INTRO: Semiotics - The Study of Sign

Icon - Something that resembles the actual object it represents

Index - Where the signifier and signified are 'linked'

Symbol - Where the viewer has to learn the connection between signifier and signified.

Context - Where, when and by whom a sign is viewed.


Using this in groups we were tasked with turning a basic fairy tail into road icons to retell the story (in our case we chose Cinderella). At first we wrote out the basic story in order, shortened to the key points to give us a starting point.

























With that we then turned each key line into an image to see what we had to work with in terms of scale and action going on within the story.

























Since we were tasked with using road signs we decided to try and keep the story as close to original road signs as possible to tell the story. Such as we didm;t want to make out own signs with the basic of what the original are. Such as triangle signs are mainly warnings, square inform and circle order.

And here if our final story. Due to timing we didn't have enough to add every signs as a road sign as such had 2 one with the glass slipper and the slipper being picked up. But overall the story really worked. We used motorway signs to give a sense of travel while the dance a walking stop sign. It really worked and people were able to determine what story it was when prompted to guess.

Protest - Daily Project

For today instead of working on our normal projects. We were set with the task of making a protest out of something that matters to us. For me this was internet privacy as such i started out by making posters for this issue.

Edit (12:10) With that I then started to go around the university and stuck the posters onto computer screens to raise awareness about the matter.

Edit (12:38)

Thief plays // Privacy

Would you tell a friend you’ve lost your keys?

Would you tell a stranger your phone number and email address?

Would you walk around shouting about your previous relationships?

Would you store your bank / credit card details on a billboard?

Do you know who is really collecting what you post online?

Edit (14:57) Poster time

Edit (16:30) Instead of posting the posters on all the computer around the campus we went to work learning how to use the Vinyl cutter and make a set of stickers using our campaigns hashtag #WhoseWatchingYou

Complete.. for now.

Editorial Design

For this brief I was tasked with designing a 16 page documents showcasing different forms of design from pc to mobile and print. This would include a Double page spread, a responsive design mock up, a storyboard as well as a set of scrolling device designs.

Follow Harry's board Swiss Design on Pinterest.

During the first week of this brief I set to work researching what was already out their and getting my head around the layouts off different mediums that were used. Such as how newspapers layout their stories but then how the same story was shown on their own website.

Follow Harry's board Publication / Layout on Pinterest.

Following this the next week I started to jot down my different ideas and working them out. As such taking some of the ideas into photoshop and illustrator to work with them. This including doing some photo manipulation to see if I could craft something from photos already out their and also to creating my own images from scratch such as tennis and baseball pitches.

 

With the main focus being on a sport I went with tennis as I had a firm grasp on the rules and environment which made the ideas much easier to work with.

Double Page Spread:

Scrolling Devices:



Responsive Design:

Storyboard:


Reflection:

I enjoyed making this multipage document, I found working on my own little zine to be really interesting and engaging especially when I started to do a side project away from this using my own photos and working them into play.

As for this piece based on swiss design, I found the overall completion okay. I wish I had more time and ideas around the sports based medium in which I had to design with. Due to this I feel my design work in Illustator and photoshop fell a little flat, as I don’t think I was doing the Swiss Design justice as I could tear into the stripping away of elements of the game of tennis without losing the sense that it was still tennis being represented.  However I feel the storyboard and horizontal scrolling devise do really work with this style, I just wish that idea could have been seen throughout all of my designs. Given another chance I’d like to try more type styled designs and move away from the over thinking of the game I was working with.