Continued Magazine Covers

I continued to experiment with designing magazine covers as I thought my previous ones were lacking colour and Imagery. I like this more than my previous ones because of the colour and type faces used. That being said I'm still unsure of which one to use for my final cover design. 

Contents page layout designs

These are a couple of experimental contents page layouts, I like the theme that I have been using which is minimal. Although when using that it is hard to create a substantial piece of work. If I was to do this again I would spend more time laying out the base of the work and focus on the design of the work rather than keeping it minimal.

Magazine Covers

These are a couple of the magazine covers that I ended up creating for my magazine, I decided to stick with a simple colour scheme and to keep it minimal rather than clutter the whole page. I'm going to continue experimenting with more magazine covers but for the others I think I'll take a different approach and use colour and different photos. 

Magazine Cover Layout

                                     Magazine cover layouts/thumbnails 

Existing magazines/Inspiration

Existing magazine covers/inspiration from i-D and RAYGUN magazine. 

Masthead Designs

These are a couple of masthead designs that I did. I wanted to go with the 'Less is more' approach to this by keeping the colours simple along with the design itself. I wanted to experiment with the name of the brief so I used 'NVL' standing for 'New Visual Language'. I'm happy with the end designs of my mastheads, I think they're clear and are presented well. 

Existing Mastheads - Inspiration

Max Bill

David Carson

David Carson is an American graphic designer and art director. Carson is best known for his creative and stylised magazine designs with the unique style of typography. Carson was the art director for the Ray Gun magazine which he focused heavily on the typography style of work. His style of typography has been described as "Grunge typography". 

What I specifically like about Carson's work is the collage effect that his work seems to have. I tend to like the mix 'n' match style of work which all looks experimental, I especially like the different types of typography that takes up a large amount of the piece of work. 

Modernism and Post Modernism - Definition

Modernism

Modernism is a movement that include cultural trends which arose from a vast scale in western society in the late 19th century and the early 20th century. There's a list of factors that changed and moulded Modernism to how it is was the growth of the industrial cultures and the amount of change in the cities. Modernism is also said that it rejected enlightenment and self though, many of the modernists started to reject any beliefs that they may have especially religious ones. 

Post Modernism

Postmodernism was first introduced in the 1870's, the term post modernism is also used to describe events that changed in the western society and culture in the 1960's. Post modernism is also used as a style term and also as a designation, work such as paintings that have been described as post modern include artists such as Roy Lichenstein and David Hockney. 

New Visual Language - Mind Map

Key words relating to the project

• Modernism 
• Post Modernism
• Movements
• Political 
• Concerns
• Visual 
• Cubism 
• Social
• Philosophy 

New Visual Language

For the new brief I had to firstly research into Modernism and Post Modernism and at the same time create a range of work that explores the basics of the movements that related to the area of practice of my choice. The work that I create has to be an expression of the movement that I choose to do. In order for me to do that I need to understand the social and political concerns which influence both the movements. 

I need to submit designs for a broad sheet which should be based on my personal and original research from the start of the year, I need to include the edited versions of the following projects:
City in Flux
Earth Artifact
Type transcription 
New Visual Language

I also need to produce:
Masthead
Cover Design
Contents page
Inner pages/s

Earth artefact - Map final pieces

These are my final pieces of work. For my final pieces I decided to choose five countries which were America, Britain, Germany, Vietnam and France and from there highlight the locations within them. I wanted to go with a more simplistic approach with this piece of work and decided to take inspiration from the research I did and use them in my own style of work. I think the outcomes of my work are successful and I'm happy with the finished pieces.  

Experimental map research ideas

I thought the London underground maps would have been a great help and source of research with the work that I was trying to create, I think the design of the maps are beautifully presented and are straight forward but at the same time get across knowledge that is needed for the public.

Personal profile - Golden Record

For this idea I wanted to create my own personal record that involved my own selection of music and photos that meant something to me, to leave my own mark that maybe would describe my interests, you could say it would be an overall profile on myself. All of this information would be in binary code and encrypted onto my body itself including details about me, I would be the record. The record would also include Historical events, information on the human anatomy.

MUSIC: Lea Michelle - Battlefield, Miley Cyrus - Drive, Mariah Carey - Butterfly, Mariah Carey - Heartbreaker, Ariana Grande - Love me harder, Papa  Roach - Last Resort, Linkin Park - Numb, BOA - Masayume Chasing, Girls Generation - The Boys, Azelia Banks - Liqourice, Aerosmith - Amazing, Beyonce - Crazy In Love, Demi Lavato - Neon Lights, Disclosure - White Noise, Evanescence - My Immortal, Fergie - Fergalicious, Fifth Harmony - BO$$, GRL - Lighthouse, Leona Lewis - My Hands, Lode - Yellow Flicker Beat, Nicki Minaj - Anaconda, Paramore - Misery Bussiness, Rihanna - Phresh Off The Runway, Years & Years - Kings, Sum 41 - All The Small Things, Journey - Anyway You Want It, Six Pence None The Richer - Kiss Me, Utada Hikaru -  Passion. 

Illustrator and After Effects workshop experimental animation work

For this workshop we had to experiment with the first stages of animation, I didn't want to complicate the process of the animation by animating a full character so I decided to keep it simple and animate four black triangles just to get the basics down. 

I started off creating the base of this work by using two colours and a texture to create the background of this work. From there I added the four black triangles and started to experiment with the size, speed and rotation of the triangles. I think the outcome of this animation was successful and I learned a few things from this workshop. 

Type Transcription

For my three forms of typography I decided to use my Wacom Bamboo tablet and hand draw them all. I like the outcome of my typefaces because of the messy look of them, although that being said I do prefer the more clean and finished type faces that I've seen in other work. If I was to create more type faces I would definitely consider using another method and create a better quality of work. 

Continued research into info graphics - Chad Hagen

I really like the layout of Chad Hagen's work and how his lays it out. I specifically like the colours that he choses and how well they work together to create a finished looking piece of work. I think I'd like to take inspiration from his work and somehow work it into my own to help me represent the data that I intend to show for my series of info graphic pieces of work.