Design Principles // Zombie Type // Tyepface Prints

As i was fairly happy with them, I decided to print out the typefaces i created as an extended task from zombie type:-

(Printed A2)

~ N A T I V E ~ (TYPEFACE)

FUTLUTION BOLD (TYPEFACE)

Design Principles // Type & Grid // FInal Magazine Layouts

Digital version of the revised OJ Simpson article, created in Indesign :-

Photographs of my final layouts printed :-

Design Principles // Type & Grid // FInal Magazine Layouts

Here is the final layouts i made for the article i was looking at :-

Design Principles // Building The Letter A // Space and Perspective

Today we was looking at Space and Perception. Our task was to create a letter that was made from 3 different planes at three different levels but when looked through the viewfinder looked like one whole letter from that particular perception. We chose to go with the letter A and we decided to challenge ourselves by creating a 3D letterform. We was basing this on the channel 4 idents where the 3d shapes lock in and out of each other to create the final logo...

We started on the backdrop, creating this from pure white paper .

Dismantling the boxes ready to be cut up. 

Creating and assembling out viewfinder in which we will line up the 'A' with. 

Cutting out the shapes for our letter 'A'. We decided to go with a bold capital Helvetica to keep things clear and simple. 

Putting together the side of our letter so that we had a fully '3D' 'A'. 

We then decided which parts of the 'A' to cut in order to make the 3 different segments. 

Once we did this, we then added bottoms and tops to these shapes in order to get 3 solid shapes. 

Lining the table with the pure white stock to give a nice studio like backdrop for our shapes to sit on. 

Using the viewfinder we lined up the shapes best we could. 

The top part had to be hung from the light fittings with string in order for it to sit above the other two grounded shapes. 

We matched the two grounded shapes up perfectly then went onto the 3rd floating shape...

This proved to be more difficult and took lots of different trial and error attempts to get the final result. 

We got there in the end! the 3 peices lined up pretty much perfectly to create the shape of our letter 'A'. 

What Is A Line? // Collages

I have began to play around with some textures and images, digitally collaging them together. I wanted to work like this because i have not had chance to yet on the course and it was something i wanted to experiment with. I have also been experimenting with graph textures adding them into the collages, which is playing on the 'Line' element of the brief as well as the main theme of 'Hats'.

The Bicycle Cap 

I am happy with the last one after some experimentation. I want to keep the letter big on every design along with the circle in the middle and the small text around it. This will help keep my designs consistent throughout the book that i will be creating. 

The Pork Pie/Top Hat 

As these next two hats are old 'classics', i decided to keep the designs classy and dull in colour. I used the really nice black and white images too, collaging these on top. I am really happy with these two designs, and this is what i will be pushing further for the rest of the booklet.

The Snap-Back Cap 

I wanted to include some famous faces in my collages just to make things a little bit more fun. Matching celebrities to a certain hat gives the publication a little bit more purpose and is definitely something that could probably sell to the correct audiences...

For the snap-back, i decided to go with childhood favourite Will Smith as the Fresh Prince of Bel Air. Made this design a lot more colourful to match the nature of the character and hat itself. Still kept the same type and textured circle to keep that theme going.