Alphabet by Mark Making

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. 

Type Terminology

One Of Many (Museum of Everything)

This is also one of the many posters I saw. 

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 (A 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. 

Poster On India

Information will be added soon! People

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!