Graphic Design

 Graphic design with Andy was an eye opening week. We were given quite strange tasks at the beginning of the week which the eventually turned into tasks which seemed slightly more relevant to graphic design. Andy's way of teaching encouraged individuality as he did not give much help or inspiration. This I think is a good thing though as it meant that the class did not all produce generic material. 

  

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One of the first tasks andy gave us was to draw the person's ear next to us on an A1 sheet of paper. Although this may seem quite strange and have nothing to do with graphic design it did actually have a purpose. It got us to think about detail and to see that often we draw what we think we see with our eyes but if we observe closer we can see that actually there is much more there than we originally thought.

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The next task we were given was to make a series of sketches of the people on the same table as us. However being Andy these were not sketches that you would do using the same techniques if you were on your own. No,  each had something individual about it. The first we drew with our eyes closed, another with continuous lines, for one we were only allowed to use our mouth ect. The one above was drawn with my mouth. This excersise meant that you had to adopt new skills when drawing and allowed you to use some of your other senses in order for you to not have a meaningless end result on the page.

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Andy later on in the week asked us to produce a collage. For this task I decided to be as abstract as possible and to make sure the only thing I kept resemblant to a face was the form. I decided to experiment with dividing up parts of the head and then separating them by separating colour and tone. If I was to have done this again I would have instead made the whole face colour and then had features, such as nose, mouth, eyes in black and white. This would have made it more easy to distinguish between certain area's of the face.

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The last project Andy gave us was to create posters which represented where we wanted to be in twenty years time. As I am not completely sure where I want to be however needed to design a poster I decided to do architecture as my aspiration as I do have a massive interest in this subject area. When creating these posters I tried to use what I had learnt so far in foundation and not think too much about the outcome but rather just start making and see where it lead me.

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I was pleased with the range of posters I produced. They varied in colour, style, complexity ect. If I was to do this again however I think I would have divided up the task into smaller tasks to make it even more original. For example word design, background design, colour scheme, logos ect. Also had I done this on a computer it would have looked more professional. Therefore I need to learn how to use programmes on which I can create such an image.