Category / AD138

by Olivia Kate Violet

Collage work

Monday 2nd February

Today we had the pleasure of meeting Aaro, one of Jules’ ex students who conducted a collage workshop which I felt was really useful and got me thinking about layout a lot.

My favourite outcomes:

1. This one is all about women worrying about how they look to others rather than whether they like what they are wearing.

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2. This one represents how it’s all about the accessories and not about model. The bag is the main focus.

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3. This collage is saying that women are exposed and looked at as possessions and are lusted for their legs,v and not themselves.

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4. Here I was looking at the idea of playing with the content. ‘You think you’re reading me, but really i’m reading you.’ Stating that women sometimes aren’t given enough credit for what they can and do, accomplish.

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5. Finally, I was looking this idea of waste. How that we diet and try so desperately to alter our bodies to fit the ideal of healthy and good looking.

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by Olivia Kate Violet

Looking at Layout

Friday 23rd January

Today we had the pleasure of meeting Joao and with him we went though the basics of how to use InDesign as well as looking at how different magazines use layout and typography within them. I found the session extremely useful and informative and feel that the skills taught during these session will be of great use.

Joao went through the ‘Grid System’ and explained how it is used throughout the industry to create the desired layout. He explained that text boxes with simple squares with lines in them like a notebook, and an image has a big cross in them. He then went on to explain that the gutter is extremely important and that when making a book it can be crucial as you need the right amount to ensure the pages fit together in a way that the content doesn’t get lost within the seam.

Further more went through the idea of editorial flow and how pages need to make sense as you go thought them. The bleed were told is normally 3mm as you always overlap the page to ensure that you don’t get a white border around the edge of the page.

I addition to this he showed us example of parallax scrolling which I thought was brilliant and extremely clever. The idea of scrolling down but not actually scrolling down many pages is genius! I loved the animation of it all and the fun aspect it possess.

And finally he listed many different magazines that we should have a look at such as:

-VOLT
-ANOTHER MAN
-GENTLEWOMAN
-FANTASTIC MAN
-PURPLE
-P MAGAZINE
-VISIONAIRE
-HEART

by Olivia Kate Violet

Looking at typography

Monday 12th Janurary

This week were introduced to typography and how it can be effective within a brand.

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We were told to get into pairs, making sure we hadn’t worked with this person previously so to make new friends and new connections. Me and Maddy started to brain storm ideas together and this is where we are so far:

 

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by Olivia Kate Violet

Introduction to AD138

Monday 5th January

For the first seminar of 2015 was in both form of a more detailed briefing for our next module; Introduction to fashion illustration and drawing! I’m really looking forward to learning new skills and being part of some more physical interacting classes. I myself am not the best at drawing fashion illustrations so I am excited to see what I can produce within the next few weeks.

The aims for our brief are:

1. To introduce students into fashion drawing, imaging processes and their roles in the fashion communication industry

2. To learn specialist techniques and become confident with specialist tools and equipment through project work, research and experiment in prac/ce

3. To experiment with different techniques, ideas and outputs within project briefs and sketchbook work

4. To prac/ce professionalism by commiRng to studio prac/ce through recording professional development, through crea/ng a blog and PDP

Initially we looked at some examples of how to produce fashion illustrations that are in proportion:

 


We then had a chance to practise and remind ourselves of how to use a pencil (it has been a while i must admit!)