Week 4: Graphics

Graphics

Day 1

Emotive Type

Aim:

• To understand how emotions can be communicated through the graphic formal elements

Brief:

Using just ONE letter of the alphabet depict this letter to communicate 10 different emotions.

Emotions to explore:

• Anger
• Chaos
• Confidence
• Depression
• Fear
• Frustation
• Envy
• Joy
• Shyness
• Surprise

Restrictions;

Each Letter should be minimum A4 in size.

Image 1 (A different emotion)

• Anger:
  
  I used crayons to show the aura  for anger because I thought that  anger's aura is red or black therefore I tried to show darkness on anger as anger is the result of darkness

I have experimented with different sorts of materials such as crayons, water color, water color pencils, oil pastels, sanguine oil pencil and charcoal. These materials are what I used to show the 10 different emotions for letter A. I have thought about not just what materials to use but also the process. With chaos emotion, I thought that since chaos is something where everything is everywhere, I have decided to repeat the capital letter A to and overlap them two together to show the concept of chaos. In addition, I also included scribbling around them to show more of how chaotic it looks like. 

Image 2 (Display)

Image 2 shows the display of my work onto mannequins. The reason why I had my work displayed on the mannequin is because while I was looking for a place to display my work, I found a row of mannequins not being used and thought that since no body is using it, i might as well take advantage and use it. Displaying my work on to a mannequins are making my work look like as though it's a wearable piece of art with the theme alphabet. 

Type Archive

Brief: 

Using a digital camera or camera phone photograph the entire alphabet including letters, punctuation, and numbers in the environment. 

Range of resources:

• Engraved
• Stenciled
• Drawn
• Printed
• Embassed
• Die Cut
• Foiled
• Painted
• 3D
• Vinyl/Stickers

Image 3 (Type Archive)

Using the camera on my phone, I have gone and explored the world around us and decided to look for objects forming shapes of each letter of the alphabet. Image 3 shows the evidence exploring shapes and forms and that through objects such as buildings and arrow signs, it can turn into different form such as a letter from the alphabet. To assure that what I see can be readable, I have stretched out my skills by testing out these images of objects forming the alphabet to see if it can form the word Graphic Design. As shown on image 3, I have proved that I  can show any letter from the alphabet on an objects any where and any time. 

There are certain letters that I found quite hard to find such as, B, G, K, M, Q, R, U, W and Y. Seeing that there is no possibility for me finding these letters, I have improvised by forming the letters myself. An example of my improvisation can be seen from letters G, i, J, M, Q,and R. I have actually given up looking for these letters when after I came back from class that I found a thin piece of paper in which I thought could be manipulated if I just re-shape it a little bit. The letter K and T on image 3 are found by coincidence. They are text forming the letters of what they are without the needs of moving it to form the letter that I needed.

Day 2

Found Fonts

Aim:

• To experiment with unusual materials, objects to form a typeface
• To explore the boundaries of legibility and readability in typography

Brief:

• Using one 3D object create an entire alphabet (A-Z). 
• These can be a mixture of both upper and lower case letters. 
• Consider reusing/recycling parts for other letters
• Photograph each character as you make/create them on a white background.
• Make sure the letters can be read by spelling out the word Graphic Design as a test. 

Image 4 (Guide Sheet)

Image 4 shows my working guide sheet for this task. I have decided to use the graphic paper provided by my College to help me form the shape of each letters from the alphabet. My chosen 3D object is of a rubiks cube. Since rubiks cubes are already in shape of a square, the graphic paper is the best guide sheet to use. 

Image 5 (3D object to Alphabet letters)

Image 5 is my final found fonts that I have created. I have organised my work in alphabetical order so that it'll be easier to read and to look at. I have decided to place the upper and lower case letters next to each other because I thought that- that's how the alphabet should be organised- that same letters even if its upper or lower case letters should be next to each other and also just to make things look much nicer and neater. Graphic Design is the tested word that I used to make sure that my found fonts are readable.

In the beginning of my process of making these alphabets, I found it not difficult but not easy either doing this because I thought to myself that this is taking long to finish the whole alphabet forming letters then braking it then forming letters again. Then, I was given a feedback that instead of doing what I am doing from letter a to e, why not have the squares touching each other? this then created a much nicer look and doing so made my life much easier. Now that I thought about it, I started questioning myself, why didn't I think of this? I could have easily done that in the beginning? So why didn't I? The idea did not cross my mind at all and now that I was given this feedback, my mind decided to start working and I've thought of another way to form letters. And it's by making it like a tower as shown from letter I and U. I thought that letters doesn't have to be all flat down, it could form back into 3D. I wasn't able to do more of this to the other letters because it wasn't secure enough to hold it up like a tower therefore the chosen letters of turning it into 3D is very limited.

Brief:

• We are to make series of initial sketches based on idea of demonstration that experiment with the process of mark making.
• We are to produce artwork that uses type of image to create a graphic demonstration.

How to begin:

• A slogan, quote, or sentence that I will visualise
• Initial ideas, brainstorm to support my group crits
• A minimum of 4 initial ideas drawn out in the correct format grid.
• Research on extensive selection of type experiments/designers and graphic campaigns. 

Slogan:

• recycling
• smoking
• choice education
• rights
• terrorism

Image 6 (Four initial ideas)

Image 6 shows my four initial ideas that I thought about. I have decided to use the idea of saving mother earth as my theme. I have my own personal reason to why I have chosen this theme. I decided that since it is something I am passionate about, I should do it. On the way to Lakeside on a 370 bus, I saw a field of grass and behind it is the city and thought that Earth is really beautiful in terms of nature. However, it's sad to imagine that places like this are being taken over to be replaced as a land for architecture. While thinking about this, I thought that why can't we do something to preserve places like this? Like for example, have a land where only nature can rule and a land where architecture can be build. We don't need that many land to build our dream companies, we can change instead of taking away. If we continue to take everything from mother nature, nothing will be left and when disasters such as flooding occur, no soil, no roots, no trees will be there to drink all those water up making our cities stay flooded for a very long time. therefore, I have decided to use this theme as a subject to wake people up before it's too late. 

Image 7 

Image 7 is my finished book cover with two different version. The first one is the no filtered version in which I have kept simple because if I add filters around the text that I have provided won't be readable. The second one is my development to see if a filtered version would look any better than the first one. It made the illustration look much better however, the text on the left hand side cannot be read as much as you can with the first one. As you have noticed, I did not include a sub story at the back of the book because creating a story from a book is my weakest point and I will only end up ruining it therefore, I kept it as it is without including anything else.