The Real Thing

I finally found and bought a lot of wooden rulers which I cut up and made into the shape of a crown. They needed a bit of photoshopping to change their garish colour and to get rid of the "made in china" printed on them. 

The Poster

I printed off scaled images of rulers and glued them onto a cardboard crown I made. It looked alright but I knew I wasn't going to be happy with it not being the real thing.

More Crowns

I wasn't happy with the photoshop results so I played around with different methods of how to achieve a clean image. I used an image from the internet of lots of wooden rulers lined up and made a few clipping masks in the shape of crowns to do this.

Ruler

For our new project I was given the word "wooden ruler" the idea is to celebrate this everyday object. 

  
I had trouble finding decent wooden rulers so I had to photoshop my idea.

Departure

I was thinking about the signage we see in airports and made these for my project. Instead of the symbol of an airplane which is used to indicate the word departure, I used the letter E. The other image is based on the departure board and the font used.

Have Your Passports Ready

Made this up in Illustrator and Photoshop. I took photos of the family's passports and arranged them into the letter E. The file size was huge and my laptop crashed a couple of times but I got there in the end. I think this is a good image for Emigration, tonnes of passports piled on top of one another.

Boxes

These are photos of some boxes I made.

E for Emigration

This is one of my ideas that I did up in illustrator. It shows a tool board with the tools missing or gone to indicate the many tradesmen (tradespeople) that have had to emigrate in order to find work. The top pic should not have some of the tool silhouettes greyed out, I don't know how this happened. Fixed

Sketches

Here are some of my sketch sheets for the illustration brief. Some are literal interpretations of the word "trimmed" and others are created using the scamper method, combining two or more images.

Chip Kidd

I watched this last year and Chip Kidd is quite a character. I love his design for the book cover he talks about in the Tedtalk film, it is one of the typography pieces I chose as an example of work I like.

Illustration for "Trimmed"

From three concept ideas one was chosen, this will be the illustrative piece for my final assessment. I have a week to complete it and I am working on it at the moment. Here is what I've created so far.

Trimmed

The word I have been given to illustrate is "trimmed". I've made a mind map and illustrations of all the literal assocations and now I am begining to make combinations of the images. Here is one I have been working on tonight. I printed of three pictures and am arranging them in photoshop and illustrator to hopefully express the word "trimmed".

VisCom Week 1

Here are two of the pieces I chose as examples of styles of graphic design I like. This first one is by American graphic and poster artist Jason Munn. It is typographical and the font he uses is in contrast to the violent act that has just occured. It is a humorous piece and it made me laugh when I first saw it. His style is simple and clean and he screen prints most of his work. San Francisco's MOMA has some of his posters in their permanent collection.

This next piece is another poster. Icelandic graphic designer Siggi Eggertsson was commissioned by their national bank to create posters celebrating important holidays. He is noted for his bold geometric style and the piece below is a good example of this.

I Ran To The Window...





This is the finished stop motion. It would be nice to have a bit more time to fine tune and play around with After Effects. Still, I'm very happy with the results and had fun making it.

 

Stop Motion

I've changed the look of the character in my animation, I think he looks a bit like Junior Soprano with his big glasses. At the moment I have one third of the film complete I need to create the outdoor scene now.

ANIMATION

On Monday we started the first of our three electives, mine kicked off with animation. The brief.... created a 15 second stop motion. We had a choice of opening sentences and I picked "I ran to the window...". Here are some initial photos, I am trying to get the scale right and also work through how I can practically make each scene.