creativity & play

CREATIVITY & PLAY

GRAPHIC

DESIGN

YEAR 1 SEMESTER 1 LUCY ROSSELL-EVANS

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PENCIL?

The first brief of was designed to help ‘suspend judgment’.

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We were asked to open our mind and imagine all of the things that a pencil could be - I was given the idea of a pencil being used as a stake to kill a vampire. My end product was a flicker book which I then turned into an animated GIF.

LIMITATIONS

PROJECT

The items students were supplied with during the ‘limitations’ prjoect consisted of a 10A blade and sheets of plain white paper.

As shown, I manipulated the paper by slicing it very delicately with the blade - much inspired by artist Rob Ryan.

I created a free standing 3D sculpture by creating a slotting method; the word I used to portray my design was ‘delicate’, as when I was finished the sculpture was so fragile it could be knocked over by the smallest of breezes.

PINHOLE

PROJECT

The pinhole project undertaken was to do with ‘sticking to a brief’.

It proved a challege as the process was almost completely experimental estimating exposure times and guessing what the photograph would look like when developed.

The infographic I created was hand-drawn on a concertina - using black and white card to give the impression of instant polaroids.

VISUAL

CONSEQUENCES

This brief was very challenging - mainly due to the fact that each person was paired up with another, who they had to rely on to get their share of the work done (my partner was Amy Marston).

This project showed me that I could work within the limits of chance; I really enjoyed responding to my partner with radical subject changes.

Images shown on the left were the repsonses given by my partner and I, and the two rioght hand images are my favourites of the project.

ANIMATED

GIF

PROJECT

This project started out by a tas being given out to illustrate different letters from different typefaces.

I really enjoyed this task and identifying new letterforms.

When working on the GIF I chose to hand draw it instead of using Photoshop or Illustrator; I animated it on Photoshop. I was very pleased with myself as I had never used Photoshop before this time.

INFOGRAPHICS

BRIEF

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The infographic produced here was heavily inspied by David McCandless and his bubble diagram.

Here, it explains the relationship between a population of a given species of animal, and how high up on the food chain the species of animal is.

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In the set of infographics produced here, the size of the bubble determines how many members of a species there are, and it’s placement on the graph (high or low) represents the species’ placement on the food chain: carnivores higher, and herbivores lower.

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As a twist on the original bubble diagram, I chose to replace the circular bubble shapes with drawings of the animals - then scanning them and resizing and placing them on photoshop in accordance to the rules of the other bubble charts I created.

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We cut holes in our boxes and then put balled up peices of paper inside them, each with a word on - either in the category of ‘Creative Approach’, ‘Tools’, ‘Materials’ or ‘Random’.

Each member of the group assigned a box to work on.

CREATIVE

PLAYGROUND

In this project the class was split into small groups of five or six people.

Each group was told they were to make a ‘creative playground’ for students such as ourselves, but we were only allowed to use cardboard boxes.

As a group, we decided to base ours on the idea of chance - a lucky dip which could be used to help a person when they were stuck for ideas.

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The grouop then created stencils and spray painted the boxes black and gold, to make the boxes look more asthetically appealing the colours purposfully reminiscent of a wizard’s hat. The name of our game was ‘The Brief Wizard’.