Graphics: Day 2

We began today by looking at an interview with a well known Graphic designer called David Carson. The interview was very interesting, inspiring even as he shared with us what drives him to create his work, a natural urge to design. I see this as a goal for myself, something to aim for in my career, a point at which my work and my life become one and my own urge to create and design is always on my mind.

He was born in 1954 in American and was a very influential designer as his work went again everything ever posed by other graphic designers - he pushed the boundaries. He also altered the way magazines had always worked too, changing there design after he became owner of many including one called 'Ray Gun'. His typography work is very famous and I can see why as it is very repetitive,large, bold and definetly something after you saw once, you wouldn't ever forget.

When reading an issue of 'Eye' magazine http://www.eyemagazine.com/ I came across an interesting article about the London Design Festivals exibition at the V&A which featured 20 different A1 posters created by graphic designers referring to London. All of the posters where very impressive and it was fascinating to look at how others interpret a city full of so much. One particular poster I liked was called 'Taxi' I think it symbolized the hustle and bustle of London very well with the crowdedness of the poster as well as all the different numbers which could refer to a huge phone book of different taxi numbers. It shows how easy it is to get caught up in the excitement of London even though there is a lot going on around you. Here is a link to a few of the posters featured in the exibition.http://store.outline-editions.co.uk/Category/34-london-design-festival.aspx


We were given 6 words which we would create 4 typographical images from, these words were:

Consume
Rapid
Slither
Flowing
Detached
Stability

For each of these words we create a spider diagram to explore the meanings behind them in order to better translate the meaning in our images.

Then we created thumbnails of the different words exploring how we could express them through typography.

As well as thumbnails we needed backgrounds for our images, we made some small examples using cuts outs from magazines. We used different shapes and colours to symbolize the different words.

This lead on to making larger backgrounds that would feature in our final 4 designs.