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  • DELIVER Autumn

    Themes Decay, getting darker, trees and leaves Shown through dry textures, heavy, scratchy mark marking, streaks, and mono print textures.

    00 MA Project, 04 DELIVER, Visual Research
  • DELIVER Visual Experiments – Style Guide

    I’ve done enough experimentation now that I can begin to see the identity emerging. This post is a work-in-progress collating some of that into a cohesive guide. https://www.skyscanner.net/about-us/brand Colour Palette Type/Lettering Symbols…

    00 MA Project, 04 DELIVER, Visual Experiments, Visual Research
  • DEVELOP Research – Journals and Workbooks

    Since I’m making some kind of publication to accompany/enhance the cards, I’ve been looking at existing publications for comparison. I can see a couple of main avenues to research: A workbook containing…

    00 MA Project, 04 DELIVER, Competitor Analysis, Journal, Visual Research
  • DEVELOP Visual Research – Typography in Built Environment Dérive

    Since I’m still having trouble figuring out a route to take for the lettering in this project, I attempted another derive, this time using a new prompt: “Follow the lettering, signage and…

    00 MA Project, 03 DEVELOP, Dérives, Typography, Visual Research
  • DEFINE Visual Research – ‘How Symbols and Brands Shape Our Humanity’

    The lettering I have been trying to develop for this project has been quite representational – eg the writing about trees is modelled on tree branches I photographed. As I wrote here…

    00 MA Project, 02 DEFINE, Reading, Symbols, Visual Research
  • DEFINE Visual Research – Natural Ink

    I recently spoke to Ella Brett about her project – she is setting up a natural dye-making print studio which runs workshops. We decided to try an online dye-making session with Sian…

    00 MA Project, 02 DEFINE, Visual Research
  • DEFINE Visual Research – Paper Marbling

    During my tutorial this week, Stuart and I discussed the need to find more textures to illustrate different elements of the project. After looking at Stephen Gill’s ‘Co-existence‘ project where he hand-marbled…

    00 MA Project, 02 DEFINE, Visual Experiments, Visual Research
  • DEFINE Visual Research – Water Walk

    Prompt: Walk to the nearest body of water I semi-planned this route, by looking for the nearest bodies of water on google maps. I only intended to visit one but there were…

    00 MA Project, 02 DEFINE, Dérives, Visual Research
  • DEFINE Dérive Research

    Having been stuck in a rut for quite some time now, I have been trying to find ways to motivate myself and get some clarity. Unsurprisingly I decided to go for a…

    00 MA Project, 02 DEFINE, Ideation, Visual Research
  • DEFINE Visual Research – Tree Alphabet

    As discussed here I have been thinking about how to create more of a link between written language and the natural world, and decided to try and create some letterforms. Didn’t really…

    00 MA Project, 02 DEFINE, Typography, Visual Experiments, Visual Research
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