Stratford & Westfield visit

We started the our first day of the collaboration doing research in the Olympic Park in Stratford and Westfield Shopping Centre. The main object was to find out examples of everyday object that we use and turn it into a game or sports.   

An Illustration that I saw which is full of household house. This could be a setting or location of my sporting event.

I also saw this plan which i can relate because I have an idea that I need to create a plan view of the arena or location of the event.

A model of opera house in lego

After the research/browsing of everyday product we then walk around stratford and olympic park to see some inspiration of architecture and planning

A picture of the olympic stadium used in 2012

An iconic building located in olympic park built for tourism during the 2012 olympic

The 1 week we have to create an idea and develop it, plan what things we have to include or maybe create rules to play the game. The first week I mainly did research and planning possible ideas to do an event in my first idea was coat throwing but after taking to the tutor about how to present the game I ended up with "mop hockey"

Design Workshop : Book Cover

At the start of the work shop we were given a list of topics that we can use to associate our research and to produce a book cover using the information that we found. One of the topic was motion graphics which I picked because I am interested in the subject and I want to do it as a degree. Our group was sent to the Study Zone which for a making a book cover and finding resource on my research was a very good place. Which lead me to a great found of a book about motion graphics called The History of Motion Graphics written by Michael Betancourt. This book talked about how the motion graphics era started, using sound and pictures in association and example of artist that inspired the motion graphics movement for example Kandinsky, Auguste Herbin, Andre L'Hote, Leon Zernitsky, Olga Rozanova and Lena Karpinsky.

  After doing my research on motion graphics I then looked up some examples of book cover on google images. I picked some of the ones that I think were good or give me some ideas on how I want my book cover to looked like 

I then came across a book cover like this, which have continuous design from front to back and I was inspired to do the same on mine 

It is a book cover but at the same time it looked like an artwork which most of book cover are anyway however I just felt like this is a different way of connecting the dots.

I also looked upon covers that have quite similarities with the topic that I am using and I found this at the front the book cover used the basic colour scheme use in printing and I want to associate that with the cover of my Motion Graphics book. 

This is the final product. I wanted to used the CMYK which stand for the different colour in printing. I started with black to show the history which is the main focus of my research at the moment but however if given the chance I can also do a second book changing the word in the middle from black to cyan. I have chosen black and white so because I want people to focus on the CMYK colour. 

Design Workshop : Film Poster

                            

At the start of this workshop the whole group discussed some examples of film poster that already exist and evaluate what is good and bad about it. Our tutor also gave her opinion about the posters that she liked and everyone shared different prospective of what they like on a selection of film poster. The three pictures and the top shows my own evaluation and research about the film posters from the selection that I picked. I found out that I am more into a simple coloured poster that has basic design and silhouettes shapes. I also liked the humor and how the images has been used to convey a story that relates to the film being promoted

The brief gives us a specific film to create a poster with. I liked that they set a specific subject to relate the posters with because it would really show how different you think and compare your work the other people in the group. The subject is "The 33" a film about the Chilean miners that were stranded under the ground.

  

This is my final product. I put "los 33" to suggest that the characters are not specifically in english or american origin. Through my research I have found out that there were 33 people hence the title "The 33" therefore I decided to use hand prints to represent 33 individual holes that represents each character in the poster. I also found out that Antonio Banderas and other hollywood actors would star on the film therefore I include a little itroduction of them at the top.

Design Workshop : Calligraphy & Wine Label

At start of second week we were introduced to calligraphy a form of art that allows an artist to create his own identity in the form of type. At first I tried to copy the sample given to us and then I move on to the topic that I want to focus on.                

  

I am fascinated by this anagram since I saw it because it was so interesting and playfully put together, it's just genius. The creator design it to be read back and forth. And I like to recreate something like this in this weeks project. 

We have to create a wine label from the calligraphy that we produce. Everyone is creating something like a logo which I don't want to follow therefore I experimented on how to put the packaging and the brand in one design. I noticed that wine bottles has paper as a label but it doesn't go along the bottle it only rotates around it so why not go across the whole bottle. This is what I came up with something like a ribbon but maybe created in a sticker like material. The design looks like a random connected lines however if you look close enough you can see that it will spell out earth, water, air and fire all in one. The colour that I use was gold to show quality and style of the brand.