I carried out some research into some covers from the punk era that used similar style and techniques that I wanted to use in my own design. One band that uses a particular style of text is the American hardcore punk band Fear. It is…
Reid Miles (July 4th, 1927-February 1993) Before I began the vinyl cover task, I researched into different types of cover designs for inspiration and I decided to explore Reid Miles in more detail. Reid Miles was an American graphic designer and photographer. His best-known work…
Before beginning this task, I decided to research different types of punk era record covers as it’s not an area of music I know a lot about. One thing that stood out to me the most was the prevalence of black and white and strong…
After all my digital squares were completed, I was tasked to create 12 of them using coloured paper. I decided to create them using the same colour palette and tried to make sure they looked similar to the digital images. I feel I was successful…
26 Digital Images After I had completed my final sketches of my graphic language squares, I was tasked with creating 12 of them digitally. Originally, I had picked my twelve sketches that I wanted to create but once I began making them on Photoshop, I…
For our first task in this graphics workshop, we had to create 26 boxes that each represented a word. This intrigued me as at first, I thought it would be like typography, but after being shown examples I realised it would be a lot harder…
Before I started my initial sketches for the 26 words, I wanted to carry out some research into graphic designs using geometric shapes and also the colour scheme I was planning on using. I started by creating a mood board for a monochrome colour palette…
As part of my contextual research, I focused in on the stamp series created by Detail. Design Studios, a group of graphic designers based in Dublin. An Post commissioned the studio to design a series of stamps under the theme of Space Exploration as a…
The area of Sarah Moloney’s work that I have decided to focus on is her work for the Other Voices festival in 2019. Other Voices is a music and arts festival which encompasses a music and word trail, exhibitions, discussions, and a TV music series….
As part of our contextual research, we had to watch a presentation by a well-established graphic designer. I chose Michael Beirut, a graphic designer from Cleveland, Ohio, who designed the logo for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign. His presentation from Offset 2012 was interesting as he…