St Andrews High School Creative Workshop

My old secondary school, St Andrews, held a creative workshop for pupils who were interested in being creative. The purpose of the workshop was for the pupils to design and create inspirational quotes to be put up around the school. As part of this project I was asked to come along and help offer my design knowledge to the kids. This was a great opportunity working with creative and innovative students similar to myself. The overall workshop was a success and the final outcomes were amazing!

Source: standhigh.net

Text and the City.

Great piece by former Designers Republic whizz David Bailey at Kiosk.

“Art direction/coordination of two permanent public artworks for the city of Sheffield. Poet Laureate Andrew Motion and the English playwright/poet/activist Harold Pinter were both commissioned by ‘Off The Shelf’ literary festival to write a poem for the city. Motion’s poem ‘What If…’ appears on the Hallam University building, 115 feet high, overlooking the train station, whilst Pinter’s ‘Laughter’ can be found in the foyer of The Crucible Theatre”.

Source: designisagoodidea.com

Experimental Typography “ANYTHING”

Project 1 
Use at least two materials to produce the type “ANYTHING” . Make sure that the readability of the letters are maintained. Try to find any possibilities in materials and their resources, even build up opposite meanings between the materials of the type and the background.

Project 2
Select one material and design the type “ANYTHING” in at least 3 different ways. Make sure that all letters should be recognizable. I choosed the paper cups .Cup is not only for containing water but also flexible because of its paper properties.

Project 3
Use any material to visualize following three adjectives through the typography design of  “ANYTHING”:
Heavy
Sharp
Soft


Source: typographyserved.com

The Collaboration of Type A quick project which required a new typeface from two existing typefaces. Split into two, the top half of this merged typeface is Helvetica. Designed by Max Miedinger in 1957, helvetica is one of the worlds most widely used typefaces. Its uniform, upright character makes it similar to transitional serif letters. The bottom half is Times New Roman, a serif typeface commissioned by the British newspaper The Times in 1931, designed by Stanley Morison and Victor Lardent at the English branch of Monotype. This isn’t the final outcome but was an interesting discovery stumbled upon through experiment and development work of two popular and distinctive typefaces.     Side Note: “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” is an English-language pangram, that is, a phrase that contains all of the letters of the alphabet. Owing to its shortness and coherence, it has become widely known and is often used in visual arts. Just incase you were wondering.
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The Collaboration of Type

A quick project which required a new typeface from two existing typefaces.

Split into two, the top half of this merged typeface is Helvetica. Designed by Max Miedinger in 1957, helvetica is one of the worlds most widely used typefaces. Its uniform, upright character makes it similar to transitional serif letters. The bottom half is Times New Roman, a serif typeface commissioned by the British newspaper The Times in 1931, designed by Stanley Morison and Victor Lardent at the English branch of Monotype.

This isn’t the final outcome but was an interesting discovery stumbled upon through experiment and development work of two popular and distinctive typefaces.

 

 

Side Note: “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” is an English-language pangram, that is, a phrase that contains all of the letters of the alphabet. Owing to its shortness and coherence, it has become widely known and is often used in visual arts. Just incase you were wondering.

Keep it simple. KISS is an acronym for the design principle “Keep it simple, Stupid!”. Other variations include “keep it short and simple” or “keep it simple and straightforward”. The KISS principle states that simplicity should be a key goal in design, simplicity is the ultimate form of sophistication, less is more and that unnecessary complexity should be avoided. This is one principle i’ve learnt in design and seek to adhere to.
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Keep it simple.

KISS is an acronym for the design principle “Keep it simple, Stupid!”. Other variations include “keep it short and simple” or “keep it simple and straightforward”. The KISS principle states that simplicity should be a key goal in design, simplicity is the ultimate form of sophistication, less is more and that unnecessary complexity should be avoided. This is one principle i’ve learnt in design and seek to adhere to.