Design Museum

Our current project involving type is going to be placed in the Design Museum in London!
I have chosen to do some research into this museum prior to being my project.

http://designmuseum.org/

Here is some of the artwork on display which is very courageous and creative which i feel is good because it allows such a scope for design and expression which I will be looking to stretch to the fullest in this project!

Experimenting with typeface

after researching artist I found my most interests were based around Stefan Sagmeister & David Carson who I will be placing images from research in to this blog!

my artbook contains descriptions and defines why I chose these artists.

Fontstruct

We were instructed to design a font using fontstruct, i have used it before with very little knowledge on www.fonstruct.com

I am going back a step and visiting the blog from there site and going through tutorials.

http://fontstruct.com/news/

My font is based on Jazz & I've done research into  Jazz poster's and thinking how I will express my font!

Typography Research

After researching into the fonts that I found interesting and choosing a main font that I was interested, I chose Futura and after research I found a blog with a great amount of information -
http://idsgn.org/posts/know-your-type-futura/ 


Through Doing my Typography research for the project set for the start of the new year, I have stumble across a blog.

http://ilovetypography.com/ - This is the web page that i found and have been doing a large amount of research through.

I am storing blog on here that I will visit throughout doing research into type ;

http://ilovetypography.com/2012/04/11/designing-type-systems/

http://ilovetypography.com/2010/08/07/where-does-the-alphabet-come-from/

SP1 - Resubmission

I have been researching stephan sagmeister te graphic designer and writing a statement about my findings on his work, his personal work and his lifestyle.

Understanding his lifestyle can help me to understand his thought process and possibly give me an idea of different types of ways to be able to go through a design process which I could attempt and see first hand the different types of processes.

This is the book that I have been reading to do my research in to sagmeister, it has a cover on it that edits the design on the cover of the book which you can see.

In researching stefan sagmeister I done a lot of research through video, for example he has a numerous amount of videos on TED.com which are educational and also inspirational.

 After visiting TED.com and then searching 'stefan sagmeister'...

 These are a list of the videos that I have watched on him on the TED website, I have written about a couple of the videos that in my statement about stefan in some more details.

 

Below I have listed all of the  links to all of the videos that can be viewed via TED.com :

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/stefan_sagmeister_the_power_of_time_off.html

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/stefan_sagmeister_7_rules_for_making_more_happiness.html

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/stefan_sagmeister_on_what_he_has_learned.html

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/stefan_sagmeister_shares_happy_design.html

Creating Letterheads

After simplifying the logo I decided to keep the letter head simple I produced a lot of different designs.

here's the process that i took to make the letterheads using indesign.

here is the 1st design that I did for the letter head.

first business card that I designed using a different size, I made them smaller in height and keeping the same length to give it a good effect, the only reason i may not do this is because they would not show if they were placed in a wallet!

even though i think this would be better, so I will keep experimenting!

(front)

(back)

Below are some idea's of business cards.

Letterhead Research

I downloaded this Letterhead Book which holds designs of letter heads, I have selected a couple that I like and would like to assess before designing my own.

this is one of my favourite, it is very well designed as well as simple. It is expected to be good as it is designed by sagmeister who is a very well known graphic designer, and one of my favourite designers.

this is a example, of how I could use different types of paper and use different tones!

I like this one because of the simplicity of it and the way that they use the white space.

this is also a good one because of the simplicity and also how they have separated the logo and the address.

here is a stationary suite that has used the the centred theme throughout all of the stationary items.