IVN assignment

week 5
sem 1
"Drawing words"

Our first assignment has come to brief, simply to design, craft or illustrate the module title, "illustration and visual narrative". we were allowed to produce this any way we would like but heres the catch, it has to be in black and white.

For this assignment i wanted to try out a new technique or idea. i was always intrigued by the style used in the 60's and 70's. From the font to the text, it should the creativity output well.

This poster is obviously done in todays digital age but this type of work excites me the most. the mix of colour schemes from light to dark bringing out the main text. its all - in - one if one must say.

my main idea for this assignment is based on this type of effect but with the monotonic theme.

Looking through some textuality books, i found this font style which inspired me a little.It showed me how we always follow certain boundaries when infact they are just imaginary borders keeping us from exploring how much we can actually do.  

Below, i started off with some simple ideas for how my layout would be. I tried with basic objects such as circles and rectangles, even a wave like shape for the borders of my text. We were told we were allowed to use illustrations but i did not concentrate much towards it. 

This is an idea of which i had studied in  a design technology class in high school. This type of work is known as 3-point orthagraphic drawing. Its a perspective form of anything you would want to do but preferably ideas with straight edges for example, the letter 'T'.

 Here i tried out more forms of visual narrative. from crossword puzzles to the text used in freaky friday fairs. Everything from spacing to the the negative and positive spaceing is important in visual terms otherwise it would be an eyesore or even making people with OCD go a little of balanced..

..not having enough paper room i added a tiny sheet in the back to accompany the rest of the word. sometimes its okay to give missing letters and such as the brain is able to understand what the design reads. The same concept was used in a previous assignment of 'Hide and Reveal'.

My favourite of some of my ideas is this one on the right, i tried out a cramped effect so the focuse would only be on the lettering. As you can see, the style of the font was an idea from the 60's poster designs.

My lecturer had understood my idea and showed some development ideas aswell, the mix of objects and edges with curves served a great deal of visual aesthetics. 

This i my final outcome, 'Illustration & Visual Narrative'. The '&' can be seen to the right of the word 'visual'. Im happy with the design idea of my final outcome but i do feel it can be very well improved. For a showcase in a gallery in december and i will improve it however way i can concentrating on the same idea.  (: