This final assignment is an opportunity to consolidate the understanding you’ve gained so far, reflect on the work you’ve enjoyed and your achievements. It allows you to create certain parts of the brief yourself so that you have the maximum capacity to show off your interests and talents. Choose one of the briefs below. Then…
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Exercise: Judging a book by its cover
Choose a book by an author you are familiar with. You are going to design two different covers for it, one using illustrations or photography and the other using just type. Design the whole cover including the spine and back page. Include the title of the book, the author’s name, a brief description of the…
Exercise: Magazine pages
Choose a magazine, newspaper or journal and work out the grid or grids they have used. You will probably need to look at least four pages to get a feel of the layout. Measure the size of the pages, the margins, the text columns and the gaps in between them. How many columns do they…
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…
Research point: Magazine Layouts
In this research point I was asked to collect some magazines to see what works and what doesn’t in terms of layout. I don’t have access to many paper magazines and I didn’t want to buy any for the sake of this experiment, so I begun by looking at magazines online to see what I…
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: 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…
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