November 2015 – Level 2 Design

November 25, 2015Brandon Barton No Comments

Workshop 10 – Completion of Typeface

After getting part of my infographic to a near finished standard I wanted to finalise my typeface and work on getting it to a standard where it’s near the ability of practical usage. After creating some new letter forms a few weeks prior to this I decided I wanted the overall theme to match the new letters I made.

I also made slight alterations to previous letters which didn’t match the standards I wanted.

After creating the letters: Q rs tu, prior I wanted to focus on the sharp flicks on my letters, I also focused on creating letters as descenders and Ascenders, similar to what you’d expect from old scribe writing.

As an overall typeface I’m really happy with how it turned out, and I feel as though I gained a great understanding of the software through trial and error.

November 18, 2015Brandon Barton No Comments

Workshop 9 – Near Completion of A2 Poster

During week 9 I went back to the Einstein brief, I made further iterations on the overall design of my poster and eventually came to a near final product.

I decided to start from scratch with my A2 poster and go for a theme which had some overall flow to it. After researching the information on Einstein’s wormhole theory I had a general idea of the audience I wanted to aim my design at along with the supporting graphics I wanted to create.

For my audience I set out to create something informative for younger teenagers, children who are potentially leaving primary school and heading to secondary. I’m also slowly starting to piece together a colour theme, for this I used to website called http://www.paletton.com this gave me reassurance with the colours I was using.

My second iteration of the one above just expanded on the usage of vectors and the created more of a solid colour theme with the usage of Blues and Orange.

November 11, 2015Brandon Barton No Comments

Workshop 8 – Revisiting Typography

During the 8th workshop I decided to revisit my typeface a little bit before the week 12 deadline. I had an idea of creating a full working typeface in order to create a product for my final hand in. The idea I had was to create a scroll with my letters on it addressed to a character from Game of Thrones which is what the font is from.

I created a few more letters and generally started to get a feel for an overall theme with my type. Because I only made 6 letters prior it felt incomplete and almost as if there was nothing aesthetically pleasing about it, so I created the letters Q, rs, tu.

These letters in comparison to my others felt a lot better, visually speaking I like the smoother curves and more prominent and sharp flicks.

Upon creating my new letters I feel as though I’m going to revise the letter forms I’ve already made in order to keep it more thematic.

November 4, 2015Brandon Barton No Comments

Workshop 7 – Continuation into Einstein Brief

The workshop this week was a continuation on the Einstein brief from the last workshop. This week I decided to focus solely on the A2 Poster. I chose the A2 poster first so I had a lot of room to play with ideas and develop a general theme I wanted to use. The general theme I wanted to stick with was wormholes and how they work as illustrated by my graphics.

At first I really liked the overall look I was going with, I thought it illustrated quite nicely how a wormhole worked, and gave a simplistic understanding to a complex scientific theory, however the information was too cluttered, the page didn’t have much flow and I just generally grew to dislike it. Another slight error I made with this work was the file format too, the graphics I created were a PNG and Not a vector, so the overall image quality is blurry and pretty awful.