D&AD Monotype - Visual Research
This body of research will add context and influence visual resolution of all the heavy research we have gathered, taking key influence from the physical production, process's, use of typography, layout and other typographic principles as the focus is typographic delivery. Paying attention also to the use of technological and print based process's to work on the idea of analog to digital.
Visual Research
Victor Della Vecchia's work has a robust yet detailed look and feel to his work, focusing on the interaction between photography and type and iconography layout to add a certain delicacy too such robust and cold greyscale images.
His way of presenting all these visual elements aims at creating and adding context too the photographs, this link between content and purpose should be a focus within our outcomes through the use of materials, layout and the overall look and feel and how it relates too the content.
Love the organic use of texture, it supports the robust look and feel but this use of texture could also influence ideas that would benefit the idea of a document if things like grid paper was used.
Visual Research
Victor Della Vecchia's work has a robust yet detailed look and feel to his work, focusing on the interaction between photography and type and iconography layout to add a certain delicacy too such robust and cold greyscale images.
His way of presenting all these visual elements aims at creating and adding context too the photographs, this link between content and purpose should be a focus within our outcomes through the use of materials, layout and the overall look and feel and how it relates too the content.
Love the organic use of texture, it supports the robust look and feel but this use of texture could also influence ideas that would benefit the idea of a document if things like grid paper was used.
The simple alignment of type has a certain document feel too it, important when creating a context and feel of storage as there needs to be a simplicity too it. The format themselves are nice, supporting the industrial architectural feel but this size also has a certain cassette feel.
Working off an idea of invasion and manipulation these abstract and deconstructed posters and publications from ATLAS have a very technological vibe but the deconstructed aesthetic could influence ideas of data invasion, glitching, corruption and in some elements that repeat words ideas of piracy and copyright.
Each print has a consistent feel using the gradients and a deconstructed set of layouts that still feel like they belong together but each print has a varied use of type choices to add context to the content, this is something I want to portray in our outcome, use typefaces within visual manipulations of imager, color and layout that support these typeface choices and the content they communicate.
The use of blurred out gradient marks add color and support the abstract and deconstructed layout but they also seem too fit with the alignment and arrangement, ie the yellow circles fit with the positioning of the type and image elements making everything more structured.
The repeated and manipulated words could replicate ideas of copyright while the warping and the manipulated textures would bring in ideas of how these files can be manipulated or corrupted through the copyrighting process. I like how there is 2 versions too the posters, one with the foreground header type and one with the background type tied in together with a monotone overlay.
One thought of these huge documents would be to print something digital related, like print the the whole of wikipedia and research sources on the internet so to speak? A mass of content repurposed in a print outcome, showing how the mass collection of this data within a virtual space has benefited society not only for ease of access but also for ergonomic and environmental reasons as printing this much content would be impossible to read through and navigate and have a huge financial and environmental impact.
The warped aesthetic and repeated square shape have a pixelated feel and manipulated aesthetic.
Taking influence from format this collation of type specimens and publications all work together within one container, working on the idea that each document has a defined purpose carrying its own aesthetic all contained within a very neutral box/carrier to allow each document to carry its individual concept. This idea of collating together a number of documents that communicate a whole concept will be one of my key focuses.
The use of color within the front covers both contrast and work together while the monochrome photograph adds a visual element too entirely typographic covers.
Theres a nice focus on the individual quality of each typeface, using the color interactions to further enhance the tone of voice of the type, the black and white contrast reflects the delicacy and ornateness of the custom modern serif while the neon turquoise and off set angled vertical alignments of the APPARATUS type supports the idea of this document been a prototype development.
The GEMELI specimen uses layout and the use of space to allow an appreciation of the mono space typeface, allowing a more structured feel within the accurately designed sans serif while the inside cover juxtaposes this with a very organic developed feel through the use of scanning and yellow black duotone. Making it feel like a research file, an important aspect within our outcomes as its a collation of research.
The use of a vibrant file works very well in terms of carrying a type specimen that has modern vibes but the file has very physical and traditional file/archive look and feel.
The repetition of such simple and organic shapes compiled together with a DIY aesthetic merges together the physical and digital, the idea of pick me up is to celebrate print, a physical thing so I feel this digitally repurposed DIY aesthetic has tactility that suits these needs while the inclusion of animation and responsive and interactive type brings it into a digital presence, storing the hands on and physical in a digital and interactive element. Something work exploring.
The black and white scheme allows appreciation of such simple details and references limitations of print within a digital outcome to suit the focus of this been a print event.
http://www.peopleofprint.com/exhibition/pick-me-up-x-studio-hato-design-your-own-letter/
As a process it would be nice to create a digital to physical transition through the use of digital printing and screen printing, adding further detail and direction too a design like this map series with the color overlay on a digital print adding an element of direction.
The use of pastel pink and blue is very nice in a way that it has a contemporary feel a nice way of repurposing a map which is seen as quite traditional and unconsidered when it comes to design. Maybe really consider how an idea of an archive can be given an aesthetic rather than it just been seen as a mass of storage.
The detail of the screen print really adds beauty too the map, it would be nice too ad beauty and detail too glitching and data corruption, creating a very aesthetic focus and added tactility too these random digital errors.
As a process it would be nice to create a digital to physical transition through the use of digital printing and screen printing, adding further detail and direction too a design like this map series with the color overlay on a digital print adding an element of direction.
The use of pastel pink and blue is very nice in a way that it has a contemporary feel a nice way of repurposing a map which is seen as quite traditional and unconsidered when it comes to design. Maybe really consider how an idea of an archive can be given an aesthetic rather than it just been seen as a mass of storage.
The detail of the screen print really adds beauty too the map, it would be nice too ad beauty and detail too glitching and data corruption, creating a very aesthetic focus and added tactility too these random digital errors.
The overlaying of multiple images and observing how they interact together could be seen as a visual representation of combining a mass of research and content together in one outcome, to show the chaos of huge amounts of storage and show how the internet and digital storage devices helps keep this mass of data accesible and organized. A juxtaposition through a chaotic layout.
The use of warping could represent scanning.
Lines for the CRT monitor lines.
Layering to also show data copyright.
Bright tones and textures to support the chaotic feel.
Physical print to bring it all back into a physical artifact.
I really like this idea of random positioning, it works with the idea that glitching produces random effects and suggests an idea of controlling our own glitch based outcomes, the use of this ultramarine blue has a very digital aesthetic while the reversed out type, text box outlines and hyphenations shows technological additions to typesetting. These are going to be important too add ideas of technology too the physical archives we make.
A few ideas on how the format could work, the idea of an archive been repurposed into a publication file as a container for all our research. Consider how certain elements can act as guides, bookmarks, contents etc. Could each format and piece of the document resonate with a different concept delivery of iconic technologies.
This idea of using the clips shows how a file and archive is always constantly changing, allowing more or less files too be added suggesting its not permanently fixed and is progressive. The use of grey tones and the desaturated salmon color works beautifully in terms of creating a very delicate outcome that contrasts with the robustness of the clips and the alternative type alignment that has a certain motion too it that as a whole when all the documents are together works as a complete layout.
The use of typeface is a key focus here, using a traditional serif like the juicery brand could add a contemporary aesthetic too something physical and tactile further supported with organic color stocks and textures that support the feel of the brand been fresh, vibrant and organic.
Merge between the physical and the digital within a print outcome, use visual cues that reference the screen, like a black border seen here, and cues that reference traditional print files like a contents guide.
http://www.trendlist.org/trends/letterspace
This collation of scanned imagery shows ideas that there can be faults within this method of capturing physical documents, again showing a limitation too these hardwares, the scanned in wave could be a physical representation of the glitch to add an element of control or hands on process within glitching. Making me think how a random and abstract effect can be controlled somehow to show how there is still some element of structure and safety within the use of technology.
Aesthetically I like the black background be it in a larger body or a net frame or amore organic edge working with the scanned in document, I feel it shows the digital capturing of the document nice, playing with the organic and straight and structured would allow the emulation of hands on and digital process's.
http://www.trendlist.org/trends/scanned
http://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/romanian-art-director-bogdan-ceausescu-creates-retro-inspired-posters-for-music-and-film-170216
The use of a GIF shows the potential of technologies and use of typography, further represented through manipulated styles from hand drawn type to more vector based interpretations with the inclusion of patterns to add tactility, the patterns included in the edges act as borders and hint towards print registration marks.
As a method of collection of different elements archiving could be represented through the use of patterns and textures, a collation of different styles of patterns and visuals that reference a series of digital and physical stored typographic information.
http://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/ting-an-ho-yi-hsuan-li-nctu-show-140316
http://spin.co.uk/work/spin-made-north
The use of a scanner as a capturing device for storing physical documents into an electronic archive could be repurposed in a design like this, using the scanner to distort content to also reference ideas of data corruption and manipulation while the blue and red color scheme has a very digital aesthetic too it captured within a physical print outcome.
http://designspiration.net/image/22827922717574/
Use a glitch tool with final designed images to show the invasion of data and the manipulation of something through the addition of technology.
This collation of scanned imagery shows ideas that there can be faults within this method of capturing physical documents, again showing a limitation too these hardwares, the scanned in wave could be a physical representation of the glitch to add an element of control or hands on process within glitching. Making me think how a random and abstract effect can be controlled somehow to show how there is still some element of structure and safety within the use of technology.
Aesthetically I like the black background be it in a larger body or a net frame or amore organic edge working with the scanned in document, I feel it shows the digital capturing of the document nice, playing with the organic and straight and structured would allow the emulation of hands on and digital process's.
The oversaturated tones and layering and repeated typography with blocked out morphed elements here show an idea of a glitch, where visual elements have been over exposed, repeated and distorted through a file error but also the textures and use of color have a quite organic feel to reference the physical element.
The use of a GIF shows the potential of technologies and use of typography, further represented through manipulated styles from hand drawn type to more vector based interpretations with the inclusion of patterns to add tactility, the patterns included in the edges act as borders and hint towards print registration marks.
As a method of collection of different elements archiving could be represented through the use of patterns and textures, a collation of different styles of patterns and visuals that reference a series of digital and physical stored typographic information.
As a form of showing the physical too the digital storage, collection and ordering and as a symbolisation of decryption and encryption and corruption of data as a limitation of technology symbolized through the use of hand rendered scribbles, transfering into something ordered and structured. The use of contrasting tone and use of negative and positive space supports this idea of transition.
The use of a scanner as a capturing device for storing physical documents into an electronic archive could be repurposed in a design like this, using the scanner to distort content to also reference ideas of data corruption and manipulation while the blue and red color scheme has a very digital aesthetic too it captured within a physical print outcome.
Use a glitch tool with final designed images to show the invasion of data and the manipulation of something through the addition of technology.
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