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Archive for November 2011
OUGD403 Design Skills Evaluation.
(5= excellent 4=very good 3=good 2=average 1=poor)
Monday, 21 November 2011
by Lisa Collier
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V&A museum
Following some earlier research for my OUGD403 Proverbally yours brief I decided to have a look at the V&A museum website to find out about new exhibitions as I will be visiting it in early 2012. I instantly saw an advert for the new 'Postmodernism' lecture and I am now very excited to go and learn more about this era. Follow the link below to visit the website.
Wednesday, 16 November 2011
by Lisa Collier
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Postmodernist / Modernist Design
Whilst carrying out some of my own research for another brief I came across some architectural pieces which I found really inspiring. They immediately reminded me of some of the work we had been looking at in the Lectures with Richard. Their postmodern style is instantly receivable and they take on many characteristics of previously studied architecture like the Guggenheim museum, Bilbao (1997) designed by architect Frank Gehry and also the Neue Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart, Germany (1977-1983) designed by James Stirling. Here are my images;
Sunday, 13 November 2011
by Lisa Collier
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Proverbally Yours // Message & Delivery // Final Crit
Yesterday we had our final critique session's for our 'Proverbally Yours' Part 2 brief. We were each put into pairs and had to define 5 crit questions that would be the basis of our analysis of other peoples work. I was paired with Andrea and we critiqued to other peoples work whilst other people critiqued my own work. Overall I gained very positive crit feedback, one group made me aware of spelling mistake on my mailing list, which is only a minor detail easily altered, whilst another group suggested that I had made the best of a link between my proverb 'out of sight, out of mind' and my 'fisherman' profession, however the create a better link between the two I could incorporate a deep blue tone into my original 3 poster designs. With the feedback from my earlier poster crit to change the composition make the series of images create a whole face I have now redesigned my original posters taking on advice from two different critique sessions. Overall I am pleased with the outcome of both Proverbally Yours briefs. However, as further development for my 'fisherman' I will create a 'belly band' to prevent any flyers being lost in the post ( another factor suggested by one of the crit groups). Overall I gained positive feedback from all who critiqed my work.
Here are copies of the critique sheets filled out with reflection of my work;
Saturday, 12 November 2011
by Lisa Collier
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Tumbler.
I was doing some exploring this morning, catching up with people that I used to go to college with who have now gone on to study Graphic design at other institutions, and whilst viewing their work I came across some artist research which I found really inspiring. I find the colours and compositions of these illustrations work really well, I've always been drawn to illustration and hope that I can further this passion in future briefs.
by Lisa Collier
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Quotes.
“Strive for perfection in everything you do. Take the best that exists and make it better. When it does not exist, design it.”
Monday, 7 November 2011
by Lisa Collier
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Proverbally Yours Final Crit
For our final crit session this coming Friday we have been split down into our DP1 groups, and then paired into alphabetical order. My partner is Andrea and me and Andrea will be assessing two other peoples work by a set criteria. We had to devise this criteria today and stick to it. We have five initial criteria by which we will critique the work on Friday;
- does the design have a strong aesthetic impact?
- does the use of the proverb work effective and relate to the piece?
- is the target audience appropriate to the brief?
- does the resolution fit with the concept? (final outcome)
- how had the idea's development affected the final outcome?
(is the research relevant, is there a strong link to the original poster, is there a wide range of development, etc)
by Lisa Collier
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Proverbally Yours Interim Crit
Issues Raised
- what is the purpose of the design?
- who are the audience, how is the piece directly targeted at them?
- the idea works well and indirectly relates to the original proverb 'out of sight, out of mind'
- where does the proverb appear on the design?
- is it right to incorporate a different proverb to represent 'out of sight, out of mind' indirectly?
Actions to be taken
- focus more heavily on the purpose of the piece (to create a campaign awareness for 'project ocean'
- think about the audience, and create a stronger focus or target (who are they, how is it aimed at them)
- incorporate my original proverb effectively
- create my typeface using Adobe Illustrator
- book my print appointment in the principle dungeon
- address the problem of stock (what weight of paper will i use, what texture, and will i use card?)
- construct mailing list which is visually and aesthetically pleasing.
Structural order of importance
- create typeface using Adobe Illustrator for design
- focus more heavily on a solid purpose
- think about audience and how they relate to the purpose of the piece
- incorporate my original proverb; 'out of sight, out of mind'
- construct a visually appealing mailing list
- address stock issues; will it print easily, can you print double sided etc.
- book digital print appointment
by Lisa Collier
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Graphic Design Investigation (Task 3)
Andrea also collected some research into graphic design on instruction manuals. She decided to specialise in instruction manuals for flat pack furniture. Here are her findings which she inputted to the group and we discussed;
Wednesday, 2 November 2011
by Lisa Collier
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Graphic Design Investigation (Task 3)
Another area of research that we had to look into as a group was food packaging. Here is Andrea's selection of research for graphic design within food packaging;
She has research fruit packaging and how bright colours are used to represent health and give a more positive outlook on the product and she has researched 'high class' food packaging on 'M&S' food and looked at how they portray their food through imagery. Here are her collected of photographs.
by Lisa Collier
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Proverbally Yours Crit
For this crit session we each analysed two people's work anonymously and our work was also analysed anonymously by two individuals with no verbal feedback or discussion taking place, the feedback was provided in a written format. The feedback came in the form of a series of answered questions about my work. After receiving two feedback sheets, this allowed me to gain two differing perspectives and two different opinions of my work, some points made were similar whilst other's differed largely in advice and criticism. The main concurrence about my work was that it worked really well and the fact it was anonymous meant I gained more honest feedback which was more supportive. I gained some interesting comments, many about the use of black and white and how they felt colour would have worked better. However I did earlier experiments with colour and from peer feedback at the time I decided to go with a more neutral appearance. Other feedback which came back was that I could experiment with the visibility of the text so show that this is also out of sight, or make it 'double vision' as though she is closing her eyes and seeing double. The most interesting feedback I gained was to experiment with mirroring the features on the 'image' piece and the 'type and image' piece, so that the series would make a complete face. This is really interesting and certainly something to work with. Here are my crit feedback from my 'Proverbally Yours' brief (21/10/11);
by Lisa Collier
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Alphabet Soup Typeface Crit
This brief involved designing a typeface for another persons character and personality, we could ask the person a set series of questions and then had to work from the results of the questionnaire as inspiration for our designs. For the crit session 5 or 6 groups of pairs were taken into studio 4, where we placed all our work onto the wall and analysed each piece individually. As pairs, each person was asked to discussed what they thought about the typeface designed for them and what was saying about there personality, as well as whether they thought it related to them. This then lead to group discussion about how successful the work had been.
I felt the typeface that had been designed for me was closely related to my personality as it was based around walking and as I have recently completed a 100 mile hike over 6 days this certainly related directly to my personality. I really liked the simplicity and the use of lowercase type however that would not I been my personal choice I still feel it works well as a final piece. The typeface that I designed for Samuel Hoh was based around dinosaurs and although I don't feel that it related to Sam's personality I do feel it worked successfully as a series and as a final outcome. Sam's feedback about my design was that it didn't relate directly to him, however he liked how I had related the typeface to a similar structure of that of 'kai' (one of Sam's favourite typefaces). He did like how the letterforms worked as a series and he said he was pleased with the piece. He also liked how the entire piece was completely hand drawn whereas the majority of people used Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator to help construct their designs. However, because the final outcome was to be hand rendered I chose to hand render the entire piece form beginning to end and this was really well received in the crit session. I feel the reason I struggled to come up with initial idea's for the brief was the little information provided in the questionnaire, however after speaking with Amber about this I jut went with what I had there on the sheet. Overall, my piece was given positive feedback and I now need to expand on this work by producing some words using the letterforms.
by Lisa Collier
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Alphabet Soup Crit
For this specific crit session the entire year groups work was placed into groups of the same word, for example all of the typefaces that represented the word 'layer' were placed together. With everyone from our group we then critiqued another groups work anonymously. As pairs within the groups we first discussed the work generally before selecting a serious of 5 criteria by which we would analyse the whole series of work as a large group again. We then looked at the body of letterforms created and viewed them as individual letterforms and not sets or series' which was what the initial brief required. By a process of elimination we began to remove any work that did not fulfil our criteria (for example; legibility, composition etc) until the group of letterforms was narrowed down to 5 final letterforms.
The work that I created in response to this brief worked as a series. My worked represented the word 'layers' and I tried to take a more unique approach. I got really good feedback from the crit as people liked how I had 'literally' layered uppercase and lowercase fonts on top of one another to create a new typeface. Although they worked as a series in the sense that I did the same technique to all of the letters, they were individual in the sense that each typeface of uppercase and lowercase, to create the new letterform was a different font. I feel this worked well however crit feedback allowed me to realise that others felt the whole 10 final letterforms should have originated from one basic original typeface. Overall I got really positive feedback from the crit and two of my letters made it into the final 5 for the word 'layer'. I learnt from the crit session that although you make look at your own work one way and completely understand how it relates to the initial brief others may interpret it differently and feel it doesn't relate as directly. Finally, my work was deemed successful as a series and as individual pieces by the assessment team who were analysing my letterforms.
by Lisa Collier
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