Todays class work

This is the work we done in todays class. I found it hard trying to get all the letters to fit inside the boxes. But i found that like working on the texture of newspaper, and over other words.

Final-ish ideas for poster

Poster experiments

This is the original photo of a rubbing I done over a stencil, I put it in Photoshop and picked the letters that I wanted.

Then I changed the levels, making the black and white stronger, and moved the image to Indesign.

I added some text and a photo to the poster.

And then experimented with colour. I think the blue cyan looks best. The magenta doesn't really suit because he's male and the white title is lost on the yellow.

Then I started to play around with the layout of the poster.

I think the one above (left) is the best.

Using the same title. I changed the colour, and inserted an image of some text about Crouwel  in the background.

Looks a bit like Si Scotts work

These are made from paper, thought they were really cute, and I'm loving all the swirls and girly-ness!

Si Scott

I have some different fonts cut out from magazines in my sketchbook and some of them have swirls on the ends. Padraic suggested looking at some of Si Scotts work, which has swirls incorporated.

Scotts work is really impressive, it looks really complex, but the text always stays the main focus.

Tutorials

I came across this site which has some nice Photoshop tutorials. I'm going to put it here and hopefully i'll remember to come back and try them out at a later date.

I particularly liked this one

And this one. The tutorial for this one had some nice steps in it, reminding you to choose a theme, define composition structure (grids) and other wee reminders.

Superhero

Thought this was quite nice, especially the P and H it seems to catch your eye when you look at it.

Hand type

These are some photos from todays class the three complete banners and then my individual part.

Stefan Sagmeister

Ive looked at Stefan Sagmeisters work before, i like how he creates it out of natural objects. Its a bit like our project which we had to find natural typography.

Poster Research

Okay so for Pro Three Task Three I'm thinking I'm going to try out more hand made stuff using stamps and cut outs etc rather than all computer based work, like we were shown in class on Wednesday. I think I'd be more suited to that because I'd rather get my hands dirty. The first two images here have a nice rustic feel to them, not square edges and slightly dirty backgrounds. Although I do still like the clean look which is shown in this last poster, I also like how the type has been dragged out to the edge of the pages it draws your eye into the writing.

Photo type

The actual cutting in this piece is really messy but i like the idea of using photos. The image is distorted in a way that you cant make out what it should be so you focus more on the colour in it. It gives it a bit of texture aswell.

Lots of nice things...

Not really looking at the type here but more how its created. Plus its a nice image as a whole. To me, hand written type suggests that someone has stopped and taken the time and cared about what they were doing, it gives it a bit of a romatic theme two. I like joined writing but sometimes it can be difficult to read.

The simplicity in this is nice. Each letter is the same size, and each indent is the same size.

Not so much the type that i like in this but the way its been used to create a picture.

The two pieces above are more 3D which is interesting because i wouldn't have thought of doing anything in 3D. Especially like the top one with the design that has been put around the 3D 'T'

I love this piece, its just really clever. It uses images related to the word to create the type. I like the effect on the background page, just a little bit dirty to make it feel real.

Panic at the Disco

Here im just looking at 'Panic Disco'

I like the way the same shape has been used to decorate each of the letters. It gives it a uniform look, even though the shape has been made smaller or shorter for some of the letters.

Peace

The outline around the lettering works well. Its interesting how the type is harsh but the sort elegant swirls fit in with it nicely. The 'T' and 'H' are my favorite here, i like how the illustration has overlapped into them. Quite like the colours in this two.

Coldplay - Every Teardrop is a Waterfall

I like Coldplay but think their new stuff isn't all that great, yet every time i watch their videos i fall in love with the song because the videos are that good. Anyway, there's some really nice type drawn on concrete in multicolored chalk at the start of this video.

Todays class work

Not a great picture but you get the idea...

I didn't have a compass so I used the bottom of a water bottle to make the circles. I think I'll work on this technique in my sketchbook and neaten it up by using a compass. and you can't really make it out in this picture but the little patches inside each letter is the full name, just something i thought id try out.

Scrabble

I know this isnt a type but i like the way theres little numbers are in the bottom right corner. Maybe i could play with having a little part in my type that could link, attach or unattatch or something. Possibly a jigsaw piece type effect, that the lower case fitted inside the uppercase? Or have the first letter of each word bigger than the ending of it? Maybe that would be to more playing with the sizeing rather than the type.

Jamie Reid

Jamie Reid is one of my all time favourite graphic designers, i love the DIY feel that he has in his work.

Reid was one of the first designers that began using the randsom note lettering.

Using different fonts gives the words an interesting look.

Using whole words and then indiviual letters creating the word is nice here.

I like the different sized letters that was used for  'Sex Pistols'. In comparison with the lettering above, it looks a bit messy.

Pro Two Task Two

This is one of the photos i took in Pro Two Task One i put it into indesign and created a grid over i then played around with layouts using the grid of the building.

These are a few of the layouts i was playing around with. Im having a bit of trouble trying to work out how everything fits together and trying to make it look right, but a bit more practice will help that I'm sure.