Type Fundamental Brief #2 ~ Thumbnail Designs

The second part to the Type Fundamental brief is to design another DPS using a 7 column gird and 3mm gutters as well as a front cover titled Horizon. Images can be used on each of the designs. I am currently thinking of using the 1930's projection photograph on the front cover. Still yet to decide on the type face I am going to use. I will use the website called http://www.fontsquirrel.com/ to help generate some type title ideas. Below are some of the starting thumbnails designs I have generated for the new brief.




Featured in these thumbnails all have a quotation due to the text that has been
given with this brief having a quote from Jeff Leak. Subheadings have been outlined
by the bolder lines.

This scan of the second page of thumbnails shows that the bottom two

have been created by using the gird. The one design to the bottom right

of the scren shows how differently text can look on a page depending on the

size of the page.

Thatcher the Milk Snatcher!

Featured below is the original Thatcher the Milk Snatcher image with the proposed 2nd colour, the light blue background. I missed this out when creating it the first time but found it was an easy task to correct and edit. I am in the process of adding more images to the carton to make it more interesting to look at rather than it being all typography.

Cinematic Theatre Update!!

During this weeks tutorial sessions I have managed to insert an image of Conor who was the employee from the Majestic Cinema in Bridgnorth.

Conor Mitchell, Majestic Cinema Bridgnorth

The photograph of Conor above was edited slightly in PhotoShop to enable the reader to see his face more due  the background being more darker. I edited the levels of the photograph then inversed in order to darker the background after making Conor lighter. I then was able to change the colour to Black & White and then save the image as a TIFF file which allows the quality to be better when printing. Unfortunately, blogger had an error when trying to upload the photo. This photograph is featured to the right of the Cinematic Theatre title and underneath the introduction.

My next step was to buy some popcorn and take a photo of it which could then be edited to create another image effect for the zine. With a saving of 42p! Butterkist Cinema Sweet Popcorn was lovely to tuck in to after taking the photo. I took the photograph of the spread out popcorn on a clean white page so that when I come to quick select the popcorn pieces due to it being taken on a white background it will be easier and less time consuming when placing each piece onto my second page of the DPS.

Butterkist Cinema Sweet Popcorn! Placed specifically for second page
of Cinematic Theatre.

Transforming Thatcher the Milk Snatcher from scan to screen!

Today I have managed to complete transforming my hand drawn design of Thatcher the Milk Snatcher from my scan I did yesterday into PhotoShop CS3 today. I placed the image into a new document where I was able to crop the main part of the scan. I then draw black solid lines to define the shape of the carton. I admit I am not the most fantastic person when it comes to PhotoShop. My experience with the program is brief as I have only ever used before when selecting one area of photograph to be in colour which isn't the most challenging of tasks. Thats why I've recently taken out from the library, Adobe Photoshop CS3 A-Z, Tools and features illustrated ready reference to help me if I get stuck as well as Adobe Photoshop CS3, Classroom in a book. Hopefully, both these books should be pretty useful. I then continued to write the text, NO, MILK, THATCHER the MILK SNATCHER and SELL BY DATE: 1971. Along side writing the text I also created the  shapes for the coloured backgrounds of certain areas. This is what the final outcome came to look like. 

"Thatcher the Milk Snatcher"

1971- Printing

On Monday Visual Communications gave 3 new breifs out will last 6 weeks each. My first brief is titled 1971. It is all about the events that happened during 1971 and my task is to create a print with an image that represents an event that happened in that year. The mindmap below shows some of the events that happend during that year. I have decided to focus my image on Margaret Thatcher and her decision to ban free school milk for children aged over 7.

 I then hand-drew a breif image of a milk carton that I would use to print. It will constantly of only 3 colours, Black being the keyline and I have decided to use Dark and Light Blue.