London Poster

This is a poster, I've done for my FMP

pattern

These are my hand drawn patterns I made for the book.

I used ths patter for the inner side of my cover.

 

This was my second pattern, I traced London artists from southwark,  to make it.

Summary of my first year experience as a Graphic Design Student.

There are numbers of students on our Fda course that already finished ABC Diploma in Graphic Communication last year. They have reason to compare FDA and ABC diploma and think about advantages and disadvantages of both. I am one of those students. I have something to compare this year to.

I started preparing to FDA from the first day of my summer vacation. I was nervous about it because I hadn't been that experienced as other students that applied to that course. ABC diploma was my firs ever experience in arts subject and I felt like blind, deft idiot who should understand stuff she never even heard about. However, the first day on FDA relaxed me and made me feel a little bit better. Darren's phrase ' You are here to study and you shouldn't be a professionals, so, don't worry about your mistakes' made me go to the shop, buy loads of books on typography, Graphic Design and Illustration and try to multiply the university's studying process with my own self education process. I was surprised when we've been told that we will have Personal and Professional Development lessons that will explain to us how to find work, promote ourselves and make a portfolio. My biggest worries were about my lack of professional knowledge so PPD were kind of light in the end of the tunnel.

Creating our own blog was the first step in our ' professional development' plan. Some people were really disappointed about it because we had to just show our project process and that might be boring for public. Everyone wanted to have minute of fame and popularity. My first few weeks of blogging were just about checking statistics, showing some of my works and writing about exhibitions I've been at and something that inspired me in the Internet. I've been photographing every inspiring thing I could see, recording lessons and their outcomes. I realised then, that having a blog, makes me think deeper and look widely to see more things than I usually did.

I wanted to make my blog interesting not only for Fda student, but also for other people surfing in Internet. I tried to show some specialities of my country, like in 'Culture shock 4 U' and 'Some bad views of my city' posts. Also, tried to inform people about something new and interesting in Arts world like in posts about my journey to Frieze Art Fare or  Skin Exhibition. It helped me. I learnt new artists, found new great techniques and websites with great inspirational and informational data which not everyone knows. I wanted to share and I got a good number of views of my blog. I also had a great story related to it. I wrote a post about Dan Attoe and when I woke up next morning, I found more that 100 views of my blog. The reason of that was Dan Attoe's message on Twitter with link to my blog post in it. I was surprised by that. I never expected that someone like him can find my blog site and share it with everyone else.

Blog is very useful in terms of study as well. Studens can absolutely freely share all research information with each other, share our drafts and see what people finally done. Period of the biggest information sharing was during our Final Major Project time. I am not talking for every student, but I honestly tried to share my best research pieces with other people. We had a little bit lack of guidance with our book, so I tried to find book prototypes in the Internet, to show people how it should look like. I found Luca Rosean's online publication of the 'London Through the eyes of a designer' book. People liked it and I felt good for helping them.

I honestly think that blogging helped with self development. I watched so much great projects, techniques and usage of different materials that decided to develop my knowledge further. I started doing tutorials to improve my software skills, started photographing staff I never photographed and so on.I feel much more comfortable after this year and have clear plans for summer, like to do the projects on my own, develop my CV and portfolio and check different agencies in Spain, to know their scheme of work.

Summarising my first year of blogging, I can see, that the most popular posts were about FMP book prototype, post about Dan Attoe and history of Myriad Typeface. People mostly came from Blackboard, Facebook and Twitter. Most popural month were November 2010, when I had more than 350 views.

My plans for the future development are redesigning of my blog. I want to make an introduction image, work on typographical side of my blog and layout. Of course, blog is not a proper portfolio stuff. However it may become popular like ' Blog of Francesco Mugnai'. And the only possible option to earn that is to work hard, watch, hear and collect all interesting information.

Board Game

This is my Board game, based on my life in London:)

Coat Of Arms

I decided to create different coat of arms, with connection to Writers who was born in London, in different areas.

Then I created Coat of arms with London Football Clubs.

And the last one was just a Brick Lane coat of arms

London Landmarks by Dimitra Tzanos

To be honest, I am not the biggest fan of that works. However the concept is quite good. The only thing I dont like is colours. Maybe they are just....obvious??0o

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Live London as a Graphic Designer by Kristina Popila

Very useful in terms of our project. Great, simple and beautiful!

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   Look, Listen, Live London as a Graphic Designer
   Book of the research and ideas observing the city of London
   Wrap-around poster as a dust jacket
   LCC project
   160 x 210 mm
   2010

A Day in the Life of a Graphic Design Student by Rishi Sodha

Amazing research book. Wish I will create something that beautiful once in my life:) ( all comments by author)

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Experiencing London by Dimitra Tzanos

One more piece of my research. Could be inspiring for you:)

"People’s personal experiences can reveal more about a place or space than the single-sided perspectives presented by the media. In Experiencing London personal statements were collected through questionnaires and were then mapped according to location."

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London Brochure by Erin Mercurio

Can be a starting point for someone as well. Check it!!!

"Grid-based brochure about  trip to London, UK in Winter 2009. He was selected as one of 25 students given the opportunity to study abroad and meet with design firms while there.

Wayfinding Project by ShanSan Art&Design

I am still researching and looking different staff for inspiration in my London Book project. Check this one, it is not the greatest thing in the world, but it can b a starting point for somebody:

"Based on the course of MA Graphic at Camberwell collage of Art, University of the Arts London. The subject is wayfinding, a research about finding right direction in life.

Typeface Anatomy by Björn Johansson

I found this project on Behance, during searching for new typefaces to download. Great work and aesthetically beautiful!

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Project: Research Creativity

That's what I found in Internet as a part of my research:

• Research Project - Creativity
  Student Project - SSU
  (Autumn 2009 / Spring 2010)
• The research project is an attempt to give some insight into how creativity works.The first section of the book takes on some definition and functions of creativity, before the book divides into three mini books:
  
  - "The sketchbook" contains short Interviews with 10 creative professionalsfrom different trades, showcasing 
     some of their work and sharing their thoughton creativity (and their thoughts on coffee as a creative fuel)
  - "The Case study" contains a journal and timeline that documents the creativeprocess of me and a
     friend during the D&AD project.
  - "The creative guide" wraps it all up by summarizing the creative techniquesthat occurs most in the
     interviews and the case study.

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Book Design : 3 Minutes

Just for inspiration:

"3 Minutes is the second publication from non-profit organisation Designers Against Human Rights Abuse (DAHRA) and the second collaboration between DAHRA and Tibet Relief Fund.

The premise of the book is to show the full extent of the Tibetan conflict through 10 diverse and extremely powerful 3-minute interviews, each describing the 3 minutes that changed their lives. This idea is reflected in the covers of each booklet, which separately make beautiful abstract covers but together form to make a ‘3’.

Contributors were asked to translate these minute interviews into 16 printed page booklets using primarily typography. The result is a book made up of 10 beautifully designed booklets from some of the world's best designers showcasing considered and stunning typography."

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Seeing London through the eyes of a designer

Guys, this is exact project, we are doing now, done by some of the LCC students before. Wish you will find it useful.

Open publication - Free publishing - More workshops

sketchbook scans of different artists

We all have different sketchbooks, it's different formats : A4, A3, A5 and so on. We have our thoughts in them, ideas, drawings. SO, check out scans of different artists' sketchbooks:

Allen Sutton

Mattias Adolfsson

Laura More Amore

Composition: Dual Formats

Well, yesterday we had our first 2 workshops. One of them was a dual formats with Paul. We were talking about different types of dust jackets that will be a folded poster for our research book. These are some examples of what had been done during the lesson:

"Diary of a very special love" by Patric Sandri

Our FMP project started. we have to make a research book about London. I will discuss it deeply in the future. That's what I found on Behance, as a great inspiration for me. Of course it is not that posh, printed glossy book, however it looks interesting.All works made by Patric Sandri from Switzerland.

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'Crime Time' by Igor Duibanov ( Russian Criminal Tattoo)

228 is the famous paragraph of The Russian Criminal Code (the prime source of Law of the Russia concerning criminal offences). 228 is about illegal asquisition, storage, transportation, manufacturing, processing of narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances or their analogues.

Paragraph 209 is about banditry, gang creation, gang membership

Chain Reactions. Mutual Business. Partners in Crime.