Of course there is problems with the internet at the hostel, why I haven’t written in a couple of days, and I am so looking forward to move now! Just ONE night left!
Monday I got a lot of new briefs and I’ll try to describe what we are about to do.
Every fifth week we have something called production week were we have no lessons but work on our own projects. Last week was production week and the first week after is always the one where we get all new briefs.
Symbols & Distribution:
Take a photo of five teachers in school and make a pixel portrait of them on the computer, for example Photoshop. I don’t have any example to show you yet but you’ll understand what I mean. It’s supposed to become a bit like an exaggeration of the person.
Also, I’ve been sketching on some symbols for our brainstorming ideas about the refugees stuff, which I will explain later on what we have chosen to do.
Typography & Context:
I have come up with a theme, on the “Giants of typography” - booklet bout a typographer, that motivates me a lot and I’m still in the sketching process. Also, I’ve started to think about the layout of the final book for this course.
Frameworks of Design:
It is harder than I thought to come up with a logo for your self… still sketching but it needs to be at least 90% done Tuesday. In class yesterday we practiced layout on business cards, the hierarchy of all the elements and some creative examples on themes. Also, to create harmony between the rows of info, for example the row:
“Address: 178 George Street NSW 2034 Sydney”
don’t match with the appearance of the row:
“Tel: 040 298 79 47 because it is not visually pleasing. One thing you can do here is for example to spell out the word “Telephone” or arrange it in a better way to make the rows more even. You can also work with tabs doing this.
Studio Practice:
Press kit + event with invitation to the event of your idea (love hotel). Produce the kit for real! Even though we are a group we are asked to graphically design our own ideas with the correct measurements and pitch it to our group with good arguments to make them convinced. Our target audience is only married couples in Istanbul I’m planning the fictional event to be a mad up wedding in Istanbul. Maybe the invitation can be inside the wedding cake?
Yesterday I went to this event to relax before starting the week for real.
So, back to work!
