Amnesty International Brief

Our next project is a brief for Amnesty International. For this we need knowledge on the kind of things that Amnesty do around the world and the work they do for different causes.

This gives me the chance to do some real research into
Amnesty, and looked into all the different ways of
approaching the brief.

The Brief is to raise Amnesty's profile and create a higher awareness of their work. The target audience is people who rarely or never donate to charity and to encourage all ages to support the work that Amnesty International do.

Book Binding

For one part of the course we try bookbinding. Hannah showed us examples of her work, which was very good and demonstrates many different ways of binding pages and creating covers.

The first book we made was made from card scored on the folds and then joined together with tabs. The larger the card and the number of folds determines the amount of pages in the book. This technique is simple and a very effective way of creating a book. This technique is known as the Circle Accordion.

The next type of binding we tried was Japanese Stab Stitch. This involved cutting a back cover from card, then cutting another piece the same size. With the front cover you have to cut a piece off the end and subtract 2mm for the join where the book opens. Once you have all your pages cut, you clamp the book together and punch the holes for the stitch. With all the pages and covers lined up, you stitch through the holes until it is secure. La Voila!

Type & Tape/What the duck!

Here's the final piece from our type & tape brief which was to make a typeface using tape.
We decided to create a typeface that was to be used outside and could be used on a large scale.
We tried a few different characters to see if the style would work across
the board.
I think this worked out well and from a distance this looked like it was actually painted on.

I enjoyed this brief and it was good experimenting
and realizing that a multitude of materials could
be used to design type.

Roman Cieslewicz

Here is some work by the Polish designer Roman Cieslewicz. He was a fine artist and specialised in poster and display designs. He has some amazing examples on hand rendered typefaces and loads of examples of different methods of printing.

http://www.poster.com.pl/cieslewicz.htm
http://www.theartofposter.com/romancieslewicz.htm

Some Photos.

Here's some photos I took this weekend. I wanted to try a few different things in photshop playing around with levels and colour correcting.

Clive gave me a few tips last week on painting in colour from the bottom layer with black & white so I tried that on a couple of photos.

I am going to try and take and edit 10 photos week. So I can try different ways of masking and different ways of adjusting them in photoshop.