Kim Sharp

Visual Skills - Website You will use the Adobe Creative Suite...

Fri, 18 Jan 2013 13:40:00 +0000

Visual Skills - Website

You will use the Adobe Creative Suite (including Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects and Dreamweaver) in order to produce a small coded website that meets professional standards both visually and technically. You have to produce one or several pieces of motion graphics, which you will integrate as a banner or the like into your table or css based website, consisting of 6 or more connected webpages.

Your website should discuss one topic on the current national or international news. Search The Guardian website and other suistable sources to establish which topic you wish to focus on. What concerns you most? What do you think society needs from you? How can you engage?

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I chose to design my website around the ‘Olympic Legacy’ of ‘Inspire A Generation’ as sport has always played a large part in my family; from my parents taking part in sport in their youth, to myself and my brother both taking part in sports at County Level.

I have met Martine Wright; whom appeared as part of the GB Sitting Volleyball team for the London 2012 Paralympic Games; and also I attended the second day of the Paralympic Games in London. On this day, I saw for myself the emotion that is felt by the athletes and the crowds and the challenges the athletes face and overcome. I felt inspired by them.

For all of these reason, I chose to design my website specifically on the Paralympic Games.

Stoke Mandeville, and more importantly Stoke Mandeville Hospital, is ‘the home of the Paralympics’, being founded there in 1948 by Sir Ludwig Guttmann. These games were originally known as the ‘World Wheelchair and Amputee Games’. Stoke Mandeville is very local to my home in Tring, and I was born there. I have visited there many times since, for various reasons, and it has had a large part in my life.

The ‘Olympic Legacy’ has been in the news since it was announced to the public back in 2007. During last summer (2012), there were news articles on funding for school sports being cut and whether this is going against inspiring a younger generation. More recently, in December, there were articles on the funding cuts and how certain athletes have reacted to these, but also the names of athletes on the New Year’s Honours List. There were far less Para-athletes recognised for their achievements.

This site is not ‘live’ and cannot be viewed on the Internet.

Visual Skills - 10 Commandments of Good Typography Preview not available in ‘Dashboard’. Magazine...

Fri, 18 Jan 2013 13:25:00 +0000

Visual Skills - 10 Commandments of Good Typography

Preview not available in ‘Dashboard’. Magazine can be viewed on my blog page.

Create an A6 booklet containing what you believe to be 10 most important rules within typography. It is up to you how interpret the task. You could take it literally and produce a typography and layout guide book for graphic design students. Or you could approach with humour and produce something witty and entertaining. This booklet should reflect a sound knowledge and experience in the field of typography.

Visual Communication - Corporate Identity Design the Corporate...

Fri, 18 Jan 2013 12:34:00 +0000

Logo Design

Menu

Wine List

Event's Guide

Stationery

Staff Uniform

Wine Labels

Venue Fascia

Visual Communication - Corporate Identity

Design the Corporate Identity for a new (fictional) Piano & Wine Bar, The Barrel & Key. You will need to design a logo/mark/logotype and consider how this is applied to a standard range of stationery.

My concept was based on connection. The idea for this came from ‘and’, as this is a connection word. In music, notes connected together form the piece of music. Finally, people worldwide connect over music, over wine and even over both together.

Required items:
.:. Logo / Identity
.:. Stationery .:. Letterhead, Compliment Slip and Business Card
.:. Venue Fascia / Signage
.:. Menu
.:. Wine List
.:. Events Guide
.:. Wine Label for House Red and House White
.:. Staff Uniform

All information was provided by tutors.

Images are captioned.

Visual Communication - Ethics and Sustainability Magazine Preview not available in...

Fri, 18 Jan 2013 11:18:00 +0000

Visual Communication - Ethics and Sustainability Magazine

Preview not available in ‘Dashboard’. Magazine can be viewed on my blog page.

Create an A4 magazine with a minimum of 9 double spread pages using a layout grid and a house style font. In addition to this you will create a front an back cover.

An A1 promotional poster was also designed.

All articles were taken from Icograda

Letterpress ‘Happy Birthday’ Card and Personal...

Fri, 24 Aug 2012 13:52:00 +0100

Letterpress ‘Happy Birthday’ Card and Personal Poster

Both pieces were created at a workshop run by Turnbull Grey in London, UK.

Type Faces My Face made using Typeface Characters in Adobe...

Sat, 07 Jul 2012 17:11:00 +0100

Type Faces

My Face made using Typeface Characters in Adobe Illustrator

Lumi Inkodye Union Jack T-Shirt Made using Taped Areas and...

Sat, 07 Jul 2012 16:50:00 +0100

Lumi Inkodye Union Jack T-Shirt

Made using Taped Areas and Acetate Overlay with Lumi Inkodye Light-Sensitive Blue and Red Dyes

Lumi Inkodye Photogram Made using Tri-Onimos and Lumi Inkodye...

Fri, 22 Jun 2012 10:52:00 +0100

Lumi Inkodye Photogram

Made using Tri-Onimos and Lumi Inkodye Light-Sensitive Blue Dye

Photopolymer KM73 Plate and Print © Copyright Kim Sharp 2012

Fri, 22 Jun 2012 10:39:00 +0100

Photopolymer KM73 Plate and Print

Photoshop Fruit Manipulations Original Images .:.Apple and...

Tue, 19 Jun 2012 20:25:00 +0100

Photoshop Fruit Manipulations

Original Images .:.
Apple and Shark
Orange and Eye
Banana and Snake

First Year Posted!

Sat, 09 Jun 2012 13:06:00 +0100

That’s it… all my first year work is up! :)

Directions - Graphic Design Create a typographic poster using...

Sat, 09 Jun 2012 13:05:00 +0100

Directions - Graphic Design

Create a typographic poster using the phrase

“It’s not what you win, but how you conquer it”

for the Conqueror Typographic Games 2012.

Final Poster Size .:. 700mm x 1000mm

Directions - Graphic Design Produce three book covers...

Sat, 09 Jun 2012 13:04:00 +0100

Directions - Graphic Design

Produce three book covers concentrating on a typographic solution, considering elements that unite the three books.

Directions - Illustration Produce a 32 page illustrated,...

Sat, 09 Jun 2012 13:03:00 +0100

Hand-Made Book

Hand-Made Book Front Cover

Hand-Made Book Endpapers

Hand-Made Book .:. Story Start

Requirements For Sailing

Hope For Marriage

Directions - Illustration

Produce a 32 page illustrated, hand-made children’s book.

Story Chosen .:. The Owl and the Pussy-Cat by Edward Lear

A number of other illustrations had to be created for various situations.

Images are captioned.

Visual Skills - InDesign Create a digital PDF A5, 8 facing page...

Sat, 09 Jun 2012 13:01:00 +0100

Visual Skills - InDesign

Create a digital PDF A5, 8 facing page zine using 4 articles from FormFiftyFive.

All images and text were taken from articles on the above mentioned website.

Visual Skills - Photoshop/Illustrator Working entirely with...

Sat, 09 Jun 2012 13:00:00 +0100

Visual Skills - Photoshop/Illustrator

Working entirely with your own source images, create an A4 illustration using a combination of Photoshop and Illustrator on the theme of ‘The City’.

To me, ‘The City’ is London; the capital city of England. I used a photo of Canary Wharf, and surrounding buildings, as my central point, placing it on a floating island in order to section ‘the city’ from its surrounding towns and cities. The starburst background was produced to give the effect that the city is being propelled forwards; this was to symbolise the city as it moves forward into the future. The green in the starburst represents the city trying to be ‘green’ and the red to represent the iconic London busses that swarm the streets. The Underground train that appears to being coming out of the ground brings in another major means of transport for London. The wall brings in the ‘real’ aspect of a city being built of bricks and mortar. Adding the paint splats was to suggest the graffiti that can be found anywhere across London. However, using paint splats combines the strength of the concentrated paint from a spray can and tones is down, as if the rain is trying to wash it away and make the city cleaner. The blue blend flowing across the piece represents the River Thames that runs past Canary Wharf and weaves through the city. Further to a suggestion to add pipe work under the city, I tried to add in this detail. However, I was unable to action this as I didn’t have suitable photographs of my own to use.

Thinking About Ideas - Olympic Word Play Hand-render six words...

Sat, 09 Jun 2012 12:59:00 +0100

Thinking About Ideas - Olympic Word Play

Hand-render six words from the Olympic events, expressing something of the event.

Thinking About Ideas - Six Degrees of Separation Develop a...

Sat, 09 Jun 2012 12:57:36 +0100

Final Piece .:. Rotating Wheel

RP -> MLK .:. Civil Rights Activists

MLK -> Bono .:. Time Person Of The Year

Bono -> Spielberg .:. Knighthood

Spielberg -> Darwin .:. Madame Tussauds

Darwin -> Kew .:. Origin Of Species

Connected by Six Degrees

Thinking About Ideas - Six Degrees of Separation

Develop a suitable narrative that links ‘a given person’ with ‘a given place’, generating five appropriate links.

Given Person .:. Rosa Parks

Given Place .:. Kew Gardens, UK

Images are captioned.

Thinking About Ideas - This Plus That Produce an A4 poster to...

Sat, 09 Jun 2012 12:56:00 +0100

Thinking About Ideas - This Plus That

Produce an A4 poster to publicise a charitable event. The image must create a relationship between the key ‘issues’ of the event.

Chosen event .:. Motoki Hirai .:. Piano Recital for the 2011 Japan Earthquake Disaster

Work completed with Susannah.

Thinking About Ideas - Tailor Made Design a number of...

Sat, 09 Jun 2012 12:55:00 +0100

Thinking About Ideas - Tailor Made

Design a number of navigational signs conveying something of the essence of the museum’s content.

Chosen museum .:. The Clockmakers Collection, London, UK

Work completed with Vanessa and Greer.