political party blog review

you can see my blog for my political party but i did not want to put my reflections on that actually blog so i created this one to show my reflections.

the project went well to be honest i enjoyed working on a subject i thought was relevant the whole fact that we should have one of the people in power rather then the rich and elite which have sort of been born in to this upper class and have no real knowledge of hard graft. i also liked putting some humour in to it with the posters for example the David Cameron "Eaton mess" image. i also realised at this project that advertising was definitely the route i want to head down career wise, which i think as an outcome of this project is brilliant. i think if i did this task again i would maybe have done slightly more research so i had more background information

but all in all I'm happy with the outcome. check my blog for the political party and see what you think.

snap cards

 this project we were asked to design our own snap cards this is my final outcome. i decided to make typography snap for people who were not familiar with typography so each A was a different type and its matching card would be the name of the type written in that font and for people who did not want to be involved with the whole type aspect of the snap game i just colour coded each set. i think it worked really well from a graphic design point of view, and i really wanted to make these a learning thing rather than just a game of snap. i took inspiration from the snap cards you used to use in maths lessons to learn your times table and so on.

i chose 26 of the most commonly used types like cooper black for example is instantly recognisable due to the fact it is the font for easyjet.

this project came out well and i wanted to do typography with this project because this year i have sort of tried to avoid type as i am not the biggest fan of that whole aspect of graphic design but to my surprise i really enjoyed it and thought that as a product these snap cards really could be useful if i did this project again tho i would spend more time on it and actually get them printed design a box and try and see if i could manufacture and sell them to art shops like Cass art or something.

book project

this image was used to represent the battle between good and evil.

the two black strips going across the image work well to break up the picture also have the text cut out of them . the top half represents good the middle represents this battle in the middle swaying between good and evil and the bottom represents evil. it just so happens the people at the top are angels and at the bottom they are demons.

the text is actually the image

the colour of the text on the spine is actually the beige from the picture which i think makes it work together better

didn't put name of author on the front cover because i didn't want it to be to crowded with text its a very powerful image which i think need a very simple composition regarding the font.

also their is no need for the name of the author because Dan brown is one of the few people who's name is bigger then the book written

i kept the same font on the back and same colour because it reads well on black

also i changed the saturation and hue on certain parts of the image to emphasise the dark and light side.

this image worked really well because the sign of the ankh is actually hand made, tried a few digital images before this but they did not work this came out really slick tho. if i would do this image again i may change the text this one is not the most suitable i don't think.

Used spinning combination lock because I think this is a lock that most people relate to a safe or something very secure.

Have used the letter pressed text but done the same thing as the previous book and cut the font out of the strip. This is mainly so you can know the books are a set of 3.

I think the text for the title works well due to the cracks and imperfections in it, my inspiration for that was the fact the fortresses are supposed to be unbreakable but in the 21^st century a lot of these old medevil fortresses are actually falling apart and not as strong as they used to be.

The background is a circuit board I used this firstly because its obvious relation to the digital part of the title but also in the book there is a lot of talk about computers and networks. And all these little circuits represent that part of the story.

I changed the colours of the circuit board because I wanted the circuit paths to be highlighted, but also I wanted it to look like a negative image. Like it was having the flash hit it from a camera taking a picture.

With regards to the strips being used again on the front page I think this is not so much helping the composition it is mainly for the point of these 3 books being designed as a set. I had another idea for the composition but sadly could not use it ( refer to sketch book for this image)

Also I changed the colour of the penguin logo because I sore this had bin done before by other authors on some special editions and I thought it was a nice touch

I like the I've only used 3 or so colours I think it makes the book very easy on the eyes considering the image on the front cover is very busy I think it does well to tone it down a bit

all in all i think these images worked really well and I'm happy with the outcome if i could do this project again i would have liked to have got these book covers printed and got pictures of them wrapped around actual books, and maybe sneek in to a book store and took pictures of them on a shelf. also i think as a set these work really well together you can tell they are a set by stripes and the text being cut out of the stripes 

i think i did really well with experimentation with font on this task as well my sketchbook has a nice amount of experimentation with stencils, colours and printing. i tried letter press for the first time which worked really well for the type on the digital fortress book  cover