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Exercise: 100 and 1

For this exercise i wanted to try a similar principle to Simon Bonds 101 Uses for a Dead Cat by picking something simple and used in one way to come up with as many different ways as possible. I used google to have a look at 101 uses for a Dead Cat just to getContinue reading “Exercise: 100 and 1”

Assignment 1: Underground cultures

London’s transport systems have benefited from the pioneering work of a number of graphic designers, for example Harry Beck’s London Underground map and Stanley Morrison’s typographic designs for the London Underground. There’s a long tradition of presenting culture on the Tube, through posters, poetry, mosaics, illustrations and other forms of visual culture. In addition, asContinue reading “Assignment 1: Underground cultures”

Exercise: Seeking inspiration

3 Things i am interested in – Film, Music and Makeup. For each area i am going to use different ways to find examples so for film i will be mainly using google to find examples i like, for music i will be using spotify and taking screenshots of the album artwork and for makeupContinue reading “Exercise: Seeking inspiration”

Exercise: Learning to learn

Reflect on how well you know how to use these tools and tick the level that most closely describes you. □ Novice I’m not sure what the tools can do; I need to follow instructions to do most tasks. □ Advanced beginner I can do some tasks but need support for anything else □ CompetentContinue reading “Exercise: Learning to learn”

Exercise: Too Many Carrier Bags

A number of complaints from residents have recently featured in a local newspaper, picking up on the amount of discarded carrier bags at a nearby beauty spot. Local businesses are worried about the implication of this bad publicity for their trade. They want you to respond to the issues and offer a range of solutionsContinue reading “Exercise: Too Many Carrier Bags”

Exercise: Visual Play

Reflecting on the last few exercises i think my strengths are colour, i love experimenting with different tones and what works well together. I do however need to be more creative with my layering and layout styles i tend to keep to the same sort of format with my work, taking risks isn’t the endContinue reading “Exercise: Visual Play”

Exercise: Visual Grunge

Going back to my previous exercise I’m going to use the same artwork just a different section or possibly rotating the artwork so i get a different visual effect. After adjusting the artwork to a bigger section from the piece above and choosing some magazine pages taken from google i came up with this. IContinue reading “Exercise: Visual Grunge”

Exercise: Patterns

For this exercise i decided to start of with a totally new font style to create a pattern. I used a combination of all of these potential processes for being decorative through repeating, reversing, rotating and overlapping and on first look the pattern looks very complicated although effective as a pattern with all the repeating.Continue reading “Exercise: Patterns”

Exercise: Visual Dynamics

Here is a series of short exercises to help you start creatively exploring what you can do with visual dynamics. 1. Choose a typeface and zoom into some of the letterforms to pick up on the detail of the lines, dots, curves, stems, bowls and serifs that make up the letters. You can do thisContinue reading “Exercise: Visual Dynamics”

Exercise: Areas of Practice

Most Graphic Design work falls under these categories: design for print – leaflets, posters, small publications publishing – paper-based books and magazines as well as digital versions such as e-books or online content design for identity – logos, livery, packaging (which overlaps with graphic design’s role within marketing and advertising) retail design – branding, packaging,Continue reading “Exercise: Areas of Practice”