We’ve been back at Uni for 3 weeks and already we’ve got our first deadline under our belt. Our brief made it sound much more complicated than it was, but in essence it revolved around the Danny Boyle film Slumdog Millionaire. Our goal was to choose a theme and take between 1000 and 1500 words of [...]
Writing Archive
Flash Animation
I had been very eager to start learning Adobe Flash. I have had some very basic previous experience with the program, specifically rotoscoping. However, this was a chance to produce a full animation.
Our requirements were simple, pick any fact that represents an imbalance of some sort and make a 20-30 second animation that represents this. After [...]
Design is…
For a change, this brief had very specific both in what we had to produce and what we had as a topic. Again, unusually, we also had a new challenge, group work. Instead of being set individual briefs, we were divided into groups of 6-7 and told what printed materials we needed to have produced, as [...]
Magazine Spread
To quote our brief “there is an average of 1,650,000 titles in the UK alone, as with book publishing, magazines account for a substantial portion of the graphic design industry”. Having never designed a magazine spread, I was eager to give it a go! Also, for this project we would be using software I had [...]
Book Cover
As every budding graphic designer knows, books and book covers represent a healthy portion of the industry. Out of the £18.7bn made from the UK publishing industry in 2005, 21% of this figure came through books, making book publishing a highly lucrative market.
The brief itself was pretty straight forward, choose any book and redesign the [...]
Personal Logo
This project was all about us making a logo to represent ourselves. Our brief was simple – no imagery (only type) and it had to contain any combination of our names and/or initials. I went all out on this project, and produces well over 50 different logos for myself in various styles, colours, letting etc. [...]
Profession and Country Logotype
For this project, we were randomly assigned a country and a profession. I ended up with China and Spy… a Chinese Spy. The idea behind this one was simple, make a logo that incorperated both the country and profession in one uniform image. We were not allowed the use of type, so we were completely [...]
Life and Death
This project set out to make us think outside the box a bit. Essentially we were set the brief itself, but told we were supposed to abstract it as much as needed to create our final piece. Initially, I played around with a graphic illustration approach, mainly dealing with any ideas that came to me that [...]
Colors Magazine Project
For this project, we had to look deep within ourselves. Our task was to create a piece that had the possibility to appear in Color Magazine, a quarterly offshoot of Fabrica (Benetton’s research centre). For this special issue (working in collaboration with Reporters sans Frontieres, Colors released a magazine full of blank pages, inviting a variety [...]