Create a spider diagram for each of these words: Seaside Childhood Angry Festival Try to remember your own experiences of these things even if you have only experienced them through TV, film or photos. Include a list of objects you associate with each word: list colours, use adjectives, textures, and subjects. If you get stuck…
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Exercise: Writing a brief
Identify a piece of work by an illustrator whose work you find some connection with. You might, for example, choose a particular illustration because you admire its conceptual or narrative dimension. Now try to write the brief for the illustration you’ve chosen. Starting from the context in which the illustration is positioned, write the brief…
Exercise: Birthday List
For this exercise you are going to make up a poster list for yourself. It is intended that you keep it pinned to a noticeboard or wall to remind you of the dates and, as it will be there a long time, it needs to look good. Start by collecting all the birthdays of your…
Exercise: Hierarchy
Brief Using about 500 words of Lorum Ipsum (or other dummy text) you are going to design three different pages: • an interview with a TV actor in a listings magazine entitled: Will Sheila tell the naked truth? • a review of a new piece of hardware or software in a specialist computer magazine • a book review…
Exercise: Lorum Ipsum
Lorem Ipsum is dummy text with more-or-less normal distribution of letters that makes it look like readable English. It has been used for many years and some desktop publishing packages now use it as their default model text. If you don’t have it already, go to http://www.lipsum.com and generate as much as you need. Now…
Exercise: If the face fits
The brief – Part 1 Create your own sample book of typefaces on your computer that you can refer to. Organise them into: • Serif for continuous text; readable at small sizes and those suitable for headings. • San-serif for continuous text; readable at small sizes and for headings. • Script fonts that look handwritten…
Exercise: A typographic jigsaw puzzle
This exercise is designed to help you to look at typefaces more closely. I decided to do this exercise on my iPad using Procreate, a software that emulates the use of pencil very well, instead of paper and traditional pencil so I could complete this whilst commuting and at work during my lunch hour. the…
Exercise: Playing with words
The exercise (from the OCA training material) Using the following words create typographical representations that present both the word and a suggestion of its meaning. Sad Safe Sardonic Saucy Scholarly Serious Shadow Shattered Shy Short Silly Sinking Skimpy Sleek Smart Snowy Sodden Soothing Sordid Sophisticated Speed Squat Squeeze Stiff Stodgy Stoned Style Supine Swagger Sweet Start this exercise…
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: Point of Sale Display
The brief is to create a Point of Sale display for Fruit and Vegetables to be seen from the street to attract more customers to this part of the shop. The final product is too be printed on A0 size, and has to be landscape. I drafted down my keywords as: Fruit Vegetables Fresh Eat…
Exercise: Too much or not enough information
In this exercise I needed to create a set of 2 posters for a local event, one with a lot and one with the bare minimal information. I found this local box match that is being held on the 8th March by the Belvedere Boxing Club. Details here.I’ve drafted a few ideas first to see…
Exercise – Visualising your ideas
The brief is the following: You have been asked to design a leaflet for an organisation, inviting people to to volunteer for a task. (You can choose the task for example, school governor, fundraising or building a community garden). In addition to a title the information has been broken down into four chunks each of…
Exercise: Book cover design
The Brief The brief for this exercise was to create a set of book covers for some novels by H.G. Wells, to establish them as timeless fiction. I’ve gone on the book store on my phone to find out what titles there were, and selected a handful I could download as audiobook. I decided to…
Connections Mind map
I recorded the way I create a mind mat to later come back to it and see how it leads me to ideas that I didn’t consider before starting the mind map. I find it very interesting how this way of recording your ideas aids your thinking by being able to re-trace your way of…
Exercise: Working to a brief
These are extracts from briefs set as part of a student competition. Your task is to read and analyse them. Ask yourself: What are you being asked to do? How will the client will judge a successful outcome to the brief? What are the keywords? In addition log any other questions you would want to…
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