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We started the day by having a briefing from Dr. ME, Eddy and Ryan. They spoke to us about how and why they started up their studio straight from uni instead of going to work in a bigger studio, followed by showing us some of their work which they talked through.
It was interesting to hear they went to New York for 9 months to work with Mike Perry, and illustrator.
http://www.mikeperrystudio.com/
Their work wasn't to my taste, however hearing from them and gathering advice was really interesting and it was easy to appreciate what they do and how they do it.
We were then briefed for the day. This consisted of 3 briefs, 2 were to be done in pairs that we were placed with and the the third was individual. By the time we got to the studio to start working, it was around 11.30, so we only had just over an hour for each brief.
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Brief 1
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Create a vinyl cover for Dummy Mix 130 Evian Christ.
'We're gonna be releasing a limited edition 12" of a mix evian christ made last year called duga-3.'
They asked if there was any way we could graphically represent the 10hz tapping sound that makes up the duga-3 transmission.
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I was paired with Laura Tomlinson.
We started by searching what Duga-3 was and found out that it is an abandoned radar system.
Wiki
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We then went to the website http://www.dummymag.com/mixes/dummy-mix-130-evian-christ to listen to the track and to find out more about the mix.
Our initial thoughts:
- Bleak
- Sounded like static
- Like something that would be playing in a fine art video
- Radio waves
- Frequency waves
- Bland
- Empty
Laura then went to print off images of static, whilst I did some more image research on my ipad. As the track went on there was a voice speaking so that bought the idea to possibly incorporate a figure or face of some kind into the design.
We both did some tests on paper and images to try and generate ideas and to see what we could create and what could potentially work well.
Eddy and Ryan came round the studio to talk to us and see how we were getting along. I spoke to them about our initial thoughts and how we were going about starting the brief, and they gave some of their ideas and advice which was helpful.
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The first ideas and experiments
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After doing a few experiments we were quite stuck on what to do for the vinyl cover and not quite sure what we liked or which route to go down so we decided to go fro lunch, have a little break and come back with a fresh mind.
After we came back we played around with the image of static, we layered up images changing the opacity and also tried repeated a found image, but after speaking to Ryan and Eddy weren't sure about the look of this, they asked us to zoom in and looked at the image close up which they thought was a much better design idea. As the image was low res, we printed it out and scanned it in at a higher quality so that we could print it to scale with it still being clear.
We felt like it needed something else however, so we simply added the text 'Duga-3' to the design in white.
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Finalised Design:
(INSERT IMAGE)
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Laura had started the poster design and found a black and white image and placed it as the back ground with a geometric shape cut out on the left bottom corner. I liked what she had done so far, and carried on working on it with her. We made the geometric shape black, and then simply put the relevant text into it.
We tested around with different point sizes for the type and different typefaces, however decided on futura medium, with the title larger than the rest of the text to make it stand out
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Poster | Brief 2
Create a poster from the email below.
Hey new poster please
ODONIS ODONIS
+ Guests
Weds 18th April
Kraak Gallery
www.ticketline.co.uk www.seetickets.com
www.wegottickets.com Piccadilly Records
Oh! Please have Saint Coltrane as support..
Dimensions A3
Hey new poster please
ODONIS ODONIS
+ Guests
Weds 18th April
Kraak Gallery
www.ticketline.co.uk www.seetickets.com
www.wegottickets.com Piccadilly Records
Oh! Please have Saint Coltrane as support..
Dimensions A3
(INSERT IMAGE)
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Laura had been messing around with paints, creating interesting patterns merging different colours together. She had created a black, white and grey one that we realised could replace the found image as the background. We spoke to Eddy and Ryan about this and decided it was much better to use an original image than to use a found image. So we waited for Laura's painting to dry and before scanning it in and placing it as the background for our poster.
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Finalised poster:
(INSERT IMAGE)
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Brief 3
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This brief was an individual brief.
The brief had no rules only the size of 23cm by 16cm, and was to create something purely for the sake of creativity and artistic freedom.
For this I decided to do a pen illustration. In the spirit of Halloween, which is coming up, I decided to draw a sugar. I cut the paper down to the right size, drew a rough sketch and outline before filling in the design with pen.
Finalisd Illustration:
(INSERT IMAGE)
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