Level 05 EssayReworked essay"To what extent does Japanese modernist graphic design reflect the native particularities of Japanese Culture?"Open publication - Free publishing - More abbas mushtaqLevel 05 PublicationBelow are the individual elements as a PDF, the book element is it's own PDF and the poster section has it's own PDF along with a quick refresh of the book, so you can see digitally pretty close to how the publication is to flick through.Photos of publicationOpen publication - Free publishing - More abbas mushtaqModernism...
Tuesday, 14 May 2013
The poster I chose to recreate in a comment on European and Japanese style is a poster for a movie called Hiroshima, released in 1953. Which in itself I find fascinating as the tone of voice is so informal and dismissive of a horrible catastrophe that happened only 8 years prior.OriginalEuropean recreationThis style is more reminscent of war-time poster design, with it's heavy use of black and white renders with simple colourways and use of space...
Monday, 13 May 2013
PDF of sketches and brainstorming of idea generation and basically just how my mind was working and the thoughts I was having when working through and trying to knuckle down a focus and concept for the publication.The sketches are pretty rough but I feel give a sense of the way I work and visualise design, I find myself writing about how it will look more than actually drawing something, I rarely use colour and instead write the colour - pretty weird...
Saturday, 11 May 2013
Quick mock-ups collating the recreated posters and how they compare against the original_Really enjoyed this and it's pretty much as effective and as much of an application of theory as I hoped it to be. I wish I have time to do more to a decent standard, I planned on recreating 3 examples which means 6 posters so I'm 1/3 there but Monday is my last day to work on this in my time management, so I hope to carry all...
I've recreated the same Pentax but in a Japanese modernist filter, I've again tried to apply conclusions and 'habits' of Japanese design of the 60's onto this design.I've used an odd number grid, 9 by 13, the posters for Japanese design often are heavily weighted at the bottom as this is with a chunk of type on there, Japanese posters were/areh often more image based with the image taking more prominence, I've tried to illustrate a camera lens...
Friday, 10 May 2013
I'm not onto the main and last element of the publication, recreating existing design in both variations of European sensibilities and Japanese sensibilities with my own take and my own conclusions on what I've studied - applied.I feel this is a much more personal statement from me rather than redesigning European work in Japanese style and vice versa, it's more limited and takes away the idea of collaboration and similarities, it makes it seem as...
Thursday, 9 May 2013
Book & TimelineNearly there. Book and timeline element are done and completed to a standard I'm happy with, Not binded and fastened together just yet as in terms of binding it's easy to create holes for binding through all the pieces at once for perfect alignment, doing elements individually can turn into a bit of a nightmare, a hole-punch even a few mm off looks horrible.Pretty close to my mock-up so I'm now ready...
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