The Perfect Setting!

So here it is my final poster! For my first attempt at creating a poster and working on photoshop I am really happy with the result. (I did make some minor adjustments after this like changing font size but this is basically what it looks like)

Poster Time!

So now after writing on lots of knives and forks I have a general idea of what I want on my poster, I tried to figure out a way to display these knives and forks so I started to photograph them in lots of different ways to hopefully come up with the perfect solution. After numerous attempts of arranging and rearranging I think I finally came up with a way tho photograph them perfectly.

Since knives and forks are associated with mealtimes and food, I came up with the idea of arranging the knives and forks so they resemble a table setting (plate with knife and fork)

This is how it turned out. This is the starting point for my poster and still needs to be worked on. I put it on a solid black background so it could easily be changed in Photoshop if needed.

So I had very little experience with working with photoshop before this project but I learned so much about it during this project. I opened this photo on Photoshop and got to work on it.

I isolated the knives and forks and put them on a different colour background so they would stand out and become the focus of my poster.

Food Food Food!

I did a sketch on a page, I created the shape of a plastic knife and fork by using lots of words related to food and eating. I liked the idea of incorporating words into my design so I tried to work with this some more.

Instead of having the words on paper I decided to actually write some on real plastic knives and forks

I thought the combination of text and the plastic knife and fork looked good so I began to write on more. The project kind of turned into me documenting every food I ate throughout the weeks. Almost like a food diary but on knives and forks instead.

Here are some photos of the plastic knives and forks I wrote on.

Here are some thumbnail sketches I did throughout the week.

Celebration of Everyday Objects!

Poster Project!
So we are starting a new project and I'm excited about this one. Everyone in the class was given an everyday object and our aim is to celebrate that object and everything about it. My object is a plastic knife and fork. I have to come up with lots of ideas relating to this objects and finish up with a poster celebrating the plastic knife and fork.

First I did a brainstorm and put down everything I could think of that related to the plastic knife and fork: its advantages, disadvantages, uses etc.

After I looked up the history of the plastic knife and fork and found out things like when it was invented, where and by who was it invented.

Finished

After a long week of trying to get materials and assembling my piece my letter-form is finally finished. Unfortunately I have no photographs of my piece on its own but here is a photo of the complete alphabet of letterforms created by our first year Graphic Design class. It looks very impressive when everyone's pieces are together.

This is my Letterform hanging. The wire blends into the surroundings in the background so you cant see it perfectly in this photo but you can get the general idea of how it looks.

These are the exhibited pieces on display in college.

Idea

I did this page of thumbnail sketches which I really like. I really want to find a way to make something like this.

I like the idea of having the letter E entangled in some type of material between to flat pieces of another material which I think would give it better shape and structure.

I think wire would be a good material to entangle the E in and possibly perspex for the top and the bottom. To see if this would work i made a small prototype using cheaper materials as perspex is quiet expensive.

I used acetate punched holes in it and then used black wire.

I like how this looks so now I am going to push the idea further and increase the scale.