Thursday, 24 May 2012

Evaluation for my 'Me, My Book & I'


In the ‘Me, My book and I’ project, I really struggled as I left the project on the last two months in order for me to do it, even though the project was set around October. The reason for this is because, I thought that I had ages to do it, which I did, but most work was due around the same time as the me, my book and I project, so working on it was quite quick and rough which I did not intend to do.
Getting influenced with my designs was not as difficult as I have imagined it to be, as there are variety of genre’s to research in to and combined the ideas, techniques and style together. From illustrators to sculptures, I research artists, with particular style and techniques and I tried to incorporate them in to my designs.
Out of the three final pieces that I did, I was really pleased on how the first two book is finished, as the illustrations on them are strong and it has that silhouette effect on them. However, I was not to pleased with the third book, as I know I kinda rushed in to it, without planning it as much as the previous two. It is also plain, containing numbers that shows my date of birth unlike the images that relates to me. 
If I did this project again, there are things that I would change. Firstly, I would experiment more with different materials, perhaps achieve a different outcome and a more effective one. And secondly, I would plan my work better before doing it, as well as manage my time management better, rather than doing is on the last few months.
Overall all, I am pleased on the majority of my final outcomes and how my progress was for this project. I could of done more outcomes, if I have not left it late as I did. 

Wednesday, 23 May 2012

Final Outcomes




Developing









Influences for my project

These are the main influences that I researched that links up my final outcomes.

  •                                                                    Keri Muller



   
  • Jessica Fortner

  • Dolan Geiman






Friday, 20 April 2012

Font Research

I have decided to choose a font rather than creating my own font for my project on my gig poster.
I went to the site www.dafont.com and gathered fonts that I particularly think would fit my poster design.
In the fancy column I have chosen old school and picked the font today, nightstalker and wanted. In the same column I chose western and picked bleeding cowboys and finally in the same column again, I chose eroded and picked birth of a hero.

Photography Research

Duane Michals
Crewdson Gregory
Eugenio Recuenco
Rachel Neville


Saturday, 14 April 2012

The Airborne Toxic Event

Gig poster designs: Research









Different designs promoting the band 'The Airborne Toxic Event'.

Friday, 23 March 2012

Rod Hunt

Illustrator

Rod Hunt who is a well known illustrator came down PCAD and did a lecture about his work, the style of work he creates, where he worked for, how he got there, advises and more.
I liked his work as many doesn't have similar work compared to his, so it's quite unique to his own personal  icon.
He worked for a lot of companies such as Kellogg's, Barclays, etc, so he's work is quite known world wide.
He is well known for his maps work, such as Chessington world of adventures map.

www.Rodhunt.com




Nia Gould 'Niaski'

Graphic Designer

A graphic designer gave a presentation in one of our lecture. It was good as she also had skills as an illustrator.
She showed us some of her work, which relates to how she developed them from when she was looking for a job, getting commissioned and until now when she's the head designer for Exeter Phoenix.

www.niaski.co.uk


3 illustrations




I started doing a small continuous line drawing of landscape for the original drawing. I then decided to develop that further in to 3 illustrations with the chosen conversation that I over heard. Using watercolours to quickly highlight key colour points of the illustration and used photoshop to enhance those colours and perhaps add shadows and tones, which resulted to these illustrations.