Saturday, 6 October 2012

What is Graphic Design? [Part 1]

Previously tasked with selecting 10 images of our personal and creative interests into Graphic design, we then in our blog groups explained to the group why we liked the pieces selected. Going around the group, we each talked about our images then wrote down the reasons. We then put down the most common ones then got them on the board. As a class we created 14 different words to pick from. From them 14 words we picked 5 words each then from them. 5 images relating to them words:

  • Creative use of type*
  • Attention to detail*
  • Tone of voice
  • Detail
  • Simplicity/minimal*
  • Meanings and messages
  • Visual content
  • Interactive audience engagement*
  • Style aesthetic*
  • Media production
  • Form & format
  • Personal interest
  • Language
  • Structure & layout


Creative use of Type:
I choose pieces of design that varied from each other, for creative use of type I looked a bit too much into Sagmesiter & Walsh but I do feel they are really creative with type. The materials used, the forms and ways in which they display them. Anyway, I wanted to show a varied and I think I got that.


For attention to detail, I choose pieces that weren't perhaps incredibly detailed, but the detail that had gone into them, the outlined ear bud one for example takes details from the face and replicates them simply with lines, it's not an incredible drawing but it pays a lot of attention of detail to getting them right, such applies to the rest of the images I choose.

http://www.digitalartserved.com/gallery/Earplug-Portraits/4535663
http://www.behance.net/gallery/MTV-Music-Television-Download-Bar/4363897
http://www.behance.net/gallery/MAPS-a-journey-around-the-world-in-pictures/5287153
http://www.behance.net/gallery/Typography-lover/5142265
http://www.typographicposters.com/kouglof/
http://www.typographicposters.com/homa-delvaray/
http://www.typographicposters.com/goncalo-leite/

Simplicity of Design:

Simplicity of design seemed like It'd be easy, but I didn't feel like a lot of minimalistic designs were really all the good, I wanted pieces that were smart or at least creative.I found these mostly on typographic posters as I felt this is where alot of designs are gonna be easy to find in a professional enviroment that display simple aesthetics because of the sheer amount of the posters up on this blog.

http://www.typographicposters.com/hort/
http://www.behance.net/gallery/Shared-Voices-Posters/4700315
http://www.behance.net/gallery/Blackbird-wine/3244267
http://www.typographicposters.com/kiko-farkas/
http://www.typographicposters.com/toormix-11-years/
http://www.typographicposters.com/pedram-harby/
http://www.typographicposters.com/i-like-birds/

Audience engagement / interaction:
For audience engagement I picked design pieces there were something you can't really avoid, billboard, a map, bus-stop poster and a window engagement [H.Samuel], I always found you have an engagement with them and they're something I find my self always influenced by. 

http://www.advertisingserved.com/gallery/HSamuel-Worth-A-Look/736733
http://www.behance.net/gallery/Levis-Kinetic-Billboard/2665059
http://wearefounded.com/baltic_shop.htm
http://inagorillacostume.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/District-9-Guerrilla-Marketing-Movie-Bus-Stop-Poster.jpg
http://www.bbc.co.uk/london/travel/downloads/tube_map.gif

 Style or aesthetic quality:

FI picked a variety of different styles and aesthetics, vectors, traditional and pixel art, there's too many I could have picked from so I tried to keep it narrow and limit my self because i felt my self going wild with this one and I wasn't to sure how many to pick, anyway, I'm gonna continue this collection i really like how this one is going.

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