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.

Illustration. Week one.

Week one of viscom was working with illustrations. We were all given a word and I got the word 'CULTIVATE'.

• Cultivate means to prepare the soil for growing crops.
• To grow an interest in a relationship or hobby.
• To grow ideas, education and skill.

I spent all last week investigating these definitions with thumbnail sketches. 

 

Then for Friday we had to pick two illustrations and with Patricia's advice I choose the idea of a leaf with the veins forming little illustrations within the leaf. 

However my second illustration is going to be used in my final assessment on the second Friday and so I'm working on it, improving on fine detail.

Graphic desingers

Drew Flaherty

An Australian designer.
His work really interests me because he draws over images to create a busy scene. His images don't make sense but are visually attractive. Compostion is a key area in his designs.

 



Jasper Goodall
An English illustrator. His work is often found in music, fashion and advertising, he also pruduces prints.
I really like theese images because the colour used is really eye cathing and transparent, a sense of fantasy is a part of it. The images are simple and have simple perspective.

 

Jeremyville

A grapic designer/autho. He has worked with Converse shoes and has released toys to do with his designs.

I love his work because its so poppy and childish. I love his cartoon style with block colours. The images are flat and very busy.

 

My animation!

Here's my little animation about a kitty, penguin and a UFO! Enjoy :)

Stills

Here are some stills from my animation: