Typography

Instagram is a great platform for poster design, with design platforms like Slanted and It's Nice That, constantly sharing new works from editorials. Additionally the 365 poster challenge - where a person designs a new poser every day for a year - is another craze that allows constant exposure to new and exciting graphic design productions on social media. Paying attention to what's getting out there, allows me to form my own tastes and build off the compositional ideas I have, as well as find the newest typefaces and trends. 

Below are some of the works that were shared with me online, where the type choices really stood out to me. The techniques range vastly in style and as such have a very different tone of voice, from more loud and neutral, to relaxed waves, harsh corners, and time specific (the logotypes are a lot more stylised as they have a much stronger sense of purpose to one thing and thus would not be used for a body of text).

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Taking inspiration from the posters and ways type had been used, I wanted to experiment with my own imagery the ways type and image can be used together productively. Using a mixture of photographs and old work, I delved into Photoshop to practice some poster design. The focus was on the words acting as images themselves, and ways to mirror the styles explored prior but with my own edge. 

I then wanted to test out moving image for use on online platforms. This gif poster combines various layers to create the glitch effect. Taking collages into the technological age in this way is great practice for the progression of my practice, as design for screen becomes more and more popular.