Monday 29 March 2010

Term 2, Project 4: Design A Dictionary

Project title: Design a Dictionary

Brief: Define 40 words. Design a dictionary in any medium.
- The words must relate to one subject.
- Research: types and forms, use if language - prescriptive/ descriptive.

Consider:
- Text
- Typographic Systems
- Image
- Size
- Colour
- Medium


Research:

Types of Dictionaries:

  • Abbreviations Dictionary
  • American Heritage Dictionary
  • Business Dictionary
  • Foreign Language Dictionaries
  • Legal Dictionary
  • Medical Dictionary
  • Online Dictionaries
  • Oxford English Dictionary
  • Rhyming Dictionary
  • Slang Dictionaries
  • Translation Dictionary
  • Urban Dictionary
  • Webster's Dictionary
Source: www.allaboutdictionaires.com

Tuesday 16 March 2010

Project 3 - Unknown Land

My logo applied to objects seen in an outdoor environment.





Wednesday 3 March 2010

Project 3 - Unknown Land





































































































These are some more posters that i have developed.

The text i have used is scanned in from some letterpress experiments that i created today.

I think the combination of the image, logo and the scanned in typography from letterpress really brings the posters together.

Tuesday 2 March 2010

Project 3 - Unknown Land

I have mainly been focusing on creating a logo that can be used on products such as credit cards:



















































From this logo i started to create a credit card for our country. I chose to use a credit card as it doesn't produce as much waste, also i have looked into ways in which it can be reused.