Typography

I found interesting how people wanted to represent their own name..

We can see different text alignment, bold writing or only the outline of the letters, using capital letter for the whole name or lower case for some of them...

TYPO-Illustrator

In this workshop we looked at typography using  Illustrator.

It was fun but I'm not really happy about my work. It doesn't look much professional nor creative.

Research Workshop

For this project I worked with Lynn, we had three topics: 

(-) what's their favorite hobbies? 

(+) writing a piece of text to see the different handwriting 

(I) which picture do you have on your desktop?

We chose the second one, but we thought of it as a good idea to compare the English handwriting with the mother tongue's...

when we had all our classmates' handwriting from all our classmate, we started to analyse them.. 

figure 1 we discovered that only 3/14 were born in London, when the rest wrote in their own language their handwriting became different and new. 

figure 2 even after changing the position on the second column, in some cases you can still understand whose handwriting it is due to ink's color

figure 3 but making them all black and white makes it more difficult to understand whose English handwriting matches their mother tongues. 

 

After a research I discovered that emotional energy is determined by how much pressure the writer uses when he writes. If you examine the writing you can determine how much pressure was used by how "dark" the writing is.

Writers with heavy pressure are usually highly successful. They have a lot of vitality and their emotional experiences last for a long time. Writers who write with average pressure are usually moderately successful and usually have enough energy to make it through the day. Those with light pressure try to avoid energy draining situations.

The slant is the second indicator to look for. The slant indicates the writers emotional response to external forces. A right slant (////) signals one who responds strongly to emotional situations. They are caring, warm and outgoing-- their heart rules their mind. A vertical slant (llll) writer tries to keep their emotions in check-- mind rules their heart. A left slant writer (\\\\) will conceal their emotions and is observed as cold and indifferent.

Process Workshop

The brief for the process workshop was divided in 4 groups:

• Outcome: Billboard Poster
  
• Client: Supermarket Chain
  
• Target Audience: Male Working Class Football Fans
  
• Message: Rebel
  

My team's target audience was Male Working Class Football Fans.

The first thing we did was a quick sketch representing our own interpretation of the brief.. we didn't focus much onto each single component instead we drew the first thing that came up in our mind. We decided to draw some friends watching TV but instead of having them eat fast food and drink beer (which is commonly done by football fans) we reversed the situation, drawing people eating  healthy food and drinking water... kind of a rebellious idea...

Secondly we started working on the brief using separate sections:

1- CONSIDER ALL FACTORS

the basic information we need to know about the target audience

- What is their average income?

- What is their average age?

- Are they married or single?

- Which areas do they live in mostly?

- What sort of hobbies do they have?

- What kind of food do they like?

2-DOMINANT IDEA

the dominant ideas are the obvious ones which you should avoid, so as to create something more interesting and creative

Football Fans:

- like watching football

- like drinking beer and eating fast food

- they don't have higher education

- hard worker, strong body

- they go to work early

- they never watch football alone

3-CONCEPT CHALLENGE

creating more interesting, challenging, reversed ideas from the previous dominant ideas

REVERSE

- they have master degree

- they love healthy food

- they don't work

EXAGGERATE

- they don't know how to read or write

- they eat only fast food

- they work 24/7

DISTORT

- they watch football before going to work

WISHFUL THINKING

- watching footballers actually playing in their house

- beer for free

At the end of this process I came up with this idea.. mainly using only images, my idea was to make it understandable, eye-catching and simple, so people don't need to read it and also don't need much time to look at it because nowadays, most people shop quickly without looking at what they buy.

Flying through the stars...

This Artwork I made working first with photoshop, creating a path of a butterfly, adjusting the brightness/contrast. 

After that I opened the image saved in eps and I played with gradient, different shapes and effects.

There are some links where you can take some inspirations:

www.chrissieabbott.co.uk

www.savignacillustrations.com

www.eatjapanesefood.co.uk

Today is Autumn

Today at Alexandra Palace..I love the Autumn explode in many splendourec colour!!! 

I love the sound as I walk through the dry piles of fallen leaves!!!

Photo Cropping Images

(-)cold

(+)successful

(i)aggressive

(-)easy

(+)better

(i)attractive

(-)empty

(+)alive

(i)strange

(-)lonely

(+)cute

(i)long

(-)silly

(+)alive

(i)exuberant

(-)damaged

(+)nice

(i)mute

(-)silly

(+)crazy

(i)strong

(-)confused

(+)puzzled

(i)different

(-)boring

(+)clean

(i)clear

(-)flat

(+)plain

(i)quiet

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(-)scary

(+)real

(i)powerful

--POP ART--

Image from internet (1). I traced the image using the path tool in photoshop and I saved it in EPS file, after that I changed the mode from CMYK in Grayscale (2) and I adjusted the contrast and the level to make stronger light and darker area.

After that I changed the mode in Bitmap (3) and with the halftone screen mode I create a nice effect transforming the image into  a graphic image (4).

Finally I thought was nice to create a pop art.

In this workshop I discovered how we can create a nice graphic effect only with few step and selecting different image mode.

I look forward to learn more in the next workshop.:)

WORKSHOP IMAGE

---------------------------------NARRATIVE

-----------------------TEXTURE

---------------------- CONTRAST

During the session I discovered how the art of collage can help develop artistic ideas in exciting and fun ways, it was very interesting for me to see how starting from one point during the process of collage it took me in the complete opposite direction.

Also, I loved working beside my classmate because by doing that I was able to study their techniques and possibly get some inspiration.....

Footprint in LCC

This footprint is a symbol representing a lot of students already been in LCC and the future graduating students.

What is Graphic Design?

This Image explain really in a simple way what Graphic Design is.

- Simple understanding in humorous illustration.

- Simple Type-font

- Good hierarchy composition, first u read the question follow by the answer below