So for this exercise i first need to decide what an alternative national heritage looks like. The traditional look for Englands national heritage would be the union jack flag or some landmarks from our capital London city, personalities would be that English people are generally considered quite ‘posh’ to other countries like the US. SoContinue reading “Exercise: Pixels – an alternative national heritage”
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Exercise: From Source to Sale
For this exercise i want to display all the information but in a clear and easy way to read. So I am going to use a flat layout of the world and display where the ingredients are sourced from and where they travel to and then arrive at the shops to be bought by customers.Continue reading “Exercise: From Source to Sale”
Exercise: New Leaf Book Store
As the handheld book struggles to keep up with modern demand of instant reads such as the kindle. It’s important to highlight how many second hand bookshops will be finding it difficult to keep up. So with this exercise i want to highlight the buildings historic features alongside a 3d model of each floor andContinue reading “Exercise: New Leaf Book Store”
Exercise: Directional Signage
I have actually been involved in a lot of directional signage with the current pandemic, i have had to create signs for different zones to keep people away from one another. So this included a directional sign with an arrow, an entrance sign to make sure they are using the correct route and toilet andContinue reading “Exercise: Directional Signage”
Exercise: Household Instructions
I’ve decided to use the household appliance a toaster for this exercise so I had a quick google and looked at an existing toaster manual with safety precautions inside and there was no illustrations other than a map of the toaster and what everything does. I find this quite shocking as I assumed most manualsContinue reading “Exercise: Household Instructions”
Exercise: Essential Ingredients
For this exercise i first researched a few different methods of displaying information the venn diagram, Euler diagram and the isotype system. Just to see what method i will use to display whats in my fridge and the connections between ingredients. I decided to use the Venn diagram as this will go well with theContinue reading “Exercise: Essential Ingredients”
Exercise: The Working Week
As working and normal general life has effectively gone out the window it’s nice to reminisce about what my usual working week would be like. See below, i have developed a table of sorts with what my usual week looks like. I’ve kept this design very basic and brief and added rough estimated times forContinue reading “Exercise: The Working Week”
Exercise: Road trips
To start this exercise i looked at similar programmes that have been out recently and what their opening credit sequence looked like. See below screen shots of various things that i thought highlighted the journey sort of style. Using my iPad and procreate i’m going to roughly sketch out an idea I’ve had taken fromContinue reading “Exercise: Road trips”
Exercise: Local Relationships
First I created a basic family tree from my little knowledge of my family history. It’s never something I’ve been interested in but i have more so since losing a lot of family members. I know that my mother and father are from two different areas in the country, my mother from Luton and thenContinue reading “Exercise: Local Relationships”
Exercise: Pastiche
Pastiche – A pastiche is a work of visual art, literature, theatre, or music that imitates the style or character of the work of one or more other artists. Unlike parody, pastiche celebrates, rather than mocks, the work it imitates. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pastiche For my version of a pastiche i have decided to use the iconic Obama hope poster created by artist Shepard Fairey.Continue reading “Exercise: Pastiche”
