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Me Designer Concept:

The goal for this poster to show how my journey as a designer, specifically as a games designer.  I aim to achieve this by creating a poster that depicts a scene/level of a game being built. I want the poster to have a low poly art style, drawing from the same which is found in video games. This style was chosen because of its unique look and personally.  This also is used to represent a starting point, being able to still create a detailed world with less. For the colors I plan to use a mix of the shade, analogous and complementary colour systems. These specific colour systems where chosen as low poly games usually make use of flat colours and shade/shadow to give it that unique look and detail. 

 The background of the poster will depict a world slowing being built within a game engine. This was to symbolises the knowledge and experience that i have gained video games.  I want the to be a mixture of coloured objects and objects with a wire-frame highlighting the individual polygons. In the center of poster will be a low polygon person wearing a vr headset with the “Me Designer” text on the front of the headset. The reason for vr headsets is to show more of what I hope to see more of in the future, as well as being  something I would I’m interested in experimenting with in the future. I plan to have a basic blue sky background with low poly clouds to emphasize a world is still in the early stages of development.    The blue colour represent a new world with just a default skybox, a starting point if you will, as i gain more knowledge and learn new concepts the world will gradually become more detailed. For gestalt principles i’m aiming for similarity, using multiple objects of similar design and making them look apart of the poster.   To reiterate, the “me designer” poster is represents how i’m, constantly building, rebuilding and sometimes starting over, each time increasing my knowledge of how systems work as well as finding better ways work and design.    

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Mind Map and Mood Board for Assessment 4 & 5

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This design by Milton Glaser is called seed. It utilizes the Gestalt principle of continuation with the seedling drawing the eye from the little yellow seed on the left, across the text in the center, leading it to the leaf at the end. Closure is used to create the leaf by spiting the green with withe allowing people to perceive a leaf. This piece uses the complementary colour system, using the colours green and yellow, as well as black and white. In terms of visual structure the pieces uses symmetry in the text, placing half of the letters equally on both sides of the design.  

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This piece was designed by Milton Glaser for the New York Film Society. This piece uses the principle of similarity within the designs of the seats, by placing them in a row it gives the appearance of isle seats within a cinema. For visual structure Milton uses the grid structure to position the text elements in his design. This can be seen in the poster as the text elements are vertically aligned with the seats forming a grid pattern. In terms of colour, the analogous system is used.

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This piece created by Milton Glaser was created for national poetry month. The design utilizes closure for the design of the type. By exposing the top half of the letters in a white rectangle and using various designs for the lower half, to allow the viewers mind to complete the letters. The design also uses figure and ground by placing the letters within the white bar and using the black background to create the letters. Milton uses saturated colours along with the analogous colour system in order to make the design pop out from the black background. In terms of visual structure Milton uses a grid system position elements of his design.

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Visual Structure:

The 8 systems of visual structure are a series of designs used to help better communicate, organize and structure elements an artwork. Each of the structures use various compositions and  utilize geometric shapes in order to create various designs. The axial system organizes text and shape along a single axis. The radial system uses a central point of focus and extends elements from the point. The dilatational system organizes it elements from a central point and has elements that expand from that point in a circular fashion. The random system allows elements to be placed in a design, with no specific relationship, though the placement of all elements is completely intentional. The grid system utilizes a series of vertical and horizontal grid spaces to organzse the design.  The transitional systems is an informal system of layering elements in a design. The modular system places element in the design using a stand sized unit. The bilateral system organizes text symmetrically along a single axis

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Assignment 2: Postcards

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Week 6: Colour Theory

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Week 5: Gestalt Principles

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Week 5: Gestalt Principles

Puddle:

This work by Escher contains the gestalt principles of continuation and closure. The work use continuation in the form of the tyre tracks. The tracks are used to help guide the eye across artwork by following the path left behind by the tyre. The work also utilizes closure within the tyre track. The viewer’s mind subconsciously tries to complete the line of the tyre tracks by ignoring all the details with in the reflection of the puddle.

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Week 5: Gestalt principles

Sky and Water II:

Sky and Water II focuses on the gestalt principles of figure and ground as well as similarity. This piece utilizes the principle in the centre of the art work where the birds and fish meet making it the focus of the artwork. As the two animals progressively meet in the centre of the work, they begin losing their details and instead start to create silhouettes of themselves. As the flock of birds and school of fish progress up and down artwork, they start to regain their details whilst the silhouette of the other animal is visible in between each object. The work also incorporate the principle of similarity with each of the birds and fish being identical copies of each other. Due to this the viewer perceives them as school or flock of animals, though they are their own distinct objects.

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Week 3 & 4: Creating a Typeface

The font I have designed is named Interference. The name was chosen based off the inspirations I had used to create the font. The main inspiration for the font is based off the static and and distorted image that that appears on old television screens when there is a lack/loss of reception. I had also gained inspiration from other various pixel fonts particularly Minecrafts pixel font. Using these inspirations I aimed to create a font that looks like there was interference whilst it was being projected on the screen. In order to create the font I used the golden section as a guide to help achieve an appealing design. Using the golden section as a template I had extracted various line heights, thicknesses and circles that were used to create the font. Using the “Impact” font as a base I was able incorporate various design principles and apply a distorted theme in order the create a unique design. There were a number for challenges encountered whilst designing the font these included; Keeping the distortion triangles the towards the center of the lettering, keeping the design consistent in terms of thickness and curvature, as well as incorporating the design with more complex letters whilst keeping it legible. The creation process involved;extracting shapes from the golden section, using the golden section as guide to create an appealing design and sharing shapes between the letters in order to keep consistency.   Overall with the help of the golden section I felt I was able to incorporate my them and create an appealing design, whilst managing to keep the font consistent and legible.

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Week 2: The Golden Ratio The golden ratio is a mathematical sequence of numbers used to explain the beauty in nature and in human design. The Golden ratio 1:11.618 (also known as the golden section) was derived from the fibonacci sequence .

The fibonacci sequence is a mathematical sequence beginning with the numbers 0 and 1 and continues by adding the last number of the sequence (in this case 1) to the previous number (in this case 0) in order to create the next number in the sequence.

For example

0,1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21……..

The golden ratio can be found in nature, that way in which plants organize their seedlings, the way in which pineapples grow, honey comb and in the proportions of the human body.

The golden ratio is employed in many fields such as art, design and architecture in order to to create balance, proportion, consistency and achieve aesthetic beauty. The squares of the golden section are used by designer to help place elements. Designers and artist place great focus on the smaller squares of the spiral as it is the area to which the human eye is naturally drawn to, whilst using the larger squares to fill out the negative space. To sum up that golden ratio is a mathematical equation used to create balance and achieve aesthetic beauty.

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Font - 3 Like: Cormorant Upright SemiBold

Cormorant Upright is another serif font with a more modern feel. Again each of the letters neatly occupy the x-height spacing as well as the stems and tail making contact with their ascender and descender lines respectively.

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Font - 2 Like: Brawler Regular

This is a clean serif font with even kerning between each of the letters. All the letters occupy the x-height bounds as well as each of the tails and stems extending to the respective descender and ascender lines. 

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Font - 1  Like: Courgette Regular

This font extremely clean, with all of the lower case letters with each of the letters neatly fitting within the x - height bounds, and stems and tails reaching the ascender and descender lines respectively. The even kerning and slight italic  styling make it both appealing and easy to read.

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Font 3 - Dislike: Faster One

Faster one is a small cap font with trails behind the letters to imitate speed. The choice of small caps results in the difference between the x-height and the ascender line to be minimal making it difficult to distinguish between uppercase and lowercase. To add onto this the small caps makes with its accompanying trails for a more difficult reading experience as the type is crowded with lines forcing the reader to focus, particularly if the font size is small .