Typography

Since Monday we've been experimenting with typography. For me, I have to come up with as many ways as possible to depict my word 'Assemble' through different types of type. I have to really analysis my word and see what works. What colour is 'assemble'? Is it serif or sans serif? Upper case, lower case or a mixture? Bold, italic or roman? They're the basic questions but we also have to look at all kinds of references that we like. Such a multitude of ways to express one word!

A S S E M B L E

 

Seeing as my collage idea wasn't exactly working out for the best, I decided to go with something simple - yet I think it communicates 'assemble' quite well! I thought about assembling something that you wouldn't usually assesmble.. or would usually disassemble - an orange! So I bought a single orange, took it apart.. then put it back together again. As research I've been looking at assembly sheets of toys, furniture and even things as simple as cardbord boxes. I think it'd look great as an illustration, but it'll need to be precise!

Illustration references

 

Visual Communications (week 1)

This week I've started into my second elective, Visual Communications. On Monday we were all given a word and for this week, we are to come up with an illustration that communicates this word. My word is 'Assemble'. I quite like it - not too complicated and I already have lots of ideas based around the word. For Monday and Tuesday we continued with thumbnail drawings - ideas for our main illustration -taking any ideas associated with our word.

 

^ my desk on Tuesday!

During the last few days, we've been working with our light, medium and heavy weight fabrics. I've taken a few of my favorite designs and translated them through each fabric. So far, my favorite fabric's been the light-weight muslin. I love how it flows and almost adds it's own life to a design. It's not as strict as the heavy-weight oil cloth.

Some beautiful pictures of Christopher Kane's Spring/Summer 2013 show from 'Show Details'.

 

 

 

 

Knitwear Assesment!

Today we set up our knitwear for assesment. It was alot of hardwork but I was really happy with my outcome. For my main piece, I first made an ombre pink shawl, with wide stitching and fringing. I experimented with a variety of yarns: I shredded a white t-shirt and soaked it in berry tea (which gave the yarn a dusty pink color); used white netting and bought yarn; made a colour story based on the artwork of Australian installation artists 'Pip and Pop'; and finally I made my own arn. I put my newly aquired felting skills to use and added some watered down poster paints to the wool before felting it. Then whilst it was being felted, the colours ran sublty into each other and into the wool, creating a cool tie-dyed yarn. From the coloured yarn (and also some white netting) I made a little neckpiece to add to my display.