University of Newcastle

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- Assessment Task 1 -

The aim for my design was to use pictures of forests and mountain sides along with a geometric pattern placed over the top. The image was blurred while the pattern was formed through the space that wasn’t blurred. To make the pattern stand out more a gradient was placed over it.

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- Calendar progress -

“You are to design a 13 page calendar using the theme of nature as your direction. A page for each of the twelve months from January 2020 through to December 2020 plus a front cover will need to be designed.”

 - front cover of calendar - 

- one of twelve month pieces -  image with a geometric pattern laid over top with various filters and gradients added to make said shape stand out.

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- Studio Task 3 -

Type Design 

Create a monospaced typeface for 2 custom license plates: UON•018 DES•745

Week 3′s design task was to create a simple mono spaced font to be used on number plates and create 2 custom plates showing off the font.

Due to number plates needing to be simple and easy to read keeping the font basic and distinguishing each character from one another was the main priority. So to start with I chose a basic font from google and modified it to match my requirements. 

Plate 1(one) showcases the characters U, O and 0(zero) in close proximity.

Plate 2(two) showcases what a common numberplate would look like.

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- Studio Task 2 -

Page Layout  Create three (3) page layouts incorporating headings, body text and images. This weeks Design Task™ was to produce a portrait, landscape and square page layout with one of them being filled out with ‘real’ text and images.

My first page I kept the layout pretty standard and went with a more newspapery feel with the single overhead image and scrolling columns with headings. 

My second page was a bit more experimental with the way a heading is circled or I guess squared in this case by two images and body text. This may work if used with proper images/text but ultimately I wasn’t too sure about it.

Page number three was probably the most fun to mess around with as I had an idea but but not really the best way to execute it. I tried to make a sort of box using three images in the shape of rhombuses with some text that fits around said shape. In hindsight I should of removed the black box around the text and used a proper title such as ‘Cherry Blossoms’  instead of the place holder.

All in all this was great practice for learning page layout and what is usually tried and tested works for a reason. But that still wont stop me from having a bit of fun experimenting ^^.

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- Studio Task 1 -

Portrait Illustrations 

Create portraits of different people using only geometric shapes. For this week we were tasked with drawing a person/character portrait using only geometric shapes. Realising that I’m terrible at choosing or even thinking of a person of the top of my head I resorted to my last option... A random person selector.

Once Michael Cera was decided on I Looked up some different styles of geometric portraits on the google. Through that search I found a style that would be cool to try and emulate.

Because of my inexperience of drawing people made of geometric shapes I’d probably bitten off a bit more than I should have. Nonetheless I kept with it and ended up with a portrait that looks rather similar to Michael.

Overall I thought I did a decent job and can hopefully improve with this style of drawing with some more practice.