Vector Typography

I used my image from the natural typography brief to make a vector path image.

Natural Typography

"Typography designers create typefaces and fonts all the time … but how often is type found/built/hiding in our everyday surroundings?  Its time to open your eyes and see the world in a new way, you could find these shapes on monumental sculptures and buildings or on a postage stamp or the bottom of a cup of coffee."


I had to do the same idea as the everyday typography but instead of using everyday objects/packaging I used building or objects that are permanent. To begin I did some research online for types of natural typography that I liked.

I then did my own version of natural type and saved one as colour and as black and white.

Everyday Typography

"Characters/letters are everywhere, exterior/interior, directional, information
signage etc.  As a designer, what will catch your eye? When photographing
the letter ‘H’, is that the best example of a ‘H’ that you have seen today? Will
it suit your pictorial alphabet"


I looked online at different everyday typography and also used the website http://www.typographykicksass.com/ before I started taking my own pictures of the alphabet. Below are some pictures that I like of the alphabet.

After doing some research I tried it out on my own and came up with the pictures shown below:

Newspaper Spread

"Design a grid system for a newspaper spread. Populate the pages with your stories/events/interviews/photography that is part of your everyday
encounters. Your homelife/fellow students/life in halls/travel information
etc. The imagery should be first hand photography, the
headings/subheadings/quotes/captions etc should all be relative"


I have decided to do my spread on a Student magazine as I have been at University for the past 2 years now and lived in student halls for both of these years I feel I have the right information to put into the content.


Below are some examples I have looked at and felt stood out to me in some way which was inspiring when coming to desgin my own.

I begun with downloading some different fonts to use for my spread and narrowed them down to four different choices shown below. 

I wanted to create a background image for the cover sheet so I played around in photoshop until I came up with something that would stand out. Below is the image I created in photoshop before I inserted it into my inDesign document. I also created a banner from this image to use on the centerfold pages which I will also show below.

I decided against using the banner in the magazine as I didn't like the way it looked in the final image. Below shows my final outcome:

Poster For Tomorrow

The right to education is recognised as a human right and is understood to establish an entitlement to education. According to the Internation Covenant on Economicm, Social and Cultural Rights the right to education includes the right to free, compulsory primary education for all, an obligation to develop secondary education accessible to all in particular by the progressive introduction of free secondary education as well as an obligation to develop access to higher education. 


I looked online at different types of posters to help me get some inspiration before designing my own.

These posters where all entered for to the Poster For Tomorrow competition for last years 'Death is not justice'

I took a picture of my friends little brother to use for my poster, after bringing it into photoshop and editing it, the final piece is shown below.

I also designed another poster scanning in a handprint and writing I did with paint. I brought these images into photoshop and edited them until I got my final outcome.

Typographic Portrait

I found some really creative pieces online which helped inspire me when it came to creating a typographic portrait of my own.

My first attempt was to create a piece with the coloured gradient.

Vodka Label

VODKA REGIONS

Eastern Europe is the homeland of Vodka production. Every country produces Vodka and most also have local flavoured specialities.

Russia, Ukraine and Belarus produce the full range of Vodka types and are generally known to be the leaders in Vodka production.

Poland produces and exports both grain and potato based Vodkas, most of the high quality brands are produced in pot stills.

Sweden has recently developed a substantial export market for its straight and flavoured wheat based Vodka.

Western Europe has local brands of Vodka wherever there are distilleries. The base for these Vodkas can vary from grains of differing countries including grapes and other fruits in winemaking countries such as France and Italy.

The US and Canada produce non flavoured Vodkas, both from various grains and from molasses.

Asia has a small amount of local Vodkas, the best coming from Japan.

HISTORY OF VODKA

The Russians firmly believe that Vodka was created in their land. Commercial production was established by the 14th century. In 1540 Czar Ivan the Terrible took a break from beheading his enemies and established the first government Vodka monopoly. Distilling licenses were handled out to the boyars and all other distilleries were banned. Vodka production became a massive part of Russian society, the Czars maintained test distilleries at their country palaces where the first experiments in multiple redistillations where made. In 1780 a scientist invented the use of charcoal filtration to purify Vodka.

By the 18th and well into the 19th century the Russian Vodka industry was probably the most technologically advanced industry in the nation. New types of stills and production techniques from Western Europe were eagerly imported and utilized. Under a 1902 law, "Moscow Vodka," a clear 40% ABV rye Vodka made with undistilled water and without added flavourings was established as the benchmark for the Russian Vodka.

Vodka production in the current Russian Federation has returned to the pre-revolutionary pattern. High quality brands are once again being produced for the new social elite and export, while the popularly priced brands are still being consumed.

Below are some of old Russian Vodka labels used on the bottles.

Below are some of the more current innovative Vodka labels, research shows that the more innovative and eye catching the design is the better the sales figures the Vodka will have.

The Vodka I have chosen to rebrand is Vodkat, the current label design is shown below.

I did some sketches to come up with ideas for the label, as the name of the product is Vodkat I tried to incoporate a picture of a cat into the logo.

I then used these drawings and developed them using photoshop and placed them on a bottle to show how the label will appear.

The picture above shows my final design.