GLYPH NATION

These be a few of me glyphs. All based on our early trip to Poole. They have all been produced on Adobe Illustrator.

Grids and Layouts

Today we started our next brief within the text and image module named 'Promo Print'. It is a three week project where we are to design and create an 8 page booklet.

Today we had an introduction into grids and layouts, learning the meanings to all the words used when dealing with a grid or a layout.

GRID=FOR DESIGNERS EYES

LAYOUT=FOR READERS EYES

We worked in groups in a mini task to create a layout each for a book to portray variety. The idea to work in groups was good as we were all able to crit eachothers work and agree on orders or ideas for layouts.

I like the thoughts behind the ideas processes in layout design..with lots of quick and rough thumbnail sketches to gain ideas and find influence. Pages that are very busy and full of scribbles and sketches are ideal to my kind of learning.

generally....i find it hard to work/concentrate at weekends.

so when i effectively have a 4 day weekend..i am finding it difficult to concentrate

note to self: work on this.

Yesterday was a disaster. A whole day planned to do work, yet i fail to even pick up a pen. This week's four day weekend will be heavily dominated by PPRD and text and image work and research.

On wednesday this week we were shown the basics of letterpress. By far the best thing i have done/been involved in/shown on this course so far. I loved it and definately feel that im going to involve Letterpress form in as many pieces of my work this year as i can. I produced an A3 sized piece of work with the message 'power of words' in with a whole load of mixed up random blocks of letterform. (pictures to follow)

For a bout a year now i have kept a scrap book of newspaper cuttings and bits of illustration that i enjoy and i finally been able to put alot of it to use in this text and image project. One in particular was a newspaper cutting i found from the sun, about an artist called Kiera Rathbone. Her work is incredible. She produces very detailed and intricate illustrations using only a typewriter. meaning all features on the illustrations are made intirely from characters and glyphs found on a typewriter. i'll upload some of her work shortly.

But for now.. i go back to filling my head with knowledge of artists and designers related to text and image who i will hopefully find inpsiration from.

peace out

Eddy Mac

Glyphs and Icons

We've been told to research glyphs and icons this weekend..

London 2012 unveil icons to be used today.

Inspired by the London Underground

The beach volleyball one is a personal favourite.

This is the image i based my recent Editorial Illustration on. It is a photograph of the Boat masts at the harbour in poole. I've messed around with the levels and hue and saturation in photoshop to get the colours right.

At 6's and sevens

Vis com house party last night. Everyone seems ace. Made me feel much better about the course. getting up for uni this morning. not nice.

In other news..

Found out about a ski/snowboarders society this week.result! trip planned for January.

Football trials were on monday, returning after not playing a competitive match in almost 7 months..and had to play in a postition i had never played in before!but it went ok, the myths about players who have expensive boots are good are all lies.

trust copa mundials

off the mark..

1934 hundred hours on 11/10/09 marks the time of my first ever blog entry. I will be regularly updating it as it is going to be working along side my university course. I hope you enjoy my creative, innovative, random and sometimes quite contraversial ideas that i will be keeping a note of on Irrelevant Supremacy.

Peace

Eddy Mac