6 Degrees of Separation Essay / Artifact

The project was to write a 6 thousand word essay connecting MM Paris to Hoefler & Frere-Jones via 6 other designers.

MM Paris
Saul Bass
Gyorgy Kepes
Robert Brownjon
Andy Warhol
Hoefler & Frere-Jones


We then had to present our research in an interesting and appropriate way. I decided to create a jigsaw.

Magazine / Layouts

For this project we were given a choice of themes that we had to apply to a magazine that we would create ourselves. I chose Maximise / Minimise. I designed and structured my magazine based on this theme applying it to imagery, grids, content, etc.


For this project we were given a choice of themes that we had to apply to a magazine that we would create ourselves. I chose Maximise / Minimise. I designed and structured my magazine based on this theme applying it to imagery, grids, content, etc.

Project 1 - Part 6 - War and Peace Animation (Flash)

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Project 1 - Part 5 - Typography Poster 2

For the 2nd poster I had to apply my WAP font to something of my own choosing. I chose the film Dirty Pretty Things. The film is about illegal immigrants working in hotels and all the seedy things that go on behind the scenes of this hotel. The poster I created was printed on wallpaper that was a fleshy colour (flesh plays a big part in the film) and when you imagine dodgy hotels you think of wallpaper that is peeling off the wall. I used this 'peeling' idea and adapted it to my poster. The 'Dirty' is hidden until the wallpaper peels and it is exposed.

Project 1 - Part 4 - Typography Poster 1

The next stage was to take my WAP font, Colonel Kilgore and Aung San Suu Kyi and create a poster that combined all of these elements.


I outlined and printed 'Napalm' speech onto glossy paper and then printed over that covering the page in black. I didn't change the printer settings for glossy paper with the black ink and this was so that the ink doesn't set o the paper and it can be rubbed off. The idea was that the blackness was Kilgore: black, dirty, gasoline, etc. As you rub off the blackness you uncover the white, delicate text underneath and this is to represent Aung San Suu Kyi.

Project 1 - Part 3 - WAP Font

I created the WAP (War & Peace) font based on the character Colonel Kilgore from the film Apocalypse Now and the Burmese politician Aung San Suu Kyi.

To me, Aung San Suu Kyi speaks in a very English manner, she is a humanitarian and believes in peace and harmony over war and oppression so I chose the font Gill Sans and altered it to incorporate the character of Colonel Kilgore. I did this by extending and sharpening ascenders/descenders to give the font a more aggressive feel and look and also so that the letters when written to form words and sentences they 'stab' and 'attack' one another.

Project 1 - Part 2 - Aung San Suu Kyi Design

Taking Kilgore's 'Napalm' speech I had to typographically represent it this time using the Burmese politician Aung San Suu Kyi.

Unlike Kilgore, she believes in peace and equality and that battles should be thought with the mind and not with weapons and brute force.

I altered the speech / hidden certain words and made it into a speech that she could have spoken.

For the final piece I created a simple card that I could imagine being sold at Amnesty International by people supporting Aung San Suu Kyi.

Project 1 - Part 1 - Kilgore Speech Poster

Given the character Colonel Kilgore from the film Apocalypse Now I had to visually represent his famous 'I love the smell of napalm in the morning' speech using typography.

I had the final lines of his speech on the reverse of the paper as when he speaks these words he almost sounds like another person - or at least he is in a different frame of mind. He isn't aggressive now, he is more sad.

Penguin 21st Century Ideas - Book Covers

Interaction - ATOM

ATOM - AN INTERACTIVE EXPERIMENT / EXPERIENCE


ATOM - AN INTERACTIVE EXPERIMENT / EXPERIENCE

Interaction - Sound & Vision Booklet Final

Interaction - Sound & Vision Booklet Plan

Sound & Vision - Music Video Timeline