More Glyphage

Another piece of illustrator work traced from a photo from Poole. I quite like this as you can see the perspective of the photo in the way that text gets bigger towards the right.

Layouts

So the next project, number 5, is "promo print" in which we have to create a small book about our work on text and image so far and to say something about us as a designer.
This is a piece of group work looking at layouts where we made a variety of different layouts using coloured paper to represent images and dummy text of different measures.
This is mine. Pretty standard layout.



This is another piece of layout design where we had to use items that we had on us to create a layout.
I found this quite interesting as the different shapes and textures available were different for everyone.

More Things I Like To Read

An Illustrated Life.

I LOVE this book.
It's full of proffessional illustrators and graphics designers personal sketchbook work.

It's great to see that even the professionals draw completely random bollocks sometimes as well.





Outsiders.

Huge mix of artists and Media, really interesting.
Small articles but this is absolutely packed with hundreds of different artists from street art to fine art.








Juxtapoz, art and culture mag.
This is my favourite. I've got a subscription
It's an American magazine featuring loads of different artists with loads of in depth articles and interviews with them.




Lots of pictures of zombies in this one. yay.

Things I Like To Read.

FeFe: Free Entry Free Exit

Pretty decent graphics/illustration situation.
Monthly Book.
Can't really call it reading as it is almost entirely large double spread prints of work, but it's really good to look at all the detail and such.
Has small articles about the artists near the back.





Illustration Mag.
Good old fashioned illustration mixed with a few contemporary artists.
Lots of articles and guides to doing things yourself etc.











VNA: Very Nearly Almost
Street art mag.
Better than things like Graphotism and that due to the fact that it has a much wider range of media and also has a fair few articles rather than just being endless images of standard graffiti.







Territory.

Interesting mix of photography, graphics and illustration.
Some really good in depth articles about the artists they feature.
Well worth a read.

DaDa Poem

The concept of the DaDa Poem is quite simple. Choose a newspaper article, cut it out, cut out all the words and place them into a "hat." Draw 15 words at random, keep them in that order and there you have your poem. It is supposed to say something about you according the DaDaists. Frankly i think it doesn't. So the article i chose was about Mr. Nick Fascist Griffin, leader of the BNP, appearing on question time. I followed the afore mentioned procedure and this is my poem.

Marched

Obnoxious

Exposed

Born

Prevented

Holocaust

Wouldn't

Griffin

Bigot

Said

The

Fears

Nearly

Poured

This of course makes no sense what so ever. The task now was to visually represent it.


Marched - I took the idea of marching as in an invasion, hence Britain is being invaded.

As - I didn't really know where to go with this, kind of been left out.

Obnoxious - Hitler was pretty obnoxious i'd say, also the big mouth is slightly grotesque.

Exposed - Nudity

Born - I'd say that element is pretty well represented here.

Prevented - The colour of the union jack is made up of the word "no" Britain is rejecting the BNP

Holocaust - References to Nazism such as swaztika flag, hitler, german helmet.

Wouldn't - same as prevented really.

Griffin - Nick Griffin, name tattooed across the chest, represting him bring the nazis to britain.

Bigot - Elements of Nazism

Said - Used the said to have a speech bubble containing the rest of the words. Thats definately not cheating...

Overall I am very happy with this piece, I think I managed to stick to the brief, illustrate each word effectively but also to take the idea somewhere quite personal to me which creates a strong emotion when viewed. I also really like the composition of this, the eye is drawn from section to section by the use of colour here and I feel that the small details really make the image give it's message well.

Type and Tape goes 3D

So here is the 3D type as promised.
The idea was to create block type which looked as if the whole pillars were made of it.
I think this worked quite well, particularly where the shading comes in.

Tape and Type

Ok, so tape and type. The challenge was to, in groups, create a typeface using only tape, to come up with an appropriate name, characteristics and such for the type.

My group went with a childish font based around the idea that "my mummy thinks im special".

As it was a childish font we decided to have the characteristics of childish writing, i.e. bad spelling, backward letters, bright colours, non-lining, mix of serif and sans-serif.

Later, after getting too wet we retired to the studio. Me and Chris designed another 3D typeface, the origonal experiments of which i don't have the photos of yet. Here is the second experiment. Each letter is on the same space and is "3D". Essentially the pillar has four sides, each side has the front of a letter on it, this letter then wraps around the other sides as it would if it was a block, overlapping with the others. I think this works quite well as a piece but probably not so well as an actual typeface.