I have compiled a selection of mood boards to help me further exploration into imagery, and use as reference. My first one is about exploding clocks. I have found imagery that contains the short of content I want to be looking at. Lots of different parts of clock gears and cogs. Some are tattoos, some … More Moodboards
To kick this brief off, I needed to find out the meaning of Wisdom, the quality of having experience, knowledge, and good judgement; the quality of being wise: I have always believed that wisdom comes to a person through time. As the saying goes; the wise old man. Experience is gained through a lengthy time … More First thoughts of wisdom
Creating my portfolio was fun! For page layout and grid purpose I decided upon a 2X2 grid system. I chose this layout due to it allowing up to four landscape images max, without the images being too small, also allowing me to add a larger image on either side portrait or landscape, this allowed me … More Portfolio Curation
I have a clear image in mind of what I would like my portfolio to look like. As a great contrast, black and white always works, there’s no doubt about it. With added splashes of colour, I think this will always grab attention to the reader. So, to create my portfolio I needed to look … More Portfolio Investigations
During my time at Richmond Primary school, I have learnt a lot about career choices. Teaching as career has always been something I always thought I’d be good at. I have patience for people learning, and I feel I have good people skills in order to communicate something correctly, calmly, and politely. Working with children from … More Internship placement – Feedback
To further my typographical illustrations, I have been thinking about how to reproduce them for selling purposes. The book alone is a nice collection for them to all sit along side the descriptions of mental health. To make the prints themselves into a product for people to buy will be a nice addition to this project. I … More FMP – Research – The School Of Life
Types of mental health is the name I have given to this project. The name is a play of words which signifies a few things: I have been producing illustrations using letterpress, to try and produce an uncontrolled, irrational, and confusing pieces of artwork, which I am trying to illustrate the feelings of Mental Health problems … More FMP – Types Of Mental Health
Along with a CV and a Portfolio for self promoting, there must also be a business card, Details card, in order to give away so someone has a little piece of you to remember by when needing some artwork or creative service. For my business card, I got my Graphic Designer hat on and set out … More Business card business
Back in the letterpress lab for even further experimental letterpress typography. I have been using the term illustrative letterpress this week, so perhaps that is what I should be calling it. Anyway, on my previous post I spoke about trying to use words associated with Mental Health and using them to further some unusual thinking, and … More FMP- More More Letterpress
Letterpress is something I never thought i’d be interested in, but my latest designs have shown me that it is something to venture into more. I am not using letterpress in the conventional sense, I am almost ‘potato printing’ if you will, but my results are proving really hopeful. In terms of results, I am … More FMP – More Letterpress
James Notarianni 