New! OUGD504 - Studio Brief 01 - Type in Context - project ideas and Urban Type Research

Because I have collected a different range of images I want to zone down on one idea that I will be able to talk about when it comes to filling in the text actions of my book.

The main Idea I had was to create a book which expresses an urban style, since I took my photos in Leeds city centre. My other idea was to design a book which expressed a more secretive and delicate style which matches the photos which represent a less obvious form of typography. 

'Urban book themes and ideas'

The idea I have for creating and urban themed book I would want to be a visible theme that can be noticed form the side of the book and the outside. The more urban photos that I have are mostly go shop signs, names of building, numbers and single letters, as well as some signage imagery. I love all of the images and If i did decide to go with a more urban themed design then I would collect more images which fit the theme more from possible various other cities apart from leeds, I would want to really look hard for examples of pure urban art and amazing images of urban typography. 

Thinking more in the future of this project when it comes to designing the cover and working on the binding of my book, the idea I have is to a roughed up/used look about the book, I would like it to have a worn out scrap book look about it, I feel that the style would really fit in well with the images and the whole theme. 

I want to carry out a little research into urban themes typography. 

I found a small collection of books that fit closely to what I have in mind for a possible urban style photography book. The first book I examined 'Mega City Photo Book' by Chris Osburn, which is a small book with a collection of city photos from around the world. Osburn collected a collection a photos which expressed the essence of a vast amount of cities from across the world. Within the book there were a few really nice photos which matched closely for what I have in mind for my own urban themed book. The book focuses mainly on areas of cities that you normally would not see unless you lived there. The images included a lot of different type either printed or sprayed onto walls, backgrounds and objects which I love, the photos are in great detail so I am able have an idea how long certain type has been their which gives a little old fashioned feel to it. 

I do really like the simplistic layout of the inside of the book, it is a nice design for a more modern photography book, and I think with the right stock use and binding method it can look very professional. I am not yet sure of the binding method and stock that I plan to use. But the layout from tis book is very inspirational if I were to choose a more sim plastic layout style.

The next book I looked at is quite similar to the first and focused images of New York, Chicago and Los Angeles images, the book showed the city images on a time scale from 1960 - 1980, I thought that this book would contain a lot of useful images of type within these cities that were used in the late 1900's, Since a lot has changed in media from this time to present, I wanted to lightly touch on the type that was possibly used more then and comparing it to the present day. 

I really love the layout of this book, it has a slightly more busy look to it because of the text but the image display is very similar to the first book. I feel that if I were to choose a simplistic layout for the book it would be similar to this style above. The stock of the book seems to be the usual gloss paper that most modern books use. Most of the images in the book are black and white which I love because it's matches the theme of then book that the author was aiming for, basing the images in the late 1900's..

The type that I collected from these images was very interesting, there were a lot if backgrounds that seemed to use Helvetica and similar typefaces, which does give the images a slight simplistic feel to them. 

New! OUGD504 - Studio Brief 01 - "Type in context"

For this project I will be creating my own Art and Photography book displaying the uses of typography used in the environment around me. 

Over the summer I had been given the task to go into any area and collect pictures which represented how that specific area uses typography, i decided to go with the typography that surrounded my student home here in leeds as well as some shots from the centre itself, since there was a lot of designs there to explore. 

After all of the photos I had taken to a better quality, I looked through the photos to decide what the theme of my project will be, since I had collected different kinds of photo's, some of shop signs, buildings and monuments around leeds city centre. My instant idea for this project was to capture all the amazing and pretty ways that typography can be used in the city of leeds; if i were to go ahead with this idea then it would enable me to all the photos I have collected and not have to stick to a single theme. 

As I have already carried out this project of creating the internal and external design for my own book, I really want to create something much better than what I worked on the last time I started this project. 

OUGD505 - Studio Brief 02 - Anti Homophobic Posters and images Research

Since I want to create my own anti Homophobic designs, I wanted to look at previous work that projects the same sort of message of realisation and anti homophobia. I came a cross a small pintrest account with a couple of really good poster designs.

The last design is probably my favourite out of this little collection. The message is perfect because it cleverly belittles people who do not really know what they are talking about when it comes to something that is different from their own lifestyle.

https://uk.pinterest.com/pin/529524868661008517/

I then continued to collect images which used clever captions and images to show confidence against homophobia, I really like these posts because they explain a more modern mind set and challenge the stigma towards abuse and negative emotions towards gay people and surrounding issues.

I like how a lot of the images use true events, past and modern to explain the caption that is placed with them. I feel that images like these and the posters I have collected are a very good way of educating people and pushing out an out dated thought process. 

https://uk.pinterest.com/search/pins/?q=homophobia&rs=typed&0=homophobia%7Ctyped

I definitely want to achieve this style of image presentation within my own work. Using the same type of design and presentation only concentrating more on the subjects of more disturbing issues that are usually ignored around the world. 

OUGD505 - Studio Brief 02 - LGBT Issues

One of the most problematic issues going on in the world right now is the death sentence for homosexuality in eastern countries according to the self made law by ISIS. 

Below is a recent new report of ISIS killing a gay teenager by throwing him off a building, because he was gay ISIS sentenced the teenager to a death sentence. Connected with this story, A member of ISIS had raped the gay teenager before his death. The ISIS member was spared a death penalty.

These are the kind of issues that happen much more within eastern countries, that I really want to tackle with my anti homophobic campaign. I still plan to carry more research into these issues, and hopefully I will be able to come up with a stronger idea into how I will be able to effectively communicate an anti gay campaign.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3382990/ISIS-throw-15-year-old-teenager-roof-gay-terror-chief-raped-let-off.html

OUGD505 - Studio Brief 02 - Points of Interest

Whilst working on my campaign, I want to take into account all of the negative behaviour issues towards gay people all across the world. mainly in eastern countries, I want to concentrate on the violent crimes that occur, such as attacks, verbal and physical abuse including attacks. Then moving into more western countries where, being gay is generally much more accepted. I want to concentrate on the issues such as same sex marriage, transgender issues, homophobia, equality and adoption.

By doing this I feel I will cover a lot of the main issues today in my campaign to challenge these issues.

OUGD505 - Study Task 04 - Voting Campaign - Snapchat Research

Within my group we have decided to create a campaign that encourages the younger generation, like students to be more involved with voting for government, such as the general election, where a low percentage of young people actually took part in voting. 

Our goal is to create campaign by involving some type of social media, such as snapchat, The idea of using snapchat as a way to get a younger generation involved in voting would be quite a successful idea, since snapchat is such a popular app amongst a large age range. Snapchat have created a website where you are able to design your own filter or (geofilter), this is where you are able to design your own snapchat filter which has some connection with a city or place in the world.

As a group, we thought this would be the perfect thing to use, to design our own snapchat filters. Since this study task is for a voting campaign, where we individually as a group are concentrating on increasing the amount of voting the younger generation do. 

Alongside this idea, we thought it would be good to include some kind of a mascot for the campaign, using this idea and creating a series of posters that have encouraging messages on then which in some way will attract the attention of people and persuade them to think more about voting.

INTERN Magazine Workshop

A visitor came into the college to work with the whole studio, separating into groups to to each work on a concept and design for an independent magazine.

Working within my group we decided to create a concept for a magazine which shows fashion from different cultures. We got this idea from the culture within our group, since each member of the group was from a different country, it made a lot of sense to create something that expressed our different cultures. 

The idea was to create 3 different magazines, one for Britain, Spain and india. We wanted this to be a collection of designs for different styles of fashion, which would be used to educate and get more people interested in the different types of fashion that is out there.

For Britain we wanted to concentrate on the more urban and youthful styles that are pretty popular at the moment. Easier styles and more comfortable fashion. 

For Spain, we wanted to concentrate on the style of flamenco. A very expressive and serious/colourful style.

For India we wanted to concentrate on the fashion that is available for events, such as weddings, Since the fashion for these events are always very beautiful and expressive.

When we had the concept figured out we then moved onto the designs, one for each country. 

We wanted each design to communicate the individual style of each country, also since each magazine will be different we wanted to change the placement of text on the image, to avoid a boring looking set of proposal designs.

I worked mostly on the designs, I asked the group for feedback and help with image choice and placement.

When the designs were completed we could then work on the presentation to talk about the concept and designs that we had created. Below is the completed presentation and designs.

I was very happy with how the presentation went, We seemed to be able to effectively get across our idea of creating a magazine that collected fashion from different cultures.