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. 

Poster On India

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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.

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.

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). 

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! 

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.

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.