2015 – Page 2 – Level 2 Design

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.

October 28, 2015Brandon Barton No Comments

Workshop 6 – Einstein Brief

During workshop 6 the group was given a new brief to create an infographic regarding Einstein and his theory of relativity. In order to get a feel for infographics and the type of content I’d need to create I searched for some online.

Upon searching for Einstein infographics I had a rough Idea of what direction I wanted to take with it, the design on the right was visually appealing and something I wanted to work towards.

Other infographics which captured my attention although not relevant to Einstein were ones for gaming which showed facts and figures to give some perspective into how popular the game was.

In the example above really liked the overall aesthetics, this made me further look into colour wheels and what colours compliment others.

October 21, 2015Brandon Barton No Comments

Workshop 5 – Presentation

During workshop 5 the group was asked to present their work and the research that had gone in to creating their letter forms. Using the skills learnt in the workshop prior I decided to use Indesign to create the presentation. My presentation mainly consisted of the same research that my blog had been keeping, so transferring and adapting it wasn’t difficult.

For my practical example piece of work I decided to pick a book cover, but I wasn’t too impressed with the overall result. After playing with different ideas I decided that I’m going to make a full alphabet and put it to use on a real product for my final hand in.

October 19, 2015Brandon Barton No Comments

Creating my Typeface

After doing enough research I settled on the idea of creating a fantasy font/typeface. The idea I settled on is related to Game of Thrones, I wanted to create my own take on the font used in the show which is called “Valyrian”. Examples of the font already exist online, so rather than just copying from others, I borrowed certain forms that are commonplace and made my own variations.

Valyrian Font Uppercase

Upper and Lower Case

The letter forms I created borrow from old styles of traditional handwriting, similar to something you’d expect to see on a scroll or something similar. Overall I’m really pleased with the traditional look to it. Using illustrator a lot more in depth has also been challenging but fun. Although the brief requirements are only 6 characters I’m thinking about creating a whole alphabet so I can use it on a final product without it being complete gibberish.