Our brief was to show weather in a unique and different way. Personally, I found this project to be quite challenging and it was so broad and so vague, therefore at times like this research can be very useful.

I decided to research different artists, such as Daniel Buren and J.M.W Turner as their sculptures and art work focused on the idea of weather and ended up experimenting with impasto paint along the way.


I also researched how weather affects people's mood and found that people of western and eastern countries experience weather differently, as people in the west are happy when it's sunny yet sad when it's raining, while people in the eastern world on the other hand are happy in whatever weather (this however may be because their rain is warmer than ours).

The evidence I found therefore sparked ideas of Chinese styled wordplay, where the word is equivalent to its picture. I then altered this idea slightly while continuing to keep the Chinese writing however making it relate to the senses, which is shown in the picture below.

For the "illustration cover" project, which ended up being my favourite project out of the three, I chose to do a cover for The Economist about the topic of "media control". We were briefly asked to just create a graphic illustration that works within an established format. Personally, I have always been intrigued by the topic of "media control" and so researching it further for my project was very enjoyable and fuelled my interest. The idea process also proved to be easier than the rest of the three projects.

For the "constructed photo" project I picked "sparkle" as I believed it was an interesting and diverse word that could essentially be developed into many designs. The idea was to use photography in order to communicate information. For "sparkle" I decided to focus on eyes as the first phrase that I would think of after seeing/hearing the word was "eye glimmer". Therefore I looked at anime eyes as my inspiration and decided to turn a normal human beings eyes into that of an animes. 

Adding sparkles to normal eyes proved to make them look larger, more awake as well as more innocent looking, which is probably why they are so popular in the animation world.



Finally, for the "hidden treasures" project we were asked to explore London, taking pictures as evidence, and show it's beauty and uniqueness through a different way, by constructing and putting photos that we took while on our journey together.

For this project I decided to combine the "normal everyday thing" with the "fascinating new thing". I did this by using the pictures that I took on my day out in London to create two pictures within one showing the everyday and new, showing the hidden treasures that we have all around us.

For example my design of the costa cup with the picture of the bright sun combines the everyday routine of having a normal drink however adds the new element of seeing a bright scenery.

After researching different topics as well as exploring my interests, I decided to base my idea on movies as I was, and generally am interested in the graphics side of the industry (posters), but more specifically on the idea of movie remakes.

I started my project by researching many different types of movie remakes and their production status and values, which included the budget, box office result, year it was made/released in as well as the country it was originally made in then the country it was remade in. I also researched artists and designers such as Matt Needle, who creates alternative styled posters for many different types of movies, and so this led me onto research the topic of alternative posters as I liked how they were so clean looking and straight to the point, which I hoped my final design to be.