The Word Becomes Art

This exercise is about reviewing our work from the whole unit, but instead of focusing on whether it fulfilled the brief, we are to select images we’ve made based instead purely on whether we enjoy the outcome aesthetically or conceptually. These come together as a portfolio of our work from the unit. It was interesting to look back over the entirety of my blog, seeing all the work I’ve created. There was more than I thought! I had mixed feelings about some of them, because I knew there were shortcomings in terms of fulfilling the brief, but they felt much more like my art than some of the more outcome-oriented work. I have, at times, felt constrained by fulfilling externally defined briefs (although I acknowledge that this was one of the aspects of the course that drew me to study it). Also I am, in general, more interested in illustration than graphic design as a form of visual communication and I hoped to be illustrating stories in books or other kinds of publications more of the t...

In the end I decided not to use collage for the colour visuals because I thought there would be lots of resizing and moving things around, drawing in colour sources from the football brands etc, and that would involve a lot of preparation online and printing, whereas I could move things much more easily in Photoshop. I began by looking at the adult poster and going to Google images to find the stripes on the shirts of both teams so I could either use those stripes directly or match colours for them. If I decided to use similar colourways across all three posters I would be basing them on the team colours as that was the only poster in which the precise colours would be so important. I cropped these stripes from the photos of the shirts. I placed these onto a 8x12 inch background and moved them around in conjunction with the gallery photo. The result was not what I’d hoped for. The background diagonal stripes totally overwhelmed the gallery photo and trying to match the angle of the pho...