Critical Roles

Graphic design is often used to portray a strong message or 

opinion such as properganda, political and ethical campaigns. 

In this brief we were given a news arlicle with which we had to 

form an opinon or take a stance and reflect it in a peice of 

graphic design.

The news article I had to reflect on was the Prince Harry ‘Paki 

scandal’ with which I explored many aspects of racism and 

equality campaigning. However my final piece became more 

of a critisism of how the media twist and exaggerate minor 

storys to manipulate readers views. 

Taking 4 major front page headlines, and censoring them so 

that only key descriptive words were left visible highlighted 

the medias clever use of repeated words and descriptions 

for an over dramatic effect. 

Hybrid In Print

When given the theme of hybrids i decided to explore it through 

printed techniques. Researching the wide topic of hybrids i 

decided to focus on hybrid mythological creatures. 

During the length of the project i attempted many different 

printing techniques including a range of etchings, lino prints 

and photographic eatching and really enjoyed the effect that 

they producted.

Sense Of Place

For the sense of place project we had to gather and record as 

much visual information from a specific location as possible, 

including taking pictures drawings and collecting ephemera. 

After all visual research had been collected our brief was to 

product a piece of graphics which portrayed that sense of 

place by adopting its styles and attributes. 

My location i researched was the south bank district of london, 

and within my piece focused on the aspects for which southbank 

is known including the arts specifically graffiti, skater culture and 

music. 

My final outcome became a screen printed collage, as i felt the 

medium was very appropriate to the location and gave a great 

sense of place. 

Grid Systems

As a graphic designer I know that the grid is an important structural 

guide within all aspects of design. By using the UCA campus as 

inspiration we had to find a grid system and use it as the foundations 

for a piece of design work. 

When studying the structure of the UCA building I noticed that it was 

made up for many different grid systems. This inspired me to produce 

a series of postcards for the UCA using the grid systems from different 

structural aspects of the building to advertise the college and the 

graphic design course. 

The postcards I designed also had an interactive element where each 

architectural aspect could be slotted together to form a three 

dimensional structure.  

Menu Magazine

The brief for this project was to design a magazine with a given tone 

and theme. I recieved the tone ‘loud’ and the theme of ‘restaurants’ 

and persued an investigation into loud aspects of resturants including 

noise level, loud design, boldness in food and vibrancy in atmosphere. 

My final outcome was a magazine called MENU which guided you 

through a loud resturant experience, placing emphasis on bold and 

bright design throughout. 

Magazine Design

As a two week introduction to a magazine project, we were given a 

number of random objects as well as text and image to create a 

visually interesting piece with the strict guidelines of it being an 

A4, 8 page magazine.

The material i had to work with included plastic cups, the cover

image from the book Atonement, an interview, a dull landscape 

image and the letter A from a printing press. 

As a graphic designers role is to make information visually 

interesting, this task really tested the skills of arrangment 

and styling to produce a coherant and asthetically pleasing 

peice out of found objects.