Wednesday, 3 October 2012

REASONS WHY WORK HAS BEEN SELECTED (BLOG GROUP)


Following up ‘Why am I here’ in graphic design we were asked to furthermore identify 10 examples of work we found that sparked our creative interests. After blogging these examples we had to give an explanation to our blog groups of why we had chosen the particular pieces/photos. In response to listening to each other we wrote down the following reasons to summaries each other’s choice:


·      Finds typography and shapes interesting a sense of mathematics in design work is inspirational (Jason Miguel Mendez).
·      Handcraft typography intricate and interesting to produce.
·      Identity/branding influences an audience a great deal, finds the power of colour and shape engaging.
·      Finds traditional black and white photography emotive.
·      Likes to work with shapes and constructing things with unusual materials such as food.

                                              
·      Piece is quirky and heavily illustrative.
·      Likes the simplistic approach to the piece and use of solid block colours.
·      Traditional print processes have been used along with digital adjustments.
·      There is a focus on typography with an element of playfulness.
·      Use of mix-media in one of the pieces.
·      Use of 3D cartoon illustrations and mix-media materials.


·      Interest in print work and gig posters, personal/musical interest along with design interest aspect.
·      Tom Hanks- Childhood love for films, found his movies an inspiration since a young age.
·      Travelling – Finds contour lines that run through map creatively infusing in some aspect.
·      Bright colours – Film photography – William Eggelston
·      Grand Design – Dream to build a house – Piece is reflective of this dream.
·      Bold colours and repeat patterns.
·      Reading books/ looking at books.
·      Live music inspirational, the atmosphere and feeling of being in a crowd of people and listening to a organic piece of music live.


·      Guggenheim (Spain) – Like architecture.
·      Gaudi – Natural form and fluidity of work
·      Inspired by fluidity (Marian Bantje)
·      Indoor gardens – Like to bring external into the internal and vise-versa.
·      Blind Embossing – Subtle texture created by emboss I comparison to coloured emboss pieces.
·      Wedding invited – Like the personal design aspect of them, they can say a lot about the characteristics of a couple (people).
·      Mixture of type and image- simplistic in format yet interesting.
·      Type and use of colour, bold and fluidity, the structure of the type and use of colour reflect the phrase and use of wording.
·      Digital and numerical piece of type.
·      Piece is crisp and clean-cut; contrast in black and white creates clarity.
·      Logo design – creating identity and brand awareness.


·      Peter Blake- Likes aged/dated kind of work.
·      Lewis Carol – rat’s tails and composition of typography on the piece.
·      Likes the retro approach, using outdoors (walls) as a canvas.
·      Typography – like the surface of the printed finish.
·      Illustration – Likes the retro meeting the illustration use of colour.

As we can see we collated a wide range of reasons for why each other had selected particular pieces of work. If we look down the list in some cases we can see a common reason for selection. From this point we decided to hand pick these common examples and as a year group we identified them as:

  • Creative use of Type
  • Visual Quality
  • Tone of Voice
  • Attention to detail
  • Simplicity of Design
  • Meani or Message
  • Audience engagement / interaction
  • Style or aesthetic quality
  • Use of Media & Method of Production
  • Relationship betwen Form & Format
  • Interest in the content.
  • Use / Choice of language
  • Structure & Layout




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