Category Archives: Part 2

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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.

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”