Book Binding 28/10.09

we all looked at different techniques to binding books in this session, doing so we were given the opportunity to produce two different types of book, Circle Accordian and a Japanese variation. I enjoyed this session although trying to get the exact measurement and precise cut was quite painful. The more I concentrated to harder it became, especially following the measurements given... I decided to change the scale and produce a smaller version of the circle accordian as it was much easier to fold into place.

The second book was easier and seemed more appealing to actually use if I was to display some work of my own, the simplicity of sandwiching hard board and creating pages and stitching the whole thing together, most definitely worked for me!

I shall definitely try out other ways to create books and Brochures etc in my spare time.

Grids and Layouts 27/10/09

From this session, my complete understanding about grids and layouts.

Grid- An invisible structure once the work has been completed by the designer

Layout - The postion of the text and image on the page as the viewer sees it.

Grid = consistant Layout= Varied.

Learning the basics of grids and layouts is something I didn't think

would be that helpful but has been proven wrong. I have taking a more interest in the technical side of design, rather then just assuming the layout of a page in a book was just placed without thought. I drew some ruff sketches of different layouts and then created a layout with some of my items to simply show what I had learnt.

As a team we were also set a task to individually created a layout page working of a grid for a book, where all of our layouts would be placed, this was very interesting as it showed all of our different personalities in how we would arrange images and text in an empty space.

Type and Tape 20/10/09

Asgroups we were set the task to create a new type with ordinary tape and coloured tape somewhere around the university grounds. As a group decision we produced a large scale font in a corridor in the photography block, doing so we decided that each character of our font would have an cross through it. Where we were blocking the corridor(as shown above) with tape, we all came to the decision to call the type 'Diversion'

Thinking creatively we used yellow and black tape as used to warn people from danger creating a no entry zone. We had a few difficulties as people had to pass through the corridor, so we simply asked if they would duck and dive through the tape. The images shown are just an example of our concept and progress...

I had never thought of physically creating typography in such a large scale, definitely a technique to think about.

Illustrator session 21/10/09

Some illustrator tasks that we were given

by Neil, practising different methods to

create different type, symbols and pictograms.

I personally didn't find myself confident enough

with Illustrator, but Im sure with practice and

time i will become more knowledgeable. Also in

this session we looked at how to create icons from

drawings and photographs of Poole this was a brief

given on the 14.10.09.

Alan Kitching - Letter Press

Simple yet effective, gave me some great ideas for my next print session.

Printmaking - letterpress 14/10/09

Using block printing we were given a range of words Sequence, Freedom, Extend, Outside, Boundary and Extensive. I chose Freedom to start of with and then moved on with the word Outside, gradually my ideas and how I expressed the word on paper became more interesting and enjoyable. I thoroughly enjoyed this and shall most definitely be using this technique throughout other possible projects. The only down side was the time we had. I chose the word Freedom to start of with to simply get use to the process.

After realising how easy letter press can be I decided to play around with the letters more to try and express them on paper, I chose the word boundary, where I literally created a boundary out of the letters them selfs.

Project one - A Visual insight to Poole town

Our first project of our first Unit Text and Image.

As a group we visited Poole Quay for the day to explore the towns old and new characteristics visually Collecting sketches and photos, also studying the environment and the mood changes throughout the town.

From our visit I personally didn't like Poole until you reach the Quay itself. We were given out first project brief, to produce an Editorial illustration giving a visual insight the the regeneration of Poole for a international newspaper. I went back to Poole a few days later to specify in what my illustration was going to consist of and what effect it would have on the reader. I decided to look at the architecture of Poole and how it has changed over the years, collecting images of buildings I simply edited them into a graph showing the height and the age of the buildings, gradually getting larger up the scale. I found myself struggling to be creative enough, I tried to express an image without making it to obvious for the reader.

Previous to this brief we explored colour and a drawing with paper technique using our photos and sketches from Poole, looking at an artist called Rob Ryan, the neat, accuracy of his work amazed me when I was told the image was drawn into paper.