What is Design for print? Task 1.

TASK

Find at least 5 diverse examples of the effective/creative use of print in the following areas of design: Branding and Identity Packaging and Promotion Publishing & Editorial Information & Wayfinding You should aim to identify design work from a range of commercial/cultural references, target audiences and creative contexts. You will need to identify primary and secondary sources and not rely solely on web-based examples as this will encourage you to be more adventurous in your research and diverse in your findings. You will also gain a more informed understanding of the 'real world' context of the work. Your findings should be recorded and critically evaluated on your Design Context blog.

Research Sources / Further Information

RESOURCE HANDOUT

Mandatory Requirements / Deliverables

A series of posts to your Design Context blog. demonstrating an in depth investigation into Design for print in relation to the 4 areas outlined above. Significant critical evaluation of the examples identified through your research including informed reasons for their selection.

Studio Beige

A proper nice example of the rule of thirds, I'm looking particularly at the second two images of the magazine layouts, but the first, front cover image is particularly nice as well. The spreads feel balanced and readable, there is plenty of space to let the graphic elements sit in their own position and not be interfered with by other elements. It's two-colour as well, which often makes for nice pieces of design. 

Opernhaus Zurich

This rule of thirds in this poster are observed quite well, there is clearly some related thought gone into it....I quite like the colours personally, it's just a nice piece of Swiss design. The text doesn't follow the rule though....but then again...rules are there to be broken...sometimes. But actually in some ways it does....hmmm.

I am going to

research some pieces of art and design that make effective use of the Divine Proportion ( I mean really in most cases it'll be the rule of thirds, which is also relevant, just not as accurate ) as this will help me inform my current 'Good Is...' project. The pieces in most cases won't be made for the purpose of demonstrating the rule of thirds, like mine will be, but they will be good for developing ideas for my own work.

Thank you.

Catalogue Graphic Design

This is by them two lads who recently graduated from Leeds College of Art, and gone on to set up their own studio.

I've looked at this and numerous other examples of work by second years, third years and graduates. To a certain extent, the work produced by these people, and undoubtedly myself and my classmates, will in some ways be of a ever so slightly similar style. I mean, it's all relative, one person will look at a second year's work and think, yeah that's cool, take that idea and make it their own. 

Etc.

And so you have it, a certain style slightly unique to LCA. I can't quite describe what I mean. It's clean-cut, it's precise, it breathes, it's professional, cool, etc. And I see it from a lot of LCA GD heads. 

What I mean is, I sorta feel like I could look at a whole wall full of posters and identify the one that was produced by someone who studied at LCA. This poster's perhaps one of them

Or maybe I'm talking total rubbish, after all, it is twenty five past three in the morning.

However..

Evidence for this?

This one's by Scott Marc Berry.

clean-cut, simple, effective, perfected, basic, breathable, form follows function etc. etc. 

I can see it as a LCA GD style. It's nice.

Roisin typeface

I had to check this one out, simply on the basis that I have a flatmate named Roisin. It's actually a very nice typeface, based on ITC Avant Garde...I love how I say that to pretend as if I really know such a huge amount on typefaces and their history. It's based on Victorian letterforms. I like how it holds such an air of creativity, whilst still being completely legible.

pow.

Cavin Spacey

Cavin Spacey typeface. Based on circles or squares. I didn't put up any images of the square one because, well, I hated it. Well i didn't hate it but I'm not so keen on square-based typefaces, they're not fun to look at,they're not as legible, they look like a child could have made them, etc. not for me basically. However the more I look at the circle-based one, the more I quite like it....

So many possibilities. It was made by a guy called Alex Schulz. He recommends that it should be combined with Futura Bold, which is a winner, I really like Futura. Top marks.