Just a distant memory at this point… This is my tribute!
I was looking for something to make whilst pining for some sunshine or holidays that never happened. August you disappointed and now it’s getting cold. Goodbye hopes of an Indian Summer!
So I just used some textures from Subtle Patterns and the Rockwell font family.
As you can see, the last day in Paris was dominated by the most famous landmark in the world, the Eiffel Tower. The first stop was Place du Trocadéro for an elevated view of the tower. Then I walked towards the tower and over the Seine. The queues are long to go up the tower itself so as you can see by the third picture, it was dark by the time I came down.
The second photograph is a view from the very top of the tower to the gardens below.
The last photograph is of the very last evening in Paris. It was topped off with a carafe of wine on the heated terrace of a local restaurant in Montmartre whilst nibbling on meringue from the patisserie around the corner. I didn’t expect wine and meringue to go so well together!
Basically this is an incident that happened to me that I then wrote about and decided to visualise through the medium of type *makes arm swish motion* I used the font Dogma and its variants to create the piece.
I did something similar with the cabbage post. Some things are worth remembering!
This was a photo I took at Pearse Street train station (Dublin) on the way home from a trip out to Blackrock which I posted photographs of last week. I think that was the one nice day we’ve had since the start of summer. Anyhoo! It’s of a vintage Cadbury print advertising their chocolate. There’s always a lot of construction work going on in the station. I’d never seen this before so I think it must be something they’ve uncovered as they were doing work but it’s probably been visible a long time now.
I’d love to know how old the poster itself is. I think it should be in a museum because even though the station is sheltered, it’s quite exposed. Then you know you would get a some information on it too like what way it was printed etc. I tried to compare it to other Cadbury posters on this great Cadbury timeline to get a rough idea but I’m not sure, early to mid 1900s anyway!
This is a typographic timeline I designed in second year of college. Please click on the version above for an enlarged version. This was before infographics became really popular, but I think it’s closely related to it. The idea of the project was to teach us how to organise, categorise and layout large amounts of information. We had to consider how to break it all down and how we wanted it to be be viewed. Some day I would like to recreate this as a proper infographic but try to keep it to the similar style.
The piece as I envisioned it was on a massive scale, much larger than I could printed myself. I designed it with the idea in mind that it would be hung in a gallery/museum as an educational accompaniment to a type based exhibition.
I really like colour coding information so it made sense for me to use a system like this. I also like to have order to my colours too so you can almost see them blend from one to the other. I knew I wanted my information to be read along a wall and that it would require the viewer to follow the information along the timeline. So to avoid bland repetitive parallel lines, I chose to create a concentric circle design at the beginning for an eye-catching visual.
Each line represents a different art movement. Art movements have more than just a style of painting to them, there is often a style of dress, architecture, film, dance or in this case, type that goes along with it. So with these art movement headings in mind, we had to compile our own research. I have the order chronologically, obviously, seeing as it is a timeline. We also had to decide how we would show that some movements come other the title of one grand movement, modernism.
So I broke the information down into the titles above.
When: Gives the time frame of the movement.
Where: Gives the main location where that movement based based.
Who: Gives the artists associated with that movement.
Typefaces: Gives examples of typefaces created during that movement, or in some cases, examples of modern typefaces inspired by that movement.
So the above close up of the time line shows information pertaining to the Arts & Crafts movement, Art Nouveau and Expressionism.
Each title then gets its own small background information on the history of the movement. Here, we can see the text for the De Stijl, Dada, Futurism, Russian Constructivism and Bauhaus movements. So this was the fact section for Dadaism.
The DaDa movement emerged in Germany as an anti-war movement & in many ways it was also an anti-art
movement. It began as a collaboration between the
artists of several nations who felt that European art was corrupt & sought a purity in mocking it. The name is believed to have been chosen by picking a word at
random from the French dictionary, which happened to mean hobby horse. DaDa typography followed the DaDa style, mainly consisting of various collaged letters.
I kept it brief because the if the piece as I imagined it was hung in a gallery or museum, then you would need the information to be bite-sized so the viewer will actually want to read it and can follow the text down along the length of the line.
Then above you can see the font samples. I chose one typeface to represent the movement and used six characters to showcase it. I used the alphabet from A to Z, numbers one to nine and then some special characters for the sample section. The movements visually represented by their typefaces here are Art Deco, Late Modern, Swiss International and Digital.
These photos were taken on a trip out to Blackrock, a seaside town in Dublin. The photos were taken from the footbridge of the local train station. The first picture shows a disused bathing area. At least I hope it’s disused, it’s a bit on the run down side after all. The view of if of Howth peninsula in the background.
The second picture shows the diving tower which has lost it’s boards over the years. Even though it’s full of graffiti and rust, I still think it has a lot of charm. The bathing area has been there since the 1800s and the concrete ‘pool’ was built in 1887, more on that here. So it is a shame that it looks like this now but at least we still have these reminders of bygone eras. There are a few spots like this still around Dublin that I’d love to be able to get around and photograph.
The graffiti may not bother me too much, it’s the litter that gets me. I don’t care about drinking outside, but take you crap with you!
This was a welcome page that I designed for the Tour America facebook page. I went for an asymmetric layout for the text. This was part of a series of promotional materials that I mad for this specific campaign. I also designed the facebook profile picture below and an ebulletin that I have already posted.
I was only in Tour America a week or two when I designed these pieces. much prefer the welcome page to the ebulletin I designed for this, which I already posted. Mostly because this is simpler with less information to communicate.
This was an ebulletin I made for an in-store customer evening at Tour America. I was really drawn to the beautiful photograph of New York and so I based the colour scheme around it. The font is American Typewriter, chosen because it is a font associated with New York City as it features in the I♥NY logos. The bottom half of the ebulletin is not my design and is basically a footer that had to be attached to most of the ebulletins sent out.
I also designed other materials to as part of this particular New York promotion such as flyers, banners and facebook welcome pages.
So this is more how I use Photoshop nowadays. Well apart from some light photo editing. I’ve been really inspired by websites that I’ve found through work that offer various UI elements for designers. Everything from full layouts to buttons to textures. So I tried to make a go at it myself, that way you don’t have to reference the things you use.
I really think you should do that though, but sometimes it doesn’t fit into a design and so why not have a go at DIY and you’ll be prouder of your efforts I guess. I did take the background texture from Subtle Patterns anyway, really great site for that kind of thing if you don’t already know it.
So here I made a set of ‘up’ buttons and a set ‘down’ buttons. As you can see, I tried to make the down buttons look as though they had been highlighted when they were clicked. I made the icons on the buttons myself and the font is Futura.
Unfortunately I can’t put up any of my first attempts at user interface and web design for reeeeally annoying reason, but maybe some day.
This was a second year of college project. That feels like a million years ago now! This image was part of a booklet but the rest of it is pretty horrendous to me. I can’t bare to embarrass myself by putting the rest of it up but I actually really liked the colours in this one and I’m also mad for symmetry, so up it goes!
It’s not really like any of my other work. I wouldn’t often heavily work in Photoshop, especially at the time. A few tweaks on things here an there sure. But I guess I just wanted to try do a project using it fully. So it’s a bit filter-laden there. I think everyone needs to do things like this to figure out Photoshop though.
Basically it was part of a concept that every memory has a song for a small booklet. So I made five images to illustrate that point and I did it through photo collage. So I combined photos I had taken and things related to photos like frames, negatives, cameras with things related to music like CDs, tapes, vinyl, gig tickets, MP3 players, headphones etc.
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