Assignment two: Jacket design

This assignment will allow you to put into practice what you have learnt in all the projects and exercises you have done so far, in particular your ability to work through the design process and undertake creative problem-solving in relation to a set brief. The brief Create jacket artwork for the Beat generation classic, On

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Assignment one Introducing yourself – ‘zine

This first assignment is about introducing yourself so that your tutor can get to know you, your interests and your work better.  Design an eight-page simple folded and stapled fanzine that says something about who you are, your interests in books and your wider cultural influences or interests. Use text and image material you have

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Assignment five: Seven days

The brief The title is Seven days. These can be the seven days of the week or random days that tell a story. Your interpretation can be objective or subjective. You can produce seven separate, one large diagrammatic or a continuous strip illustration. You need to write yourself a brief that is clear and challenging

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Assignment four: Magazine illustration

This assignment should give you the opportunity to show off your developing style and use of tools and materials. Often illustrators working editorially for newspapers and magazines will be given a very loose brief such as this one. The conversation with the art director would normally reveal more about the complexion of the written article,

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Assignment three: A poster

After reading the task, I’ve immediately decided to make a poster for jazz evening. Can’t say I listen jazz much, but I kind of like it. When I’ve started to create the spider diagram, I suddenly realized that I know nothing about jazz. There are lots of scraps in my head, but they don’t show

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Assignment two: Point of sale display

Create an illustration of fruit or vegetables. One illustration for each of the ranges: Summer, Autumn   I have started with the question of the poster picture that I wanted to buy immediately and eat. That can be for example a large piece of watermelon for the whole poster in the hyperrealism style. One can see

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Assignment one: Say hello

In this assignment I need to make a postcard, which describes myself in some way. At first I had an idea to make a postcard which looks like a book. It should have been a reminder of the fact that people often are judged by the cover. And this cover should have been quite simple.

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Assignment five: Abigail’s Party

“Oh no! No choice, please!” – that was my first thought directly after I’ve read the task. I always have big problems with choosing. I even think that I don’t spend enough time on idea development because if I have few good options I just cannot choose one of them to finish. In the end

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Assignment four: Show me…

  To be honest, when I’ve read the task, I’ve panicked. I didn’t create any fonts before, nevertheless. Of course, the first thing came to mind is that it would be perfect to have my own handwriting font, but my handwriting is really bad, and i don’t think such font would look good on the

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Assignment three: Colour me

“Choose a colour that has a meaning that you want to explore and celebrate. Think about what the colour you have chosen means both to you and to other people and create something that celebrates that meaning…”   I chose an orange colour. It can be associated with different things in different seasons. For example,

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