Mathew Paul Cooke

I will now start assembling my book.

I have also changed my front cover by making the text a little bit smaller in point size, this is because I believe that the work and text speaks for itself and doesn't fit right with the rest of the body of text within the publication. I believe that the text needed to be smaller in order to flow better with the rest of the publication.

I have added end pages to my work which use the patter i have created, this will complete my book as a whole. 

I believe that in order to create the best piece of work possible, it must be noticeable to the viewer as if they are not reading a large body of text, it must be clean and easy to read.

I will look to develop my leading and spacings more along the publications in order to create something that is clear and easy to read. However I like the idea of using the diamonds of patterns within the work, as they give the idea of something being polished and clean, I believe this will add a lot more to my publication by doing something so simple.

As well as this I will also be considering how I am going to use my patterns within my book.

Although I will take consideration into some of the design layouts, I will create my own grid system and working order in order to create a layout that I find suitable for my chosen chapter.

Once I have created the pattern and the final poster I will then start work upon my eight page publication.

Using the chapter of my choice and the patterns that I created in the workshops I started to create 6 A3 posters that responded to the brief. I was looking to create an interesting piece of work that also utilises the amount of space and text. I used inspiration from other designers on my pinterest to find my own way of working with the given text to create some interesting responses.

Using a recipe from a workshop we was asked to create a layout within a grid given to us. The grid helped a lot in terms spacings and letter placements, also helped me to utilise negative space and show the flow of the text from left to right as well as up and down. I created two separate responses to this, one much simpler and traditional, while one is much more structured and cleaner, with a more modern feel.

I have used 5 of the shapes that I created using the grid system and arranged them using my layout plans. I will use this method of a layout plan when I am creating my document because it made things so much clearer to already have an idea of what I am doing.

I created in the workshop using the small spaces given responses that I will use to edit and place text that I have been given. This exercise is very important as it allows me to utilise the space that I have been given as well as the text itself, looking at font sizes and composition to create art using text.

Using the other selected letters I have created two more patterns, much simpler and cleaner patterns that use up much less space but are still visually appealing to look at. I like the balance between the white and the pattern itself and believe that is a key element that will help me throughout this module.

I have used the E within the font and created a pattern that I had to repeat more than the previous. The reason for this is that the work and text size takes up less space so in order to have more of a visual effect the text had to be smaller to be recognised as a pattern rather than a repeated letter on a page. Once this text is a lot smaller, it flows better on the page and works well as a pattern.

I have used the full body of text edited to create a hypnotic effect, using all of the space given within the A3 sheet I have created this pattern I believe resembles snowflakes and hits the brief very will by distorting the idea of text and making it into a visual piece of art. While then if you focus your eyes you can see that it is in fact make of letters and text.

Looking at the font that I have edited I have cropped and edited them, as well as overlapped them to created shapes that I believe will be very pleasing to the eye when they are repeated. I will play around with the shapes size and colour before repeating them on a larger scale to find out what is the best size and pattern to fill an A3 sheet. 

Using the edited font that I have created in the next workshop I must create patterns with my chosen text. We have been given a number of examples in a lecture on how this will and could be done. I will now find my own style of work and how this font can be edited in order to fill an A3 space. Looking at the size of spacings as well as the size of the patterns themselves. If they are to big they will be unsightly, where as if they are too small the font will be unrecognisable, so it is important to find the right balance and utilise the space.