces. some images have been cropped but still work well.

The use of typography on the universe poster does not work very well. The two different styles of typeface demands attention which creates tension on the page between which typeface should be looked at first.

The typography shaped like a gun grabs my attention. i like it when designers use type in unusual ways to create interesting images.

Who is it part 3

Once we both wrote a history based on the second photograph, we merged to two histories together using the best parts of each and then my partner took it away and typed it up.

Juan Doe Sacedote

By James Jackson and Stacey Weldon

Born in 1940 after the 2nd world war, into a family of four, in the city of Bilbao, which is on the borders of France and Catalan. After the Spanish Civil war Aaron and Agata Sacedote, a family which suffered heavily after the Civil war. But even worse when the Fascist Italian and Nazi Germany governments, assisted to help to re-build Spain. Before Juan Doe was born The Sacedote family had to hide in abandoned factory on the out-skirts of Bilboa, the reason behind this was because of the family being Jewish. After two years living in the factory became more dangerous and impossible for them their survival. But sadly Aaron Sacedote was captured and kill by the Germans, the reason that Aaron was captured was to protect his family from being found out.

After the war the family moved to France, where at the age of 21 he become in love with French women and wines, but he never forgot the death of his farther. At the age of 28 he meet Alvin, who introduced him to his future wife Aimee, Alvin was the own of the local cafe and mother of Aimee. Later in time Juan's family inspect his mother moved to other parts of France and Spain. He looked after his mother until two years later when she died of a heart attack.

A year later Juan and Aimee was married in a small church in city of Cannes and moved into a house near by, because they fell in loved with the city of Cannes. For some time he and his wife worked in Cannes town hall, he became an accountant and Aimee became sectary. Later she opened a small cafe with the money she earned and the money from Juan's job. Soon they had a beautiful daughter named Carmilla and later they had a son, named after Juan’s farther Aaron, as tribute to his farther.

In 1990 December 22nd his wife got cancer and lived three more lives, until she became to the cancer, but those three years was Juan’s and Aimee’s best years, he loved her until her death. After the lost of his wife he kept working and supported his children through college and later university.

He never remarried because he felt that he founded his true love and couldn't love anyone else. In his golden years at the age of 65 and a widow, he spent his last few years with his family, spending his time with his grandchildren Agata, Chelo and David in the city of Cannes where he married his wife, or growing his own plants or vegetables in his garden. At the age of 65, Juan Doe Sacerdote died of an heart attack, two days after his granddaughter Agata, twenty-first birthday, in his house, alone. Later he was buried beside is wife, in Cannes cemetery, with the words written on his grave a loving husband and a loving farther and grandfather, till all the end of time.

Who is it part 2

Once i had analysed the first photograph. I then swapped my photograph with a second member of my graphics group, and write a second biography based on that person.

ARTHUR BARRET

At the age of 12 Arthur grew up in hiding. Germany was the worst place on earth for the Jewish to live. The most evil man on the planet, Adolf Hitler, was murdering thousands of people because they were Jews. Arthur and his family lived in an abandoned factory on the outskirts of Germany. For a while they were safe. Holocaust camps were set up all over Germany. At the beginning many people were tricked in to the camps by empty promises made by Hitler and his men. The Jews were gassed. Men, women, children and even little babies were murdered. News of the deaths were spreading fast and Arthur’s family knew they had to hide for as long as it took for the killings to end. Many times the army had marched past the abandoned factory in which they lived. Special measures were in place for their survival. Dark thick curtains were put up in every window and they were almost silent at all times.

After 2 years of living in the factory it became more dangerous and impossible to survive, they had to migrate to Poland if there was any chance of survival. Arthur managed to find a map that enabled them to plan a route to Poland in which they wouldn’t be seen. The best route was the train line, it was the only way they could get their fast and efficiently without being captured. After a whole week of careful planning Arthur’s family made their move in the middle of the night when the streets were quiet and empty. Arthur and his father raced on ahead to check that it was safe for his sister and his mother to proceed. From the shadows of an alley a German soldier popped out his hiding place and grabbed Arthur and his father. His mother and sister watched from the shadows of darkness, they crept back to the factory where they waited and waited. Arthur and his father never made it back to the factory.

The following evening both mother and sister were captured, took to the nearest camp, where they were starved for days and then finally told they could have a shower, with an extra 150 people. They were then gassed in the chamber; the bodies were either buried in mass graves or burnt. Arthur and his father were taken to a different camp.

After days of starvation, Arthur and his father managed to escape in to the nearest forest and took as many others as they could with them. Only the bravest followed. Many of them were to frightened of the consequences if caught trying to escape. Once they all got past the camp they split their own ways trying to find safe places to live and hide out. After a week of hiding out in the dense forest Arthur and his fathered were once again captured. Tortured and starved for days, neither of them gave up the hiding places of others that managed to escape and not found a second time. Although there were a large percentage of those that escaped that managed to get to Poland and hide.

In 1944 Arthur and his father were gassed in the gas chambers along side 200 others. Hitler invaded Poland and the Jews continued to be murdered at an alarming rate. However those that managed to escape the camps and survive throughout the war were grateful for being given the chance of survival by Arthur Barret and his father.

Who is it part 1

I was given a brief to analyse a photograph of a person i do not know. I then had to write a biography on that person in 500 words.

Vivienne La Rouche’

A continuous sound of camera snaps is all that can be heard from room 316 of the Riviera hotel, Las Vegas. Vivienne La Rouche’ was found dead Friday 23rd August 2008 at 9am Aged 64. Overdose.

Vivienne was the most famous show girl in Las Vegas in the history of entertainment. Every magazine published during the peak of her career contained photographs and editorials. Everybody loved her. In contrast to her adulthood, her childhood was cut short. From a young age Vivienne was forced to look after her sick mother when her father suddenly left. She never played as a child instead she washed the dishes and did all the other house chores her mother gave to her. At the age of 21 her mother died of an unknown disease. This tragic part of Vivienne’s life opened the doors for her dancing career. She moved from her home and travelled to Las Vegas where she made small amounts of money waitressing in a run down café and auditioning for small parts in the theatre. After living in very basic conditions, Vivienne’s beauty was noticed in her theatre show by a rich gentleman known as Richard Gocamoli. Her long Blonde hair, brown eyes and slim figure was just what Richard was looking for in his Plaza Casino on the strip of Las Vegas.

She was stripped of her old fashioned dance dresses which were replaced with brand new expensive sequin dresses with feathers and expensive footwear to go with them. Her talent was raw and finally noticed by someone that could give her a different life. By the time she had been working in the casino for 3 years she was famous and raking in the dollars. The paparazzi were her biggest fan snapping shots of her every chance they got, publishing them in every magazine broadcasting her beauty and sheer elegance she naturally had. She was loved by thousands, people travelled long distance to her shows.

At the age of 45 Vivienne earned millions of dollars, she invested in a hotel room in the Riviera Hotel where she spent most of her days, inviting friends round for drinks and small gambling games. She became hooked on cocaine and unable to get off it. Just like her drinking and gambling drugs had also become the beginning of her down fall.

Friday 23rd August 2008 Vivienne was found dead in her apartment, suspected death by overdose. The forensics snapped photographs of her cold corpse but this time they wouldn’t be shown in magazines instead they would be stored away in a box with her name on the outside. Her name wont be in bright lights any longer but in black marker. Her fame will live on.

Percentage

The brief is to communicate the information below in a suitable and noticeable manner, and present to the first year students on the 22nd sept 09.

Design is

70% of dealing with people.

3% the ideas

2% selling the idea

2% the brief

2% being pig headed

1% printing

3% eye for detail

0.6% invoices

2% tea

0.7% tracking

0.1% warm glow

0.6% panic

1% 4am

0.6% staring

0.2% checking

1% letting go

0.8% keeping hold

0.7% estimates

0.3% checking

0.4% proofs

0.1% colour

0.9% understanding

0.4% marketing

1% checking

0.8% beach ball

0.5% mice

0.3% keynotes

0.4% persuasion

0.2% bragging

0.5% smiling

2% knowing when to stop

Critical and Historical Studies

Vince Frost

Vince frost was born 23^rd of November 1964 in Brighton. He studied at the Sussex College of Design and later began his career in 1989 being the youngest associate to work at the Pentagram in London. In 1994 Vince set up Frost Design in London and ten years later he moved to Australia and set another two companies there. Vince’s work includes TV advertisements, postage stamps, identities, books, magazines, art direction and built environments. Vince has produced award-winning work for clients such as the Independent Newspaper; New York based Rizzoli books and Nike along with many others. Vince lectures at international colleges and conferences. In 1996 he presented Frost Bite Graphic Ideas at the Sydney Opera house.

Vince Frost in influenced by Alexey Brodovitch and Alan Fletcher. Alexey Brodovitch was the Art director of Harper’s Bazaar and a Russian Émigré designer. Whilst working as the art director of Bazaar he had significant influence on American Graphic Design. Brodovitch’s asymmetrical magazine layouts and his use of white space along side dynamic imagery changed the nature of magazines designs. Brodovitch was the first designer to teach design as a professional discipline. Throughout his design classes he affected an entire generation of photographers and designers.

Alan Fletcher was one of the most inspiring Graphic designers and visual thinker. In the 1960’s Fletcher co-founded the pentagram in London, which is now one of the worlds leading Design Company. Fletcher used another designer’s studio to show his portfolio of colourful US projects. Most Graphic Designers still worked in black and white. Fletcher won commission from companies such as BP, penguin and Cunard.

In relation to Vince Frost’s work, Alexey Brodovitch and Alan Fletcher are clearly inspiring Graphic Designers for Vince. The work produced by Brodovitch and Fletcher has good use of negative space and typography. However posters and editorials produced by Fletcher are lively and asymmetrical. In contrast to Fletcher’s work, Brodovitch organises his images so that they take up a full page, his text is well thought about in the sense that it fits perfectly along side the larger typography. Vince Frost also uses a full page for his imagery. His editorial titles are quite big and the text is displayed on the page perfectly. Nothing looks out of place squashed up. Vince has a very good use of hierarchy.

Brick

The object was to suspend a brick off the ground as high as possible for 5 seconds, using only: 1 Brick, 10 Sheets of A4 paper, 10 sheets of A6 card and 1m of masking tape. I worked in a group of 4 and we all decided that suspending the brick for 5 seconds was more important than trying to get the brick as high as possible. Our design was simple and effective. As you can see our design worked well and the height measured 21cm high.

Music Composition

The Brief was to bring as many different items to the studio that made a different noise when banged, bent or manipulated in any kind of way. I chose everything I carry to university everyday. I then experimented with the sounds of each object and created my music composition. (Sound Clip will be uploaded soon)

Identity part 1

The brief was to work with a partner and select six events and six locations. Each location and Event had to have strong imagery that associated with them in order to draw up as many ideas as possible by visually combining the two elements together. Once we had our events and locations we the worked separately and drew up quick ideas.