Graphics Poster

On the final day of the Graphic rotation, we had to make a poster that represented what we hopefully wanted to achieve in 20 years time. This poster would be representing our work in the V&A museum. 

I produced a few sketches in my sketch book to see what my strengths were, with either collage, typography. The decision I made was to make my whole poster out of typography and text as I feel that, throughout the week it was my strength. 

First of all drew out lightly my first name going horizontally, then the last name vertically. I wanted to added graphics to show what we had be doing this past week. 

The colours that I chose hopefully would complement eachother, two shades of blue I found looked well together. After adding in the blue to some of the letters and the numbers, I wanted to potentially cut into the poster with the whole in the letters e.g O or A. I cut into some of the letters, I wanted to put in a slight backdrop and complement the rest poster. I stuck a piece of blue piece of paper at the back so that the cut out sections would be more captivating to look at. the final element of the poster was to go around the word 'graphics' so it would dominate the poster and become the centre of attention. I also did this technique to the date and the S&A. 

I feel that the poster is very eye-catching and gets straight to the point in what it is trying to promote and explain. I like the minimalist style as you don't have to create a big fancy poster to demonstrate someone work. 

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Typography

The second day of the Graphics was creating different styles typography using a range of techniques such as the opposite hand, just dropping the pen onto the paper, drawing around objects or using masking tape.  Below are some of the different techniques, of creating the alphabet and numbers. 

 My favourite designs from what I created was the letter P which I created by placing masking tape in the letter's shape, then went over it in two different shades of blue. I like the effect that  it has on the letter because of the lines doing it the same direction. Also another is the letter K or M which was scissors opened out and drawn around with charcoal.  

We as a class put all of our typography examples onto a table so everybody could see what everyone else had done. Also to pick up on different techniques that people could use in the future. 

The final part of day two was to create a 125 by 125mm square with words that we could hopefully achieve or want to be like in the future. I used different fonts which were Gill Sans Bold and Helvetica Neue Bold. I also tried to get a range of sizes incorporated into the design. The colour asspect I used was mainly pencil grey and black pen, but I wanted a splash of colour added of I chose two shapes of red/pink, to liven up the design.    

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Drawings and Collage

For the final part of the rotation weeks was Graphics. The first part of the week started off by using different drawing techniques and different mediums to draw with. The techniques were to close our eyes, with our mouths, opposite hand and continuous line. Plus we had to draw different people around the class so you get a various collection of images with different peoples faces. I like the different techniques that were used to draw the faces as it brings out a different effect for each.  

The next part of the first day was too draw on A1 paper someones ear. I chose to draw the ear in charcoal as I feel it would create a lot of depth and shadow to the process of the ear. In my opinion I feel as if I could of defined the parts of the ear so much more with mid-tones of grey/black. Maybe I should of sketch the ear out in pencil first then defined it more with the charcoal. After we had finished we all put the A1 sheets together on the floor and looked at the contrast in style and techniques to draw the human ear.  

The last past of the first day was to create a collage of a face using different magazine and paper cut outs of peoples faces. I used different tones of skin to create the face. Of course eyes that weren't the same and two different types of hair colour, also the nose was a different skin tone to the rest of the face. I like the range of skin tones brings to the new face. Also the hair tones add another element to the facial features and brings out the eyes and lips.

After making our face collage, we had to cut a small square and select apart of the face to then draw out. I chose to draw a section of the eye and lots of the hair flowing down the face. 

Here is my final outcome is this sketch below. I think I could of added a little bit more detail to the section, for example more shading and more definition within the hair, but over all I think it is a good attempt. 

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Building a Bridge

For the final day we had to design small bridges in our sketches books either cutting the pages or using pieces of A4 paper. First of all I designed a simple zig-zag with simples little circles cut into them. Also I added a strip of small paper of the top of the structure so it basically has to ways of using the bridge. I think that this design could actually work was a potential design as it to different elements to it   

The next design I made was cutting into the sketch book I drew a swirled/curved line joining in the middle of the page to get a curve going through the whole of the structure looked different to any other instead of being straight it was more curved and more eye-catching.    

The final design I made was a diamond shape type with diamond holes cut into them to add a slight bit of attraction to the design. This design could potential work as it has two way system that could work with on coming traffic.   

The next part of the day was to be put into groups to build a bridge structure out of bamboo stick, brown tape, cardboard and elastic bands. We also had make the structure as stable as possible so that a table could go underneath it and so that a remote control car could go drive over it. The distance of the bridge was from table to table of about 2 metres away from eachother. There was only two points that were allowed to touch the ground, but we were allowed to attach some parts of the bamboo to the table to make it more secure. Below is the process of how the group developed the design and making part of the bridge.

Unfortunately the weight of the car wasn't able to stay on the bridge for a long time. However if there was more time there might of been a possibility of the design working. 

Fig 1-6 authors own

    

Spaghetti Structure

The second day was about building a structure that could hold three balls but only using 20 pieces of spaghetti and a hot glue gun. First of all we had to draw some sketches of what our potential structures could look like using different mediums, pencil, colour pens and biro. 

After the sketches I tried to work out what was the best possible way to build the structure. I thought the best possible structure was triangles. After a few attempts of figuring out a ways of holding the balls, I stuck with the triangular structure.  This was the sketch that I transformed my structure from.  

After gluing the spaghetti together, I photographed the structure on a table with lighting a a white backdrop to create some shadows and adding small people to the structure to make it look like a building of some sort.

After photographing the structure with the balls in them I took them out and just took pictures of the spaghetti structure which created beautiful shadows. on the white background

The final part of the second day was to create some packaging for it, only using 2 A4 pieces of paper, 1 A1 sheet and prit-stick. What I did to protect the structure was to screw up the two sheets of A4 paper an put that into the structure then wrap up the spaghetti like a present. The packaging had to be able to protect the structure from a basketball being dropped onto it from a height. Unfortunately all of the structures packaging didn't support the balls force.  

Fig 1-9 authors own

3D design

This week was all about three dimensional design work. We first started off by drawing different shapes on to a piece of large paper that could be transformed into products that you could wear, sit on or live in etc.. 

My favourite designs that I drew was probably the jewellery design, in which we had to sketch out the bottom of our shoes. We then had to make the drawing of the soles of our shoes into a piece of jewellery. I thought mine would work quite well with turning it into a necklace, plus adding a bit of colour to make it look more appealing to the eye. Another sketch design that I liked was turning a square, a circle and a triangle into a ipod/mp3 player, that was a completely different design to any other. I tried to make it look like was an earring so it had multipurpose use. 

The next part of the day was to create a paper structure to hold a full litre bottle of water and 30cm off the ground, and only using one piece of A1 paper. I tried to make tower box shape as my first attempted, but unfortunately it was unstable and didn't work. I tried another technique of screwing up the piece of paper and trying to making as supportive as possible and 30cm tall. I put a empty bottles of water on the structure that worked but with the full litre of bottle it didn't have the same effect.  Below you can see the process of of how my design collapsed once the water bottle was placed on top of it. 

Fig 1-4 authors own

The final part of the day was to create a structure that you had to either sit on or stand on it, but we could only use 8 pieces of cardboard and tape. The design that we created was a triangular shape that was supported by another pyramid shape with circular tubes supporting the back of the seat. However when I sat on the seat, the structure wasn't supportive enough and collapsed onto the ground. I think if more support was added to the back and the actually seat area it might had held the weight of a person sitting down or standing on it.

  Fig 5 Pragga Saha