Design Context: May 2012

Wednesday, 23 May 2012

PRODUCT//RANGE//DISTRIBUTION - Digital issues

I've gone over the digital copies of the issues that correspond to the 5 films that I'm illustrating with type to get an idea of what the magazine has already done. It's interesting as each magazine's aesthetic throughout is defined in some way by the feature film of that issue, so when looking through I found bits of type that illustrate the film much in the way that I intend to.

Black Swan Issue.

http://www.littlewhitelies.co.uk/the-magazine/issue-33

Drive Issue

http://www.littlewhitelies.co.uk/the-magazine/issue-37

Unfortunately only Drive and Black Swan have their own issues but it's useful to see what the magazine does and how they operate when focus on one film.

Tuesday, 8 May 2012

PRODUCT//RANGE//DISTRIBUTION - Design direction

I've been looking at illustrative type to get some inspiration for composition for my own designs. MOst of these examples are very decorative and I think they make good engaging designs but they wouln't function as actual typefaces. As I am aiming to produce several typefaces And use them in this way this is a big problem which I will need to solve.

This last one I find very interesting as It's manipulating and editing the type to create imagery. I hadn't thought about this as a possible outcome before but its made me think about investigating this sort of design approach as well.