Graphic Magic

Looking for examples of brutalist design on websites these are different resources that I found interesting. The use of typography on a large scale, the superposition of elements, the lack of hierarchy and the shocking colors. Although it is a trend of the 90's, it is noticeable the use of the new technology in programming. It is not for everyone but I can assess a good future perspective in the web design.

In this work, the idea was to compose a photograph to communicate 4 different concepts: #1Anger, #2Danger, #3Safe, and #4Joy. I decided to explore more abstract ways to represent them. Regardless of the results achieved, I believe that through this experience I could improve my observation skills and also learn different ways of retouching photos to get better results. 

Concept in photography. In this case, the theme was "Social Decay". The author of this works, Andrei Lacatusu, worked with photos and 3D rendering imagining a crumbling post-social media world. 

After a long process of research and generation of proposals, this was the final option chosen. Through this assignment, I was able to explore how the design and distribution of typography can contribute to the tone and feeling of a theme such as in this case, a musical genre.

#Working with contrast.

Deepening on typography as a design resource, I carried out a search to detect preferences and examples that can inspire me. Regarding this posters, I found it interesting how this graphic artist manages the hierarchy in his designs and the resources he uses to differentiate the texts (the use of the stroke, the different sizes, etc). It is also inspiring how he breaks with the traditional way of reading proposing a more deconstructive way but at the same time attractive and effective. His name is Ares Pedroli. To know more about him and his work: http://arespedroli.ch/projects.html

Although now it is a trend, the brutalist design always attracted me. Since I was born in the pre-Internet era, my first contact with this movement was through architecture. The homogeneity of the concrete, the strength and the imposingness of its forms and its scale first captured my sight and then my imagination. These photos that I found represent those concepts.

http://antoniocarrau.tumblr.com/

http://alwhite.tumblr.com/

The idea for this exercise was to use a grid to generate different forms and sizes of triangles generated by points, lines or planes. Different opacities were used to generate different shades of gray and layer overlays. As for the use colour, the idea was to use the same grid combining two secondary colours.

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