There’s a common mathematical ratio found in nature that can be used to create pleasing, natural looking compositions in your design work. We call it the Golden Ratio, although it’s also known as the Golden Mean, The Golden Section, or the Greek letter phi. The Golden Ratio describes the perfectly symmetrical relationship between two proportions.
In this project you’ve been looking at the conventions of type and how these can be applied to text to make it readable in different contexts. Typography is an art and a skill and, as such, it merits further study. To gain greater insight into typography, research the following areas in more detail and make
Research Using a combination of library and internet sources, find an example of one cover design each for the designers listed above. Document a thumbnail image (photograph or drawing) of each cover in your learning log. Write a very brief description of each cover design and an overview of the designer. Do this in note
Look carefully at four or five books from different publishing genres. Choose genres that we haven’t talked about yet (i.e. avoid children’s books). For example, you might look at a cookery book, a biography of a sports personality, a travel guide, a work of historical fiction, a teenage film tie-in like Twilight, this course guide
Using an image of the figure plus the words ‘The Figure’ set in 24pt Arial upper case, create twelve thumbnails, with only the image of the figure changing scale. I At first I thought that it would be difficult to create 12 different thumbnails with only the image of the figure changing scale. But
Using one of the hardback books that you sourced in Part One, create a flatplan of the first eight pages of your selected book. I’ve decided to make a flatplan for a cookbook. I think it’s perfect for this task because there’re many illustrations in this book. I didn’t want to make a flatplan for the
The Brief: ‘Identity’ Using ‘Identity’ as your theme, create several images which explore aspects of your self Generating ideas Thumbnail sketches Illustrations For this exercise I’ve decided to draw three illustrationns for the three main types of identification. 1) Physical appearance 2) Biological identity 3) Personal identity Physical appearance Everybody knows the old idiom: don’t judge a book by its cover. It’s
Think about the influence of books globally. In your learning log, create a short list of books, with accompanying images, which you believe to be important in a global context. Global: Objective Excluding the Bible and the Quran we can add other religions holy books on this list. The Tripitaka The Tripitaka is
You have been asked to produce an illustrated strip of up to five frames for use in schools explaining to young teenagers how to cope with the onset of puberty. You can decide on which aspect you want to tackle. Due to the subject matter and the intended age group it is suggested that you
Your brief is to produce three illustrations for a series of book jackets, at the size of an existing travel guide, for the locations Istanbul, Helsenki and Milan. The client would like you to create illistrations in wich many elements are brought toggether in a diagrammatic way. They would also like the type to be