Creativity & Play Portfolio

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Unpredictable Breaking out of the mold of patterns can often lead to interesting visuals. The journey that a rough pencil sketch takes can often surprise and result in a ‘gem’ of an idea.

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BA (Hons) Graphic Design UCA Epsom 1st Year Student

Transcript of Creativity & Play Portfolio

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Unpredictable

Breaking out

of the mold of

patterns can often

lead to interesting

visuals.

The journey that

a rough pencil

sketch takes can

often surprise and

result in a ‘gem’

of an idea.

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Why do you always wear black?

By working with magazine cut outs and collage, the idea

here was an abstract story telling, beginning with a heavily

constructed, protected feel which mimics the idea of being

afraid to step out of the safety of black.

As it progresses, colour is included and more empty space, as

the story ‘lets go’ of it’s fears and embraces it’s inner beauty.

Word Collage/Representation

With a chosen word, a three part collage was made out of an image, a letterform and a shape.

An image of the word was considered for each element. A diagonal positioning was chosen to

add more sense of movement and speed.

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Paper typeface

Working with limitations, a typeface inspired

by folding and tucking same sized pieces of

paper to form letterforms.

Inspiration taken from origami and shadow

type.

Paper Experiments

Observing and experimenting with the material texture by creasing and folding, as well the

effects created by the paper when exposed to light.

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Making a pinhole camera

The recorded process of making a pinhole camera for the

second time, as the first had many issues. Extra care was

taken to ensure that the pinhole was of the correct size, as well

as reducing potential light leaks by using tape effectively.

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Memory: Digital and Pinhole photography

Working with the theme of Memory, a decision was made to record my

local park which has changed recently, but still remained a core part of

my childhood. The digital photos show a near perfect capture, whereas

the pinhole photos are abstracted and vague. This was likely a result of

not being careful with protecting light leaks. The pinhole photos I found

represented memory in a more personal sense, as I hardly reccognise the

park from what it once was.

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Unpredictable

Breaking out

of the mold of

patterns can often

lead to interesting

visuals.

The journey that

a rough pencil

sketch takes can

often surprise and

result in a ‘gem’

of an idea.

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Typographic Animated GIF

Iniitally researching into the forms of letters and what they could

represent, I opted to create a GIF that shows the personalities

and social conflicts that they suffer. In this case, the growing

contempt that Comic Sans has against Helvetica!

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Categorisation infographics

Composition ideas taken from the angles in a room’s corner. Coloured lines

help to differentiate the owners and opacity is used to show the frequency of

item usage.

Categorisation infographics

With all the mess in my living room, what better place to source and

produce an infographics?

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Creatives Playground

Using just 5 cardboard boxes, our idea of an interactive design involved triggering the 5 key

senses of our bodies, from touch to sight.

By taking the users on a fun journey of play, our intention was to trigger both shock and

pleasure, keeping that element of surprise with innuendo and curious phrases on the boxes.