#visualcommunications

Black Box - Final Outcome

This task required focusing on the idea more than the final outcome. In groups, we were sent visual clues that were produced by another group, and we had to workout what this every-day household product was with indefinite pictures. Afterwards, we had to work as a group to create advertisements, which could involve posters or moving images. Above is the final outcome after conducting primary and secondary research, and producing illustrations and other artwork on Adobe software.

Book Types - Page One - Fonts Experiment

1) Bookman Old Style Serif 12pt - a slightly bolder font than most body text fonts, created in 1869.

2) Times New Roman 12pt -  this was the first house-styled font designed for the newspaper since 1932, 4 years before To Kill a Mockingbird was set.

3) Minion Pro Serif 12pt - a commonly used font today for body text and extended reading, and inspired by late Renaissance-era type.

4) Baskerville Old Face Serif 12pt - created in the 18th century by John Baskerville, it is considered a thin font with the intention of being serious but interesting.

In my workshop on campus we experimented with type using 3 shapes (circle, square, and triangle). Using different coloured paper we were asked to create our own type with these materials and shapes. After we had created our type shapes we were put into pairs and we created monograms using the combination of two different designs from each person. Then we cut out the final shape and we went outside and created shadows using the sunlight.

Photos of my type

The first photo is a picture of what I produced. I used rectangles and circles to spell out the word 'BARS'.

The second photo presents the whole class' work on the board, with everyone having intriguing and different ideas.