Part 3 – Graphic Design: Core Concepts

Assignment three – Colour me…

The brief To produce a poster (297mm x 420mm) that celebrates a colour of your choice. Choose a colour that has a meaning that you want to explore and celebrate. Think about what the colour you have chosen means both to you and to other people and create something that celebrates that meaning, for example…

Exercise: Photomontage

For this exercise I was asked to create a photomontage with a political message. I have started my exercise by brainstorming some ideas that I might like to explore. I made a mind map. I wanted to do something around internet privacy and how social media is used to influence the thinking of people at…

Exercise: Abstract Cities

For this exercise I had to create abstract book covers for guide books of 10 cities. The cities are: Madrid Malmo Managua Manchester Manhattan Marrakech Marseilles Melbourne Montreal Mumbai The book covers need to be A5 size in landscape orientation. I’ve started my research with looking up some pictures of each of the cities on…

Exercise: understanding colour

Draw two grids; one with colour you like and one with colours you dislike. Put them side by side. I found it interesting how these came together. The fact that some of the, are vibrant and some of them are more subtle makes a nice combination. In the second part of this exercise I needed…

Exercise: Seeing the light

In this exercise we were asked to create 20 different layouts using only a picture of a lightbulb, the word Lightbulb and a block of colour. I’ve chosen a cool mid grey for the colour of my block and a white background on all my designs. I used the app Bazaart to quickly play around…

Exercise: Signs and symbols

In this exercise I needed to read existing signs and drawing on the research around this, I needed to create my own symbol. My chosen concept was danger. Danger I’ve started my research by collating images of danger signs. After collating these images, I’ve begun my process by trying to re-draw some of the signs…

Exercise: A visual diary

In this exercise I was asked to start a visual diary. Collate things that inspire me everyday to distill what type of designs I like the most. I found this exercise quite easy to do using Pinterest as the platform has endless amounts of visual inspiration. After doing this exercise I noticed a few trends…