Tuesday, 2 October 2012

OUG402 Designs that illustrate our fields of creative interest..

    We were asked to choose Ten images that Illustrated our fields of creative interest and get into our blog groups and discuss why we chose these images.
    This is a list of things that my blog group said about the images that they had chosen :

  • Likes maths, shapes and typography and this piece has them all (JAse Miguel Miendez)
  • Handcrafted Typography- Stitched
  • Identity and branding including shapes
  • Black and white typography
  • Food sculpturre,working with hands not all digitalized
  • German group Cyn that has inspired him and this piece
  • Thought provoking- Hand made
  • Minimalist sculpture



  • Quirky illustrative, likes working digitally
  • Simple use of colour
  • Illustrative
  • Vintage style mixed with an illustrative edge
  • Animated typography
  • Photography with illustrations-Hand printed poster
  • Photography and illustration in an animation
  • Image made up of Typography
  • 3D Images


  • Black and white film photography- Out of focus. Traditional foundations but have been manipulated
  • Simplictic, but a lot of meaning- Sympathetic
  • Photo represents her as an artists captured what she is about
  • Light hearted, colours represent the warmth- Magazine
  • Traditional print process. Likes the composition
  • Large Scale typography- Quite out there
  • Multipe images layered on top
  • Clarity to the album covers- Colours work together
  • Controversial image, free works by hand- uses ink
  • Hand drawn-Humorous


  • Print worked on posters
  • Tom Hanks movies which is why she chose the print
  • Maps- Shapes, colours, contours
  • Favourite photographer, film colour- Everyday life- Bright colour-William Eggleston
  • Grand Designs-Architexture is a big passion
  • Use of colour
  • Repetative Pattern
  • Books not reading more of the look and feel of a book
  • Vinyl Records-Heavy-Look and the record covers
  • Festivals and gigs big enjoyment


  • Gugenheim museum-Passion for achetexture-elements of organicness
  • Parkwell Barcelona-Archetexture goes into the surroundings- Fluid
  • Poster-Seduction Poster-Finda shapes. Art Nouveau inspired
  • Typeface- Fade away, Questions the legability
  • Indoor Gardens-Fluid space outside items inside
  • Blind Embossing-Subtleness with no colour texture
  • Papercutting illustrations-Delicateness
  • Wedding invites Personal-Reveal a lot
  • Poster-Darren Newman- Glow in the dark, new element of sillouhette and light
  • Ben Ang- Blind embossing with Black gloss



  • Old fashioned things-Card collection
  • Lewis Carrol- Rats tail- words make the shape, words with the shape
  • Vintage style
  • Retro Advertising on walls
  • Old fashioned signage
  • Printed Typography
  • Mixture of typefaces
  • Old fashioned Postcard


Most Common Answers within the whole year group:

  • Creative use of type
  • Visual Quality
  • Tone of voice (quirky, humorous,whitty)
  • Intricate Detail
  • Simplicity-Minimalist
  • Hidden meanings, messages. What is it trying to say
  • Interactive-Audience Engagemnet=nt
  • Style/Aesthetic-Visual quality
  • Media and production
  • Format
  • Relationship with shapes
  • Personal Interest
  • Language/Content
  • Structure and Layout



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