Final Place Setting

After Crit I realised my cutlery did not do the set justice. I had used red because it is the colour of all the logos of the newspapers Piers Morgan worked for, and I wanted to introduce red into it as it was mostly black and white. In the end I used fancy silver cutlery and covered the top part in newspaper.. Ill upload more photos later.

Celebrity Come Dine With Me

For our final project we each got a celebrity and had to create a table setting for them. I got Piers Morgan.

I researched him and drew out a few mind maps.. He wrote for The Sun and then became the youngest editor of the News of the World at age 28. He also worked as editor for the Daily Mirror, and launched a children's newspaper called First News. As well as being a journalist Piers Morgan wrote 8 books, won The Celebrity Apprentice in 2008, and was on the judging panel for Britain's Got Talent and America's Got Talent. He also hosts many television shows such as Piers Morgan Tonight, The Dark Side of Fame with Piers Morgan, and Piers Morgan Life Stories where he interviews celebrities.

Concentrating on the journalism side of his life I started collaging newspapers and magazines onto plastic plates. I also did this with cutlery. 

I found an old keyboard at home so took it apart and decided to make something with the keys as they show Piers Morgans career as a writer. 

I painted the Got Talent logo on the inside of the bowl. 

For the plate I got a mirror, to symbolise his work for The Daily Mirror. I then took pictures of sections of a newspaper. I would have liked to transfer this print directly onto the mirror but I couldn't figure that out so I printed them onto acetate and glued them over the mirror in layers.

 For the glass I designed one using a quill pen as inspiration. I made it using the sheets of newsprint acetate.

Letter Heads etc

Typographic ID

I thought that Kieran was quiet, and found him hard to read, so I played around with a few ideas based on these two subjects. I also tried out some ideas using his nickname SEVEN.

I did some research into security text boxes used by the internet to stop machines creating accounts, as must people find them extremely hard to read. So I made up the name using this lettering.

Typographic I.D

Our next project is to design a logo from our partners name. I am working with Kieran O'Farrell.
He is from Kildare and his nickname is Seven or Sev for short. This started when he was in 2nd class for no particular reason. He is tall, about 6ft. He can be described as an introvert, quiet and reserved, and hard to get to know. He describes himself as lazy, sometimes messy, and always seems to be in a rush to get things done. He is an individual person and works better alone rather than in a group. Kieran is an analytical and imaginative thinker. If he didn't go to art college he would have studied architecture, but chose art because it is more fun. He likes going out and is a lot more outgoing at night when he is chatty and loud and has fun.

Manipulation

The second part of the Typography project was to make a series of expressive variations of the letter on A4 paper.

I think that the ones I did by hand were more successful than the ones I made on photoshop.