Nmed 2005- Assmt 8

I'm kind-of worried after seeing everyone elses assignment that I took the wrong approach to this assignment. To argue my work however, I did create a design that is clearly inspired by designer Nigel Evan Dennis and he does not really use much typology in his designs. I suppose his works are moreso art pieces than graphic designs in the traditional sense. We have been manipulating images a lot in NMED 1000 and I have been having so much fun with it that I cant seem to stop. I did invest quite a bit of time into this project so I hope it is not a total bust.

Assignment 7 Redone

So I was going to change the font on this as was suggested but every time I tried to do so the clipping mask on the characters got all screwed up and I was not willing to invest a massive amount of time redoing it as Assignment 8 took me a really long time. I hope it is acceptable. I feel as if it meets the assignment requirements better now anyways.

Assignment 7 Final Decision

So this is the final copy I decided to go with. It's a little empty but I think it gets the message across.

Visual Onomatopoeia Nmed 2005

Voila, my two attempts.

This was my second attempt at the assignment. I was much more pleased with it than the first attempt. I felt like it looks better without the feet on top but I added them anyways because I thought maybe it was too empty otherwise although maybe the white space is a good thing?? Let me know if anyone happens to read this.

I don't really like this one. It's not very legible but it definitely looks crammed which is what I was going for although a crammed design is not a very aesthetically pleasing one so it is no wonder why I dont like it.

Assignment 3 Book Life NMED 1000

I had fun doing this project. After doing the collage tutorial in class today, I wish I could have blended my images better in this project and made the design a little more compelling, but one can only do as much as they know how to, right? Overall, I was pleased with the way it printed out although the black ink started to fade quite noticably for some of the pages but it cost me 9 bucks to print so I wasn't about to take it somewhere else and get it done again. Despite the fading, I prefer the overall product of the printed version better than the screen version, mainly because it is bound together and it is just more satisyfing to look at it on paper as opposed to screen. I felt the story was kind-of cheesy, but I got positive feedback regarding it, so I decided to go with it and not be my own worst critic.

The Character of Type - Assmt 6 Nmed 2005

I chose the Futura font after about two hours of looking through fonts on the internet and then realizing that I could not install any at school. I wasn't too disapointed, though, because I had chosen a futuristic sans serif font on the internet aswell so I could still proceed with my original concept. I did a bit of research and found out that Futura was created in the 1920's, during the the boom of post-modern movements in Europe. Futura was used a lot in Bauhaus design so that is why I included those three colored images. The text is an excerpt taken from Marinetti's futurist manifesto. It was interesting because I had no idea that the orginal idea of futurism was so fascist and glorified war. The excerpt I chose speaks of the idolatry of the machine and the desire for an automated human, hence the hand image. Although the manifesto was originally written in Italian, I chose to translate all the text to german since Futura as a font was originally very popular in Germany. I chose to make the layout and most of the elements of the poster quite simple to fit in with this futuristic concept of simple geometric shapes and cold, impersonal, machine-related colors.