Visual Communication 04/11/2010

Today, we had our first Visual Communication

lesson (also known as Graphics Design). We

were given our brief. The theme is the same as

the other subjects, ‘Contrasts’. We were given

a brief and some other information.
 

At first I didn’t know what I wanted to do, so I

looked through some of the information Claire

(lecturer) gave us. I definitely knew I was going

to do something related to architecture. I decided

to do CD covers/inlays. I then thought about

what I could compare to architecture, and with the

help of Zulfikar, I decided to look at ‘old/new’ in

the contrast theme. I decided to that the band

members should be dressed in 18^th Century or

Victorian clothing, and this will go against the

modern architecture.

I researched some 21^st Century architects and

chose the following as I liked their designs:

1) Ricardo Alvarez-Diaz (Alvarez-Diaz+Group)

2) Atusushi Kitagawara (Atusushi Kitagawara

Architects)

3) Asymplote Architecture

By the way, for the Victorian costumes, I will try to

contact the REP theatre and ask if they have any

and if I can use them in my project. I’ll get my

friends to help me and we’ll all dress up. Ravika and

Zulfikar are definitely helping me, and I’ll see who

else is willing to. I really do hope REP will let us use

the costumes. *Fingers crossed*

Before I started to make a sample of my idea, Claire

told us to do a little task. We were asked to pick out

a card which had a contrast written on it and draw i

deas that come to our mind. I got the card which said

‘Alive/Dead’.

I decided to carry on using the idea of CD cover

layout. My design was a half a face and half a skull

joint together making one whole face.

 

After lunch everyone presented their ideas to each

other.

Once we were back on the Macs I started to make a

sample of my idea using Photoshop and some images.

Images I used were of the night sky, buildings by the

architects I researched, and images of one of my

favourite bands, DELUHI.

I like how it’s turned out. I want to use this as the

cover, so, I think I should swap the sides over as it’ll

be easier to print off.

It’s very rough so it’s not really that good.