process and production indesign typography poster

In this post I will be talking about the typography poster i made which was part of some homework we revived. The work was to create a typography poster using the graphic design manifesto and select some of the parts we thought connected with us to create our own personal manifesto. I decided to create a Josef Muller-brockmenn style poster. I chose the text I wanted to put on my poster and translated it into german because most of Muller-brockmenns posters are in german. Here is the finished result 

Process and production Photoshop intro

In today process and production we learnt a little bit more about photoshop by creating collages. We learnt how to use the different cut tools such as the magic wand, lasso tool ect ect I found this task to be very useful because I learnt all the shortcuts on the mac. The purpose of the task was to design a post card using the images that were provided here is what I had created.

  This is how you create a gray scale in photoshop using the image mode settings.

 This screenshot shows the "marching ants" after selecting the sky with the magic wand tool.

This screenshot shows that the selected area has been deleted usign the magic wand tool.

This screen shot shows me placing a picture of sky in photoshop by placing it in a layer all i need to do now is organise the layers.

 This is what I had created using the tools I learnt about and the images that were provided. This session really helped me learn the short cuts in photoshop and how to use the tools correcly and other little tricks that I didnt know were a thing. 

Process and production visual tone colour changing video

In today's process and production we were learning the basics of after effects by using transitions between coloured layers. Having used after effect before I found this task to be a little bit tedious and slow. But I completed the ask and this is what I came up with. 

changing colours process and production 1 from jamie milner on Vimeo.

Blog assesment chat Theory as practiced

Today we talked about how our blogs are important and are key to us passing our course there are three main sections to the blog which are theory as practiced, process and production and studio. We are expected to update our blogs when ever we can and we will get informal feedback through out the year on each of the projects.

Surrealism Theory as Practice

Surrealism

Surrealism is a cultural 20th-century avant-garde movement that began in the early 1920s, and is best known for its visual artworks and writings. The aim was to resolve the previously contradictory conditions of dream and reality into an absolute reality, a super-reality by irrational juxtaposition of images. Surrealism has produced some of the most well know artists such as Salvador dali, Max Ernst and Pablo Picasso. 

Pablo Picasso

Salvador Dali the persistence of memory

Square, Circle, Triangle Theory as Practice

Today we were given quite an unusual task, The task was to think about a square, circle and triangle and colour them with the colour we though best represented them.

for the triangle I chose the colour green because I thought that they symbolise a tree which in turn symbolises nature and to me the colour of nature is the colour green. 

The Square has lots of edges and points which is very "edgy" and i thought the best colour was red because to me this symbolises anger, danger and passion.

and for the circle I chose the colour blue as a circle is endless and peaceful as is the ocean which is why i chose the colour blue because I thought this was the best colour that made me feel more relaxed and peaceful. 

 

The Bauhaus Theory as practice.

The bauhaus 

Staatliches Bauhaus, commonly known simply as Bauhaus, was a German art school operational from 1919 to 1933 that combined crafts and the fine arts, and was famous for the approach to design that it publicised and though form over function. The Bauhaus sought to combine art, craft and technology to reach a common goal and common vision of a pure form of design without unnecessary decoration it was practical, functional and clean. The school taught across the board in a range of art and design forms ideas and principles. the bauhaus has taught some of the most influential designers such as josef albers, wassily kandisky, paul keel and joost schmidt.

 Left: Poster Art, Focus on Typography Design, Bauhaus School / Right: Art Work from unknown Bauhaus artist. Images via wikipedia.org

Memories

Today we were given the task of drawing out memories on story boards but with each story board we had to zoom out, I really liked this task because it was a different kind of sense of place because as I was drawing my memories I could remember how I felt during the memory I was drawing. I really want to try use a part of this in my project and see what memories make people feel about the place it happened in.

what is sense of place?

In this session we gathered in groups with post it notes to discuss what we thought a sense of place meant there were some notes already on the wall which were different categories such as artists, designers and books we had to think of something which related to our sense of place brief but fit under each category. This really helped me think about what was going to go into my research and influenced me heavily.

The Book Of Lies

In today's first studio we created the book of lies which is a computer generated slide show. We started off by filling out a questionnaire where we had to tell one truth and several lies. This was pretty fun being asked to lie, some of the lies were pretty funny. Then we had to have our picture taken to have the lies randomly generated over our portraits. The final result was pretty fun and I really enjoyed this session.

Process and procuction location drawing.

In today session we went out in Huddersfield in groups and given a specific place to draw. My group was given George's square near the train station we had to create visually pleasing drawings to create a map of the area. Down below are some of the drawings that were done and the final map with combined drawings of all the groups.

Theory is practice academic skills and writing styles

Today we had a lecture about academic skills and writing due to out up coming essay we have to write. I found this session useful because I struggle to write academically and the points we covered were extremely useful such as time plans, mind maps and planning and creating a draft of the essay. After this session I feel more comfortable in going forward and writing a well structured essay which makes sense and answers the question.

Theory as practice book research

In today session he had to bring in one piece of information e.g a book or online article. For those who did we had to team up with someone and describe to them what we had bought in. I decided to use the book visual communication which teaches the link between that and theory. The idea of this task was to teach us about detailed writing we could include in our essay so it would become more clear to us what we were going to write in the essay.

We also had another task which was slightly confusing. The task we had was to look at a picture that was projected onto the screen which was of a bear sat on a chair we then had to describe what we saw I'm the form of detailed writing. Once I had completed his task it was clear that this task also helped me understand detailed writing within our essay.

Theory as practice convergence

Today we were talking about convergence and how it can influence and better our work. We started the day with a lecture from another student who was doing his masters and gave us lots of useful information about how convergence can make our work unique.

What is convergence?

convergence is the transition of information so between information being communicated and information being understood. 

some examples convergence are; 

the convergence of different technologies, 

convergence of different ideas, 

convergence of practices/disciplines e.g. graphic design and animation.  

 Later that day we then had a task where he had to think about convergence and use materials such as magazine and news paper cut outs. We had to create something with them which was a great task and helped me understand the convergence between ideas and development.

medium is the message theory as practiced

Medium is the massage a phase coined by Marshall McLuhan, it means that the form of medium embeds itself in any message creating a symbiotic relationship by which the medium influences how the message is perceived.

the book; understanding media; the extensions of man by Marshall McLuhan explains this in more detail. 

for example a message can be printed r placed on something that will make you perceive it in a different way.   

This is an example of medium is the message. its a solar powered billboard advertisement in California its saying "this isn't a billboard" when in a matter of fact it is because its advertising solar power and then it proceeds to say "its a power plant" which technically it is because its producing its own power for its own light. It makes us question what it really is because of the message that is printed onto the billboard.