Jacks Post

Using his sketches and a pastel colour pallet within his digital work, gives his work a traditional feel.

 He has inspired me almost to go follow this design style, the simple but yet effective use of colour and shapes creates fantastic looking imagery. This is the type of style i would like to include in my future designs and put in my portfolio.

Following on from the patterns that relate to Morags work, i created my own patterns made out from shapes. In the interview she tells us how she loves to play with bold colours and shapes in which i am trying to show here. Unfortunately i can not seem to produce bright colours on the programmes i am working with, this is something i will have to get around, at the moment i am sticking with blander colours and black and white.

Practicing on illustrator with some of my own photo’s

These design patterns relate to where i am heading with the projects theme, i have recently been designing blocky shapes with bright bold colours which relates to Morags style of work. Yes the project isn’t to come up with images that relate to her work but to image in what comes out from the interview. I am doing this, but i will have a certain design theme within this, which you can see where i am heading with these images; bold, colourful, bright.

Working on Baseline grids and Character styles, knowing how to use this will be very helpful for this upcoming project.

Kinda Perfect binding. We learnt through the steps to bind a perfect bound book. Quite a few steps, but easy to repeat once learnt.

Foil press. We were shown and learnt how to use the foil press machine.

Big bang data exhibition. Veiwing the work showed me how technology is growing and how its roots connect across the world.

Some Beetles for the book. Designed on Illustrator, using the drawings i had scanned in as a outline.

I will either edit these of Photoshop or use them as outlines for designs on Illustrator.

Silk screen printing We were shown how to print onto fabric or paper in this more manual style of print. It worked out quite effective, created a nice touch to the colour to the print rather than digital. This is another new style of printing for me, that could be used in later projects.

In todays lesson we learnt how to work on Premier and more on After Effects, we were taught how to transfer clips from premier to after effects and back. Were taught how to fade in and out from different clips, doing this also with the sound. Also we were shown how to slow and focus on different clips. This will all help me in creating the animation for the National Trust project. 

Quick test with the images of my poster, i am not too sure if i prefer this to final draft, seems to be simple but pleasing to look at, has a sense of play about it.

I think it looks better without the lines. Not sure what it is, it just works better. In further designs i would like to make the whole image dark asides from the leaf. I need to add some darker colours or some texture to make the wallet colours look more dull, maybe the background would help this?

I found the whole place quite relaxing to be honest, it was a nice place to visit which really cleared my head from all my troubles. This is something else that I could work on as an advertisement.