Let's tackle this poster!

I was advised to be different and illustrate my poster with screw heads. I drew out 4 screw heads but I only chose 3 of them. I then scanned them in and edited them in photoshop.

This was my first poster. I soon realized that the black background and the strap line weren't working so I scraped it.













This was my second attempt at my poster. I added more screws and worked in the shape of a square withing the poster. But with advice from my tutors, I edited this poster.

This was my 3rd attempt at the poster. I added more screw heads and made them a lot smaller.

I don't have a picture of my final poster because it's on the wall in the studio waiting for assesment.

Ideas for a screw

At the start of the brief I drew different types of screws to get an understanding of the shape and thread of the object. The 4 screws drawn are two philips head, flat head and and square head.

 Here is some of my ideas for part A of the brief of everyday objects.
For this I brainstormed the idea of people celebrating being unique by having piercing as I do myself so I replaced traditional piercings with screws. I talked this idea out with my tutor but she thought the idea was too gruesome than celebration
The other idea was covering a skateboard with screws for fun aspect.
And finally the other idea on the page was the idea I went with for part A. It's a screwdriver and screw combined so that the term screw driver was actually what was seen.





On this page I drew a human skull in celebration of the idea that screws are used as a medical tool in certain situations. The skull covered in screws was very Damien Hirst style and the other other was screws holding the skull together.
At the bottom the idea of the jaw being held together with screws and a hinge but the hinge idea wasn't really celebrating the screw.

This was my final illustration for part A. I drew the screwdriver and then coloured it in with colouring pencils. I'm really happy with how this turned out. 

Screws screws and some more screws

For our second brief the item I got was a screw. I took photos of screws bunched together and separated, under bright lights and close up and far away.

Here are some of the photos that I took:

Prototypes!

Over Easter I made a prototype of my letter form 'F'. I used the idea of the bar chart and thought that lengths of timber cut at different angles would be the right way to go to achieve this.


I was happy with my prototype but after a group crit on Monday with Mary. I realized that I still had a lot of work to do with my idea. It was suggested that I use dark, depressing colours for the bar chart rather then your typical bright happy colours. It was also said that I should roughen up the surface of the timber to get the effect that it was worn away and broken down.














On Tuesday I spoke to Patricia and she suggested that I maybe try make another prototype from one of my original thumbnails.

I made this F from timber lengths too. The concept for this was that the F is unfinished due to the construction industry running out of financial support from banks, government, etc. So like many building sites around the country, it's left unfinished and half constructed.






Today I decided that the bar chart F has more of an impact of getting the word 'finance' across and is more obvious what it represents rather than the unfinished F.

Idea for this project

Over the Easter holidays I narrowed down my ideas and choose to pick the letter F as being represented by a bar chart. This is to show that finance is all about statistics, facts and figures and because of the recession, statistics is a major element.

I'm experimenting with materials to try and get this effect. 

Lego:

I tried to make one from paper to see what it would be like but it didn't work out. 

Graphic design

I was given the letter 'F' to work with for the next few weeks as part of our graphic brief. The theme of the brief is 'state of the nation'. I brainstormed words that began with 'F' and had relevance to the theme.  The word I choose to go with was 'Finance'.

For the past day or two I've been doing thumbnails to do with finance and trying to get the letter 'F' to represent it.
So far, here is what I came up with.

Here's just some images I photocopied from a book in the library that I thought were interesting and different ways of showing the letter 'F'.

Typography

So this week was spent doing typography for the word we were given the previous week.
Here are the thumbnails I produced:

This was made from leaves.

This was made from grass.

Made from rice. 

Thumbnails

Leaf.

This was my final typography piece with my final illustration.