ISTD Project.
For this we started off by choosing our own brief from the ISTD package that they provided us with. I chose ‘It happened on this day’, because it was a very open brief and it gave me quite variety of options to go down. The whole point of the brief was to pick a significant day and re-tell it through a visual aspect. I had to gather at least 500 words of content to work from and apply it in different media (books, concentina, posters, double sided leaflet etc).
I chose the 1958 Munich Air Disaster with Manchester United and my content was about the actual day, the aftermath, the players that were injured and the tributes. Not only did I find this day to be a very emotional and tragic event, but it also made me have more respect for the players, for the history of Manchester United and for the actual passion that the fans have… or once had for the game.
To display my event I went down a poster design route to demostrate the 3 stages of the tragedy: The actual day, the aftermath and the tributes. As you will see from my posters, they are all hand drawn/painted with inks and they each have their own characters.
This was the tribute poster from a poem by Eric Winter called The Flowers of Manchester. I thought it would make a brilliant statement for my poster design with a personal design of typefaces and type placement - all hand painted too.
This one was to show the memory behind the tragedy. Having fallen ink to create the word and the over flow/marble effect of the gold to bring richness and character into the poster.
This is some of my development work for the D&AD project, from my sketch book. There’s a lot of research in to the designers and my own visuals to follow.
D&AD Project.
So we was set a live brief from the company Typocircle and we had to create a supplement for their existing magazine, that contained information about three designers (ranging from illustration, typographers and calligraphers) that were apart of the talks that Typecircle host.
I chose Angus Hyland for his great ability to lay type out within a grid, giving it a clean and ‘designed’ feel to a spread; Rian Hughes for his retro typefaces and illustrations and Manny Ling for his unique way of creating Calligraphy.
My thoughts behind my designs were very different to others in my class. I didn’t want to go for the obvious grid-based, clean and constructive layout as I thought it was very boring and D&AD need something new. So I chose to go for an ‘in-your-face’ design, with lots of visuals (as we’re visual people afterall) and minimal colours. Everything I wanted to portray in my designs was the handmade feel: hand drawings, hand placement of type and even the overall printing/construction.
Given more time I would of loved to print my book off in my own made paper, using different colours and lots of patchy textures to give it an even further feel for the handmade stuff.
