WHAT IS GRAPHIC DESIGN

Image and type


A brand Identity created by Adam Hill for Brew Productions (Music event company)
Produced for those within the company as its a re-branding.
Will be seen within event promotion and those interested in the company

  

Robin Sheldon. A design for New York Times - To illustrate articles for aesthetic purposes.
For those who read the New York times, will be seen within the published newspaper.

Design and production for an upcoming annual memorial day - pig roast postcard invite
For those within the area interested in attending the event, postcard used to advertise and gain interest in this. Will be seen through the post.

Lindsay Giuffrida

Sita Murt - For a pop up store using hand painted fluorescent typography
A way of highlighting the event and promoting it.
Directed at trying to engage an audience of potential female buyers for products within the store.

'The bicycle cap' - A mixed media piece created by a textile company
Pieces form a stop motion in which a bike and sewing machine come together, these are simply a few of its parts.

Christopher brand

A book Jacket

Designed for those interested in the author designed for, giving some illustrative quality to the context and genre of the content.

Charlotte Elizabeth - Photographer - Branding

A way of promoting the photographer at hand

Used to contact Charlotte Elizabeth as contact details are included.

Penguin Book covers

Designed for those interested in the authors at hand

Illustrated to give some sense of genre and content.

Gives an element of interest to the books, trying to achieve potential buyers

Kyle white - Postcard Designs

Promoting Mississippi through imagery, and other locations

Unknown Artist

Shown at Parlor Gallery

Visually communicating the elements of the sun and the moon

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Type based

Wedding invitations by Stephanie and Ben - 

http://icecreamsocialshoppe.blogspot.com/2011/04/stephanie-and-ben.html
Produced for personal interest

Robert Montgomery - Large scaled typography based work
Attempting to direct at a wide, varied audience, in passing on a message about consumerism

A photograph I found
A promotional piece, a typography based design used to intrigue and find the attention of potential buyers.

David Arias - http://www.behance.net/david_arias

A design for a organic skin care range featuring black and white packaging.

Used to give continuity to each product, showing they are the same brand.

Using typography to provide information and give an aesthetic quality.

Re-branding for a mother to be store.

Using typography to uplift to-be mothers

Promoting the store at a direct audience

'Process journal identity'

Studio verse and hunt studio

A branding, giving professionalism and continuity through design

Christopher Brand

Book Jackets

Used to give some idea of content through visual engagement and type

Jeff Rodgers - Set font design

Expressive forms of typography, to represent what they say

Marcio Kelmanson

Promotional CD packaging design for a jazz musician

Using type to recreate musical instrument and give context and information about music

Keith Scharwath

Hand painted signs of 'disposable communication' which was shown in Parlor Gallery

Will be viewed by those who visited

Purpose of aesthetic Value

Source: http://work.scharwath.com/

GF Smith — Master Specifier 2011

A swatch book like design for stock and a guide on selecting paper - A toolkit for design and print professionals, Chosen design is specific to content, using a range of stock and printing processes to create it.

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Image Based

Christopher Brand

Book jackets

Used to illustrate some content of the book

Potential audiences are those who either know the author and like him, or find the imagery interesting enough to purchase the book.

An Image selected from a student spotlight event

Wendy Chan

An Infographic showing what tea can be served with - This design was featured in design work life.

For those interested in the subject matter.

Illustrations to be made into screen savers, t-shirt prints and much more. 

Directed at those who may find interest in the designs and animals at hand, and the possibility of downloading the material as a background for their phone / computer.

Evgeniya Righini-Brand 

Annemieke Beemster Leverenz 

Illustration icons for 'grains week'

Suggest elements of the event taking place

Iconic images, recognisable by a wide and varied audience, trying to promote event through icons.

Sam Dallyn

Design for an app on the iphone

A new way of sending 'smilies' and emotion through messaging

Directed at those who own an iphone and would want to use such smilies through messaging.

Jesse Ledoux

Work to be sold to help the Red Cross charity

Design work relating to countries flat and illustrations showing natural event which occured

For those around the world, wanting to help the victims in Haiti 

Adam Brackney

The period table illustrated

Directed at those interested in either design or the sciences, it gives a clearer understanding to the elements and what they are by illustrating them.

Could be used to learn what each are.

Tim Boelarrs

A set of Illustrations for 'Tenue de Nimes' In Amsterdam - A denim boutique 

Illustrations are used within the stores catalogue

It gives a visual element and interest to the content

SPEAKING FROM EXPERIENCE - Inspiration

I really like the typography and the set up of using a negative photo roll, I could use a similar design for my posters

I like the vector images here, which manipulate that seen on a fruit machine. I could relate my images to iconic student related objects which use such images.

Perhaps an approach I could take to my poster layout when using typography, I could manipulate this banner like formation.

I really, really like this design, using a very limited colour palette to create a range of images; household objects and good items. I like the style of the vectors, the little details are really effective and make them recognisable.

Using speech bubbles could be content I use within my poster...I could use quotes within it.

This image inspired me to create a place setting for my word 'consumerism', using it as a metaphor to 'consume'.

I particularly like the layout of the series of these posters. There limited colour palette works well too.

These two posters are my favourite designs to date ever, I would like to approach my poster designs in the same abstract sense. I am going to try to manipulate my designs using the same qualities and layout.

I like the layout of this posters and its 50's quality. It would be a lovely way to approach my designs, considering my limited colour palette. I could screen print my designs to give an authentic 50's quality.

Thinking wall muriels...

I like the simplistic hand rendered designs on both of these designs, above and below. 

I also wanted to look at stop motions directed at my target audience of students within graphic design.

Heres a few I found:

Created using simple sticky notes it looks at iconic computer orientated icons, recreates them in a sticky note format. It uses these in messages attempting to motivate the student sitting to do work. I really like this creative an imaginative way of using existing icons (which I intend to use) in a different medium, here it is very restricted making it more imaginative and inspiring when something detailed can be recreated by small fluorescent squares.

This video isn't quite the message I want to sent, but It's directed at students in the sense of being motivational and more out going with your revision. Here it suggests instead of studying the world, explore it and learn. Again this uses sticky notes.

This is a video which is course related to film and media. It shows how someone has had to save and work to become the famous person they are now. It's an approach I could possibly take with my stop motion, giving a similar message about graphic design.

POSTER IMAGES FROM HARDDRIVE

SPEAKING FROM EXPERIENCE - Poster Inspiration

I wanted to look for some inspiration in accordance to creating vector images of household objects and layout of words and images within my posters. I found a few examples:

A simple typography orientated poster, but I really liked it's aesthetic qualities and colour palette - quite a female directed one at that. Hand rendered type could be an option I take..

I absolutely love these very basic outline images of household objects and items of food. They're quirky, recognisable and relating to the stock at hand. The piece below is slightly more detailed in that it has highlights and shadows, not an approach I ideally wish to take; the simpler the better.

These certainly are my favourite vector images, bold and simple. I do hope to mimic this style in my own images, to be made into a stop motion.

INDESIGN - Inspiration

Images taken from designspiration.net


A range of abstract and conventional layouts

This is a favourite of mine, I like the overlapping and spot colour used here. Its conventional in type layout, but abstract with its use of shape and colour.

This is very abstract and different, it suits the context and title, outlining the word 'divide' in its layout.

This reminds me of CTS and modernism in a sense, its very experimental in its layout. i don't think I yet have the skills to create something like this, but its certainly something to look up to!

I really like the monochrome colour palette, it divides the mass array of text, a nice technique.

The above and below designs are among my favourite, firstly the image gradient overlay really highlights the article. This matches the pantone of the type. The abstract alignment of the font is very individual and gives it a 'quirky' nature. The cutting into the images is also something I really like, it give the images an odd yet interesting shape.

I really like this modernist approach to layout, its very simple and bold, characteristic Matt likes. Something I could consider as my main source of inspiration.

After looking at these layout, it really opens my eyes to the endless limitations there are, layout in itself is an art! Its quite exciting, the thought of creating my own after looking at these examples.