Sonnets

This is one of the Shakespeare Sonnets. Ans I took photo's for this sonnets as a sonnet in Cumbria very aerly in the morning (4.00am).

Flatter the mountain-tops with sovereign eye,
Kissing with golden face the meadows green,
Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy;

Andy Warhol & Nat Finkelstein

Andy Warhol

This is showen at the Tate Modern. London.





Warhol's own musing on the mechanisms of fame, the universal and instinctive.



Nat Finkelstein

Finkelstein entered Andy Warhol's Factory as a journalist and remained for three years. His photographs from this period are now regarded as some of the most iconic of the time.

Mexican Prints British Museum

Exhibition the first in Europe to focus of Mexican printmaking of the 20Th Century. During the 1910 and 1920s the social revolution that aimed to change the ruling class and improve conditions for the society. Art was used to published the importance of the revolution.








These are amazing book covers using limited colours. There is a similar style of Bauhaus.



Hand-crafted style again using limited colours.





What I really like is the folder, Simple layout and stunning typography, has a Macintosh style as well.



This is a well known Mexican style prints. Using skeletons and death.
Disturbing and quite dark.

Alan Fletcher

Alan Fletcher: Fifty years of graphic work (and play)

Known as 'Britian's' best ever graphic designer from the Observer. His work is shown at The Cube Gallery in Manchester.





Simple and cleaver ideas (equal rights) and very colourful. Design looks very fun and child like.







Witty and very personal style. His work is very modern today.

Power point design context

This is a power point presentation what Im wanting to do on my design contexts.

smadani

These are the styles and stock paper I am at for my booklet school answers. Making it fun and quirky fits with the quirky answers.

The full stock makes more interesting and makes it stand out more with the bright bold stock.

Having a typography in the centre looks simple but should be used with a purpose.

www.smadani.com

Mustard Design

This is a simple design using bright block poster. Using just the beginning of the letters this could be making it more catchy. The bright coloured typography separates the black smaller typography smaller with the information.

http://www.mustarddesign.co.uk

suzywire tumblr

This is the idea I am looking for as a style and concept for my Shakespeare's sonnet using typography over image and had a romantic fell very organic and about nature.

This has a hand render typographic and matches with the photographic imagery with the dull murky tones.

The photography imagery suits the description it looks like you are looking up at the sky lying on your back.

This actually reminds of the new film where the wild things are,

This again has a magical the trees in the mist.

http://suzywire.tumblr.com

Marks and Spencers

At the Marks and Spencer gallery in the Leeds Uni showed the history of the store and also its changes. This was a perfect look at primary research for looking old design to try and make country cakes have a vintage retro look.

This is the vintage version logo for the Marks and Spencer logo for the exhibition. Seems that having this old fashion style logo all connects to having circles.

This is a booklet shows what they sold and show how out dated they are.

These posters are a great example using a cheap and chearful concept, using limited colours and in very basic design. This is makes it look like a vintage style.

Shakespeare Primary Research

I went to the Shakespeare Globe theater I collected information about Shakespeare the tools and equipment they use to keep close to the history.



Got slightly wet it doesn't have roof! But the stage is stunning with marble effect painted on wood. Reds, golds and green gives it a rich luxury colours.





Inside the Globe Theater has a fantastic huge space and the tour guide explained that the used the same materials would of been used 400 years ago. The stage at the top of the ceiling is ment to represent heaven and the stage is earth and underneath the stage is hell(a bit of a interesting fact).



This is the amazing costumes used in the plays still set at the shakespeare time 400 years ago. The costumes are very theatatical and use exspensive materials like silk and used deep colours to show wealth usualy reds and purple would be used to show money roylatiy at that time. This will be looked at further for styles and colours for the sonnets reflect on this.



But also has an organic hand randered effect. Using what was used around them.





This is an example in the theater showing one of the sonnets but not as orignals. It has used an main image to contain on the subject mater involving the type of leaf. Also used calligraphy typography to show it age relating to Shakespeares history. But I like the use of ripped edge paper give more of an age to it.





Calligraphy typography splashed ink and smudges also give it a hand render fell just as the costumes and props used on the stage.



This is a postcard I bought from the Shakespeare Globe gift shop this is used in the same style but using bright colours makes it more modern and would attract younger audiences