Graphics Weekly Review

I really enjoyed the Graphics week, especially how we explored the idea of graphic image and graphic font. Creating faces from other images on the first day was my personal favour thing to do as it was an interesting area to explore and also makes me question the idea of beauty in society. It was interesting to see how similar all the women's features look when you take their faces apart, it was also interesting introducing text to support the image. We then went on to explore font, I enjoyed experimenting with different materials to look for inspiration to create our own font. I used a messy pieces of string to inspire my font, this lead my font to very soft and loopy. This font lead me too look at Marian Bantjes work, where she conbindes font and patten to create a strong graphic image.

I pertically found watching the Milton Glaser -point video interesting as he discussed graphics and art, this lead me too at the May 1968 strike posters and their bold and graphic images, this made me think of work done by Barbara Kruger as like the strike poster the use of a bold image and font are used together to make a powerful statement. This lead me to want to use image and font together for my final poster which we created on day three.

I think I enjoyed exploring graphics as graphic work always had a direct link with the public and is one of the only art forms that is constantly taking in by people almost subconsciously