Brief 4/ Graphic Design Museum's Across The World

My idea for this brief came about because there are so many art galleries but there isn't much in the way of graphic design museums and exhibitions. I've researched what is already out there across the world to see what content these museums have, and the type of designs they feature in their branding and identity and signage.

1. Museum of the Image - Amsterdam

The core of our museum is formed by the semi-permanent exhibition 100 years of Graphic Design in the Netherlands. There are three rooms, together covering more than six hundred square metres, in which the visitor is led past famous and not-so-famous highlights of a century of graphic design. A unique historical retrospective that clearly shows how Dutch graphic design is inextricably linked with the modernisation of society in the twentieth century.

2.  Design Museum - London

At the Design Museum we believe that without better design, better use of scarce resources, and more innovation, the future won’t work. We see design as an integral part of every aspect of life: a way to understand the world around us, and to make it a better place to live.

http://www.a2swhk.co.uk

3. Museum of Design - Zurich

Swiss graphic design – one of the country’s leading products – is encountered everywhere. While a single individual style cannot be identified, a certain common approach is evident. This is revealed in the striking awareness of quality in the works, in the skilled handcraft, as well as in the precision and reduction to essentials. Graphic design from Switzerland reflects both international trends and local qualities; irony and wit are its constant companions. The view of one hundred years of graphic design shows both the diversity of current visual communication as well as the fine lines of tradition that connect works from different epochs. Alongside the poster and smaller items of printed matter, the show also includes outstanding examples from advertising and information graphics, typography, signage or book design, design objects that relate to graphic design, as well as selected striking advertising spots, and works for web design. Many objects come from the museum’s own collection.

4. Cooper Hewitt Design Centre - New York

Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum is the only museum in the nation devoted exclusively to historic and contemporary design. The Museum presents compelling perspectives on the impact of design on daily life through active educational and curatorial programming.

Co-organized by Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum and the Walker Art Center, Graphic Design—Now in Production explores some of the most vibrant sectors and genres of graphic design today. The rise of user-generated content, alternative methods of printing and distribution, and the wide dissemination of creative software, have opened up new opportunities for design. Featuring works produced since 2000, Graphic Design explores the worlds of design-driven magazines, newspapers, books, and posters; the expansion of branding programs for corporations, subcultures and nations; the entrepreneurial spirit of designer-produced goods; the renaissance in digital typeface design; the storytelling potential of film and television titling sequences; and the transformation of raw data into compelling information narratives.

5. Museum of Art and Design

The Museum of Arts and Design (“MAD”) explores the blur zone between art, design, and craft today. Accredited by the American Association of Museums since 1991, MAD focuses on contemporary creativity and the ways in which artists and designers from around the world transform materials through processes ranging from the artisanal to the digital.

Brief 3/ Hand Drawn Style Type

The examples of hand drawn type I have included here are from the book "I Heart Stationery - Charlotte Rivers" 

For my Graphic Design rule book, I wanted to experiment with both hand drawn and digitally created type, to decide which style to use for my book. I may end up using both styles, I think I need to have a play around first and decide what works best, so I've used this book to help me as I create hand drawn type using my quotes. [See blog post]

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Amy Marcella 

These quotes are initially hand drawn and then altered using illustrator. They work well against a plain background. I like how they are decorative and still legible, which is something I need mine to be.

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Me & Amber / Morris & Essex

Some more nice stationery examples that have got me thinking about the choices of stock I need to make.

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Paperfinger / K Is For Calligraphy
These calligraphic styles are quite relevant to some of the decorative type I've been creating digitally, which I'd also like to try and create by hand, to see what works better.

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Meant to be calligraphy and Fig 2 Design / Hello Jenuine

These examples have got me thinking about print finishes I could use to make my type stand out, such as letter pressing and laser cutting.

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Brief 2/ Internet Infographics

I was shocked about how many infographics there are on the internet, about the internet, so I looked through quite a lot. I don't know if I want to go in to infographics, its just a lot of the graphics concerning the internet are shown in this way, so I thought this would be a good way to find designs of the theme I am looking at for my stationery designs, which will help influence my design practice. I've included a few of the best infographics I looked at.

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mbaonline  img

This is a great infographic about a day in the internet, which contains interesting facts, some of which are quite shocking. The visuals are really interesting and mean a lot of information can be delivered in a way which is memorable, and quick to understand through the images. This is my favourite piece of design about the internet and I will consider when I start my designs.

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http://www.businessweek.com/stories/2007-06-10/chart-who-participates-and-what-people-are-doing-online

I really like the pixel style design of this info graphic and this is the kind of style I'd like to try for my designs. This style still looks good and decorative, but the symbols are really easy to understand as they are simplistic. As with all the info graphics I've been looking at, I realise how important colour is for separating out the information.

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http://www.wired.com/special_multimedia/2008/ff_secretlife_1602

I quite like how this info graphic is set out, and the use of colour, although there is a lot of information on one page. I think simple imagery works well in an info graphic as there is so much going on, and I think I will try simple graphics for my stationery designs.

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http://www.fastcodesign.com/1663953/infographic-of-the-day-15-facts-about-the-internet-in-2015

I'm not planning on making a moving image, but thought this one was well made, and I really like the graphics used, especially the typography and how it is all laid out. This is a video that gets you thinking about the internet and how it is used, and I wonder if it is possible to create graphics that get people thinking about the internet. This could be by aiming my target audience to be people who will take the internet for granted as it has always been around for them.

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http://dvice.com/archives/2012/08/image-of-the-da-430.php

Another interesting info graphic about the internet, with simplistic graphics. I like how famous logos and icons have been really simplified down in terms of graphics and colours used, but they are still obvious what they are. I might try creating some graphics like this for my designs.

This is another design where the statistics and information really gets you thinking about the internet and how much and how many people use it. I could possibly create products that are aimed at getting people away from using the internet, and back to old methods of communication, like letter writing.

Brief 2 / The History of the Internet Graphics

I knew I wanted to create a brief about the history of the internet, but wasn't sure what I wanted to create or how so much information could be shown in an organised way. I wanted to find something different to a book or website page. So here are some examples I have come across that are quite clever:
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This is an interesting and engaging way of showing the history of the internet, to people who may not have any knowledge of the subject. The simple graphics stop it from getting too confusing and keep everything looking clean. I wouldn't want to create a moving image but think creating designs with simple imagery could work well to communicate and look good.

History of the Internet from Melih Bilgil on Vimeo.

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https://www.facebook.com/Grovo

A facebook timeline, using the internet to show the history of the internet. I think this is a clever idea and the page is easily accessible to the audience.

Obviously its hard to show a lot of information over a facebook timeline, but key events are covered, and links are given so people can research an area more if they feel like. Its also hard to get across the design so this one is more about the idea than the look.

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evolutionoftheweb

This visual interactive infographic shows information about the world web with the use of colours. The way the colours are shown makes them seem as if they are dancing across the page. The colours all work well together and when layered over each other create blending effects.

I really like this infographic as it shows off data which could be considered boring in a really beautiful, interesting way. If you didn't read what it was about, you wouldn't know all the information was about the internet, but as it looks interesting it draws you in to find out more. I would like to try organising the information I am finding in a way that still is educational, but looks good.

Brief3/ Decorative Type/ Si Scott

An obvious choice to look at when considering decorative type, I wanted to include some of Si Scott's work on my design context blog, which I have appreciated for a while, as type as image is an area I want to focus on. They show His hand drawn letterforms are so detailed I think it would be a real challenge to do something like this and so I would love to try creating something this intricate with pen and ink and then digitally alter it on illustrator.

Brief2/ Stationery Theme: Pixel Typography

Gemma Grainger: Past LCA BAGD Graduate

When thinking about this project, I remembered seeing this set of valentines day cards for graphic designers at a past degree show. I took these photos from the yearbook and think these laser cut pixel font cards are really clever, especially the messages on the front. They were obviously very memorable for me to think about them over two years later!

Looking at this made me think more about Pixel Fonts and I was surprised how many are available from Dafont, so heres a selection of a few. I don't know how I could use them so think it would be good to download a few and have a play around.

Think this pixel typography and images could be a good route to go down, as it would look good, appeal to the target audience and be relevant to the life online exhibition.