Assignment 2 – Point of Sale Display
The second assignment involved creating 2 point of sale displays for a range of quality, seasonal fruit and veg. One was focussed on Summer and the other Autumn. The requirement…
Choosing Content
This exercise was based around an excerpt from 'The Daffodil Affair' by Michael Innes. The excerpt describes a rather bleak room which I interpretted to mirror the personality of Inspector…
Reaching Retirement visual metaphor
Protected: Visual Metaphors
This exercise was about examining visual metaphors and then following a process to create one of our own. Credits for the examples to: John Holcroft M. Ramos Ferdi Rizkiyanto Several…
Working in Black & White
In this exercise we chose a word to illustrate. I chose journey. The illustration could be of objects or in a 'more narative style'. I started off with a mindmap…
Protected: Objective and Subjective Drawing
In the first of these two exercises we had to choose an object and represent it objectively. I chose glasses and made a pencil drawing of them sitting on white…
Exploring Drawing and Painting.
For this exercise we had to choose a subject and then explore different ways of depicting it with media. We were encouraged to use anything we had available and as…
Drawing from Reference
For this exercise we had to collect reference material from different sources and catalogue the images under given categories. I combined some Google searching with 2 books, Retro Graphics: A…
Mood Board
For this exercise we had to choose a word from the previous exercise and collect imagery stemming from our sketches. My search re-enforced the association of bright colours with 'exotic'…
Turning Words into Pictures
There are 2 sides of the brain: the left, a verbal and rational side that deals in numbers and words, and the right, an intuitive side which works with patterns…
Spider Diagrams
This exercise required us to mindmap out all the words we could think of stemming from one word. We had 4 words: childhood, angry, seaside and festival. 'Angry' was probably,…