Image module

So, the following photos are of my final 7 products. with a small piece of information about each one:

Vector image of a liquid like drawing concept of what something would look like if drew with water: did experiment but photographs did not come out.

A shakespeare quote which I thought would fit perfectly with a hand rendered typeface edited and put in an old empty fashioned book.

A liquified cold type and colour which gives a shivering effect.

An image constructed of the same quote using different colours and type sizes, most small to make a smoother photo.

A lovely scanned photo of a feather manipulated into a typeface to give a feathery light effect.

Jagged haunting in connetica poem quote, cut out of red card as a stencil to give a dark bloody effect, then the stencil scanned in.

Black ink and golden honey, photographed and edited.

I really wanted to make a loop hole in the whole factor of type not being image, so I decided to draw this vector shape of a young goreous lady with her head heald high.


Then added some colour to make her really pop.


Then the magic came in, when I selected a quote and mimiced the vector shapes and colours and applied the quote from the poem 'Hold your head up high gorgeous, there are people who would kill to see you fall'



In essence I am more than pleased with the outcome and I think it hits the standards asked for in the brief.

I took a series of photos but none of them seemed to work out to be legible enough to use as a final piece

Within designing the studio designs I went with my gut instinct to what I thought would be an appropriate way to communicate what studio is for what, I drew up a version of each member of the staff (Amber, Lorenzo and Fred) and assigned them a studio to which would fit them in most appropriate, i.e. amber - year 1 - studio 2. When looking at typefaces I decided to go for a nice times typeface just to keep things simple and formal.





In conclusion I think it was a great and successful idea which promoted a humorous outcome which would give the studio a creative air of confidence.
I struggled with this project as I was not a fan of books and that I had no money to help pay for prints or supplys, I could not produce any of the things I enitialy wanted to design as inorder for them to work I needed them to be a certain size and A3/ A4 was all I could really work with, in a crit it was stated that making the book doesn't have to be expensive and having a spending limitation would make it interesting and much more personal in designing.

Eventually I got an idea of producing a daisy chain sculpture of retro Alice's to be displayed as an orniment.

The back of the Alices would be this text which would then make it a book in my eyes, and doing a double sided print was all I could manage as I could not purchase and did not have any scrap books to experiment with.

It was the packaging side of things which stopped my idea dead in its tracks, as I had little material to package the Wonderland images with, which was when I got the idea for producing a mini pop out, Above is an illustration I drew of a background of what my Alice would stand in front of.

This is the net of the design, each square measures up 8cmx8cm, and I had to type the first page of Alice in wonderland to make it seem more interesting and actualy work as a book, on the green cube there is a rectangle of a darker shade of green, this is where pop out Alice would be placed, in order to keep them all in a similar place to work as a set.

I would of quite liked to make 10 different books with different scenes of the book . But I struggled finding the pages on such short notice and did not have the time to make them so unique.

Just as documentation proof, Alice is a pop up and it isn't some awesome photo edit, either that or she is annorexic.

Backtracking to my enitial idea/ concept of the daisy chain Alices, this is what they would of looked like.

With scalpling them out carefully, as they were very fragile, I had to take my time, It took about 20 minutes per joined 6 Alices. I had very little time for the deadline so I could not produce these at this rate, especially with the fact that the scalple blades grip had slowly bruised, blistered and made my hand bleed.

In all this is how many Alices were left and I had about 3 hours to finish.

Which is when I got the idea of making the book smaller and working with pop ups, As I had already cut out 3 sets of Alices making 18 individual, I then chose to seperate them in order to work with a faster concept/ design project. I also had 8 Alices spare incase something was to go wrong.

This is the original net for my design in order to work out what page went where and how it would fold, I found I did not need the top right corner but did need it placing above the background square as a title page, therefore making the image template into an L.

When printed out onto A4 paper it looked a like the above, I chose a light pink tonned thin card stock for strength and stability and then cut the image out in order to fold and develop to its final state.

I had cut out two slits in order for Alice to slot in and be supported when the book was opened. Alice folded over like the photo above in order to close the book and keep her safe.

When opened the simple pop out looked quite effective and very beatrics potter.


I chose a black cover for the book and a gold kingdom typeface to keep Alice in wonderland related to the book and not the new movie.

I am really happy with the outcome, I believe that the production of an Alice and wonderland book was quite a smart idea with it coming back on the marked with Tim Burtons new production of the 3D movie, also it being a pop out book relates to the new phase of cinema audiences only liking things in 3D. In essence I think this is an appropriate production which includes many ideas of shape to produce such a book.
When my storyboards were printed off, I cut them out which was quite time consuming but fun at the same time as I could see how the results were looking fun and how they would work as a set.

I printed off onto black card in order to save myself from carefully measuring out where each letter should be placed and sized.


I used it as a stencil and it looked quite interesting by using the counter border to make the shape.

Overall I am very pleased with the design and can't wait to see it at millenium square on the big screen.

These are a few productions of different storyboards I did in lesson. I covered a few interesting ideas but the problem was that they had to work around 28 frames per second, which would make them quite jolty and kenetic.


Some ideas like the one below I thought were cool, as they made the letters work more as shapes than letters which was very cool.


This one was very bendy and flexible

This however was my favorite, I loved the idea of making it melt, and then drops come off, This is one I would like to take further if not produce.

This was another interesting design I based around tetris, which is what I thought I may produce for my hifen, if not something else retro and pixel related.

Of course I needed a bone structure first, I selected these type faces that I found interesting, and what I wanted to structure my storyboards around.

Here are all the sheets I produced below with the first 3 clips of the M

So before I produce the projection of the image onto Marc's body I decided to dumb it down a bit to make it more typo, I am going to experiment with 3 images for projection. One with no outline, one with a 1pt stroke and one without many of the organs.

Before I forget I thought I should add this. I reduced the scale my pieces by about 17% from far left to right. I decided to use the chart layout this swellen chart used. I also incorporated other information from 2 other swellen charts I found.

I am in love with this piece I think it turned out really well, I used a combination of eye charts to conduct this one which turned out a lot better than I thought, I am going to print it out on Monday and check that it has all turned out alright.

So with no other choice with my work, I had to re draw it on illustrator as a vector, which turned out pretty alright to ne fair. It turned out that I would have to use a gold background rather than black, which is fine by me, I think both look interesting, I chose black and gold as black is a stSo from my design context I came up with this, I incorporated everything I wanted to at the start of the brief. I love the clock face and how the face is cracked, I think it makes it look really cool. However the spider is 3 colours with stock, which pretty much ruins the detail. I would of hapily used this hand drawing although when I stretched it on photoshop to the scale it would be on the chart, it turned out that it was far to distort and didn't look very nice what so ever.

wrong colour and gold is very victorian clock style which is the kind of approach I was looking towards and best fitting my piece.

So In the end I had a big problem with designing type for image. But I overcame this problem by printing off seperate images and putting them on marc. Then drawing these images on with pen, however due to marc's hairy chest and stomach, the type cane out rather wrong, So I incorporated my previous selections in type, and the other organs were already in context, I simply took them into photoshop put a filter on them and coloured them in, So after a bit of stress it paid off.

So this is when I drew on marc... It was an interesting concept and started to go well until i hit his hair.. his thick ginger hair. The pen couldn't quite handle it's intenstity. Although I am happy I carried out this experiment as I know for future reference to use a woman as they are not hairy. oh marc

I'm not fully confident with the colour appearence on here, But in all honesty once the piece is printed It would look a lot better than the other.. I hope

With printing off in A1 I wanted to make sure that the colours I selected were in the phisical colour spectrum to cause no dissapointment when a shade of blue comes out as a bold grey. I used my swatch books and typed in the colour codes to the selected areas I wished to use. The majority of the colours seem to be within the Blue and pink shades. Alot of the colours look scary to me on here, as they are not what they look like in the book, although the reason for this is that I am looking at the digital colour spectrum... duh chris.

I love this quote I instantly thought of using an image like a body showing the different organs, a little like this that I drew:

Although I couldn't use this as it is not in context and doesnt answer the brief.. so i didn't carry on to finish it.
We have been asked to select three quotes from the articles we didn't use for the previous brief and have been asked to create these quotes in an image (without using image) These images have to be legible and at least have some development on a typeface that is pre existing.

Again the readers of The Guardian are the audience. Depending on the articles a different audience is required although in all it would be aimed at people who read the Guardian (as the image is on the inside and is not promoting the actual newspaper)

They need to know the tone of where the quote was extracted i.e. something relative to the article (co relates) In all essence I believe that a huge factor in this briefs response is that the quote has been examined as to who said it, where it was wrote/ said and the environment it was set in/ spoke.

They need to know this as it is a key factor in whether they read the article or whether they don't know one likes an article with a bad key image. It puts you off reading the whole article/ ruins it a bit. Hence why they need to know it.

The response element of the image depends on the article yet again, this varies from shock, argumentative and informative. Again it is very important not to cause any offense to the reader or any hint of the wrong tone of voice. Hopefully if designed correctly the reader will connect to the image by it linking in with the background of the article. Tells a story.

I believe a strong amount of background research is required on the quote and a good range of typefaces to refer to in development of my product. That amongst other elements is enough to refer to. Depending on the tone of the article will depend on what else I research.

My three quotes are:

'I wasn't so lucky I lost my spleen and appendix

From the starters section - I use to steal double-decker buses. as told to Jill Clark

This quote is on a serious tone and shocking in more than one way.

'Everyone you know is your friend on Facebook'

From the relationship maths section by Guy Browning

This quote to me is on a debatable level and is not to be taken very seriously.

'Big numbers'

From the mind and relations section by Oliver Burkeman

This article is one based on a bios opinion (his) that everyone is bad with big figures.

For the illness and elderly post I would like to incorporate an image which had a serious tone, I believe a photograph would be a great media to use, so, the concept. I am going to produce a photograph which makes the audience curious to what is going on. The photo will include some characters, all of which elderly, doing their every day life things such as: sitting on a park bench

bingo etc. I am going to conduct a few solutions to this problem in order to have some variety on my choice. I would like to take a photo of a hospital bed which is empty. But why is it empty? instantly you would think death. but the patient could of been released. Where they old? where they young? we don't know. In summary I want to produce a critical photo which needs answers pessimistic and optimistic.