After my presentation, it’s made me more confident in designing an app for the exhibition ‘Worktown Revsited’ I’d like to do the original idea which is adding information in including a simple map showing around Bolton and adding the images which are included in the Worktown. I’ve been thinking of joining my way finding ideas with the app and creating a navigating map while you are in Bolton which loads onto the app that picks up where your current location is and helps you find your way to the event. Instead of going a separate map for the brief I’d like to join together the map in the app so that it is easier for the audience to understand. This will also help me designing the app so I have more to show when presenting my app design.
Monthly Archives: February 2016
In the forum page on Moodle, the group decided to split us up into smaller groups doing different subjects. Me and Paige were chosen to do the gaming and cyber bullying, I’ve already produced a “maybe” design for the group however we need to look at cyber-bullying to create a poster.
I’ve researched cyber-bullying posters on Pinterest and pinned some of my favourite to the Magenta group.
CONNOTATION & DENOTATION
Denotation: the literal or primary meaning of a word. “Graphic designers need to be aware of the uses of particular visual signs and symbols, and their common meanings, within a target group.” Ian Noble/Russsell Bestley, 2005, Visual Research, page 68
Connotation: an idea or feeling which a word invokes for a person “The meaning of the image and how we ‘read’ it is not fixed by it’s creator or author but is equally determined by the reader.” Ian Noble/Russsell Bestley, 2005, Visual Research, page 68
This is an example that I found which shows the difference between denotation and connotation. Denotation being ‘a dove’ and the connotation being ‘peace’ or ‘love.
ILLUSTRATION NOW
This lecture was all about images mostly focusing on illustration in the last 50/60 years, the new lecturer decided we didn’t have to write down notes because she was more bothered about people listening and looking at the images. She started from the 60’s and spoke about how illustration was progressing throughout the years.
The key subjects included in the lectures:
Revolver
Roy Lichtenstein
Bob Dylan ’67
Zap Comix
Jan Svankmajer
EXHIBITION ROUTE
For one lesson, we started it off by going to where the exhibit will be held in Bolton so we could see how long it is from the University and what it looks like. I look panorama images on the exhibition space to show myself and the blog what I’m going to be designing for. I mostly focused on the walls and places where images and information could be held.
POSTER IDEAS?
To inspire me, I looked at the group pinterest board and asked everyone to pin images which were inspiration or related to poster ideas. Our theme is CMYK so the group have decided to pin some images related to the whole CMYK colour scheme.
For more inspiration, I found a website which I liked looking at that showed different types of posters and designs. The link is http://designspiration.net/ and it allows you to scroll through thousands of posters to get some inspiration and ideas.
POSTER IDEA???
From my main idea, I added some font and a background to see what it’d look like on the whole. I’m going to experiment with the poster and change the colours and layout but keep the whole controller/gaming theme.
PROGRESSING IDEA
To progress with my idea, I’ve asked which design the group liked the best and thought to expand on it, I did this by uploading it to Illustrator and outlining the main lines. The image below is multiple screenshots of my development with my controller. The first and second image are the lines are were mainly needed to form the design, the other two are adding colour. I will experiment with the colours so that it matches the theme “CMYK” however for now the controller will remain black/grey colour.
PERSPECTIVE VANISHING POINT
The definition of perspective is the art of drawing solid objects on a two-dimensional surface so as to give the right impression of their height, width, depth, and position in relation to each other when viewed from a particular point [as adj. ] : a perspective drawing. See also linear perspective and aerial perspective. – a picture drawn in such a way, esp. one appearing to enlarge or extend the actual space, or to give the effect of distance.
William Hogarth in 1754 realized that what we see isn’t actually right, he produced an image which looked right but if you looked closely the proportions weren’t even. The perspective of the picture was wrong because objects in the distance were larger than the objects closer to you. This image was called Perspectival Absurdities.
Looking a perspective, depth is suggested by overlapping forms/images. “When reading images as in the hearing of speech, it is always hard to distinguish what is given to us from what we supplement in the process of projection which is triggered off by recognition. ‘Recognition’, though, is perhaps a misleading term in this connection. It was the ‘guess’ of the radio monitor, it will be remembered, that turned the medley of speech sounds into speech; it is the guess of the beholder that tests the medley of forms and colours for coherent meaning, crystallising it into shape when consistent interpretation has been found.” (taken from power point in lecture because good definition and information)
The first attempt at 3D perspective was Giovanni Di Paolo with the image ‘St. John.’ He created the image in 1454.
Albrecht Durer figured out guids for perspectives, he organised the different types into four categories:
Linear Perspective – Linear perspective conveys depth by reducing the relative size of objects as they regress into space.
Atmospheric Perspective -Atmospheric perspective creates the illusion of depth by increasingly blurring the lines and details of objects or figures as the image regresses into the distance, as it would in nature.
Colour Perspective – Closely related to atmospheric perspective, color perspective conjures depth by adjusting the saturation and hue of colors as space regresses. While the foreground of compositions using this perspective technique would reflect typical colour saturation, as the image travels back into space the colours would transition first to greens and then to blues by the farthest depths of the composition.
Planar Perspective – Colour perspective was often employed in conjunction with planar perspective, the division of a composition in a series of layered planes to create a sense of depth.
[Seattlepi. (2016) Four types of perspective. Available from: http://education.seattlepi.com/four-types-perspective-renaissance-art-1418.html]
WAYFINDING IDEAS?
Using the Pinterest board, I was inspired to try and use a basic idea from the map which shows the directions from Knowsley Street to the University of Bolton. The walk takes about 16 minutes however in the design below I highlighted the main roads which you need to direct you to the venue. This will not be the final design because it needs so much more information and to be easier to direct the audience.
For my poster which I need to produce for brief 1, I’d like to include a small map indicating how close the exhibition is to the University.
Lauren Catherine Procter 