I also revisited "The grid as a 2nd language." The changes, which i made to this booklet was the front cover and type used for the title, as well as the layout of the answer for the last question.
The image, which i used for the cover was one that i took while sitting on a train, but I felt that it related to the interview and the booklet because of the motion of the shot. Also the type, which i used for the title was the same font I used for the running heads.
Since there weren't too many changes to be made, I decided to revisit this piece and make the changes mentioned in the last post. Unfortunately I stuck the pages together badly, when i was trying to align the background of the spreads. Also I printed it out on a laser print, so the quality of it is better.
Part 2 of "Alphabet and abstraction" was to create a 32 page self cover book, which included an "abstracted" version of each letter of the alphabet.
Our requirements were:
work in Puffin Picture Book format - 222 x 181mm
can be either potrait or landscape
cover is full colour and the spreads alternate between colour and black only.
For the alphabet, I decided to use the letters that I found in Part 1 or least letters, which were inspired by them. The cover (below) consisted of the negative space around the letters used for the background and the title in red. I decided on a black, white and red theme for this booklet. Here are examples of the colour and black and white spreads in the booklet:
At the final crit, the booklet was described to be like a bowl of alphabet soup and you try to scoop out the letters. However the things, which could be changed were:
the background doesn't work as a spread
the lines of the background are quite thick, so it fights with the main letter
some of the more pristine letters could be bigger.
remove the black outline of the letters on the colour pages
Before Christmas, I was briefed on Phil's brief - "Alphabet and abstraction." The brief is split into two parts, Part 1 of the brief was to find, record and learn about lettering. It may sound simple, but with so many different styles of typography, it's hard to record everything. So my "scrapbook" of type consisted of walk and draws around Brighton, visits to the V&A and the British library, type from flyers, paperbags and any interesting type i could find.
During the time we were doing our elective work, we were also given a brief on the side with the title of: In this brief, we simply had to answer the question in groups of four. The groups were decided at random through picking names out of a box. I ended up working with were Agostino, Woori and Kelli.
The only specifications for the brief were:
We weren't allowed to use computers.
We had all exhibit in Studio 1, 2 & 3.
So after many moments of not knowing what to do, we ended up coming up with "the ambition tree."
The tree was inspired by The Lam Tsuen Wishing Trees in Hong Kong. However instead of throwing your wish onto the branches, we made leaves for everyone to write their ambitions on. By filling out these leaves and placing them on the trees, it helped it grow. Just like how we as students learn and grow.
At some point in the last couple of weeks, I went to see "The Urethra Postcard Art of Gilbert & George" at The White Cube. Personally I found the dirtier postcards more interesting. However I loved the use of the postcard format because i feel that it's underrated in some ways, especially when find really tacky ones. Then again this exhibition exploits the tackiness of some the postcards you get around London. Below are a couple of pictures I found online that I found interesting:
Finally Electives are finally over with, since today was the essay hand in day. Yay!! I decided to share with you all, how i presented my essay: (Keep in mind it's A6 in size and the pages were taken from my moleskine)
(If you are wondering why i hand wrote it all, it was a moment of madness. Don't worry I have a typed up version as well.)
At some point within the last month, i went with a friend to see Bridget Riley's exhibition at the National Gallery. Bridget Riley has been my friend Jess' favourite artist since she was little and since we were going ice skating in London. It made sense to take her. The one piece which caught my attention was the installation. (Then again it takes up the whole wall.) The thing I liked about it was how all the circles interact with one another.
Every now and then, i will be obsessed by a film. Sometimes i will feel the need to share it.
My latest film obsession is Scott Pilgrim vs the World
I think the intro is awesome:
So this obsession started when I watched the trailer and thought to myself,
"I need to watch this" O.O
When it was finally released to cinema in the UK, I was in Chicago and it had already been showing for a few weeks, so i was worried that i would miss it. After having to track down the nearest cinema that was showing it, I finally got to watch it. Yay!! (Yes, I am strange.)
You may be wondering why am i obsessed with this film?
Well personally i think it's a funny film with awesome fight scenes, good music and it references various video games. (Here's my slightly geeky confession, I grew up playing various Nintendo consoles, a bit of Playstation and Sega, so these references make me happy. Like I said before I'm strange) Also i love how once Scott Pilgrim defeats an Evil Ex, he gets coins/ they turn into coins :D
First of all, I'm terrible at blogging and I haven't posted anything on here recently. So I will probably end up posting multiple posts over the next week. They have just been sitting around being drafts.
Secondly, it's been a while since I've had the chance to go to the beach. Considering I don't live that far, I think it's inexcusable. Here are a couple of photos from today:
Last but not least, i started a tumblr to share some of the many photos: http://miss-pang.tumblr.com/
