Result of the first module.

66%

Hell yeah~

-HJ x

What is a Line?

line ¹  (ln)

n.

1. Mathematics A geometric figure formed by a point moving along a fixed direction and the reverse direction.

2.

a. A thin continuous mark, as that made by a pen, pencil, or brush applied to a surface.

b. A similar mark cut or scratched into a surface.

c. A crease in the skin, especially on the face; a wrinkle.

3.

a. A real or imaginary mark positioned in relation to fixed points of reference.

b. A degree or circle of longitude or latitude drawn on a map or globe.

c. The equator. Used with the.

4.

a. A border or boundary: the county line.

b. A demarcation: a line of darker water beyond the reef.

c. A contour or an outline: the line of the hills against the evening sky.

5.

a. A mark used to define a shape or represent a contour.

b. Any of the marks that make up the formal design of a picture.

6.

a. A cable, rope, string, cord, or wire.

b. Nautical A rope used aboard a ship.

c. A fishing line.

d. A clothesline.

e. A cord or tape used, as by builders or surveyors, for measuring, leveling, or straightening.

7. A pipe or system of pipes for conveying a fluid: gas lines.

8. An electric-power transmission cable.

9.

a. A wire or system of wires connecting telephone or telegraph systems.

b. An open or functioning telephone connection: tried to get a free line.

10.

a. A passenger or cargo system of public or private transportation, as by ship, aircraft, or bus, usually over a definite route.

b. A company owning or managing such a system.

11.

a. A railway track or system of tracks.

b. A particular section of a railway network: the Philadelphia-Trenton line.

12. A course of progress or movement; a route: a line of flight.

13.

a. A general method, manner, or course of procedure: different lines of thought; took a hard line on defense.

b. A manner or course of procedure determined by a specified factor: development along socialist lines.

c. An official or prescribed policy: the party line.

14. A general concept or model. Often used in the plural: a trilogy along the lines of the Oresteia.

15. A condition of agreement; alignment: brought the front wheels into line; a wage agreement in line with current inflation.

16.

a. One's trade, occupation, or field of interest: What line of work are you in?

b. Range of competence: not in my line.

17. Merchandise or services of a similar or related nature: carries a complete line of small tools.

18. A group of persons or things arranged in a row or series: long lines at the box office; a line of stones.

19.

a. Ancestry or lineage.

b. A series of persons, especially from one family, who succeed each other: a line of monarchs; comes from a long line of bankers.

c. A strain, as of livestock or plants, developed and maintained by selective breeding.

20.

a. A sequence of related things that leads to a certain ending: a line of argument.

b. An ordered system of operations that allows a sequential manufacture or assembly of goods at all or various stages of production.

c. The personnel of an organization or a business who actually make a product or perform a service.

21.

a. A horizontal row of printed or written words or symbols.

b. One of the horizontal scans forming a television image.

22. A brief letter; a note: I'll drop you a line.

23.

a. A unit of verse ending in a visual or typographic break and generally characterized by its length and meter: a line of iambic pentameter.

b. The dialogue of a theatrical presentation, such as a play. Often used in the plural: spent the weekend learning her lines.

24. Informal Glib or insincere talk, usually intended to deceive or impress: He kept on handing me a line about how busy he is.

25. lines Chiefly British

a. A marriage certificate.

b. A usually specified number of lines of prose or verse to be written out by a pupil as punishment.

26. Games A horizontal demarcation on a scorecard in bridge dividing the honor score from the trick score.

27.

a. A source of information.

b. The information itself: got a line on the computer project.

28.

a. Music One of the five parallel marks constituting a staff.

b. A sustained melodic or harmonic part in a piece: a rock song with a driving bass line.

29.

a. A formation in which elements, such as troops, tanks, or ships, are arranged abreast of one another.

b. The battle area closest to the enemy; the front.

c. The combat troops or warships at the front, arrayed for defense or offense.

d. The regular forces of an army or a navy, in contrast to staff and support personnel.

e. The class of officers in direct command of warships or of army combat units.

f. A bulwark or trench.

g. An extended system of such fortifications or defenses: the Siegfried line.

30. Sports

a. A foul line.

b. A real or imaginary mark demarcating a specified section of a playing area or field.

c. A real or imaginary mark or point at which a race begins or ends.

d. The center and two wings making up a hockey team's offensive unit.

e. Football A line of scrimmage.

f. Football The linemen considered as a group.

31. Informal The odds a bookmaker gives, especially for sports events.

32. The proportion of an insurance risk assumed by a particular underwriter or company.

33. Slang A small amount of cocaine arranged in a thin, usually tightly rolled strip for sniffing.

34. Archaic One's lot or position in life.

Illustrator Brief

We had to further develop the typeface we made for our assigned partner, in my case Carl, in Illustrator. Now, I'm Illustrator self taught, and it was a little bit of a drag sitting through several hours of Illustrator sessions. Though, I did learn a couple of nifty tricks that were pretty interesting, though still. Two hours.

Anyway, this is what the A1 poster looks like. As you can see I've put the typeface into the proper Space Invaders game layout, and I really love how it turned out. The original Space Invaders game was green on black, but I changed it, obviously, to be yellow on black, because that most definately fits in with the whole CMYK restrictions of the brief, no doubt about it.

How nifty is that? I'm pretty chuffed with that, if I do say so myself.

-HJ x

Stina Persson

Stina Persson is one of my favourite artists, and as you can see from the work below, it's simply beautiful. I may, or may not, have mentioned before that I love working in all kind of materials, paints, inks, pastels, you name it.

I came across this artist in a book called...Illusive, I believe, a year or so ago at my last college and fell in love with the technique. I rushed out and bought masking fluid, that's safe to say.

Persson works with cut paper and inks, though my favourite of her styles are her watercolour pieces, some of which are shown below. She masks areas off and then just goes nuts with the paint, and it's same to say that the result is amazing.



I even tried to adapt the technique myself, and wow is it a messy job. After lots of failed attempts and lost of mess, I finally came up with ine that worked, and here it is!


Obviously it's a lot cleaner and sharper than Persson's technique, but I'll definately be giving this one more work in the future. It was good fun. I look wierd in watercolour.

-HJ x

10 Letters

So in my first post to this blog I mentioned how terrible my first attempt at this project really was, so I redid it for my module deadline, which is tomorrow, eek. Anyway, my word was 'deconstruct', and I think this typeface fits the bill much better, because it's based on glyphs made out of lego. For some reason, I couldn't get the picture any bigger, but you get the general gist of it.

Enjoy, y'all.

-HJ x

Visual Literacy Week 2

So the second week of visual literacy rolled around, and there was more cutting and sticking. Also, the Randomizer made another appearance, except there were two. :O.

On yellow, we had to write five adjectives, cut them up, fold them up, and stick them in the box, and on blue we had to write five verbs and do the same. Then we picked one of each and had to visually represent it on A2 off-white using the primary colours. The first ones I pulled out were Destructive Fall, and that is represented in the right of the image below of a dude falling down a cliff. I finished it pretty quick and so picked two more out of the box. I got Excited Jump, which was essentially the same, only backwards. So I decided to try be clever and do the same image, but with the guy jumping back up the cliff. They ended up being pretty sweet, but because the figure was in yellow, he was a little difficult to see. The direction of the letters kind of helps though.

And then somebody had to pick an animal, and someone chose Bear. We then all picked an adjective to represent. I ended up with fat, can you tell? He's split his stitches. Loz got drunk, and that was such a good picture, but I couldn't get a photo.

And then we had worms, which was, to be honest, really easy. For this one, we had to pick a verb. I got jump, and this is what I came up with.


These are some of the images that the rest of the class came up with.


This is my favourite, Ed Webb's.


-HJ x

No News is Good News part 2

From those little sketches that I posted before about carbon footprints and angry looking clouds and carrier bags, this was what was created.

The brief was to create a series of three posters, 2:1 A3 format, one made of image, one made of type, and one combined. No black or white was allowed, apparently that included paper stock, but I was safe when it came to that because I printed on brown paper. I love that. It gives everything more of an 'eco' feel.


I would have uploaded the posters seperately so that you could see the detail, but for some reason blogger turned them blue when they loaded up, and photobucket turned them pink, so you'll have to make do with a photograph of them on the wall. Ignore the post-its, they were people voting for the one which they thought answered the brief the best. Mine got four votes, yay! Well chuffed.

These are the posters from my classmates that made it into my favourites

This one's Gareth's. It's very attention grabbing, as you can see, and the message is clear and well thought out.

This one belongs to Loz. I love it despite the fact that the yellow one didn't exactly work out the way she had hoped. Still though, works as a set and it's interesting/amusing.And Ollie's, which was cleverly thought out and well exectued in my opinion. Drawing attention to the cliches that are all over the place in graphic design at the moment. Love it, I voted for this one.

-HJ x

Star Wars Acapella

This! This is the best thing I ever seen in my life. Watch it right now. It's not even Graphic Design related but damn, it's still amazing. I dare you not to love it.

Stuff that's just awesome.

Alrighty, so this is a collection of awesome stuff that I've found while surfing the web. I love to surf. The font below made of bones was created by Sara Morissey. I think it's so clever how bones in the body have turned on their sides and moved around to represent letterforms. I especially love the sideways skull that forms the D at the end of BLOOD. And the H formed from the ribcage at the end of FLESH.

The image below is actually a real advert for SEGA. I can't believe that it ever went to print, and appeared in real magazines. It's very clever, though dirty, I completely love it. Innuendos in adverts are amazing.

This is just about the best thing I've come across ever in my life. It's a handmade Adobe Photoshop CS4 screen, made up of boxes and paints and paintbrushes to represent the real thing. It must be absolutely huge when seen up close. This was created by an agency called Bates141 Jakarta

Again, I can't find the name of who created this, and it's not very graphic design, but who cares? It's my blog and I'll put what I want on it. This image, to me is just so beautiful. How the dress stills forms the right shape even though it is full of balloons and not full of human. Although, in reality, it must be made of something already rigid for it to make such a shape. I really love how the balloons can be seen through the thin fabric and are blurred and soft looking. Beautiful.

-HJ x

Interesting colourwheels

Whilst surfing the web, I've come across these interesting ways of representing a colour wheel. I especially like the leaves below. I could not find, for the life of me, who made it, but if they ever stumble across this blog, kudos to you. It looks great. I love red leaves.


Okay, the two colourwheels below were found on this website. I think they're really interesting and unusual ways to represent a colourwheel, but they're very aesthetically pleasing too.
-HJ x