Let's have an election!

For this brief, I wanted to create a fun party, that had some partly serious points in it's manifesto. 

Alongside the badges I created, I designed and made up packets of seeds, filling it with actual pea seeds.

Zoo Posters Final

My final 'listen' posters ended up looking how I had hoped they would, despite the changes I made from my original sketches. 

On a trip to cotswold wildlife park, I was able to take high quality photos of animals that I didn't have to edit. These were of better quality than the photos I had for London zoo, so they made the text stand out more.

Zoo Posters Development

Initially, I went with designing a poster focused on a reasonably recognisable part of a zoo animal (the ear), trying to recreate my sketches using a found photo, then from the drawing I scanned in. These both weren't as successful as I had hoped, as the photograph I had was not of very high quality, so if I was able, I would have gone to the zoo and taken images of my own to work with. I still wanted to work with the ear image of the giraffe, as I had created my own type for the word 'listen' to go with the image, and ended up with the 'cutout' filter in photoshop, that made it look like a combination inbetween the photograph and my drawn version.

From looking at the piece by Dave Buonaguidi, I started off with photos I had taken on a previous visit to the zoo, and found a simple, bold font that worked against the images of the animals. Then I experimented with using colours, where the off-white I had chosen for the other images didn't work against the white of the animal.

Zoo Posters Initial Research

Aside from the set briefs, I decided to work on a zoo poster project, as I have a keen interest in animals, and have always admired the posters for London Zoo in the 20's and 30's, particularly the simplicity of the type and the striking images that make you stop and look.

I stumbled across this map, with printed text in white ink onto the vintage road maps by Dave Buonaguidi. I was intrigued by the way that the words stand out whilst still seem as if they are created by the negative space where the map image stops.

Book Covers

After visiting a Dick Bruna exhibition in Amsterdam, I was intrigued by his other work besides the Miffy series, that he had made for his family's book business. I liked the simplicity of the blocks of colours, and the use of black silhouettes against a bold background.

I wanted to experiment with using textured colours as a background for the covers, as I thought that it would stand out from the usual picture-only travel guides.

I also created a set of solid colour covers, to see how they compared to the textured ones. I found that these made the silhouettes stand out more, but the textured ones had more of an organic travel feeling, with a sense of movement.

Red Letters

To start off this project, I collected logos that were red and white, then created an alphabet using letters from these logos, which I altered by hand to make them more individual...

Graphics RCA: Fifty Years

Last week I went to the fifty years graphics show at the RCA. I picked a few of my favourites to put on here because, despite the change to modern graphics created in programmes such as Photoshop, I found these more inspiring than some I have seen on bus stops in London.

 

'American in Paris'-The white silhouettes of the bottles create a really interesting negative space in the red, making the black text seem to stand out far less than that of the 'American in Paris' text.
I like the arrangement of the letters in the second piece, especially how the letter A is in the same font, but has been stretched slightly between each one to make them all different.
For the third, I found the idea of creating a shape with coloured lines intriguing, as the contrast between lighter and darker blues create a sense of a three-dimensional image.