My Task 2 design brief experience has honestly been a very confronting and challenging time. Particularly with lecture demos being online, untrustworthy internet with zoom tutorials and the complexities of adobe. However, I overcame them all and I am satisfied with the outcome of my design booklet. I initially intended for my booklet to be…

Queen Victoria – Victoria Regina source Queen Victoria’s monogram served its purpose as it still appears locally in the streets of Britain today. The monogram was a symbol of Victoria Regina herself, it is a mark to determine her domain in addition to her power. The significance of possessing a royal cypher pivotal to being…

Erik Speikermann is a famous designer/typographer that aims to “make communication more open and visible”. He enjoys being the ‘unknown’ designer of artworks that are exhibited around publically, his designs are dedicated to easing the barrier of audience and artist in communication. Communication is meant to be direct and simple. Image source  In Speikermann’s artwork…

Paula Scher Paula Scher’s work was a response in rebellion to the typical graphic design parameters she was led to study. Scher was inspired by the culture of the city, and decided to engage in a practice of work that uncovered the linear, typographical and compositional designs that could represent the atmosphere of city culture….

The postmodern and pop art movements were instrumental to the current day graphic design trends, from inspiring the use of pop culture images to the very decor detailed in our houses. Postmodernism evolved from the 1940s-1960s, reaching its influential peak in the 1980s. Postmodernism strove to diverge from the rules and barriers of Modernism, which…