- What is a Line -

Here is the final poster printed on tracing paper.Here is the final book with the wooden book cover.
I used hinges to allow the wooden cover to open.
Title page.

Two exerts from the book to show the drawings.


Here is the Title i designed, i made it so the was just a continual line, going with the theme what is a line. I then used the laser cutter to emboss it.

Here is the final composition for the objects, i tried to get them as close as possible with out touching, it was like a very hard jig saw with out the picture to reference.

I arranged all the drawing into size order although it looks organised i felt it was visually appealing enough.

Here are all the individual drawings scanned in spaced out equally on two pages.

Evaluation - I am pleased with this what is a line project. I really enjoyed doing illustration because we don't do that much on the course. The final poster works well because there is a lot going on and you can l can spend time looking at all the detail. I would of perhaps changed the paper that i printed on, i choose tracing paper because you can put in on different surfaces and it gives it a different quality whether its on wood or a white wall. But i think it would of worked well on a good quality white thick stock so the black line drawing would look crisp.

The book turned out well too, the wood has a sturdy and professional quality to it although i am not that pleased with the laser cut title on the front, i would of preferred it if it was less subtle

- Book Fair -

Final poster unfolded from the hot dog fold.Poster folded up with the belly band

Here are the 20 posters folded up together.

After experimenting with different hot dog folds i thought that a poster would be most appropriate for my idea.

Evaluation - I feel that the poster is visually appealing and goes well with my theme of circles. If i could of changed anything i would have made the back of the poster more exciting, by adding a title or an arrangement of circle shapes. This is because when folded up it looked blank and boring and because it was in a bellyband and it was next to all the other books/posters people weren't inclined to look at the inside.

- Book Manipulation -

We manipulated the book in a wat that related to the book its self. My book was a French language book so i cut the shape of France right the way through it

- Circles -

We then had go do the same process but with more constrictions, mine where

- All out side

- Situated in the middle of the frame

- Man made

Here are the best 25 .

We formed groups and went out into college, our focus was 'Circles' we tried to standardize the photos with half the circle in the photo graph on the edge. Think it we could have done this better because some of them are in the middle and on different sides of the photo. Here were our 113 attempts...

- Colour Theory -

The red stripes laid upon the yellow and the orange show how the yellow card makes the red seem more vibrant than the red on the orange card which blends better.The white stripes on the black background are more vibrant than the red stripes
The red square on the the blue looks very bold...
But when a black background is added and a white square placed on top the red looks much duller and less important.
Different colours can give different degrees of urgency. For instance the fourth arrow (blue arrow on green background) doesn't seem that important as the one next to it which is white with a red background.

- Colour Theory -

First we laid out all our coloured objects in a a circle of hue.
We then gathered a few objects from our colour and its complimentary colour, in our case it was blue and orange.

These pictures show how darker orange objects can change the original orange to make out it out to be a lighter shade of orange.

Here are the blue objects on its complimentary colour orange and vice versa. The colours of he objects seem more vivid when put on their complimentary colour.

The same applies to this picture, the side of the blue lid thats on the orange background pops out more than the the blue background.
The blue lid doesn't pop out as much on the yellow as the orange because its not a complimentary colour but it still is vivid because it is a primary colour.

Here is a blue lid placed on a dark blue background, it appears dark..

The same lid placed on a lighter blue background appears to have a much higher luminance.
These are 2 orange plastic bags which are exactly the same colour. The bag on the orange background appears much darker than the bag on the red background.


The same 2 bags are placed in a different way. This time the bag on the red background appears to be darker than the bag on the yellow background.

- VIsual Language -

- Colour Theory -

We were asked to bring in 10 coloured objects (mine was blue) then we were put into groups of colour and asked to arrange our objects in a systematic way. We decided to arrange them in a linear line going from where the chromatic value gets less. Dark to light blue.

We were then told about Pantone (the worldwide colour library) we then selected 10 objects and matched them to the colours in the Pantone booklets.

Here are all the objects layed out with the Pantone codes.