Third and Final Part of The Year!

The year has gone by so fast! I’m now starting my 3rd and final part.

For this part we write our own briefs and spend until the end of year working on them.

I’ve been working on this for a while now, I just haven’t updated my blog.

The brief I have written is about producing everything necessary  to launch a political campaign.

The campaign is standing against the governments plans to sell of Britans forests.

I will be designing logos, posters, advertisements and I plan to do some motion/kinetic typography for the final piece.

Looking forward to working on all this!

 

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Pure Typography Project

 

I started a new brief a few weeks back and have been doing some work on it. It is a typographical project which I was really excited about starting.

The theory behind the piece above is that the typeface “Helvetica” is by overused. Helvetica is a beautiful typeface, however I think it’s excessive use all over the world  has ground it into the floor. It is supposed to be a refreshing, clean typeface, but who can see that through it’s over-usage.

I’ve really enjoyed working on this so far because it’s something I have passion behind.

Looking forward to more updates

 

George

Digital Portfolio

I have heard back from some universities now about a places on graphic design degrees. Some have asked me for a digital portfolio.

I have compiled some work that i think is suitable. Although I have not made my final decisions yet.

I haven’t done too much work today but I have a group crit session on the newspaper article brief. Looking forward to that.

Anyhow, heres the ones I’ve chosen so far..

Enjoy.

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End Of Year Show

Hi Everyone, NEW BRIEF- again!

Here’s how it goes-

The Show requires advertising through a poster and a large amount of invitations will be sent out colleges and people connected with University College Falmouth. A large audience will see the poster, flyers, invitations and these will be professionally printed.

Here’s what I’ve got so far (not sure which colour concept looks best, any ideas?)

Thanks

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Take One Word- Restart

Hi Everyone, I think my Take One Work project seems rushed and I’m not happy with the idea or the outcome. Because of this I have decided to have another go at it.

I wanted to do something I enjoy doing. In the end I decided to go with doing some typeface and logo design. I made up a Restaurant/Bar called Bamboo and have used the word Bamboo for my one word.

Just for styling and reference purposes Bamboo would be an oriental restaurant with modern asian styling. I have designed the typeface to fit in with this.

I have tried a few different things with the logoI finished with. Let me know what you think!

Enjoy!

 

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New Brief- In The News

Hey  all, I have another brief now. Need to get some rounded off so I don’t have quite so much on my plate at once.

Here’s the brief anyway, it’s titled In The News.

Collect a current, interesting news story which may have been taken from a local or national newspaper. You could chose it from one day or follow a story over several days. You need to get the story over to the audience in a clear and concise way, this may be through typography, illustration, photography or collage- or a combination of all these. What is your own personal opinion regarding this story, do you express your own view or the view of the reporter.

And here’s what I have come up with so far,

Enjoy

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Written Work- Drawing [W.I.P]

Hi Again Guys,

I also had some written work to do over the Xmas break. I had to write a 2000 word essay.

There were 8 questions to choose from. Here’s the one I chose to take-up. It’s titled Drawing.

2. Drawing can be used to explore, reveal, to plan, to protest and to celebrate. Find examples of each of thee reasons, and discuss how they support the claim.

As in the title of the post, this is not complete as I have only done about 300 words so far. Heres how it sits at the moment but I really need to get this finished asap!

George MITCHELL

 

Analyze different contextual perspectives within a chosen art or design subject.

 

2. Drawing can be used to explore, reveal, to plan, to protest and to celebrate. Find examples of each of thee reasons, and discuss how they support the claim.

 

 

Drawing is by no means modern, humans have been using drawings to express themselves for thousands of years. The oldest recorded drawing in the world is 27,000 old.   The drawing is in a cave in France, it is drawn on the wall of the cave in Calcium Carbonate, more commonly known as Limestone. The portrait is amongst other drawings in the cave, however it is considered to be the most dated.

Lots of people think drawing can only be putting pen or pencil to paper, but they couldn’t be more wrong. Drawing really means to produce, to produce a image or diagram by making lines and marks. You don’t have to make your marks with a pencil though, for mark-making, you can use almost anything. When I experiment with some mark-making I like to use peculiar and odd items dipped in any sort of ink, paint, or anything similar. It’s incredible how different your drawings look when you use something like a toothbrush or some twigs rather than a regular pen to make your marks.

Drawing is used all the time too and it’s a vital part of our lifestyle. People just don’t notice it, and almost all of the time, they don’t appreciate it, sub-concisely obviously, but nevertheless. There is drawing everywhere in our world, it is everywhere, people don’t pay much attention to still advertisements, posters, logos, the simple helvetica type on road signs and much more. You cant really look at anything man-made without seeing some sort of logo, type or imagery, like I said it’s all right in-front of our eyes- people just notice, personally I can’t help but to notice things such as a nice bit of retro type above an old shop or a clever logo. The Fed-Ex logo is a perfect example, here is a picture so you can see what I mean (can you spot the arrow hidden in the logo?) I think the arrow indicates movement, speed and efficiency, these things are all clear, good advertising points from FedEx.

 

Updates On Chose One Word Project

Hi Everyone!

I hope everybody has had a great Christmas and New Year, I am back in Falmouth now until April so plenty of updates to come.

On the topic I have some new work to post, not quite finished yet. Needs a few more touches.

Here are some pictures. First one is a Gestalt Drwaing I did recently. (See previous page[s] for more infor and photos). The second image is what I have put together on Illustrator, the almost finished one.

In the end I decided to go with the word Origins. My original plan was to use the word George, but I decided to mix my various research and this is what I came out with.

I have imported the image and turned the opacity down, also did this on the larger type on the left side. I did this so they don’t blend together and I like the effect of the two overlapping creating stronger, darker tones.

I also slimmed all the Helvetica with the main text to produce a clean, sharp look contrasting the rougher back layer.

I have thought about some final touches too. So far my ideas are based around further highlighting the contrast between the type and the background. The first idea I had was to over-rasterize the back layer to really enhance the contrast. I also thought about digitally bluring the back image more producing a similar effect.

However, my most recent idea is my favorite so far. I want to mix up the media so not everything is digitally produced. (People will start thinking I can’t draw! ). I want to print out JUST the back image and large type. Then use cellulose thinner on the image to transfer it to some heavyweight matte pale colored card. Then to finish it off I want to feed the card through the printer and print the text all on top of it to really hit the contrast hard.

Looking forward to playing out my plans, hope you like

 

Any C&C welcome!

Thanks

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New Brief- Take One Word

Hey guys,

I’ve got another new project to start working on.

I dont feel quite as keen to start on this one as I did the last. I think the brief is a little unimaginative this time.

It’s called Take One Word…

Choose a word that you find interesting enough to work with. It may have a recognizable meaning, raise issues or be onomatopoeic. Explore it’s meaning in visual terms and think about colour, shape, scale and it’s relationship to other imagery you may use with it. Your outcome will either be 2D, 3D or photographic.

(If you want to use more than one word you may)

So that’s it.

The dealine isn’t until January 13th, but I hant got any ideas yet, apart from doing some research in my name and seeing if there is any interesting outcomes.

Thanks.

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Idiom Project- Final Pieces

Hey Everyone!

I have now decided on my two final pieces. I came up with a total of total of 10 ideas, I quite liked them all, but some were better than others.

The two I have chosen were not designed to be viewed together but there is no particular theme stated in the brief.

I have done a little touching up, and here they are..

Enjoy.

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