Graphic Design final book - year 1

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The War Between Type and Image

The war between type and image was about creating 6 of our own unique battle fields, 3 containing only type and the other 3 containing only images. We then had to hand over our battle grounds to the Friday group who fought back against out type with image and vise versa. These are my 6 finished products, I didn't really see the point of this project until I saw my finished pieces. I think they're graphically really beautiful and quite strong images, I'm really happy with them.   

Book Off

For book off we were to create a cover for the test book, however I got the wrong end of the stick and thought that we were creating a cover for our own book. So instead I had one hour to create a cover for the test book. It's not great I know, but it could be a lot worse. The girl with a wolf head comes from a drawing of mine, showing how fierce the test book is gonna be! BOOM.

Jazz Band

Jazzy fizzle! My fabulous instrument is called the F**K YOU! Basically I entirely blame my dad for this creation he helped me a lot with the making and with the name calling after he planted a bad idea in my head of holding down all the fingers apart from the middle one. So I cleverly picked a piece of branding that is pretty bad ass; the two naughty fingers pulling down a bottom lip to reveal a tattooed inside lip with the words "f**k you" on it. Whilst performing on Royal Victoria bridge my instrument kind of sounded something like a boat horn, oh well we tried our best to jazz up the sunny afternoon at the bridge.

Blazing Biographies

Shigeru Miyamoto

Born 1950 in Kyoto, Japan he studied at Kanazana college of art and he is now a game director, producer, character artist, game designer and EAD general manager. He's created some of the most successful video game franchises of all time including Mario, Donkey Kong and The Legend Of Zelda.

As a child he didn't have many toys so he often made his own and as he grew older he wandered away from his home on foot or by bike. The natural surroundings of Kyoto inspired much of Miyamotos work, one day he came across a hole in the ground and he peered inside but saw nothing but darkness. The next day he returned with a lantern and squeezed through the hole and found himself in a small cavern, he could see passageways that led to other chambers. He continued to return to this cave and so forth his explorations of Kyoto and the cave have been a huge source in his enthusiasm for inventing and designing video games. The cave has become a misty but indispensable part of his legend. 

This video is definitely something that first came to mind.

Not All Who Wander Are Lost

After my three minute presentation yesterday I discussed my idea of going on an "adventure" inspired by Miyamoto's journeys as a young boy. I think I'll treat it as a documentation process of my adventure, so filming, taking photographs, drawing and noting conversations I hear or have with people. I'm excited as I have no idea what will happen and it leaves me open to new experiences.
Tomorrow I'm taking a trip to Brighton for the day. I'm also going to purchase this book.

Stephen Shore

Stephen Shore is an American photographer, at the age of fourteen he contacted MoMA's director of photography asking them if he could come and show them his work. And so his career began and by the age of seventeen he was already a huge part of New Yorks conceptual and pop art scenes and he ended up crossing paths with Andy Warhol. Despite his successes he had never experienced much of the world and so in 1972 he set out with a friend to Amarillo, Texas. Later that year he went off again alone with the desire to capture and communicate exactly what he had seen. He wanted to explore the country as an everyday tourist so he used a 35mm colour film and a camera that is now deemed as a "point and shoot" camera. He titled the project "American Surfaces" to emphasise the superficial nature of the things he captured, he relentlessly photographed almost every meal he ate, every person he met, every waiter or waitress that served him, every bed he slept in, every toilet he used and streets he drove through.