December 2015 – Page 2 – Luke Halstead

December 11, 2015Luke Halstead No Comments

Testing Out Potential Designs

Taking inspiration from my mood boards, I decided to try out different, quick ideas for the final design. I knew that I wanted to aim the design at older students; perhaps from 18-20. This meant that the infographic would focus more on text, rather than images, to deliver the information. Here are the designs I came up with:

After that, I decided to look at text combinations a bit. Here are some of the combinations I came up with:

As I stated before, I knew I wanted to aim the design at students and that I wanted to give the infographic a darker and more serious aesthetic. At least, I though I did. After messing around with different font combinations – I decided to drastically change my approach. I still wanted it to be focused at the same demographic, but I decided I Wanted to make it more fun and less aesthetically boring. I decided a font based off chalk would be a good idea – it wasn’t too goofy, but at the same time, it was interesting to look at

December 8, 2015Luke Halstead No Comments

Real Life Uses For “Barcode”

The font is not subtle. I feel like this is not just a font you could have at the bottom of the page; this is certainly a very “artsy” font. The kind of things I feel this font could be applied to include modern and minimalist style pieces of media. Here are some examples where I feel this font could shine:

This poster was designed for an imaginary art festival in Paris. The design is very inspired by the modernism movement – it involves a lot of straight lines and bright, bold colours. Like I said before, the letters are big and bold, not subtle or hidden. Personally, I like the bottom part of the poster. the mix of black and grey give the “GEL!” a shine to it, making it stand out more. These two colours with the font could be used for the important parts of information.

This is the design I made for an album cover. Again, another simple design where the font is the main focus of the piece. The cover only features two words: “monohaze” and “toon”. I tried to make this more obvious by changing the colour of the font for each word. However, after asking people, it was still hard to tell that there were two rather than three words. Considering “monohaze” is a made up word though created by combining two existing words, I’m not too bothered by this.

This is a shopping brand and logo for an imaginary store. Used in this style, I can see the font being some kind of very expensive and high quality fashion store; certainly one for women, rather than men. however, I do not think this is purely due to the font, I think the way the font is positioned and the the colour scheme I’ve use does play a major part in that feeling.

I decided togo further with the bag idea and made a box for the fragrance, which could potentially be made by the same made up brand. I also updated the logo a bit to suit the design a bit more.

December 7, 2015Luke Halstead No Comments

Research into Infographics

In this post, I will be looking various bits of research I did to prepare for the infographic.

Source: infogr.am

This is an infographic I made using an automatic infographic creation service. It involved taking images and graphs from a pre-made list and inserting them onto the graphic. I could change the values on the graphs, change the order of the elements and alter the titles and quotes, but that was it. I couldn’t even change the colour scheme or font. The rest of the features were hidden behind a pay wall.

Below are a few mood boards I developed to help inspire me for my design.

These are infographics I found while searching all over the internet; using various sites such as Reddit and Pinterest.

This mood board focuses more on the Relativity part of the brief. I knew I wanted to make it in a blackboard style, so I complied relevant images to help me come up with ideas.