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grid structure: selecting a grid

‘‘ Gain inspiration from grid structures around you, select one and use it for your layout for your book ‘‘

In this project I was required to find a suitable grid structure which would influence how I would make the layout for this book.

I travelled to many places and found interesting types of grid forms around me.

Here is a selection of photos that I took.

After extensive research I came to the conclusion of chosing Westfield shopping centre as my grid structure prefference for use of my layout in this book.

I chose this place because the forms of grids on the ex-terior and interior is beautiful, yet organized and simple.

taxonomy: sweet mix

‘‘size isn’t everything’’

taxonomy: sweet mixTaxonomy is the practise of classification.

Our introduction to taxonomy required us to categorise various types of sweets in as many ways possible.

Initially I categorized the sweets using using factors such as shape, size, colour, texture and weight just to name a few. However this then led me to categorize the sweets by more unlikely factors such as how far the sweets can be thrown orwhether or not certain sweets can float on water or not.

We were also tasked to set up axes with each having variables and we would then place the sweets on the axes accordingly which created some interesting patterns and findings.

One of my interestings find-ings was that my class found that the most tastiest sweets were the smaller ones.

‘‘categorizing by colour’’

Here is an example of one of the taxonomy exercises I did.

This exercise required me to use an axesto categorize the sweets.

I found that by setting rules like these it could help me to categorize items.

visual grammar

The first part of my visual grammar exercises required me to compose grey and white squares on top of a black square.

This exercise was important as it taught me the power of the relationships between shapes, colour and space which are the basic but most important elements of design.

I then continued by playing with other types of colour to experiment with how the positions its focus on the subject and what different contrasts and relationships can be made.

The second part of the visual grammar exercise allowed me to compose a grey line and red dot on a white peice of paper.

The purpose of this exercise was to examine what the abstract images connotations and feelings were giving to the viewer depending on the relationship between the dot and line, the line and paper edges and the dot and the paper edges.

After finishing my last visual grammar exercise I decided to continue the development further in my own time.

In this section I wanted to try different methods to make 1 of the 9 lines stand out amongst the rest.

type hierachy

‘‘there were lots of factors that influenced type hierachy’’

‘‘size, weight, positioning, angles, paper size & relationships’’

‘‘size, weight, positioning, angles, paper size & relationships’’

structure: build a bridge

build a bridge :

build a bridge

‘‘ Using limited tools, create a bridge made of straws that can hold a full can of coke over a 1 metre gap ’’

I waws limited to only several items to make a bridge that can hold a full 330cl can over a 1 metre gap.

The items I was limited to were; fine string, knife, pins, and straws.

During the beggining stages of building a bridge I first wanted to create a solid and well balanced tower on ei-ther side of the bridge which will act as the foundations.

It is the most important of the structure as it will bare most of the strain by the can and will also balance the whole structure.

I experimented with different shapes but finally settled-with a pyramid like form.

Despite my belief that us-ing clamps will support the structure I decided to change the design so that it would not use clamps and instead focus on designing a structure that balances the energy to sup-port the can.

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‘‘ Create a 3-D type for a quote of your choice ‘‘

We were asked to chose a line from a quote or song lyr-ics and then create a 3-d type out of it.

I chose the quote ‘‘in every walk with nature one recieves more than he seeks.’’

I had the idea of walking around my area for 20 min-utes to inspire me to create my 3-d type based on the quote.

I came up with the idea of recording everything I see on the ground during my journey and assembling these items to create the type.

I started my journey from my home.

My journey would take me from a quiet residential area on towards a busy high street and finally ending up at a park.

I decided to take this journey as it would be interesting to see how my findings vary from contrasting places.

Even if I had not been aware of the area I was in or the buildings surrounding me the items I found on the floor gave me as to what kind of area I was in, and even what recently happened in the area. An example I can give is when I found a dead frog, suggesting there is a pond in the local vicinity.

I was very intrigued upon reflecting on my findings (a selection of examples are above).

Naturally, I found that the items I found on my journey were reflective of the environ-ment it was in.

alter-ego

‘‘ Chose a regular item, then create an alter-ego version of the object ‘‘

As part of my research for this project I decided to do a case study on Muhammad Ali.

He is perhaps a real life ex-ample of having an alter-ego.

Being a fan of Muhammad Ali I have understood that their is more than that meets the eye to his character.

Most of us know him as being an elegant fighter, a world heavy weight champion, and of course an arogant man.

However he is also a man of philosophy, at times the words that come out of his mouth is a thing of beauty and a complete contrast to the man that he is known for in the ring.

After brainstorming I came to the conclusion of using Euro-pean cutlery (fork and knife).

I wanted to incorporate both chopsticks with fork and knifes.

Its a symbol of western and eastern unity and contrast through the language of eating.

boxing london:clink street

‘‘ Make a cnintainer that visu-ally represents clink street ‘‘

During my visit to clink street I found that its physical ap-pearance and ambience is of a similar nature to its history (prison).

I wanted to capture this my taking macro-pics of the area as part of my reearch

Text representation

Originally I wanted to use text to represent all aspects of clink street such as its architecture, physco-geogrpahy, and history.

There is a storng emphasis on light as it shapes how and where the texts silhou-ettes will be shown.

I got this inspiration from the way light falls on clink street due to its high build-ings.

Visual representation

Instead I chose to use sinple images to represent clink street as it is more powerful and communicates all that is clink street.

wayfinding:elephant and castle

‘‘ design a wayfinding system for elephant & castle rounda-bout ‘‘

First idea

My first idea was to modify a compass so that it goes in sync with the area for people to navigate.

The compass would be controlled magnetically and would have symbols repre-senting key places.

Second idea

I thought it would be more practical to have signboards in place both for the un-derground and overground areas.

Inspired by stadiums, I cat-egorized 5 areas around the roundabout.

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In this case designing a sys-tem that involves bold lines resolting in a destination.

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