Week 5 - Graphic Design Final Pieces

Graphic Design - Final Pieces

For my final pieces i used photoshop to scan my collages in and added text to them.

^Detached.

I like the imagery used within this piece as the bars represent being trapped (detached from people or the rest of the world) possibly in a prison.

^Rapid.

I like how the imagery really fits in as it looks very confusing and 'rapid'.

^Slither.

The text on this i particularly like as the font is slanted and looks as though it could be 'slithering' across the imagery/background.

^Stability.

I inverted the colours on this so the blacks were white and vice versa. The capital writing stands out and emphasizes the word and meaning behind it.

I really enjoyed the Graphic Design project and all the tasks involved. It is a project i would highly consider specialising in although it was totally new to me but i believe i produced a good amount of work from the brief and it is something i would really like to learn more about. It was interesting to use new methods such as Photoshop as i have only used it probably once before this project. I discovered that i can make a piece of work really quickly by collaging and then photocopying it to then work back in to it, this is something i could use within other projects too.

Week 5 - Graphic Design

Graphic Design - Task 5

I used photocopies of my previous collages to create larger collages which would then be used somehow for my final pieces of work. I really liked using the imagry of these old fashioned gate posts. They reminded me of prison bars, which i could refer back to detached as i wrote on my spider diagram that someone could be deatched from the world by being in prison (behind bars).

Adding strips of colour betweent the black bars/fencing contrasted with them and made them more obvious.



The main thing i liked about this collage was the imagry/patterning from the magazine. I cut out shapes and then found the way i layed them out i could relate to the word slither. This is because the shapes look like a continuous curvy line, something i relate to the word slither.



Week 5 - Graphic Design

Graphic Design - Task 4

We were given 6 words in total to write all initial ideas on them and what each word could mean. The words were:

-Detached

-Consume

-Stability

-Slither

-Rapid

-Flowing

Another task we did which related to the 6 chosen words was to make small collages of shapes which were our own personal thoughts to what went with each word. I used colour and shape to represent each word with a collage. The above collage represents Detached.

Consume^

Flowing^

Stability^

Slither^

Rapid^

Week 5 - Graphic Design - Chosen Article

Week 5 - Chosen Article

My chosen article is about Ale Paul (Alejandro Paul) which i found in the graphic design eye magazine. The magazine itself was something i found interesting to look at. I chose the article initially for the images used which were of typography in what i would explain to be fancy writing/text. Ale Paul is one of the founders of the Studipos project, the first Argentinean type foundry collective. With the founding of Sudtipos in 2002, Ale shifted his efforts to typeface design, creating fonts and lettering for several top packaging agencies, along with commercial faces.

As well as the font which i really like, the colours used are something i think work well together. The same colours are used throughout the article which make it nice and simple and not give it too much. They are quite contrasting colours (black and yellows) which make the writing very clear and noticable.

Week 5 - Graphic Design - Artist Research - David Carson

Graphic Design - David Carson

David Carson was born on the 8th september in 1954 and is an American graphic designer. He is well known for his innovative magazine design and use of experimental typography. David Carson was perhaps the most influential graphic designer of the 1990s. In particular, his widely imitated aesthetic defined the so-called "grunge typography" era

I liked the composition to this piece as i was still able to read the writing yet it just looks like lots of randomly scattered letters.

David Carson is my most favourite graphic designer i have come across during the research tasks. I particularly like the use of text/typography for there are large amounts of it rather than just one word, something i just prefer. I like how some pieces of text are layered up over other words, it gives it a sketchy look although it has obviously been done on a computer. Even using text as a background for text to go on is something he has done and i am very fond of.

Week 5 - Graphic Design - Artist Research - Noma Bar

Graphic Design - Artist Research - Noma Bar

Noma Bar was born in 1973 in Israel. e is a graphic designer whose work has appeared in many media outlets including: 'Time out London', 'BBC', 'Random House', 'The Observer', 'The economist' and 'Wallpaper'. He has illustrated over 60 magazine covers and published over 550 illustrations and released two books of his work.

I actually like Noma Bar's work quite a lot for the simple fact of there is simlicity within it. They are really clever and showt that he thinks about what he is doing. The piece above shows a face obviously of a doctor. This stethoscope gives this away yet it also represents a face which i thought was actually a great idea. 

This piece is similar to the previous one as i can see the end of a fountail pen yet the microphone aswell. It's as if it is testing the audience to what they see first. The pure blocks of colour is something i think works well as it is simple and makes the work easier to see.

Week 5 - Graphic Design - Artist Research - Pep Carrio

Graphic Design - Artist Research - Pep Carrio

Pep Carrió, a Spanish graphic designer, began to work on these diaries in 2007 as a project to create an image every day. Carrió says that his books are “a portable laboratory, where I can work with difference ideas and found images.” This gave me the impression that his work is very illustrative as they are more drawings rather than typography.

However, i really like the idea of the diaries as i have done something similar before in different projects.

This one piece i found interested me for the combination of image and text. I lke how the book merges into the letter M.