My Blog

Welcome to my Blog. Here, you will see the designing processes I will go through during my time on the course - FDA Design for Communication at UAL. Here you will encounter a range of collected work from images, ideas, inspirations, networks, links and information.

Thursday, 16 December 2010

ED Med Levitra Gives Users a Really Nice Package















Levitra, the latest erectile-dysfunction pill on the market, is going hard on design. The brand’s parent company Bayer Healthcare has adopted new packaging that not only looks sexy but works precisely how you need it to.

No Ink - 100%









It’s no secret that bad design can cause of lot of environmental hurt. Some special offenders, like the gas-guzzling Hummer or the nearly impossible to recycle styrofoam cup, are well known in the public eye.

Information Graphics

Gregg Gillis quit his job as a biomedical engineer two years ago to become a full-time mashup artist known as Girl Talk. He still approaches his music like a scientist, though, combining the DNA of songs in divergent genres to grow unique hybrid jams. He’s the only one who knows the full genetic code. 

Wednesday, 8 December 2010

Tuesday, 7 December 2010

Saks Shopping Bags (Design, Shapes, yes Please)














Pentagram’s Michael Bierut and Jennifer Kinon worked on the campaign with Terron E. Schaefer, Saks’ group senior vice president for sales and marketing. The team previously developed the store’s spring campaign, which playfully asked shoppers to “Think About…


Typographic Circle (My style of Work)















Issue 16 of Circular, the magazine of the Typographic Circle, designed by Domenic Lippa is out now.
This issue features articles on SpinBibliothèqueFernando Gutiérrez, the late Ken Dickinson, Design Project and a piece by Jeremy Leslie charting the development of editorial design from The New Yorkerof 1925 through Nova to Re- and Carl*s Cars. Also featured are Pentagram’s own Harry Pearce and Domenic Lippa.

Monday, 6 December 2010

Code Fashion Logo














Just something I did in my spear time! My end result in the bottom right logo, it's MUCH more simplified so it's more practical when printing in small scales. 

Saturday, 4 December 2010

Alphabet by WAX!

























I did this by firstly printing the letters and then melting was on it, while spraying silver paint to give it an effect.

Monday, 29 November 2010

Toast and Butter


logo Design

Logo International



















The design work included creating the Bell & Loxton brand, bottle labels,  point of sale material and an ecommerce website. The decision to use aluminium rather than glass for the bottles was brave – but entirely rational.  Aluminium is cheaper, light to transport,  it doesn’t break, it has much better recycling credentials, it holds more oil and keeps it in peak condition.

bondmedia Design - Media - Print - Packaging

Bondmedia






















We specialise in dynamic and creative design services. We take pride in providing a striking visual and communicative platform that enables our clients to present their business clearly and effectively. 

Wednesday, 10 November 2010

Thursday, 4 November 2010

The number 1


The number ‘1’ is also art, each number is precisely designed to suit it’s look.

Monday, 1 November 2010

'Swarm Light' by rAndom International














This was inspired by a man who said that a design becomes a ghost or spirit that after the design becomes designed. Only after that this was created (check the video) to show to true definition. ‘What we do is current but what we did seconds ago in now to then’.
Video Link - Swarm Light

Tuesday, 26 October 2010

Type Terminology





















Today we exam med the terminology of type, how to scales, invert, section, Layer and outline.
Here is a website that shows the type terminology in detail. 

Sunday, 24 October 2010

Poster by Peter Saville (Museum of Everything)
































I really like this poster. It was created in 1966 when printing was done by a print press (printing press is a device for applying pressure to an inked surface resting upon a print medium (such as paper or cloth), thereby transferring the ink). This would have taken many hours to design from initial design to final. 

I’m Speechless (Museum of Everything)














I’m quite speechless. There not much that I can say about this, but it looks quite interesting considering it was produced in1967. I would like to see this on a glass stained window.

Museum of Everything












Our day trip to the museum started at the meeting point at the station Chalk Farm. From there we walked towards the Museum of Everything. 

Sunday, 17 October 2010

Milton Glaser My Inspiration!

















Milton Glaser (b.1929) is among the most celebrated graphic designer in the United States. 

This is produced After the 9/11, a poster that was distributed around the city by students from the School of Visual Arts as well as wrapped around a million copies of the Daily News. It was to reflect on what everyone was experiencing after the tragedy.
About a year afterwards, I produced a series of buttons for the Nation—the magazine that is, not the country. They expressed ideas that I felt should be made explicit.

Saturday, 16 October 2010

Type Press





















A printing press is a mechanical device for applying pressure to an inked surface resting upon a print medium (such as paper or cloth), thereby transferring the ink. Typically used for texts, the invention and spread of the printing press are widely regarded as the most influential events in the second millennium AD, revolutionising the way people conceive and describe the world they live in, and ushering in the period of modernity.




Friday, 15 October 2010

Day Task 'Image and Text'










This task was probably the most fun; the aim was to cut out any image that you find in a newspaper > then cut out the headlines and sub headlines from the newspaper > then take 4 images and apply then randomly to headlines or sub headlines to give a different meaning to the image to produce different narratives. I particularly like the image of David Cameron, I think it’s because it really give of many meaning and also it’s humorous.

Day Task 'Cropping'

























Today’s task was to understanding how cropping an image can alter the 
viewer’s reading by selecting and editing, zooming in or out and changing the 
format of an image to produce a narrative. I found this quite uninteresting. 
I found the second part of the session very entertaining (above image). 

Thursday, 14 October 2010

Something I Decided To Do!

















This was achieved by using the shutter speed on a DSLR camera. The way it works is by adjusting the shutter speed that would allow you to control the movement of the subject. A fast shutter speed will freeze the subject and a slow shutter speed will make it look blurred as the subject moves. You can also combine flash with a slow speed to get movement and blur all in the same shot.

The shutter speeds of cameras can go from long exposures of 30 or more seconds to fast speeds of anything as short as 1/8000sec.

I personally chose to use individual colors for individual letters to look attractive. I think it came out really effective considering it was my firs time! 

Sunday, 10 October 2010

Who likes Helvetica?


























Helvetica is one of the most popular typefaces of all time. Max Miedinger designed it in 1957 for the Haas foundry of Switzerland.

I found this piece of information very amusing and interesting, it basically shows the view of each famous graphic designer of his or her perception of Helvetica. I think Helvetica is a type of font that would only look good for designing specific style of creation. 

"The creative 'act' is a process, not a moment”

In my opinion the process of generating effective ideas is a key element of successful graphic design. The world of graphic design is demanding, and professional designers need to be versatile, open to new ideas and able to generate concepts which stand out from the crowd. 

Many times I like to experiment with my type, I enjoy relating letters with shapes. This is a very typical way of how I would generate graphics. This design (above) is done for an exhibition. I would imagine this on a wall almost looking like pies of art.

Upgraded Version of Love Type



Upgraded Version of Love type design. This was the process I did for a poster to express typography, I decide to use Helvetica because it’s a type that has no meaning, exception or motion it’s very straight forward, and it’s also simple which in its self creates sophistication.

Saturday, 9 October 2010

Sketches


























This is just something I did in my spear time. I was told by my tutor Darren Raven ‘practice makes perfect’, so recently I’ve been doing some rough hand drawn sketches. So far it’s going quite well although it’s so time consuming, but it’s a great reward after finishing.     

Illustration Drawing






















Just something I did in class, the aim was to design, take photographs or show illustration drawings that would represent out university from a tourist’s aspect. We were put in groups. Each of us had an individual part; I chose to take part in drawing part of London to reflect on the location.

Friday, 8 October 2010

Postcard - 1
















This collage looks very much like pop art, colorful colors, stands out and comical looking design. I think this is one of my few favorites postcards. 

Postcard - 2















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Postcard - 3















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Postcard - 4





















This was the second stage I went onto after the mistake, I thought I take it an extra mile and add some Blue ink, to brighten the look. Came out really well and it’s a style that could potentially be used for a information brochure. 

Postcard - 5





















I think this one is my favorite; it has a unique style to it that make you wonder. I thought of the idea after make a mistake and my only recovery option was to cut out the eyes…I after found this was a great technique.  

Postcard - 6





















On this day our task was to produce postcards from a news papers and magazines in a style on a collage. I found this very free, something unusual from my typical style of designing. 

Macroeconomics



















Macroeconomics is a branch of economics that deals with the performance, structure, behavior and decision-making of the entire economy, be that a national, regional, or the global economy. With microeconomics, macroeconomics is one of the two most general fields in economics

I found this very enjoyable. I base it on macroeconomics because it’s quite a challenging topic. I chose to design this in a shape of a circle specifically to keep the viewers interested to know more. I think it looks similar to a scuba diving helmet. 

Visually Simplified











This is what I came up with in class. The aim was to produce a visually simplify or form a design that would have a relation with shape…the leaf. I think this absolutely came out beautiful; I like the original hand drawn shape. 
The last two edited designs looks almost like stars being linked up to form some sort of design.

Visually Simplified Part Two














Second part of the simplified leaf, I came up with this design by adding each end of the leaf. I think it looks very much like a sonar radar and interesting… how it’s so distorted at a point where it’s unrecognizable. I used illustrator to develop the idea. 
  

Magnetic!

This picture is taken at the LCC University exhibition; it’s a design of a title entirely designed with a magnet.

Wednesday, 6 October 2010

We Get Older

 



This was a picture taken by an old SLR camera. I exposed two pictures over each other to get that dull look. 

Apple Keyboard










This is just something I did in my spare time; I had taken these photos in unique angles to show different perspectives.