1. Task 5&6Using only text, create a poster for the following event. You should decide
which elements are most important and which are the least and select the
size, weight, typeface, colour, positioning and alignment of each piece of
information.
You should create your work on a A4 page. You can change the
background colour of the page but you cannot add any images or other
graphic objects such as shapes or lines.
Fibbers
Broken Arrow, Old Man, Vampire Blues and Southern Man
7:30pm
£5
Friday 13th June
Facebook.com/brokenarrow
Twitter: brokenarrow
5. Using typography, illustrate the meaning of a word using only the word itself.
You can only use letter forms, black on white and only use letters within the word.
This will really test your creativity.
You can/should make many versions.
I have started to create some text using Photo shop as the main programme to use. Realistically I could have used any
program including in design and Microsoft power point, but I decided that Photoshop was the more precise option and
easiest for this kind of task. I decided to use the word ‘bump’. When you think of this word there can be many different
connotations from bruising or bumping a car to hills or anything that sticks out and is not straight. I decided to create my
typography to look like an actual ‘bump’. I did this by creating each letter separately onto different layers in photo shop. This
allowed me to move the letters around individually to create the precise shape. I used lowercase lettering and the font ‘Arial’
as this is the most common and adaptable. You can clearly see the shape within the lettering.
6. Using typography, illustrate the meaning of a word using only the word itself.
You can only use letter forms, black on white and only use letters within the word.
This will really test your creativity.
You can/should make many versions.
Again I have used photo shop as the main tool to creating my typography. I have used the same universal font ‘Arial’ as I feel
this works best as its simple, easy to read and understand and I don’t want my typography designs to look too complex. I
have used the word ‘remove’ and decided to take one of the letters completely out of the word. I decided to take the ‘o’ out
and create a fading effect of it falling out of the word ‘removing’ it. I think this design is creative and describes the adjective
very effectively. To create the fading effect I copied the ‘o’ and made it smaller as I was going down the page changing the
opacity lower and lower each time.
7. Using typography, illustrate the meaning of a word using only the word itself.
You can only use letter forms, black on white and only use letters within the word.
This will really test your creativity.
You can/should make many versions.
The word I have used here is ‘balance’. Balancing is something that you see in everyday life. Weather it’s a person who is
balancing on an object or on their feet it consists of different objects balancing on top or of each other. Here in my
typography design I have decided to ‘balance’ all the letters of the word on top of each other using different angles to make
it more unique and make it look specifically like they are actually balancing. I have changed the sizing of the letters
accordingly such as the ‘b’ is the largest one as it’s the base that the others have to balance on.
8. Using typography, illustrate the meaning of a word using only the word itself.
You can only use letter forms, black on white and only use letters within the word.
This will really test your creativity.
You can/should make many versions.
I have again used the program photo shop to create this design. Here I have used the world ‘flood’. Instead of using separate
letters to create the design I have decided to use the full world here making it look almost like a fall of water which then
gathers at the bottom making the ‘flood’. I have used the font Arial and changed the angle of the word to make it look chaotic
and interesting. In my opinion I feel that this design would have worked better with the word ‘waterfall’. But flooding has the
same kind of concept.
