And so the cover starts coming together, even if all the photos haven’t been found yet, but at least I know what events I’ll be covering now that the year is up.
Playing around with some ideas, thought this might be a nice logo for anything I get printed rather than just saying it’s done by me.
Was looking at Risographs today (I can dream) and thought that would be a cool way of producing printed goods, of course I’m guessing it’s fairly expensive (though I never actually found a price…) and most of the machines are 100+ KGs which would be a bit prohibitive.
Ho hum I can dream.
Iteration 2 on the Twenty 11 logo. Uses a slightly modified version of Ostrich Sans, the brilliant new font from the League of Movable Type.
Looks good against a simple background so will probably have to tweak the front cover to avoid complication. Maybe even go so far as to have a purely illustrative cover avoiding the in your face image of the last one, not that I don’t like that.
There may be 8 months left this year but I’ve already started working on Twenty 11’s layout and design which undoubtedly means it will have all changed by the time I’m finished with it.
Twenty 10 was a start but it owed too much to the photography and the design ended up being a container, a nice typographic container but still I want to do something more with Twenty 11.
All I have currently is a logo and an idea. Linked the two ones in 11 creates a diagonal that influences the partitioning of the imagery on the pages. The font is an altered version of Zag Regular which had the basic form but I wasn’t a fan of the corners so I fiddled with it.
Of course I realise the dividing line doesn’t cut through the centre of the circle, it was a mistake that’s started to grow on me, though my OCD might be the end of it. The photos aren’t colour balanced how I would like them either.
But it’s all a work in progress so who knows how much of this I will use.
So here’s the final designs for the Three Cities logo brief I was given a month ago. Got a full colour and single colour version of the logo with an A3 poster. Type set in Garamond. Quite happy with the final outcome, and the prize is a trip to one of the cities involved, which sounds a bit odd, going to Barcelona or Dalian on your own.
So we had an all day workshop today and were tasked with creating an identity for Winchester as part of a competition between Winchester School of Art, Elisava in Barcelona and Dalian in China. The other had to create an identity for their respective city.
So I focused on the key points of Winchester as seen on a map (Google Earth in this case) and started creating W’s from their positions. The shape is inspired by the rolling countryside and the hills around Winchester (St. Giles & St. Catherines). The colours are sampled from the patchwork of fields.
I showed my tutors a drawn mock up (without colour) and they responded positively, I’ve got until April the 9th to work on this but I like what I’ve got so far.
