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Exercise: 21st century zoo

A local wildlife park wants you to develop a logo that supports the idea of a popular and fun family-centered experience, but also helps to make people more aware of the conservation work they do. The trustees of the park have recently visited Toronto and London Zoos to see how they balance the need toContinue reading “Exercise: 21st century zoo”

Research point

Logo’, like life and fine wines, develop over time. They adapt and change to the worlds current predicament like google changes its web page every day depending on what historically happened on said day. However important it is to adapt to the times it’s also important to keep a brand image. See below some examplesContinue reading “Research point”

Exercise: Logotypes

I started by doing 3 different sketch designs in my sketchbook adding a slight hint of colour for each before developing as a vector graphic for each design. Aztec Gold Looking at the name of the chocolate the obvious is to add a gold colouring and an aztec style building font but taking into considerationContinue reading “Exercise: Logotypes”

Exercise: Logo worksheet

Starting in my sketchbook i drew as many logos as i could think of see below. The companies are quite varied from my social media emblems to food company logos and company names. Using the varied designs i combined and used the different design aspects from each see below. I’ve taken the font style fromContinue reading “Exercise: Logo worksheet”

Assignment 2: Food and Drink

To start this assignment off i thought about food… and then i got hungry, after consuming a healthy snack! I thought about how we consume food now with technology advancing everyday more and more of us only get our food through online means, ordering a takeaway, selecting food from a retailer and having it deliveredContinue reading “Assignment 2: Food and Drink”

Exercise: Altered pamphlet

After doing a bit of research on artists book’s and fanzines, I feel fanzines are not as covered and these are more modernly used particularly by universities as they are more concentrated information rather than lots of information in a large book. Thinking about how a document normally folds I need to be more experimentalContinue reading “Exercise: Altered pamphlet”

Exercise: All the worlds a stage

All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages. – William Shakespeare After deliberating between doing Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Handel’s Water Music, i thought i had more room toContinue reading “Exercise: All the worlds a stage”

Exercise: Your Manifesto

A manifesto is a published declaration of the intentions, motives, or views of the issuer, be it an individual, group, political party or government.A manifesto usually accepts a previously published opinion or public consensus or promotes a new idea with prescriptive notions for carrying out changes the author believes should be made. It often is political or artistic in nature, but may presentContinue reading “Exercise: Your Manifesto”

Research: Text

My general style of typography tends to lean towards the more creative and outstanding but i have worked on pieces for certain demographics which are more sensible and formal which have still been pieces i like the look of, like designing logos for a housing association in some of my previous work and then goingContinue reading “Research: Text”

Exercise: Envelope Patterns

To design a new pattern for envelopes i needed to first look at the current design. The colour is blue i imagine this is for a reason. Most of these types of envelope are for security reasons so no one can read the contents of said letter. However with the modern age it’s very rareContinue reading “Exercise: Envelope Patterns”