AuriolB | Ravensbourne Access \ Design

This week I . . . experimented with hand-drawn type | practised Photoshop skills | Learned to use the Riso printer . . . Focus piece Riso print poster \ Communicating the joy of design :  I remembered a sketch I’d made in my sketchbook last year, learning from Milton Glaser and his Dylan portrait. I’d jotted down a quote from an interview with him pointing out the Error in taking Graphic Design too seriously, reminding us that it’s a “joyful activity”. I began by playing with the word joy and enjoyed the way the o and y could sometimes seem to form a winking, smiling face. I like the swooping energy and movement in the curve of the J and the y. However, when it was in the context of the word joyful and the full quote, I found that the smiling effect was lost. I experimented with bringing in a contrast through the typography to emphasise the transition from struggle to joy visually as well as through the words themselves. I played with layout and fonts to find inspirati...

This week I  . . . Tried a variety of sketching techniques; experimented in Photoshop; began to explore elements of visual language . . . Focus piece Visual outcome responding to the theme Error :  Continuing to explore the error in fashion design that takes size 10 as ‘standard’ and doesn’t accommodate the wide variety in women’s body shapes, I took inspiration from a Louise Bourgeois sculpture encountered at the Whitechapel Gallery . It reminded me of prehistoric sculptures of the female form and my research led me to an amazingly contemporary-feeling Cycladic marble figure held in the Met . I took this as the starting point in my experiments with a range of materials from pencil and charcoal sketches to paint and collage. I further researched ASOS size guides and the Croquis Figure , comparing ‘ideal’ measurements with those of the sculpture. For the outcome piece, I recalled how liberating I found it to work in marker on large-scale. I wanted to create a poster with...