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Exercise: Soviet Remakes

On initial look at soviet film posters the only real details i noticed was the use of a cut and paste collage look with the images and text. The font use is generally the same, a bold sans serif. The images however are quite striking! the large faces along with the harsh lines and circularContinue reading “Exercise: Soviet Remakes”

Exercise: A sense of place

This exercise is interesting as this is something that i use near enough everyday, as a young woman i am active on social media platforms such as facebook, instagram and snapchat and a feature on all of these platforms is adding text to images you have taken. From adding the location, time and even theContinue reading “Exercise: A sense of place”

Exercise: Travel

I started this exercise of by doing a series of sketches of different types of layouts using large and small images along with large and small sections of text. I wanted to create something that can be used for all different types of travel from city breaks to luxurious holidays but still be dynamic withContinue reading “Exercise: Travel”

Exercise: White Space

KEN GRIFFITHS – http://www.kengriffiths.co.uk/ In graphic design, “white space” refers to the space that surrounds the elements. You may find the term “negative space” here and there, indicating the exact same thing. However, this space is neither white nor negative. It’s simply the space in a design and it can have any color, texture orContinue reading “Exercise: White Space”

Research: Structure 2

In graphic design, a grid is a structure (usually two-dimensional) made up of a series of intersecting straight (vertical, horizontal, and angular) or curved lines (grid lines) used to structure content. By the mid-1970’s instruction of the typographic grid as a part of graphic design curricula had become standard in Europe, North America and much of Latin America. The graphic styleContinue reading “Research: Structure 2”

Research: Structure

I’ve used different pages from newspapers, novels and textbooks to analyse the use of structure in each and see what similarities or differences there are depending on the style.

Exercise: Type Samples

With valentines day just around the corner i decided to base this exercise on 3 fonts that could be used on different types of valentines cards. One for a Heterosexual couple, one for a Homosexual couple and one between friends as everyone should celebrate who they love whether it’s a partner or not. So theContinue reading “Exercise: Type Samples”

Research: Type 2

I researched on fonts.com for the newest fonts released see below. I noticed how similar these fonts are to fonts i already have available for example Kamerik 105 Text is very similar to century gothic a font i use a lot. The Icons Dingbats font really intrigued me i’ve never noticed a font that hasContinue reading “Research: Type 2”

Research: Type

These are the three fonts i have chosen to research – Century Gothic, Georgia and Tahoma. Century Gothic is a sans-serif typeface in the geometric style, released by Monotype Imaging in 1991. It is strongly influenced by the font Futura, but with a larger x-height. Its design also derives from two other typefaces that were designed to compete with Futura. It is an exclusively digitalContinue reading “Research: Type”

Exercise: Key Characters

Taking a few fonts that I have used before I’ve analysed the features of the fonts and what similarities and variations they have see below. To celebrate the variation, diversity, similarities and differences between the different fonts and typefaces i came up with the idea of creating a wordsearch with some of the fonts iContinue reading “Exercise: Key Characters”