Collage Extension Project

These holidays have been quite busy, as we have to hand in both our VCT projects the week we go back to uni, and luckily I have managed to finish both of them in time, after finishing off the VCT work, I then moved on to work on the collage extension project. I started working on it a week prior to it's hand in date. So I had plenty of time to finish it off.
Before starting the project, I had a rough idea of what i was going to make, I decided to make a 3D model of a street light. So I went to Hobby Craft, to get some material for the model I was going to make and bought a polystyrene sheet for the surface of my model, I was a bit unsure about what I was going to make the street light with, so I bought some clay from Hobby Craft thinking that I might make the light with clay and went to a DIY store thinking that I might find something better for the light. So from the DIY store I found a small toilet pie and a joint to go with it, when I attached both of them the looked like a street light, so i bought them, for the light I bought a cycle light to attach it with the pipe. Below are a few photos of the progress of the model...

This is the light that I made by joining the pipes together and then covering them up with clay.....

The idea that I had in my mind while making the model was that the street light will be reflecting a message on the floor, I tried to cover the light in a way that it projects the message on the floor, but it didn't work, so I thought I would rather write it on the surface. I thought of a few different messages, but then at the end decided to put down the logo of LCC. Below is the photo where I was trying to write the message using semolina seeds, as they looked like little pebbles and I thought would work well, but it didn't really work.


Here I tried to do it with yellow paint......


As the stencil was too thin and flimsy, it didn't work quite well.Then I made the stencil with black card and used yellow paint and finally it worked alright..The aftereffects...........Below are the images of the final model.....

Major project: Seeing London Through the Eyes of the Designer

We got our final brief for the first year a few days back, the project is going to start from the 20th of April, which i am quite excited about. The aim of the project is to make a research book on London which reflects the rich diversity of life and culture of London. In order to do this we have to explore the city of London as visual designers, and utilise as wide a range of communication design techniques, processes and research methods as possible. We are also asked to make a wraparound poster which will be used as the cover for the book. The hand-in date for the project is 7th of June, so we have 7 weeks for this project. I look forward to starting this project. I will be posting the progress of the project regularly.

VCT Timeline

For VCT we were asked to make a text-based timeline focusing on an aspect of the development of a graphic design profession. For my timeline as you can see I chose the Dada movement, and i am very glad on choosing it as it was very easy to find research material on it. Some of the books that I used for my research are;

Hans Richter (1965) Dada Art and Anti-Art: Thames & Hudson ltd.

Mathew Gale (1997) Dada & Surrealism: Phaidon Press Limited

Dietmar Elger (2004) Dadaism: Taschen

Richard Hollis (1994) Graphic Design A Concise History: Thames & Hudson ltd

The Final Game for Okido

This is the final game, I am not quite satisfied with it as I think that I could have done much better than this.

Okido Project Final Game Development

The garden creatures I made for my final game using foam board and lead for the outline.
These are the flowers I made using crepe paper following the video on YouTube.
I made the pot using cork, and outlined it with lead.

The OKIDO Project

Above is a design idea for my final game that I am going to make for the Okido project. The theme I chose is diversity of living things. I think this idea can work well, but I am going to draw or make flowers and the garden creatures myself for the final game, the ones in the above game are actually scanned in buttons that I found from Hobby craft. I scanned them in, and then traced them in illustrator. Hopefully the ones that I will make myself will look much better.

OKIDO, The Mini Project

On the 11th of February we were briefed the Okido project by Rachel Ortas, one of the founders and designers of the Okido magazine. On the day of project we were given a mini project to do, we had to make a mini book, the theme that I chose for my book was parts of the body, which was one of the given themes. First I drew the whole thing onto paper, scanned it and rendered it on illustrator. i tried printing it on different types of papers as you can see below.
This is sort of a flatplan for my book. I printed it as it is and then folded it into a book.