Kanban board

Project management

In order to plan my time effectively for all the assignments which are due in January, I have produced a Kanban board. It shows the weeks with my available hours, and each assignment task broken down with an estimate of the time it will take. These tasks are allocated to a week, with reference to the assignment deadlines.  Feeling less stressed and more organised now.

Repeating patterns

Creating patterns

In Illustrator we practised creating patterns.

Steps to create the book cover below were:

Creating a pattern by scribbling with the pencil tool, select it then choose Object, Pattern, Make. Choose overlapping tiles and change the width and height, click done.  The I created the text and filled it with the pattern created.  I then drew a wedge shape with the pend over the text, selected them both then Object, Envelope Distort, Make with top object.  I then reflected the text by Object, Transform, Reflect.

Heraldry and calligraphy

Inspiration from issue 23 of Uppercase

Typesetting

Menus

We spent the lesson learning about typesetting and working from a type spec to lay out a restaurant menu.  Then we designed our own type spec for the same Italian Restaurant.  The format for each item was saved as a character style which stays with the document. All typos in the spec have to be resolved to ensure the styling is consistent.

Type spec for Gino’s Italian

Key:

Title: BodoniXT regular 72pt Pantone P1-3U

Byline: La Compagnie des Ombres regular 24pt black

Subheading: Champagne and Limousine regular 36pt Pantone P44-6U

Captions: BodoniXT regular 18pt black

Body Text: Champage and Limousine regular 12pt Pantone P34-5U

References: BodoniXT regular 8pt black

Colours as above

Copy:

Title: Gino’s Italian

Subtitle: Main Menu:

Subheading: Starters:

Subheading: Aperitivi

Byline: A glass of bubbles to start…

Captions: Prosecco Brut Glass 5.00

Captions: APEROL SPRITZ Glass 5.95

Bodytext: Aperol, Prosecco and soda plus ice.

Subheading: Breads & Nibbles

Captions: Italian Olives (V) NG LC 2.95

Bodytext: Large green Nocellara olives from Sicily.

etc

Branding

Logo

We were tasked with designing a typographic logo for Job Seekers.  This is what I came up with in InDesign. I prefer the logo on the top right hand side, as the colour is more interesting and the triangle makes it seem more dynamic.  Making the word 'job' bleed out of the triangle also adds to the movement. I chose a script font to appear welcoming and link with handwriting job application forms, and a sans serif to look professional and polished.  Darker blue seems more serious and indicates trustworthiness, but the mid blue makes it stand out more.

Branding

Rebranding exercise

Progress so far.

Brushes

Creating custom brushes

Paste an image into Photoshop, select it then go to Image, Adjustments, Threshold.  Select the setting that looks best.  Select the image then choose Edit, Define Brush Preset.  The brush tool can be used to copy your chosen image, resize and colour it.  I added some noise then the text.

Paris trip

Inspiration

Photos of anything that inspired me during our trip to Paris Photo, The Louvre, The Pompidou and La Bal.

Hand drawn typography

A scan of the hand drawn typography we did in class, before scanning and editing in Illustrator and Photoshop:

After using live trace, expand, and live paint in Illustrator, printing it out, screwing it up, then editing in Photoshop and adding noise:

Christmas cards

My order from Moo arrived. I'm really pleased with how they turned out. 

Found typography

Found typography - kitchen utensils

Destroyed typography

Digital destruction

I started off with the alphabet in Century Gothic.  I then scribbled over the letters with a fine black pencil, a thicker black brush, and a white brush.  I then added dots of black and white.

Destroyed typography

Physical destruction

Visual communication

Pathos, logos and ethos

The above thumbnails were generated to design a poster to increase the number of 18-25 year olds who give blood.

The main reasons this group do not donate are:

• fear of needles ("it's not really a hassle, it won't hurt and it's not scary")
• too busy (book online, takes 1 hour)
• don't know how (website)

bandwagon/everyday - everyone's doing it - make it the norm - don't be the odd one out

celebrity endorsement - David Beckham in second thumbnail

pathos - feel guilty for not doing it when 1 in 4 will need blood, die without it

logos - it takes less than 1 hour, book online

ethos - if you give blood you'll have something in common with David Beckham.