Task two has been a great opportunity to developed my skills within both digital design and visual design. The first to parts of task two, the ransom note and monogram pushed me to focus on pre-existing design elements around me. The ransom note helped me to center on text and font and how the two … Continue reading Task 2: A reflection
This week we are focusing on monograms. A monogram is usually composed of interwoven letterforms to comprise a unique symbol. The letters are typically initials of a person or company. Monograms were first used by the Greeks as early as 350BC to imprint their coins with the first two letters of the cities names where … Continue reading THE MONOGRAM
This fortnight I have begun focusing on my ransom quote task for project 2. I wanted to find a quote that spoke to me as a designer and was also a visually appealing piece of text that would translate well in the ransom note composition. I began by looking into all the listed designers but … Continue reading Part 1: Ransom
Herbert Bayer was an Austrian American designed known for his role in popularising the Bauhaus design movement. Bauhaus is characterised by a modern, streamlined, straightforward simplistic design that would be easy to mass-produce. The origin of Bauhaus design lies in its namesake, the Staatliches Bauhaus, a German art school established in 1919. Staatliches Bauhaus operated … Continue reading Part 2: Illustration
The past fortnight I decided to look into a few periods of design history, the ones I was most drawn to being Swiss Modernism and Bauhaus. Upon researching these styles, I was able to come up with a few compositional strategies that I think characterise these styles. To discuss the stylistic elements of Swiss Modernism … Continue reading Stage 1: Letterforms
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