The story of SUPERCONE!

The short 5 day project we got on Monday incouraged me to use my instinct more, and as a result I think I may have gone a little crazy with the project and created charcters and senarios that were not as relevant as i had origionally thought.















I got really into the fantastical world of comic books and started playing with type faces and comical charcters I could potensially use. I found out its easy tp create the charcters, setting and layout, but its the context and the relevence of the charcters that got me into a bit of a pickle to judge!

As I had followed the idea of the orange coulour being a warning coulour as its bold and viberant, I then dicided the theme of the charcter was going to have to come from a big orange warning of some kind. So the next step was to somehow get my hands on a cone to acutally start photographing and eventaully sustain a belivable charcter with. This became aparant to be a whole lot harder than I had even thought about. Not only did I have to treck around Leeds looking for a suitable orange cone candidate, but when I eventaully found one, it turned out they were banned from my halls so I was unable to bring it in. I eventaully found someone with one hidden in their room, and thats when the real solid work begane. Me and my flatmats started playing around with ideas and then got to a point were I was a ble to draw a story board from the images I had produced.

This project was probalbly my most enjoyable so far as it had the biggest boundarys of potensial ideas I could produce, next time mayb ill let it make more sence for a veiwer. Well I learnt a lot and thats always got to be important! also createing superhero's who do acidently look like flying penis's has got to make a few people laugh.

Print

Heres just a few images from the print session we had. Really enjoyable. Definitely will be going back soon.

Towards the end of the partner project

The final results of the partner project turned out quite well. I felt the final result met the brief but in my own opinion I wasn't satisfied with the way I displayed the final piece, so I will be re doing  it straight away. I had the strong theme of the urban "gangsta" which up close was clearly shown but from a distance looks a little messy although that was the look I was going for. The chains worked better on some of the letters because of the exposure I was able to get from the photographs when I traced them.

I really liked the lettering my partner created for me. It was spot on my personality in being "special" and very much an individual.  Its me in a nutshell!

The Colour project

The new project was started by us all bringing in 10 items of our own and eventually creating an order which eventually could merge with all the other groups who had different colours. Whist experimenting with other groups and colour themes, I then began to focus on a few specific objects whilst changing many aspects. The small orange fish became my best tool as I enjoyed the slightly unintentional off focus effect it kept making. 

Project about our partner

The new project was a little bit of a challenging one I have to admit. After being given a partner who was potensially one of the loudest in the class, I started to really try and capture and create good words to describe him bearing in mind that he was likely to be very generous and over confident about himself.  In the end I was a lot more able to work with the words that I gave, becasue as I predicted, my partners use of the words "ravershing" and "classy" didnt really apply tot he way I saw him. So I worked with the more extreme words given such as humerous and gangsta.  On the side Iv'e shown some images and ideas I started to think up.  I made them "G" as the term goes, like gangsta! and I tryed to use a cigerette packed to enfasise the statement with an exclamtion mark. 

The alphabet soup project

I got the word layer in the alphabet soup project! most understandable one, SCORE!

I was quite exited about this project as I havent really tryed hard to explore the boundries of typography. Even on the foundation course I did I somehow managed to avoid studying it. This project I found more than the other let me be more spontanious and exploratory with the idea of type and letter form. As I was going back home during mid week for a religious festival, I new I wouldn't be able to get as much as I could done at home so I started thinking about it before I left. Could i be creative and think 'outside' the box. maybe create some sort of object symbalism which you would naturally think of when you think of layer for example a cake or high story building. 

Then I started thinking on the lines of the actual image and the context of the letter oppose to the imagery. I also wanted to explore the idea of using negatives. I then started creating simple lettering and intensially makeing the background layered and interesting. This was effective but only to the extent of knowing what to do as a image on a page. As far as the brief goes I feel the idea I had began to expore with the background being stronger doesnt work as its the actual lettering we need to make the words or phrases that I suppose we are eventually going to use in class.

As far as my work went this week it definetly wasnt my best. But the course says we need to learn from mistakes, which is what im going to do. This experience has tought me to think and brainstorm my ideas more and then actually following then through shouldnt be that hard.