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[jordan-cupples98]

Eric Gill: can we separate the artist from the abuser?

Eric Gill was one of the great British artists of the 20th century – and a sexual abuser of his own daughters. A new exhibition at Ditchling asks: how far should an artist’s life affect our judgment of their work?

[dominicmcgrath46]

Design Essay Research

‘The Great New York Subway Map’

by Emiliano Ponzi

“Both a love letter to New York City and an introduction to graphic design, this is the story of how the designer Massimo Vignelli tackled the problem of creating a subway map that could be understood by all New Yorkers as well as out-of-towners. Filled with depictions of trains, subway stations, and the New York City skyline, the book follows Vignelli around the city as he tries to understand the system in order to translate it into a map. The book is produced in collaboration with the New York Transit Museum and features a section of historical and archival images and photographs. A groundbreaking work of information design, the subway map designed by Vignelli is an iconic work used by over a billion people every year. The Museum of Modern Art acquired the original 1972 diagram in 2004.”

This book gave me a great insight into the ideas and processes behind the design systems Massimo Vignelli created for the New York Subway.

[paulab1799]

Essay research

“Sagmeister: made you look”

This book captures various pieces of Sagmeister’s work, including posters, cd covers and graphics. It allows people to grow an understanding towards him and his work.

This book allowed me to discover some amazing projects that he done and reasoning behind them. 

[meganturtlee-blog]

Week five | Type Specimen Poster | Final concepts

[thesaltboy]

Week 01 Markdown Exercise

Compared to some of our other exercises so far this was a quick and easy one. We were given a text file and an image and asked to style the text with the image as a guide.

Markdown is a pretty nifty tool whose design ethos is all about readability. You could look at the .md file I used here and be able to read it with no issues.

I'm used to using HTML myself but I appreciate the approachability Markdown offers.

[ellieclarke01]

Pointillism IXD102

Pointilism is the form of using tiny dots on a page in different colours to produce an overall image. 

Our eyes naturally blend an image together of tiny dots to see the overall picture which is why this art form came about. 

[ellieclarke01]

Presentation IXD102

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ALYFjpM6GrVy_qegwTWSCylSEUsB60q0vDThR5vgU14/edit?usp=sharing

[ellieclarke01]

Type Specimen Poster Critique IXD102

Pauline and Kyle critiqued my poster design in class and made suggestions on how I could make my design stronger. 

This original design:

I was quite happy with my original design and both Kyle and Pauline seemed to like it, however, Pauline suggested that I enlarge the “g” so it stands out even more, and to shrink the text box with additional information in it down as it is not as relevant. They also suggested pushing the moving train design down lower to give more room for the giant “g”. 

I took these critiques into consideration and made an updated version of the design:

Although the design is still very similar to how it looked before the critique it now accomodates all of Kyle and Paulines critical opinions and changes that they requested I make, and I’m happy with the way the overall design turned out.