Vernacular Type by Mike Perry

After looking at Ed Fella's work, I was a bit disappointed as I didn't really like it, but when I looked at Mike Perry's work, I absolutely loved it, below are a few examples of vernacular type by him, there is some more great stuff on his website at http://www.mikeperrystudio.com/

Vernacular Type by Ed Fella

After attending the vernacular type workshop, I had a look at Ed Fella's wrk, who used vernacular type for his work, here are a few examples.

Visit his website at http://www.edfella.com/

Cardboard Constructions by Chris Gilmour

At the cardboard construction workshop Rachel showed us some of Chris Gilmour's work, i was looking at his website today and the stuff that he has made with cardboard is really amazing, it's so neat and perfect, and he has used nothing but cardboard and glue to make it. His work is just awesome, you can visit his website at http://www.chrisgilmour.com/
Here are some of the images of his work that I took from his website,

GLOBES cardboard and glue lifesize 2008

CHURCH cardboard packets 12 x 6 x 10 cm 2004

MOKA cardboard and glue lifesize 2002
LAMBRETTA cardboard and glue lifesize 2004

FIAT 500 cardboard and glue 2002-2004

STRONGBOX cardboard and glue lifesize 2006

Vernacular Type

The second workshop that we had on Tuesday was Vernacular Type, as I didn't know what vernacular type meant before this workshop, here is a little definition for it for anyone who doesn't know its meaning, Vernacular is something that refers to the native language of the country or a locality, and typography is the art and techniques of arranging type. So in the workshop we developed typefaces in responce to London street signage and other letterforms. We started with handmade typeface which we can then process using softwares such as illustrator, fontifier, fontstruct etc. Here are a few photos from the workshop..... I chose to make my typeface using simple shapes in blue and red, as these two colours kind of represent London. Work in progress........
I only got till H, I think that A and G also need bit of modifications, I will be developing the typeface till Z and then I plan to get it developed from fontfier. i Will keep posting the progress.

So at the end of the workshop, we put all our work on the wall, it was quite good to see how everyone had there own different style and how each work was so diffrent from the other.

Cardboard Construction

On Tuesday we had a cardboard construction workshop with Rachel Ortas, exploring how to use flat surface to create something 3D by folding, cutting etc to design and make an object. It was basically like making something out of nothing. So, as our project is about London, I decided to use the word London and turn it into London Bridge.... hope that makes sense.
I think it will make more sense after having a look at the photos of what we did in the workshop.

This is the rough drawing I made trying to turn the word London into London Bridge.

So at first I drew it onto the card which I was gonna make the model with, then I decided that I would rather make it with white card so then I can paint over it, but I don't think that it was a very good idea.

Cutting in progress......

Turning the edges with ruler and bone, I got to know about this tool called bone in this workshop and it is actually very useful for paper folding, so i bought one for myself from the shop immediately after getting free from the workshop.

This is the farthest I got with my cardboard model in the workshop, it was so frustrating when I couldn't stick the edges together, I think I needed a stronger glue for that and i should have made the edges a bit wider so that they were easy t stick together. Well I guess I will be redoing the whole thing again, and hopefully it will work this time. I will work on the same thing but improve it a bit, and will be posting the improved model very soon.

Here are a few photos of what other people did in the workshop......

A Trip to the Park

On Friday we went to a documentary trip to the Hyde Park to observe and capture what is there. So to start the task we had to choose a user and an outcome from the list given to produce design for and then use the IDEO research methods to produce ideas for our design, which will then go in our research book.

So we decided to go to the lake and observe people around there. As we reached at the lake, there we a lot of people there with their dogs. So we decided to observe the dog owners using the Fly on the Wall research method and observe and record behaviour within its context, without interfering with people's activities. The idea behind using this research method was to see what people actually do within real contexts and time frames, rather than accept what they say they did after the fact.

So we were sitting on a bench by the lake and observing the dog owners when we saw this information board below, which says PLEASE KEEP DOGS ON LEEDS IN THIS AREA.....
But nobody seemed to be bothered about following it, as we could see people walking their dogs around freely not even a single dog that we saw had a lead on it. A few photos as a proof...

I think that it's not entirely the visitors' fault not to follow what they have been asked by the park authorities, as the information board was very hard to be noticed, as it has camouflaged into the greenery around it because of it being the same colour. It could have been more prominent if it was made with a bit striking colours, they could have used colours other than green, that were easy to be noticed around all the greenery. So I have decided that i will be re-designing this information board so that it's easily noticeable. Will be posting the outcome soon.