Sunday, 19 October 2008
It's all about the colour!
Here I was experimenting and having fun with my blue objects and mixing them with orange ones. These are my favourite photographs as the composition of the objects and coloured card creates really interesting visuals and the colours work together really well.
Practice makes perfect!
After a seminar on colour theory, we worked together on putting it into practice...
My colour = Blue.
As a group of all blues, we put all our collected blue objects together and worked out an order to put them in depending on the tone and hue of the item.
Our 'true blue' object was a blue feather.
We then suggested to the other colour groups that they join our line, as one end fades towards the green, and the other end purple.
This made everyone want to join in and the colours spread in a huge circuit around the studio and corridor. Clever!
Blue - Purple - Red - Orange - Yellow - Green - Blue.
My colour = Blue.
As a group of all blues, we put all our collected blue objects together and worked out an order to put them in depending on the tone and hue of the item.
Our 'true blue' object was a blue feather.
We then suggested to the other colour groups that they join our line, as one end fades towards the green, and the other end purple.
This made everyone want to join in and the colours spread in a huge circuit around the studio and corridor. Clever!
Blue - Purple - Red - Orange - Yellow - Green - Blue.
Second helpings of Alphabet Soup!
My cut-outs from an ideas sheet on scrap paper - just really liked it!
I'm really enjoying learning more about typography and this 2 week project where I was challenged to create a typeface family, based on the characteristics of another student I was paired up with, particularly interested me. My words to describe my partner's character were:
Interesting, Friendly, Witty, Liberal
and
Cynical, Neurotic, Insecure, Shy
The words completely contradicted themselves so I wanted to design my alphabet in 2 halves, as you can see from the photo of my final type.
I wanted to show a friendly, interesting half, which I based on the existing typeface; 'Plantagenet Cherokee'. The top half was my first impression of my partner, along with his view on himself. I wanted to get across the shy, insecure and cynical side with the broken lines and straightforward sans serif font; 'Angie's New House'.
I was really pleased with the outcome and it got a good response in my final crit with comments about how it was well crafted and the split letterform was an original way of showing the contradictory personality.
Here are some development ideas demonstrating a gradual process towards my chosen decision.
My partner for this project, Ben Bowsher, produced a really nicely crafted alphabet based on my personality...
Interesting, Friendly, Witty, Liberal
and
Cynical, Neurotic, Insecure, Shy
The words completely contradicted themselves so I wanted to design my alphabet in 2 halves, as you can see from the photo of my final type.
I wanted to show a friendly, interesting half, which I based on the existing typeface; 'Plantagenet Cherokee'. The top half was my first impression of my partner, along with his view on himself. I wanted to get across the shy, insecure and cynical side with the broken lines and straightforward sans serif font; 'Angie's New House'.
I was really pleased with the outcome and it got a good response in my final crit with comments about how it was well crafted and the split letterform was an original way of showing the contradictory personality.
Here are some development ideas demonstrating a gradual process towards my chosen decision.
My partner for this project, Ben Bowsher, produced a really nicely crafted alphabet based on my personality...
Thursday, 9 October 2008
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