Looking back at the 2 months,which look rather short now, I think back to things I have learned or unlearned.
Starting from scratch and coming to where I stand now,there is a noticeable change in me as a designer,maybe not technically(at least as of now;))but I have definitely started to think about different ways of thinking itself!
Every design issue seems so much more easier to tackle with the Six Thinking Men, creative blocks that much more smaller once you just pick up things and start putting them in the moleskin sketchbook (which is my new best friend!) and London that much more friendlier(peace!);)
07 December, 2010
98...99 and she's hit a 100!
After all the collecting (and in the process driving my friend's mad!), cutting and gluing , more collecting and more than a little help from my mates I have finally finished Darren's assignment of the impossible 100 collages.
At this point I need to thank Vibha my room mate for finding letters and words in the impossible mound of junk I had accumulated. My flatmates who became collage material hunters (bringing back tickets,random posters and all the other paraphernalia you see in my collages below)Thanks guys!Cheers!
At this point I need to thank Vibha my room mate for finding letters and words in the impossible mound of junk I had accumulated. My flatmates who became collage material hunters (bringing back tickets,random posters and all the other paraphernalia you see in my collages below)Thanks guys!Cheers!
30 November, 2010
Rubber stamp Shop
Before I start I must thank Richa for dragging me (rather reluctantly) to this hidden craft shop, its on Bury Place, Oxford Circus.I recommend it strongly to anyone and everyone!
Wether your into patterns or colours,art or craft (or both),sane or insane,too bogged down by VCT essay submission or just out of inspiration visit these guys.Its a nice quaint place with the most amazing collection of rubber stamps and the paraphernalia included.Don't miss the basement, is a treasure trove of brilliantly patterned paper.
Wether your into patterns or colours,art or craft (or both),sane or insane,too bogged down by VCT essay submission or just out of inspiration visit these guys.Its a nice quaint place with the most amazing collection of rubber stamps and the paraphernalia included.Don't miss the basement, is a treasure trove of brilliantly patterned paper.
Typo-Mania
This is Paul's assignment to document at least 20 types that we found around us.The need to complete this assignment was not only educative but made me unusually aware of my surroundings. Always keeping an eye out for interesting designs and quirky fonts or interesting patterns unknowingly created by the most banal things in unusual arrangements.
Like the way the "O" nestles the "Y" making it look like a stick figure.
A long awaited Indian touch:)Was quite surprised to find this piece (Pron:"Accha")Its Devanagiri script.Liked the intent of the words trying to bring in the colourfulness of India.
A simple folding of paper produces this font
(I'v tried this in my collages as well).Liked the simple white placed against the Christmassy background.
"So good we named it twice" is the tag line need I say more?
This is a printing press near Shoreditch,with a friendly old man who is more than happy to show you around the shop and teach you a thing or two about book binding.
It's a simple Linotype Handle Gothic font but looks amazing because of the steel finish set against a grey-black background
A simple folding of paper produces this font
(I'v tried this in my collages as well).Liked the simple white placed against the Christmassy background.
"So good we named it twice" is the tag line need I say more?
This is a printing press near Shoreditch,with a friendly old man who is more than happy to show you around the shop and teach you a thing or two about book binding.
This picture is slightly hazy because it is taken from my camera phone,liked the way the mad contorted logo goes on to write the text.Troubled minds?
24 November, 2010
Choice no.1 for VCT essay
When we actually started out doing our VCT essay I had set my heart on talking about Noma Bar's poster/brochure design for BAFTA 2009.Here are some of his illustrations which are strikingly simple yet cheekily clever.
Do check out Alex Bucktin's blog (http://a-bucktin0710-dc.blogspot.com) ,it was in her blog that I found Mr.Bar.
22 November, 2010
One down two to go this term!
Though I have hardly written anything about my VCT classes,I realised how much it has influenced the way I see pictures and better still write about never thought I could finish it on time...but now its done(well not really!)This is the image I had picked:-
Tavis Colburn's poster for BAFTA 2010
19 November, 2010
Nail Art
Was just randomly skimming through blogs when I found the works by Marcus Levine,who is a steel nail artist from Yorkshire.Its amazing to see the shadowing in his work,like a double shadow!
It reminded me of a huge montage like mosaic,where the work can be truly appreciated when one looks at it from a distance.
It reminded me of a huge montage like mosaic,where the work can be truly appreciated when one looks at it from a distance.
16 November, 2010
Creative Oppurtunities
Today's class with Catherine made us feel...as one of my classmates rightly put it "ignorant".It was surprising to know how surprised we were to know, how surprisingly less we knew about design companies!
We were given www.creativereview.co.uk to look into and research design companies who's work intrested us the most.Each group had a pattern, some choose companies for they liked their work with typography and some just liked the black and white templates used and we as a group seemed to have an eye for companies which did good illustrations.
Inspiration 1. www.automatonstudio.no/
They are a silk screen printing studio in Oslo.There mission being able to provide screen printing services for all with professional help.For some odd reason I'v not been able to upload pictures most of the work that has been produced in their studio.Here is one done by Ernst Føyn and Tone Emblemsvåg for thier club night Play skool
Inspiration 2.www.indiantypefoundry.com
A type foundry that produces Latin as well as non-Latin fonts.It was a joint venture between Peter Bilak (Typotheque),Rajesh Kejriwal (Kyoorius Exchange) and Satya Rajpurohit.Some very interesting styles and customisable fonts are made here.
Inspiration 3: www.rayandkeshavan.com
A design company based in India.They have helped some of the top companies in the world launch/revive their public campaigns.The reason for their popularity can be seen on their website,where they give a detailed breakup of the work they have done and the reasons why they came to that decision.
Inspiration 4: www.centralillustration.com
It is an agency based in Mayfair, London.Working with a diverse group of designers producing contemporary art work for Advertising, Design and Production.With some brilliant Illustrations and Graphic Design,I particularly liked the work under the heading Typography.
Inspiration 5: www.bigactive.com
An award winning design consultancy firm who specialise in art direction and graphic design.Again a group of very talented designers who have worked for and on many campaigns including Apple and Harrods.
We were given www.creativereview.co.uk to look into and research design companies who's work intrested us the most.Each group had a pattern, some choose companies for they liked their work with typography and some just liked the black and white templates used and we as a group seemed to have an eye for companies which did good illustrations.
Inspiration 1. www.automatonstudio.no/
They are a silk screen printing studio in Oslo.There mission being able to provide screen printing services for all with professional help.For some odd reason I'v not been able to upload pictures most of the work that has been produced in their studio.Here is one done by Ernst Føyn and Tone Emblemsvåg for thier club night Play skool
Love the colours used,gives an awesome neon light effect.It can easily pass off for an Illustration..but its NOT...enter screen printing.
Inspiration 2.www.indiantypefoundry.com
A type foundry that produces Latin as well as non-Latin fonts.It was a joint venture between Peter Bilak (Typotheque),Rajesh Kejriwal (Kyoorius Exchange) and Satya Rajpurohit.Some very interesting styles and customisable fonts are made here.
A design company based in India.They have helped some of the top companies in the world launch/revive their public campaigns.The reason for their popularity can be seen on their website,where they give a detailed breakup of the work they have done and the reasons why they came to that decision.
Inspiration 4: www.centralillustration.com
It is an agency based in Mayfair, London.Working with a diverse group of designers producing contemporary art work for Advertising, Design and Production.With some brilliant Illustrations and Graphic Design,I particularly liked the work under the heading Typography.
Inspiration 5: www.bigactive.com
An award winning design consultancy firm who specialise in art direction and graphic design.Again a group of very talented designers who have worked for and on many campaigns including Apple and Harrods.
01 November, 2010
LCC through our eyes for theirs!
After getting lost a zillion times we (Georgia, Stefano,Richa and I) finally managed to get around LCC and discover some hidden secrets!Its amazing the kind of products that come out of the insanely creative minds at LCC at the Letterpress unit and 3D workshop.
With ancient letterpresses, Stefano's antics, mad rush to come up with a plot and a story line for the prospective students(which btw was our task:LCC through our eyes for theirs!) and parched tongue(Don't ask!) we created a map of LCC using Iconography.
The first thing I did after Karl's class on the 26th was to enroll for an induction in the 3D workshop!For all those who haven't...visit the workshop!
The first thing I did after Karl's class on the 26th was to enroll for an induction in the 3D workshop!For all those who haven't...visit the workshop!
Chondria Philia Phobia and Divya
Flying through the timeline of typos Paul showed us the origin of alphabets and words to what they are now I uncovered some interesting pictures:
This is from Johann Gutenberg's font type very Black Gothic its taken from the the first ever bible ever to be printed
Out typo class with Paul was an eye opener to people who (like me) are blissfully unaware of the various Typographical jargons.Its amazing to see how typefaces have evolved since the 1420's when the first font was actually created!
Learning about typefaces.seriffs.curves and tails. Our first task was to find out what the smallest elements in a paragraph were..We chose dots and some interesting ideas were flying around eg Paul talked about this one incident when a student had to type a mail without a single space ashisspacebarwasnotworking....we realised that a dot on top of an i or j was not necessary either...full stops as a whole to mark the end of a sentence was not necessary either.Think about it!
Playing around with typo
Just out of curiosity I tried to make some of my own font gallaxy heavily borrowed from Alan fetchers version of the same which is coming under experimentations shortly
This is from Johann Gutenberg's font type very Black Gothic its taken from the the first ever bible ever to be printed
Out typo class with Paul was an eye opener to people who (like me) are blissfully unaware of the various Typographical jargons.Its amazing to see how typefaces have evolved since the 1420's when the first font was actually created!
Learning about typefaces.seriffs.curves and tails. Our first task was to find out what the smallest elements in a paragraph were..We chose dots and some interesting ideas were flying around eg Paul talked about this one incident when a student had to type a mail without a single space ashisspacebarwasnotworking....we realised that a dot on top of an i or j was not necessary either...full stops as a whole to mark the end of a sentence was not necessary either.Think about it!
Playing around with typo
Just out of curiosity I tried to make some of my own font gallaxy heavily borrowed from Alan fetchers version of the same which is coming under experimentations shortly
Snip Snip
The word "crop" has 11 yes Eleven verb definitions from grazing to clipping off ears to geological meanings to cutting the head off! (refer http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/crop)
The best part of the workshop was how we could come up with witty/dark/slapstick humour/liberal/democratic/run of the mill/out of the box tag lines for random images.Scroll down for a laugh!
Our narrative workshop started out with me completely lost to going crazy snipping people's heads and toes and everything in between;) But at the end of David's session I was thinking differently, with respect to physically cropping images and then having a storyline using random images and employing narrative sequences such as Moment to Moment,Aspect to Aspect etc..I'm trying out similar things with the Indesign Software,will post those shortly.
The best part of the workshop was how we could come up with witty/dark/slapstick humour/liberal/democratic/run of the mill/out of the box tag lines for random images.Scroll down for a laugh!
Crops to highlight,my personal favourite is the first one of the swimmer(Close up of detail)
07 October, 2010
Pixel Man
I particularly liked the play of light and the colourful silhouette, this was shot with a 2MP Carl Zeiss lens.I wish I had a better camera on me better still a video camera , would have loved to experiment motion behind a pixellated screen.
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