speaking from experience, initial idea

analyse.

I produced these two variations, one with drawn images the other with rendered existing images, I think I prefer the drawn ones because it relates to the simplicity of the poster and also relates to the light hearted approach I aim to communicate to students. I chose the font because it seemed quite authentic yet also simplistic. I think the typeface is designed to be slightly more spaced out which increases clarity, but do these posters overall explore boldness and easy attention?

want- clothes
need- fruit (banana)
I grabbed this screen, I am drawing very simple drawings but I hope that they are clear and understandable. They need to be obvious possibly without words? Through manipulation and experimentation of my design I may not include text that helps clarify what they are.

I like letterpress

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what is a line?, how long is a piece of string?

This poster emerged from an initial idea I had to do with line. As I was doodling I thought about producing letterforms, images with just one line, 'continuous line' drawings. I had thought about instead of using a pen or pencil, creating an image/letterform by using another type of continuous line, string. I ended up straying from this idea because I started producing the zoetrope, however I really felt like producing a poster. 'How long is a piece of string?', not only relates to the material I used on the poster itself, but also relates to how I feel about the statement/question, 'what is a line?' A line is in everything, it is found everywhere and can relate to everything, I found this out through the use of my small sketchbook I made using photographs from a disposable camera capturing lines everywhere. In my opinion there is no right/definite answer for 'what is a line?', just like, 'how long is a piece of string?'. I produced this by using tiny blobs of strong glue and sticking the right bits of string down in order for it to follow the right path to eventually spell out 'how long is a piece of string?'.

what is a line?, zoetrope final

Unfortunately my zoetrope toy didn't actually work as an actual product, whether the images (progressing type) was too complex, or something to do with the sequence itself, you couldn't actually work out what the sequence spelt out. I tried out using the handwritten style text, and the block lettered sequence, and the handwritten worked a little better. Maybe this toy works properly only with very simple images, (e.g someone jumping, running). However, I liked the design, I was influenced by old fashioned toy packaging/designs, the colours I chose were quite vintage and also complimented the colour I chose to use to make the box itself. I was faced with the problem of packaging, in order to make a box, clean from any other labels, markings left on it from a box I could recycle, I would have to make one from scratch. The net I chose to use meant that I would need to connect the four edges somehow, I thought about paper/sellotape stuck on the inside, but then I would have rough/white edges where the card joined together. Printing the right colour onto sticky paper seemed to be a good idea, without it looking too 'mock up', I thought it ended up looking quite like an old fashion toy design.

When it came to the lid of the box, the sticky paper over a few weeks started to lose it's stick, I tried two types of strong glue and masking tape, the strain seemed to overpower the strength of the glue and the edges of the lid didn't stick together. Next time, I could use super glue and use strips of paper to hold it together. I suppose by me saying that I prefer this product a lot more when it is photographed explains the end result, annoyingly it didn't work, and I did experience a few production problems when it came to the professionalism and construction of the packaging. How it looks in the photographs seems to capture the best aspects of it, I like the design of it, just next time, figure out how it could actually work properly.

OUGD103, rationale

Brief,

I aim to help first years save money, keeping loose change.

Help hints, small captions and facts through posters to communicate advice for students

Who needs to know?,

students, 1st years

What do they need to know?,

short but straight to the point tips&advice, to do with using blogger.com, going to Morrisons, making sure you get your deposit (dart board). Loose change is useful, using a piggy bank will help you save money etc..

What will they respond to?,

Posters, net of piggy bank I will design

What research is required?,

research into designs for small boxes, piggy banks made from card. What loose change can be used for through common sense and from experience. Logos for Morrisons, Facebook?

what is a line? fffound, ideA?

Using a film camera, take photographs of lines that I see out and about?
ALL IN A MOLESKIN?

what is line?, twigs

country walk, all these twigs connected in some way as one continuous line

what is a line?, phone footage, travel and boundaries

Driving from Leeds to Letchworth, I thought about 'what is a line' as being defining areas, creating boundaries. The lines on the road not only represent obvious lines, they also repeat, and also distinguish a boundary. Again, this could just be a short record of what I saw whilst traveling from A to B.




Baring in mind, boundaries, I thought about how the sky is sometimes considered as the limit. For some reason the clouds looked almost reachable, they seemed to close but obviously weren't. They were all lined up together, almost like a sequence of clouds.

what is a line?, phone footage of travel

I was on the train from Letchworth to Leeds and I thought of line definitions, one being 'series of events', this could relate to repetition of trees, houses and whatever else I past on the way up to Leeds. I also saw travel as a line, its the distance and the route taken up to a certain place. I just filmed short amounts of time of what I saw, I kept the window frame in the same place as a way to hint obviously, line. In a way they are short diaries of what I saw, what may just seem as a blur, this communicates the speed of the train and the journey I took.