Brief 2/ The Internet/ Opte Project

The Opte Project

I found out about The Opte Project at the Life Online exhibition. It seeks to make an accurate representation of the extent of the internet through visual data. The images are not only useful and educational in teaching people about the internet but look beautiful, and are even shown at the Museum of Modern Art.

cheswick map

This is another internet mapping project. I think the results created are so interesting and could be used across a variety of products.

 

The above graphic was featured in Wired magazine in 1998.

It would be impossible to make something similar with accurate information so I don't know yet how I would use these images in my design practice. They could just inspire me to create patterns that look similar and are based on this theme. 

Brief 3/ Rule Book/ Illustrated Type/ Quoteskine

The Quoteskine book by Lee Crutchley is what gave me my initial idea to create a graphic design rulebook. I really like the idea of loads of hand drawn images and text put together in a sketchbook. Designing something like this would give me the freedom to try out lots of design skills as not every page would have to match in with the rest. The quotes in this book have some meaning to them, which made me think about including inspiration or rules.

I found out about this book through the computer arts magazine so here are some photographs of the spread:

Here are some photographs of the book from the website. I'd like to get my hands on a copy to see more examples of his work. I need to be careful not to go to fine arty if I'm creating something like this, which is why I wouldn't want all of the pages to be hand drawn, I'd want to include some computer based typography.

The book demonstrates totally different styles of typography, some mixed with image.

As well as the book, the prints are available on other bits of merchandise, such as these postcards, which made me think about how I could take my rule book further, extending on my product range.