Monday 29th October

Today was the first day of Visual Communication Design.

The first big of the session was going through the brief, understanding what we are going to be doing for the new two weeks in terms of book binding, and creating a book from out manifesto and 10 designs. I thought this really helped understand what is expected of me for the oncoming weeks, and the one cut book that we created with all the information we needed, really helped me over reading week when I looking at graphic design, and what the subject was about.

After the 45 minute talk about the brief, we were asked to go the library and research 10 artists and 10 different end papers. The end papers that I found were from the library and these are the following:

scan_96635918_2018-10-29-10-30-15scan_96635918_2018-10-29-10-29-52scan_96635918_2018-10-29-10-21-21scan_96635918_2018-10-29-10-20-52scan_96635918_2018-10-29-10-20-02

These are links, I am not sure how to include the actually images.

These are some of the book ends that I found on Google:

I liked the above end papers because they seemed so detailed, and this meant it would of took a very long time to actually create them, especially if they were using Lino.

These are the 10 artists that I found:

After we starting design a logo to use for our end paper, I got some rough paper to practise some designs on what I was actually going to do:

The scribbles are actually blind drawing. I learnt this technique during the experimental stage and I actually loved it. It follows my manifesto about not thinking about what I am drawing, and just look forward to what it may bring.

This is my process of the Lino Cutting:

My Lino was actually supposed to be portrait, but I decided it looked better landscape, and when I looked, the Lino cut actually looks like an ant and I really loved that because it was unexpected and was done accidental through my blind drawing.

Tomorrow session is going to be Lino Printing which I am really looking forward to. I haven’t overthought the process yet, and I am really proud of myself because I am following my manifesto, the way that I was supposed too.