Type as Image - Development

Futura

Georgia

Type as Image - Development

Letters printed out in large scale Georgia Italic and then traced around onto the coloured paper. The colour are meant to indicate youth to mark a contrast against the statement of 'As we get older'.

Type as Image - Development

The idea for this poster came almost instantaneously. It's simply illustrating the quote through the layout of the text on the page. I think the chunky 'Rockwell' typeface is currently looking the most suitable in which to advertise the quote. I'd really like to screen print this design if I have the time during the week.

 Rockwell

 Gill Sans Bold

Geneva

Verdana

Univers

Type as Image

Brief :

Select three quotes carefully from the given articles (each quote must come from a different article) and visually communicate them using only the text in which they are written. No additional images are permitted.

My 3 quotes :

- Just in case you're keeping score
- Check their emotional status or Virtually none
- As we get older

Editorial Image - Final Resolutions

Editorial Image - Final Resolutions/Feedback

- Strong range of imagery using multiple media such as hand drawn, photography, type etc.

- A thin black stroke is needed to define the area around the illustrative images as the background is too similar to the newsprint stock.

- Really good use of colour on the hand rendered illustrations. Has a nice line quality and flat colour fills.

- The type image - 'happily ever after?' is a little too overpowering and distracts from the title of that particular article.

- Good use of space in the Tim Dowling article - and I've managed to incorporate two themes from the text through the swear jar and sad face sticker.

Editorial Image - Development

For two of the articles, the supporting images I have produced are hand-rendered illustrations. The 'Doctor-Doctor' article was based around personal questions sent in from readers and I thought that something drawn by hand would reflect this aspect. Below is the original sketch I did of; a glass of water, a box of tissues and some paracetemols - this was meant to link directly to one of the questions asked by a reader about the common cold. 

The other drawing was of a swear jar which featured in the Tim Dowling article and I thought that this was one of the strongest parts of his column that provided a strong enough visual aspect. I also did a smaller drawing to compliment the swear jar of one of the sad face stickers that the journalist talked about which helped to fill the space of the awkward given shape.

The fineliner sketches were scanned in and then filled with colour on Photoshop to leave a clean and simple illustration with delicate lines and pleasing flat colour areas.