TY1DP1: Part 1
Design Practice
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New work from our Part 1
BA Graphic Communication students
Narratives | Lettering | Images | Monograms | Covid | Penguins | Type design | User-focus | Listings
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A client has written a novel and asks you to develop a concept that enhances the visual dimension of the story through the book’s form and materiality.
A Noisy Book
Burning Pages
Endless Labyrinth – Endless Book
Grab and Tear it all
Labyrinth
A book without words
Labyrinth
Loop – A book redesign
Simplicity is Key
The staircase to success
The maze beyond the gaze
Obsessive behaviour
Looped Labyrinth:
Never ending narrative
Labyrinth book narrative
Labyrinth
Stairs
something was there…
Broken Narratives- a staircase story
Obsession
Obsession
Staircase
Staircase
What’s That Noise?
Stairway
Staircase Book
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Lettering – in the form of letters, words, messages – is everywhere, indoors and out.
The forgotten
The Good, The Bad… but not The Ugly
Lettering around university
Attention and caution
Contrast
Lettering in the environment
Things I often overlook
Worn and damaged lettering
Noticeable Type
Exploring Lettering Forms Found on Campus
Variety in our everyday life
My Journey with UOR Lettering
Letters in the Wild
Bleak, Boring, and Grey
Tell me where to go and what to do.
Opening my eyes to the words around me
Lettering in the Environment
Lettering in the Environment
Eyes on the Little Things
Lettering Around Campus
Typography iSpy in UoR
Font Finding
The Little Things
Lettering in the Environment
Eye-catching Sign boards and Letters
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Two images to illustrate a ‘given’ noun. The second image adds _one element_ to change the feeling or meaning of the first image.
An exploration of protest
Britain
Work
The Hardship of Being a Woman
Money (makes the world go round)
Exploration of the word ‘War’
Education Inequality
Politician
Religion – Free the Uighurs
Pain
The Dark Side Of Gaming:
Protests
Royalty
Boris
Education system
Are they still a family
Pregnancy making waves
Money
Christ or the Antichrist?
Love/abuse
London – Olympic Underground
Fragile Happiness
Social Media
Are the Government making change happen?
The H in my name deserves the hierarchy
Monogram – LMJ
Hannahsmithosis
Transmogrify
A learning curve
Transmogrify
A, S Or A, C – Initials
Structured and geometric design
KH
Lettering and development of monograms
Are monograms always supposed to be uppercase?
Initials monogram
RW
Initial Identity
Initials Monogram
Transforming Letterforms
CH monogram
DC
My job was easy
Pairing ‘m’ and ‘b’
My name and finding ways to shape it
Transmogrification of my initials
Monograms – Illustrator design task
TK
I can’t tell where “d” ends and “D” begins
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How is graphic language being used to communicate public health information in a global pandemic: collecting contemporary communications
Covid 19 In Reading Town
Social media in a PANDEMIC!
The Signs of COVID-19
Safe in space
‘Caroni’
Wear a mask to stop the spread
Poster: Icon vs Typography
From Political to Social issues
Covid in Britain
Varying amounts of formality in Covid communications
Approaches
UK Government vs Australian Government
friendly Cautious
Covid Colour Signs and posters
Hands, Face, Space: Covid-19
Illustration Vs Typography
Bunny coronavirus signage!
COVID-19 – Blue or Yellow?
Safety signs
Italy, Spain, Germany or the UK?
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Inspired by the work of David Pearson, Harland Miller and others who enjoy playing with established design classics, create a perfect copy of a classic Penguin … then have some fun …

The Shining

Harry Potter

Blood Orange

Bang! And The Dirt Is Gone!

The Borrowers

Psycho

The Handmaid’s Tale

Sharp Objects (and a dangerous penguin)

The Curious Incident of the dog in the nighttime.

Stranger Things.

PULP FICTION

The Matrix

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

Emily In Paris

Happy Feet

The end of Club Penguin R.I.P

Pinocchio

bunny’s penguin book cover 2

Penguin Covers

Coraline Penguin cover transformation

A Penguin Book cover with a twist

Alice in Wonderland

Stuart Little

Eat, Pray, Love, Repeat

The new library:

The Diary Of A Wimpy Kid Penguin Cover

Creation of the Penguin Cover

Twilight

Kung Fu Panda
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Starting with just six glyphs from a given font, design additional letterforms in the same style by careful analysis of the existing shapes.
What letter is it?
Typeface Design
Recreating Type
Minding the Gap Can Get Tricky
Please mind the gap between your letters
Minding the gap is a tricky task
‘Hesion’ sounds like a good tequila
The Devil’s in the detail
Do our eyes deceive us?
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Get to know another student on the course, and user what you learn about them to design them a perfect present.
Paint by numbers
The Traveling Map
Alfred as Godzilla
Cateye
Drake’s choice
Temple disc and Smart ring
For someone who loves to travel
House Rolfe -GOT
Shoes design present
For someone who likes skateboards and records.
what is your ideal gift?
A Bone-Breaking Clown
Flying Car
Japan in a Coffee Cup
How to create the perfect present
Rolling Stone Race Car
Space ship
Ideal gift (Kim’s project)
Lakers Jersey
Design for Portable Guitar Chord
Electronic Easel
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Start with some completely unformatted (and horribly copy-edited) text, and turn it into a coherently presented document that articulates an information hierarchy and supports user goals.

Reading Film Theatre Flyer

Pre ‘Coroni’ 2017 listings

Modernist Style Cinema Listing

En dash!

Managing space – Flyer Design

Bunny cinema listing

A list for Reading Film Theatre

Reading Film Theatre

Popcorn Time!

Information design is fun

Reading Movie Time

My Film Flyer

command, return

Exploring Typographic Hierarchy

Print it out
