Identify a piece of work by an illustrator whose work you find some connection with and try to write the brief for the illustration you’ve chosen. For this task I’ve wanted to choose an illustration meaningfully. And I’ve chosen an illustrator, each work of whom makes me think about the reality of contemporary life.
Before choosing this article, I’ve read a lot of others. It’s the advantage and disadvantage of having choice. If i were to draw an illustration for the particular article, I would have less work to do. From the other side, it’s a real pleasure to work on what you’ve chosen yourself. Freedom helps to create,
In this exercise you will explore how illustration has evolved over the past 50 years. Start by choosing one from this list of illustrators: Edward Bawden Kathleen Hale Eric Ravilious Edward Ardizzone John Minton E H Shepard Then using books and the internet,
Choose a magazine, newspaper or journal and work out the grid or grids they have used. For this exercise I’ve chosen an article from “Rolling Stone”. Mostly because this artcle had 6 full pages and didn’t have any advertising. . On this pages you can easely see that they all are made with
For this exercise you are going to describe your immediate surroundings using information graphics; this could be a plan of your desk, the layout of your house, the arrangement of objects in your cupboards or your morning journey; anything will do. Infographic is the visualisation of information. One good image can substitute a
For this exercise you are going to make up a poster list for yourself. It is intended that you keep it pinned to a noticeboard or wall to remind you of the dates and, as it will be there a long time, it needs to look good. The main thing in this task is
Choose a book by an author you are familiar with. You are going to design two different covers for it, one using illustrations or photography and the other using just type. I will start from the distance and talk about how should the book cover look like, from my point of view. I think
So we have a bar for young sophisticated people. Sophisticated. This word itself is assosiated with Art-Deco and Art Nouveau style. I’ve started with some inspiring examples of this style. The fonts I’ve tryed to use.
I’ve checked few websites of the Housing Association. Some of them look really boring. The others, in opposite, quite good. Here are some websites which (compared to others) look nice, and could be approved by our potential client. As for me, most of them still lack individuality. http://www.cluid.ie http://www.lqgroup.org.uk http://www.syha.co.uk http://www.raglan.org http://www.polha.co.uk This one seems
Design an A3 poster and an accompanying double sided A6 flyer to promote a singing course run by an organisation called SingOut (all one word). They have very little money so want to print these posters on their black and white photocopier. First advice given in the task is to check if we