Time for my weekly update. It's a double post time since I was so busy last week.
Alright, so my Pinterest boards have bee gradually updated. I'm actually enjoying looking through other people's inspirations. I never thought about Pinterest before, I never thought it would be useful to me but.. I was wrong! I've been using it for my own personal projects as well. It's great~
Library Exploration.
Our class last week was split in two. Part 1 was exploring the library, looking at Typography in design magazines and looking for pictures to assist our next little project.
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| Summer Time '13! |
Pah-drake wanted us to find examples of type where the alignment was with a building or such in the background. My interest is in the area of Games and Animation so naturally, I went for those particular magazines. I have to admit, it probably wasn't the easiest section to choose, but I found a few that I really liked.
The first one on the left has a shape in the corner which could represent the sun. Then the text on the left balances out the entire scene. The colour scheme is exotic which makes it look peaceful and summer-y. A simplistic font can work better then a fancy one, in the majority of cases!
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| Crackin' Layout |
The second one isn't really aligned with anything in the background as such, but I liked the layout of the page in general. So, I'll keep it for a reference.
There's a good amount of spacing between each section. The imagery balances out all the text, though some sentences drop off the bottom which doesn't look right (in my opinion). The Drop Capitals are a good indication of where the new paragraph begins, I think they're used pretty effectively.
The white background and very little colour used between the text makes it a lot easier to read and understand to the audience.
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| Let's go to Netherland! |
Number Three! My childhood got the better of my here.
I love the Peter Pan story. <3
I was determined to get this example in my blog, so out came my ruler and here we go. The text is actually aligned with the streets and houses in the background. The alignment also works with the character himself. That makes it really effective, not to mention appealing to a younger age group, and me (Clearly!)
Though, I think some of the text would have looked better if they weren't covering features like the Tower of London and the London Eye, I think moving them to the right slightly, maybe aligning them with the bubble around the title, could have made it more effective.
My fourth, and last example to share is pretty simple. An easy idea that gets the message across without much complications. The text is aligned between the small stars to give the picture a bit more structure. Along side the 3D image, the entire poster is small, simple and effective. I like it. The only thing I would question is the different fonts scattered across the page. I think having a similar font makes all the text relate to each other. But considering the spacing as well, it looks like the top and the bottom are separated.
Hopefully I'll have more examples to show you guys in my future blogs. It's good to keep track of my favourite images and inspirations. I could do it with my Pinterest Boards. I'll give it a try next week.
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| Split Map! |
Hopefully I'll have more examples to show you guys in my future blogs. It's good to keep track of my favourite images and inspirations. I could do it with my Pinterest Boards. I'll give it a try next week.
Workshop: Sans in the News.
After going back to class, we were given old news papers. Our quest was to replicate letters from the title of an article, using a grid drawn within the actual article.
We'd take a paragraph in the smaller text, box around it and draw a set of diagonal lines across it to fill it out. Then using the lines and any letters we can see beneath it, we take one of the letters from the title. Then we redraw it in the grid we just created. Our own messed up sans serif fonts!
I actually enjoyed this workshop, like the others. Yeah, we were copying an old font but our little makes made it our own in a way. I liked that. An overall good day~
Project Two: Grid Lock.
Regarding our previous project Nature Letters, I have around 20 letters all ready to be masked out into a set. I'll get them into Photoshop after I'm finished my next post for a post after class, next week!
Now then, project two requires us to find buildings that we can take a picture of to achieve a 'grid in which we can use to manipulate the placement of text on a page. Sounds a little complex but all will be revealed in due course~
See ya'll soon~
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