Project 7: Type And Image (4-08-09)

After being inspired by many great designers, such as Saul Bass, I created a movie poster for the movie “28 Days Later.” I chose this movie because it is a completely different style of the zombie movie genre. I tried a couple of different styles of poster layouts, including some directly inspired by Saul Bass.  I end up with a fairly simple design with a bright green to break threw the black and create a pop. This is my first poster design, and I feel as though I have created a successful design that would truly function as an actual movie poster.

just what the doctor ordered

alright so last night i was stuck. just stuck. there was nothing…at all. i needed inspiration and bad. after posting it as my status on facebook and my peers suggested “magic, lullabies in multiple languages, raps, videos of break dancing masscots. i was in spired…….. to remember to do my type. and get in spired. these guy were amazing

El Lissitzky

Alexander Rodchenko

Josef Mullar Brockmann

Max Humber

Armin Hofmann

Lester Beall

Herbert Matter

Saul Bass

Project 6: Modular Grid (3-30-09)

I created a poster design for the article “Macro & Micro Readings” by Edward R. Tufte. The article talks about how from a distance good design is simple on the Macro level, and how detail is equally important and will refine a design especially up close on the micro level.  I used a bright teal to grab the viewers’ attention, and constricted the images in a plane that cuts through the composition creating the illusion of depth. One element that I am particularly proud of is the negative space and the forms it creates.

Project 5: Columnar Grid (3-4-09)

This is a four page layout for the article “On (Design) Bullshit” written by Michael Bierut. The layout is based a one column grid. I used the Font Gotham as well high contrast images of buildings designed by Richard Meier. This brings a clean, simple feel to the layout. This is the first layout I have done with a grid and it surprised me how simple and organized a layout becomes with a grid.

Project 4: Typographic Space (2-23-09)

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In this poster I have a quote by Franklin Roosevelt from his first inaugural address. The quote is, “They have no vision, and when they have no vision, the people perish. After many attempts I decided on a composition that when caught by the viewers eye would force them to come closer and then reveal more text which correlates with the content of the quote.

Project 3: Letter Spacing (2-9-09)

ABOUT THE TYPE
Frutiger is a sans-serif typeface by the Swiss type designer Adrian Frutiger. In 1968, the font was commissioned by Charles De Gaulle, International Airport at Roissy, France; which needed a new directional sign system. Frutiger designed a new typeface, originally called Roissy, was completed in 1975 and installed at the airport the same year. Frutiger’s objective was to create a sans serif typeface with the rationality and cleanliness of Univers, but with the organic and proportional aspects of Gill Sans. The result is a distinctive and legible typeface; modern appearance and legibility at various angles, sizes, and distances. Ascenders and descenders are very prominent, and apertures are wide to easily distinguish letters from each other. Some major uses of Frutiger are in the corporate identity of Raytheon, the National Health Service in Britain, Telefónica O2, the British Royal Navy, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the Finnish Defence Forces and on road signs in Switzerland. The typeface has also been used across the public transport network in Oslo, Norway since the 1980s. It is currently the best-selling typeface of the Linotype foundry.

Project 2: Letter Form Analysis (1-14-09)(1-26-09)

The goal for this project was to create a ligature that could act as a twenty-seventh letter of the alphabet.  A ligature is the combination of two letterforms. I chose the letters F and C in the font Univers by Adrian Frutiger.  After multiple thumbnails and different combination I decided on my final. It was hand inked on a 10×10 piece of Letramax. My ligature displays a formal conclusion of the combination of the two letters and could be drawn in two strokes.

I began with my letterform by joining  “F” and “C” in the typeface Univers by Adrian Frutiger. I wanted the viewers’ eyes to flow along the image by accenting the curves and intersection of the two characters. The crop focuses on the downward flow of the curves into the intersection. I used the analogous colors of blue and green, which allow the letterform to standout due to the light green background.

Project 1: Environmental Lettering (1-12-09)

in this first project we were given a printout of a word to cutout on black contact paper. i recieved the word GREED. i took the word an put it behind a sleeping homeless person and took the picture. i don’t want to force my ideas of the meaning on you. due to the fact that it has multiple meanings and i want people to recieve it differently. for me it meant a lot. the homeless person was sleeping out side in 30 below weather, and to have a warm building right behind him creates a burior. I chose to incorporate the word “Greed” into a sold environment, by putting on the window of a building with a homeless person sleeping in the planter underneath the window.  Since the homeless person laying outside in a planter the building becomes a symbol of exclusion and a luxury. The window become taunting by allowing one to see in, but keeping them out. I cut the word Greed out of contact paper and put it on the window.