looking back

Since I have completed my first year of Vis Com, I thought a little reflection was in order.

Over this year I feel I've learnt a lot of new skills that I'll need to succeed in the design world. I still have much more to learn but I'm excited to get started again. The following are pieces of work that I enjoyed working on most and am pleased with the finished result.

Book Cover Design;

Create two covers for each book, one must be an image one must be type.


When I began this project I wasn't exactly sure where to start. Considering I didn't have enough time to actually read the books (I'm not one for reading books) I search the internet for brief summary's of the books and picked out the main themes and words that were associated with the books. After that I began to sketch out my ideas, one thing led to another and I ended up with these covers. I really enjoyed this project. It was challenging and something i'd never done before. I'm happy with my finished covers and had a lot of fun making little brains!

Guardian Project;

For this project we had to create a guardian supplement in the same style as the guardian.
I thought this project would be really easy, but it was quite complicated when I listed out all the changes that where required to make my layout fit in with the rest of the newspaper. This was surprisingly very fun, I really enjoyed making all the small changes such as selecting the right font, creating the same quotation marks, organising the paragraphs. It took some time but I think my outcome is very successful.

Modular World Project;

This project consisted of creating fonts and characters using only modular shapes.
This was by far my favourite project that we were assigned. At first I found it quite difficult but once I played about with the shapes and began to develop my ideas I began to really enjoy the freedom we were given with the brief.
I loved creating these fonts. I found them quite easy to create, the shapes just made sense as letters. I think my fonts are quite simple but still dynamic and original. I also thought they were very legible in the form of words. Really pleased with the out come of these.
Moving onto characters, I started with a very basic human shape and began to create clothing and accessories using the shapes to make the characters look like playful cultural stereotypes such as punk, grunge etc. This took quite a lot of time and effort but it was very fun to do.

Some small examples of my first year work. I shall upload a few more to my deivantART account and post the link in another post.

It's funny how quickly first year has come and gone.... scary actually. Roll on second year!