Meetings

So after a very productive meeting with my mentor Heloise this evening I'm feeling a bit more confident about the state my pdf is in, And she even helped to generate ideas for the last of my letters that where eluding me.

B is now for branding, and I'm going to look at illustrating the type used for well know brand logos, What happens if you use the coca cola font for starbucks?

G is for grid, not quite 100% on an idea for the content but something along the lines of setting type to a grid.

X is for XOXOXO looking text typography and creating a pixelated typeface, that i could then use to write a text dictionary, or write out text language.

Also after some help via email from my tutor I'm a little bit better of with J, L and R. Justify, Language and Research, Just need to think of a way to make justifies content a little more interesting.

A is for arranging.

The A of my Alphabet is for arranging, I think its fun to make type by simply arranging objects so I created this typeface out of seeds for the first spread of my pdf, A is for arranging.

W is for wordle..... I is for (as) Image

More experimenting with my display type using vintage clipart collaged again for the I and alphabetti's arranged and photographed for the W. I LOVE THEM!

Final colours

So after many a discussion with my tutor these are the final colours for my pdf, the pink works with the green, the blue with the yellow, and overall they make for a really nice aesthetic.

W is for wordle

A wordle created from all my posts about the A to Z project so far:

E is for Experimental

In the interest of being a bit more experimental with my letters after a tutorial last monday I have created some letters out of gorgeous old style clip art which I found through google at http://www.aisling.net and that my tutor had uploaded to our blackboard site. Im really pleased with the results and think they break up and fit in nicely with the hand drawn display type.

Colour

Ok so after a tutorial on thursday, Im having a re-think about my colour scheme for my pdf and mixing in some brighter shades with my pastels as the general feedback is that there needs to be something bold to combine with the pastels. So I've created brighter tints of the pastels and hopefully that will make a difference, so that the viewer remains interested in the pdf, means I have to redo the order of colours for the main display background but oh well such is life!

Alrighty then

SOOOO after a tutorial yesterday it was decided that maybe I need to mix it up a bit with the techniques im using for my display letters in my pdf i.e try using collage, drawing things different sizes and blowing them up, different pens etc, But still keeping it black and white.

So this morning I have done two F's for Found, one created using some letter and number stickers I found among my equipment, the second by tracing around the first made of stickers.

I have made stop motion animations of

both these being created but I cant seem

to upload them, I really like the tracing

one though.

Contents page

So after a tutorial with Ben on Thursday it was suggested that for my contents page for my pdf I could do small icons which are sneak peaks of the title illustration for each letter, and can then be hyperlinked, no page numbers required! I thought this was a great idea so today I have done icons for the letters I have produced so far.

Some changes I made.

After working out my colour swatch order for my pdf I had to change the background colour of D to the lovely minty green, also i made a subtle change to the V so that the left leg of the chair stood alone from the rest of the items.

PDF beginnings

These are the beginnings of my pdf, im going a bit backwards in coming forwards by drawing the letters I have definite ideas for first then moving onto the others. So far im really plesed with it and have got good feedback from my tutors, hopefully as it grows it will start to look even better.

V

V is for vintage, my V being made up of ideas sourced on google, vintage chairs, vintage jewelry, vintage lace and vintage shoes. Hand drawn then popped into illustrator. On the opposite side of the spread will feature a vintage typeface.

Draw

Thinking about title letters and colours for my A-Z. This is D for draw using pencils to make up the letter. Making the letters reflect the word they stand for.

Nobody draws anymore.

Yesterday was Davids "Shoebox image generation" workshop, which was great fun. Using an object form the shoebox collection we did over summer around the theme of language, we quickly generated lots of images through line drawing, continuous lines, rotation, not looking at the paper and other techniques. These can then be developed to include in my pdf project im doing for this term "A to Z of graphic language"

More Adventures in motion!

So I finished my week interning at Onedotzeros Adventures in motion festival. It was great fun and a really good experience. I got to try my hand at all different aspects of the festival from manning the information desk, looking after artists in the green room and manning the installations we had going on around the building. 

 By far my favourite was manning the festival identity installation which was created by Wieden and Kennedy and powered by Nokia. By using the new Nokia N900 you can enter your message using the keypad on the phone which is then projected onto a screen, then by using any of the three functions, tilt, shake or touch, you can manipulate your message on screen. 

You can also zoom in and out and pause the live feed that comes in from the internet and forms the ribbons that write your message. This feed comes from twitter etc about onedotzero and the festival. I had to demonstrate the installation by using it and encourage members of the public to come and interact by having ago themselves.

Check out onedots facebook forinteresting titbits from the festival and other cool stuff : http://www.facebook.com/onedotzero?ref=ts

The festival is on till sunday and well worth checking out, for more info check out the BFI website: http://www.bfi.org.uk/whatson/bfi_southbank/film_programme/september_seasons/onedotzero_adventures_in_motion

Adventures in motion

So as of Monday the 7th I am an intern helping with onedotzero's "Adventures in motion festival" at the BFI Southbank. Yesterday was the launch party so I was carrying in the deliveries, helping to set up the lights, stock the bar, put up posters and other general things to help out. When the party kicked off I laid up the cupcakes with the glue london logo on them and manned the cloakroom. The party looked really cool once it was all in full swing, it was in Village underground just of great eastern street which is a really great venue with tube trains on the roof! Which are hired out as studios. If you want to see more look on their site for pictures and info:

http://www.villageunderground.co.uk/

If you get the opportunity come down to the festival at the BFI which is on till sunday: 

http://www.bfi.org.uk/whatson/bfi_southbank/film_programme/september_seasons/onedotzero_adventures_in_motion

Language

For my summer project we have the theme of "language" We have to come up with ten categories around the definition of language. One of the categories that I came up with is community as language can be specific to a community. So I took images of Brick Lane where the signs come in English and Arabic/ Hindi? For both sides of the community in the area.

Letterpress: Finished Posters

These are the finished Letterpress posters form the work shop I did at the end of last year. They where fun to make, but the process is very time consuming. Well worth it though as the effect is really nice and I dont think could be done as well digitally.

Uh-oh

Ok so I have been extremely lazy/ too busy to blog. But that is going to change......RIGHT NOW. Im have a summer project which is getting underway so I will devote some posts to that before I head back to Uni.

Dangerous Love (old work)

Some more of my final major project books I made on my foudation. "Dangerous" and "Love" are created using spare prints I had made of my weave, "Dangerous" was over printed with black and blue inks, while "Love" is overprinted with plain black ink. "Flock" is made from the middle of a book of letters written by Paul Cezanne which I hollowed out to create a different piece which I posted a few weeks ago, I then using the printing technique of flocking, by hand deleted letters on the page, changing how you read it, it almost looks like braille. The book is very tactile and is my favourite out of the three.

Books (old work)

This is another one of my final books I made for my foundation major project. The concept was In/Out, so I decided on not judging a book by its cover and re-worked and used old books to make new and interesting pieces. 

After shredding a Sweet Valley High book called "Dangerous Love" I then weaved together the pieces in a traditional style, then photocopied and screen printed the result. I experimented with different colours and over printing the image on top of each other, I also printed other words over the top. The "cover" of the book is made from hard board and wood with a hinge so it opens like a book, then hand painted.

Letterpress

Images from my second letterpress workshop last week. We are learning everything form pastings up, locking the type, the point system and how to use the press. Its really looooooong but the results are great, as a project for the three weeks we've been making posters about numbers with connotations. So my group are doing "2's company 3's a crowd" We are finishing the posters tomorrow so should be goooood!