Week 7; Birmingham!

This week was our second day of our production days so the class met up in Birmingham City Centre and walked around to look around the area for designs that caught our eyes, such as the building structures and artwork like graffiti. Underneath our just some of the pictures that I took that day, as there were so many pictures I decided to choose my personal favourite designs of that day.

This design is probably my favourite photograph that I took this day as the design is visually  stunning and truly beautiful. The artist of this design I would of believed would of used quite some time on creating this eye catching piece, the colours that are used make it look more visually dynamic as they are not the usual colours that are used for faces, using the different shades of blue highlight specific features of the face. Personally, I find the eyes and the mouth the most attractive on this design as they are very detailed and the colours are in contrast with each other.

This design was also on the same building as the previous image which I believe is obvious as the artist has his/her own style when it comes to their artwork as the same colours are used throughout the building. What I like about this design is that there is so much going on, yet each image is still eye catching and makes you look at each design individually and appreciate them.

This design I found to be the funniest image that I had taken as the artwork was designed around the satellite dishes, this was the only design that I saw incorporated this. The design has made the dishes part of the artwork by looking as they are the bit of the speakerphone. I think the artist used the dishes to give the design a 3D effect and to make it humorous as they also have drawn little working men at the end of the speakerphones.

I found this structure very, very, unusual and completely eye catching as the piece is so visually appealing, yet confusing. I think this was the aim of the designers of this structure as this was in 'The Custard Factory' which is known to be a creative area in Digbeth, therefore making the bridge look like this gives the place look full of creativity. The reason I think the design looks confusing as it's designed to as if it i a maze, the way the poles intertwine with each other. 

I found this design interesting as it's artwork was far more simplistic to all the other designs that I saw that day, although this design was on a van. I thought it a design with so much detail was unusual for a design for an ordinary black van, as the van wasn't a company van either. The use of black and white against the black van was an interesting choice, as you would normally think that this design wouldn't stand out in these colours. However the simplistic colours catch viewers eye in a visual non-aggressive way, as it doesn't demand a lot of attention as it would of by using colour. 

This design was one of a kind in Birmingham City Centre and was on a side of a wall where people seemed to just walk past and have no appreciation of how much effort and time would of been put in this design. The design was a mosaic tile art and was visually attractive as it was unusual to find it as part of street art due to the normal arts we see in this type of place. Another reason I found this to be unusual being in Birmingham was due to the mosaic being of John F. Kennedy, as he was the president of the USA. 

I chose to use this image in my blog as it shows several different types of structures that are all individually appealing. I found the use of integrating the old building structures with the newer buildings was an interesting choice as it contrasted with one and another, modernising the older structures.

Week 6; Trashion!

This week was the first day of our production day which consisted of working together in small groups to create a magazine in just one day. I found this task for be quite easy as a few weeks prior we had to work in groups to create articles that would be used for a magazine, this task was very similar to the task we had to do in the production day as in our groups we had to create a house style. This house style would be used by all the members of our small group for each magazine article. We were already given all the content and photos that we could use in for the magazine "Trashion", so we discussed what our house style would be so we used colours that was already used in our chosen photograph for the front cover. After creating the rest of the house style such as what fonts we should use and so on, we then began to create our own magazines articles using the content. When we were finished we all shown each other our work and agreed that they all followed the house style, therefore we were happy to put the magazine all together.

Week 5; Preparing Work For Output

This weeks lecture was discussing how professionals and how we should prepare our work for output. I found this lecture very helpful as I was then able to prepare all my previous work in Visual Design so that it would be ready for print. There are lots of specifications that should be met before output so as making sure there is a 3 mm bleed and that the colours are CMYK so that they are able to be printed. Professionally, there are forms that need to be completed before the projects are printed and he two forms are a verification and validation form. A verification form is created for a client and the designer as the designer needs the customer to sign off on their work before printing can commence, such as spelling and the payment. A validation form is written for the designer and the printer, as the printer needs the designer to fulfill all the specifications on their checklist such as the bleed and colours. This weeks DS was based on this as we had to create both a verification form and validation form that was specific.