Futurism

This weeks assignment was to create a composition using, in my case, Futurism to represent a quote from a designer you admire (one also included in the Megg's Text).

I chose Andy Warhol because I have always enjoyed his works. There are many documented quotes from Warhol but I thought this one was really interesting. Although not directly related to design, it spoke to me.

"I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art".

I tried a variety of layouts and finally came to this. I tried to use only a few straight lines of text, including "land" because it is a sturdy word and I thought it would weaken it to tilt it. I varied the size of the letters of "ruining" so as to ruin the word itself. I also overlapped ruining on land to emphasize the function of it. I used a different font for beautiful because of society's perception of the word. Andy Warhol is in a circle to almost represent a flower or beautiful part of the un-ruined land. I also used the changing of colours over a shape or line I've seen used in the futurism style.

I think that about sums up my design for this week :)

New Efficient Lightbulb

This week our goal was to create a poster for an energy efficient light bulb designed in the style of William Morris and Peter Behrens. I created this poster keeping in mind the decorative style of William Morris' designs and the unusual shapes and sharp lines of Peter Behrens. Behrens house hold items design always seemed to have crazy designs and so I decided to change the shape of the light bulb to incorporate this look. I used the German for "New Efficient Lightbulb" and put the font in capitals so as to imitate the style at the time.

Done entirely in pencil.

Victorian Style

This week is the Victorian Era style Graphic Design. The Victorian Era was all about the fancy and decorative. Swirly, bold and drop shadowed letters were all are popular during this time. Decorative borders especially!











I chose this design from Nanaimo to represent the Victorian Era. Correct me if I am wrong, but I seem to remember the hand pointing is similar to the style of the washroom signs from this era. Also the "Gates and Gifts" sign has flourishes on the letter forms and beautiful wrought iron decorations around it. Overall I thought these qualities were a close match to the Victorian style in the modern day.











This is my "Starbucks from the Victorian Era" design. I was trying to play off the Victorian painting styles with the way I drew the figure, but it turned out a little, okay a lot, more in my style. However, I am happy with the swirls around the logo - it just reminded me of something that would be on a Victorian logo. I did choose a serif font because in the Victorian era they used a mix of any fonts available and I assumed they would have serifs somewhere in their collections. Maybe it doesn't match perfectly, but I tried and it was fun :)

(Artwork done in pencil)