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.

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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.

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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

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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

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Directions - Graphic Design

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

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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.

© Layout Designs Copyright Kim Sharp 2012

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.

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