Cooper Black Std – A quick little poster post!

So since I haven’t had time to do a post recently (26 hour/pw shift for a fortnight – eek!), I thought I’d rustle up a quick little post for ya!

One of the extra things we had to do alongside the book (which I’ll have picks up of asap!), website and flash animation was a small paragraph about our (or in my case, one of) favorite fonts.

So obviously, I picked Cooper Std. Black – it’s chunky, kinda has a vintage feel to it, it’s fun and doesn’t make me wanna find the nearest sick bag like Comic Sans does…

I didn’t want it to be a plain paragraph knocked up on Word and printed on a wee bit o’ A4, so I made up a quick little A3 “typo” poster – really simple colours/ layout – but a bit more interesting than a few lines on a page (I hope!).

So here it is …

I’d like to do more work on this, get more info about the font to work with – maybe create an animation – just something to keep the creative clogs rolling whilst waiting on semester two to begin.

Anyways, off to chill after a rather busy shift – think there’s a tub o’ ice cream in the freezer with my name on it…

Over n’ out,

graphicdesignandstuff

xxx

Ink, Ink, Ink

Nearly finished my Blurb book spreads, and I’m starting to think about the new project – web design – luckily it’s an extension of the work from the first project, so that helps a lot!

After receiving feedback from my lecturers on some of my little doodles, that were accompanying my typography and photography, I’ve re-created the pictures by mono-printing them – and in the process I also made my front cover and contents page title… good times!

I created the fonts by drawing them out on card, cutting them out, then printing under/ over them with multiple colours of acrylic paint – on different textures/ weights of paper.

So here’s a sneak peek of the front cover and two of the spreads, as well as some of the raw photographs of the mono printing!

Front Cover.

Contents page banner.

Colour Double Page Spread One. (The dimensions of the book are 18 x 18cm – and I’m aiming for full bleed, falling off the page spreads – the rather informative pages will have a more conservative grid for legibility purposes, but pages like this will be messy!)

Lines Double Page Spread One.

This is a raw pick of the mono print I created for chiaroscuro, and the last image is for planes. These images will stand alone, merge, overlap or hang off the page with the typography and photography.

So once I’ve got my spreads done, and have the book made, I’ll stick up some photos! Also, I’ll post the web link up when I’ve finished this new project.

One more image for the road – turns out red ink on arms is a bad idea – it’s come off – but I looked rather sun burnt on my right arm for a couple of days afterwards – eek! … Don’t ask, we hit a creative brick wall, got bored, and decided this was the best way to spend our time 😛

Over n’ Out

graphicdesignandstuff

xxx

Inky Typo Good Times!

So finally this project is starting to take shape!

Spent this morning photographing my inky prints (which after 48 hours have still NOT fully dried – siiiigh!) at the photography studio. I’m trying to get a mix of flat and shadowy, textured shots for the book.

The inky prints were created using different colours of water based inks, a roller, and wooden blocks that have different fonts and sizes of letters carved into them.

VERY MESSY!

Good times though, and I’m pleased with how some of them turned out.

Rhythm.

Dots.

Chiaroscuro.

The next stage is going to be some messy lil’ sketches – and the book will flow “print/photo/sketch” for most of the layouts. Some may overlap or trail off the page and end on the next. Still deciding this right now, but I have a stronger idea of how I want it look now than I did a few days ago – good times!

Back to designing now!

Over n out,

graphicdesignandstuff

xxx