Message and delivery final posters - OUGD403

Poster number one is just using type.

Poster number two, using purely image.

Poster number three combining both type and image.

I feel like, as a set, these posters work really well to communicate the idea and the curiosity I wanted to show from my initial research. I wanted to keep them simple and easy to understand to keep the message clear and obvious, and I think that I have achieved this with these three posters. The thing I have a small issue about is I am unsure whether the idea of a telephone like through the last two posters will be clear enough for the audience to understand, but I will see if this will come up in the crit.

Message and delivery: Distribution - OUGD403

 

 As a continuation of the message and delivery brief, we have to use our three posters as inspiration to create a mail shot to send out to our chosen audience, portraying the message we were showing in our posters.

My initial ideas are creating something that is educational, but at the same time explores the idea of communication between species and explores the curiosity behind a story like the one i am working with.

The envelope I send my mail shot in has to be interesting, and has to stand out enough for the schools/colleges etc want to open it and read what it has to say. I also want the whole piece to be curious, and have many parts to it for the students to look at and discover.

To stitch a little book or leaflet inside the envelope I think would be really interesting and adds another dimension to the piece. If i keep the stitch open at both ends it would also be possible for the book to be taken out of the envelope if needed, so it can be a separate resource.

Another resource in the mail shot could be a smaller leaflet in a pocket inside the envelope. This could simply be a smaller version one of my posters or a smaller card of information about communication between species.

Design principles - Identifont. OUGD404

In the group we were each asked to find 5 typefaces from the universities computers and print them out. We were then asked to choose another persons typefaces and using identifont.com, use the characteristics of the typeface to figure out what font each of them are. 

1. Lucdia Bright

Designed by Charles Bigelow and Kris Holms in 1985.

 2. Using Identifont, i couldn't find this font. I tried many different variations on answers that i was uncertain on but still i had no luck. 

However looking on the universities computers i found that this font is braggadocio. designed by W.A. Woolley in 1930.

 

 

  3.Lyndian Cursive, designed in 1991-1995 and published by ascender corp.

 4.Ariel, designed by Robin Nicholas and Patricia Saunders in 1984. Published by Monotype, a version of this font has been provided free with Microsoft office since 1992, but the full font is avaliable to buy from:

myfonts.com

linotype.com

fontshop.com

ascenderfonts.com

 etc. for around £18.

 

 

5. Suomi Slab Serif, designed by Tomi Haaparanta in 2009.

Message and delivery development -OUGD403

For this brief i had the idea of communication and using the line as a representation of a telephone wire, or a string between two cans that you can talk between. Using the imagery of the whale and the canary makes it obvious that this is the story of a whale that has made human like sounds, and the asking of the question shows the curiosity that I want to portray. I did originally keep this poster mostly handmade because i like the way that the type flows within the telephone wire, but after testing this out on the stock I don't think hat it works very well as a handmade piece, and so I am going to try to re-create something similar on illustrator and see how this works. 

Print workshop - OUGD403

Vinyl cut print.

Wood block print.

Mono print.

I have really enjoyed learning these new ways to print and use type within printing. My favourite way to print out of these three processes has been the mono prints because it is easy to create multiple different prints and you can't be sure how each one will look until you do it. The prints that i got from this process are all really interesting and i loved playing around with layering the prints and re printing things after changing their position or turning them upside down.

Studio Brief: Message and delivery - OUGD403

 

As part of this brief we were asked to create a set of three posters, one using type, one using image and one combining both image and type. These posters are to be based on the initial research we have on a news story from October 23rd. As my story was quite scientific and also a little humorous i want to keep these posters quite lighthearted and visually interesting.

 

Design Principles - OUGD404

As part of a a task set during the design principles session we had to think of different ways of categorising letterforms, and as a group we came up with 5. Serif, sans serif, script/calligraphy, handwritten and serif bold.

However, after doing this we looked into different ways of categorising the letterforms and found that it is best to categorise them in terms of where they came from and what kind of material is used to make them non digitally. These categories are stone, sable, bone, wood, lead and silicone.