Personal Professional Practices: 2012

Thursday, 20 December 2012

How to: Group Presentation & Finals

Group Presentation:

Final Outcomes:
Billboard posters:

Bus-stop posters:

Lower-rear bus poster:

Shock advertising parking ticket:

Friday, 14 December 2012

This power-crit was revolved around our work done on public transport for the past week, I'd researched into 'Divides in Class' the boards I presented can be seen above in the Issu document.

I had alot of fun with this, It was something I got into because It's something that really interests me. Why should they be divides in class, people separated to experience the same thing differently. I guess where I would take it further is the issue, and that came up in the crit. I'm not to sure, even now. It's social commentary doesn't really lead me anywhere other than pointing the obvious.

Everyone else's work was just as interesting too, as bland as the topic might seem Public transport can be broken down into different sections to be investigated and followed with interesting things from that. I'd just wouldn't make the best of conversation to talk about how long a waiting time is for boarding economy class compared to first class. It was evident everyone had gone a full length with it however, and how it all comes together is gonna be even hopefully even better.

Thursday, 22 November 2012

End of Module Assessment

Friday, 16 November 2012

Message & Delivery: Distrubtion

Taking the main points from the feedback would be generally positive, with constructive feedback onto the parts on where I had gone wrong. This would include the fact that I had actually created an outcome which didn't fit the brief criteria, it had to be an envelope. The size was right, It was just that part I'd gone wrong on. Also to make the message of the perforation clearer. These were easy to resolve so I'm taking note of this feedback because It was incredibly helpful that it was picked up on, they were things that had totally flown over me.

I struggled alot with this brief, I think the main part as unlike the other brief I had started to over think and over complicate things, It's not something I often do either and I ended up stalling my self in creating the design. I held back on alot of the designs as I felt they didn't fit the audience or message I was trying to get across which was really direct, and I was trying to make that happen in around about way. It was rather last minute because of this and I feel the outcome reflected that through it's concept, the production of the design pieces however I feel was really good. I was able to find a perforator to complete the perforation part to the design so I was able to go forward with that and It made a great interactive piece.

I much preferred this crit to the previous one, having a extra mind to help out while writing down the feedback allowed us to get alot more done faster and talk about what we thought the messages were, I'd like to do a crit like this again because it's just the right size with two people, anymore and the work load would have been dumped on the odd one out as it all so happens in bigger groups.

Friday, 9 November 2012

Message & Delivery: Research

I wasn't able to take much away from the feedback from this crit, mainly because the feedback was mostly all positive and didn't bare much on the possible faults in the work it's self. However I with this crit I felt it was rather rushed and I wasn't able to get what I wanted to write down about other peoples work down in time I felt I was able too so maybe this was reflected with them on this on what they perhaps would have had chance to say about my work as well. Hopefully next time we do a crit like this we'll have more time to reflect on the work and write down our thoughts. It was great to get alot of feedback written all the the same time though, or come back too.

My personal thoughts on the outcomes is that if I was to do them again, I think I would maybe perhaps change the styling of them and go for a more traditional look, somewhat closer to what the constructivists had going, but then again this was for a modern audience, going back to that would probably lose that aspect to it. I felt this was more designed for designers rather then people. This is the only nit pick I have for the posters however. I think with anymore time I would have other thinked them and probably created not as strong outcomes, having to think quick and create a outcome with a straight to the point message was constantly on my mind.

I really enjoyed creating the posters however, It was a great break in getting back into something I was comfortable with once again, a break to from typography, but was really refreshing. I was really impressed with the overall outcomes of everyone else's in the crit as well. It was incredible to see such a variation in work for many had picked the same article to work from. Not alot had happened in the news recently, and from this It was great to see where everyone was at.

Thursday, 8 November 2012

Message & Delivery: Power Crit

In this power critique we were to bring in research revolving around our article we had chosen from a News paper, for the research I bought to the table, It can be found in my posts here.

This was a really interesting crit, having not been up to date with the current affairs in the world and nation, It was really cool to here what other people had brought to the table and to light with their articles they had researched into. Such as the Lance Armstrong's blood doping and the earth quake aftermath blame game going on in Spain.

It's inspired me to try and keep more and more update, I've added BBC's news page to my book marks bar so I can keep having a look to see what's going on more often.

Monday, 22 October 2012

Contextualisation Task

As a small task we were to apply out typeface to context, so to place it within a situation where it would be fitting, I choose to put it into the following below: (rewrite)

After putting them all up on the wall it was really cool to see everyones work collectively in context.

Sunday, 21 October 2012

PPP Question: 5

Am I up to date on my blog posts?

PPP Question: 4

Is everything tagged correctly?

PPP Question: 3

Does my blog communicate my progress as a designer?

PPP Question: 2

Is the work on my blog relevant and appropriate?

PPP Question: 1

Quality of work - Is everything explained, written work? Etc.

Alphabet Soup Evaluation & Crit

From the starting questionnaire we had I was given a lot of information about Daisy, I discarded quite a lot of it because I couldn't see it been of any use to much. In regards to creating typography from anyway, I looked through it for places to start. I suggested to write down each others handwriting, Daisy's had really great form and it was a instant inspiration to me, why not create a typeface based on her handwriting and influences in design. Taking a typeface which roughly represents her interests and bringing it together with her handwriting was my starting point and I went into tunnel vision from there. Creating her handwriting as a typeface.

I have to say, a lot worked for this. The typeface merged beautifully with the handwriting, taking her mannerisms inside of her handwriting. A little of the form, the arches and kicks. Beautiful. It went along with Futura really nicely, aesthetically anyway...

However what didn't work in the typeface was the transition from tracing paper to digital creating it. I found it just didn't feel right, it was bulky and although it represent her handwriting I don't feel it got across the messages I was trying to get across, such as it been her handwriting. So from there I created each one using the middle of the letters of each letter, this then became my final outcome which was then printed and traced onto the A1 sheet of tracing paper I then presented at the crit.

If I was to do anything differently, next time I think I would definitely look into my influences to bring into the design, I stuck to one idea and went all the way with it. Although I do like the outcome alot, I have to say, I feel I limited my self with the whole project and narrowed it down possibly too much. But then again the idea was unlike everyone elses and I guess this could it be it's one merit on not doing anything like everyone else? I don't know, but that'd be where I'd change my attitude if I was to do this again however.

In the crit we stood and talked about how we created our finals and what it represented in our partner. I guess mine was pretty straight forward on that it was the handwriting and the process behind creating it I mentioned. Also along with that how I took action on the previous progress crit on decreasing the size of the stroke [mentioned more in the practice post on the typeface's creation]. It was amazing to see everyones typefaces and I strongly feel daisy's typeface reflected me. It's weird because I never think what would represent me, but seeing someone else's interoperation of me was really weird and eye opening to see.

Friday, 19 October 2012

Interval Crit

For the interval critique I presented my work that I'd created so far for my typeface based on Daisy, my current ideas been on recreating her hand writing into a fully formable typeface, using futura for my base typeface. I've been working into by using the base mannerisms in her hand writing and applying them to futura. I choose to use futura because of the similarities in the typeface and her writing were really similar in form, not mannerisms however, i.e: flicks and similarities to the forms.

The above were the pages I showed at the interval crit which includes the work I had done so far, with printed pages at hand as well. The feedback I got was to try and experiment with line and form more and to see about using a different typeface perhaps. - also work on design sheets.