Design Context: September 2010

Thursday, 30 September 2010

Type As Image.

Open publication - Free publishing - More type as image

Over the last few days i have collected type as image for

research/inspiration for the music themed poster's. I shall use this as a resource for references and also for generating ideas.

Wednesday, 29 September 2010

Accent- 808 & 909 posters.

The First set off poster i will produce will be based around the theme of these two machines and there partner in crime the TB- 303.

Finding these poster means that there is a target audience for the idea but i need to think about how to design the poster just using simple letter form shape to get across what the poster is about.

My initial idea is to use colour as a reference which poster is about which machine.

Accent - Rub 'a' Dub

This work is well suited to the genre and has a authentic look. It's rare to see a reggae or dub club night today that has a good visual identity that suits the style of the music.

It's looks modern without looking cheesy or overdone but still holds a authentic and traditional style that is suited to the audience and target market.

Tuesday, 28 September 2010

Promotion Via Motion graphics, lens based media & print.

I Give My All from Alison Johnson (Music) on Vimeo.

Lens based media X print X publication X promotion X (mmm thinking motion graphics)

It's Nice That Issue #4 from It's Nice That on Vimeo.

Pop Art Is......(design could be as well)

Monday, 27 September 2010

Type as image: Musically influenced posters.

Tim Fishlock

- Again using shape to create letter form and even everyday objects such as office equipment or paper. This is something i could look into rather than just using shape and illustration to create type as image.

Richard Peacock

- Using negative space and inverting type can often create a interesting look, often resulting in something that looks like a image rather than a typeface. This is also something i will investigate when designing.

Phil Sheffield

- Rather than using print to produce the poster, Phil Sheffield has used a process of cutting out and placing the image creating a 3d tactile poster rather than your average edition screen print which is present a lot.

Using This process or a similar one will maybe make the poster more sellable due to the amount of craft that has been involved with the making process of the product, this also means that the product can be editioned similar to a screen print making the item bespoke.

Perhaps this is something that could be introduced in to the development part of the brief and start to use a number a print process ( or similar) to create a more desired item.

MARKUS SCHAFFER

- Using shape to create logo type/ legible type forms , again something i think will suit my audience in terms of aesthetics. I have to remember that these posters are being designed to be hung within a home rather than in a commercial environment.

Hort

- This approach of type as image is again something that will influence the way i design, I feel the atheistic of these products and design will suit the target audience i have described in the brief. It has a more illustrative element which could be linked with graffiti etc which ties in with the culture of electronic music in the form of hip hop and other forms of music.

I will also use the way the letters have been created using shape to influence my design work.

Chris Clarke

-Some more similar use of type at the top as the work of amy wicks with a more traditional typographic approach, but also some work which is dealing with the legibility and shape form of type. I emailed chris for a portfolio as he is a freelancer and he was nice enough to email me back with a PDF.

APELOIG

- Again this work is not as obvious as the work below but i still think the way the typefaces have been edited/ created makes them seem more like image rather than just strict legible type that is meant to be read as a sentence/paragraph etc. Some thing else that is present is the way the top poster work as a set and each have visual consistency through the set, changing the background colour to distinguish each one from another along with the layout of the type.

Anthony Peters-

This work would be a prime example of what i aim to produce product wise at the moment. A limited hand screened print made in a small edition, using typographic forms as image. Something i will investigate is the use of colour and how many colours to use.

Amy wicks

- These are straight to the point, playing the the size of typography can create a mis communication. Although these poster are not strictly type as a image i still feel that using type in this manor can make the audience view the poster as a image rather than just legible type.