Creative Production; Communication Design: February 2017

Friday 17 February 2017

Week 3; Design Problems (Scale)

Week 3; Using Photoshop

In week threes session we also started to play around with photoshop and the tools that come with it. Using colour, layers, shapes, blur tool, paint tool and other things that make photoshop unique and fun to use. I really enjoyed using the blur tool this week as it created some crazy patterns and great things to look at. I used it mostly with my squares to see how I could manipulate them and make them more appeasing than a blank square. I first started with using the eraser tool to remove some of the colour then blurred it to create a zigzag almost look. This is more seen in the three squares in the middle of the work.

Week 3; Test Good

Week 3; Test Bad

Week 3; Presentation

This week I did my presentation on British Punk and the 1970's. This was really interesting to research as my dad was a huge punk fan when he was younger and still has a soft spot for it now. So looking in The Sex Pistols and how there label and design was created was very enlightening and how this phase of creative deign was created. I believe the presentation went really well as I was able to find some good examples that created the punk genre well.

Friday 10 February 2017

This week we began to play around and test with shapes in illustrator. Firstly we watched an hour long clip called "Helvetica" all about how the font was created and is one of the most used fonts it'sits used in everything, to road signs, books and posters. This was really intrersting to get look into how fonts are established and how important they are too different items and giving of information.

Then we began to use illustrator for the first time to learn to use shapes and colour. This was a great learning curve for me as I had never used the software before so learning the tools and how to create different shapes was very interesting.