Blowing up Typeface

Physical Studio

The first lesson

The tutor let us do some fonts about "i am `` `` ``",  and just a piece of paper to draw 16 grids. Each grid only draw a word. We looked at a lot of examples , it brought a lot of ideas about fonts. So I started to make some of my ideas, then start with a pencil drawing. The first picture is what I think, I want to be a Superman, there are lots of superman, I just want to be a design of Superman, so I put the letter of the alphabet

 together to form a large letter. Secondly, I use our own language to do the work, it means i am a famous artist? Obviously I'm not, so I put a question mark. The Third one, I got my idea from my ruler, I hold that it must very interesting, so i just try it.

Personal process of project

Personal process of project

     In today's world, alcohol culture has become an integral part of the people, by the people to drink, will reach a consensus. In business, tne businessman awalys made a business deal by drinking. I used to coins replaced crash out of the wine glasses, and then add a side of two people's face, so that the expression of a more prominent poster!

Personal first page

Personal first page

 

 This is my personal home page, I do the windows and color effects, the number in middle  is the year I was born, and then add my own name, my name is LEI TANG in UK.But in China, my name is TANG LEI. the whole poster mainly color are black, white, green pattern as the subject, using a number of different shapes of patterns, show a dynamic atmosphere.

 

Personal Projects:Conversation Research

I think in today's world of public transport as a carrier, has its own special significance in itself, it is not only to our lives a lot faster, the city has also become a beautiful landscape. With the current demand for the development of technology and the times, people are also increasingly high demands of life, they are good things in the pursuit of beauty, vehicles from all over the world have their own national culture style. Their integration into their culture, visually attract the public's eye, so that people everywhere can feel the life connotation cultural and artistic heritage.

After Effects: Motion Graphic

Motion Graphic

                                                                A Teacher Explaining Mathematics
Our task is to create a short ten second clips in After Effect for each workshop and they will all be different workshops exploring different areas and themes.Some of the themes are visual but also motion. A loop is a motion. Then at the end it will be 30 seconds showing each of my clips throughout the year. The tasks were given is working towards the placement level, so i will be more than ready for an industry by the end of the year.

I used Illustrator to design my quick character ‘Teacher’, with simple 7 layers that includes hair, head, white shirt, red tie, suit, hand and brown trousers. As you can see my character resembles a business man too and that is because he was inspired from a business man but as time went on i found really a good textures that suited each other which convinced me to go for a teacher appearance instead.  I created these layers separately so can then later utilise and manipulate them on After Effect; they will have more of a great effect. The image then was imported on After Effect, i made sure to click ‘composition retain layer’ and click off ‘eps sequence’ because this will allow me to play with each later. The composition width of 1920 and height 1080 with the frame rate ’25’ and 10 seconds.

It,s my first time to use Ae, I really do not know how to make the work. It's very hard for me, so the process of work is no clearly. I just try to make it. 

Gentleman from LEI TANG on Vimeo.

Design Games Task

Robert's seminar Lesson

Design games task

Today in Robert's seminar class were played two games that were are working with series of rules. Those games and scenarios are open work. You can go any way with this. We were in three separate groups of four because these games were needing team work. One of the games is called Beach and the other is Circle and we had a choice to pick which one we wanted to play first. These games were designed to get like a survey answer from people, I suppose you could say it was to teach us that we have to think outside the box. Many people usually always design surveys that have horrible questions 

 Beach 

Circle

The rules were simple for each game; the game has to be played by four players, each player has coloured pen which are green, red, blue or black and when the turns taking goes clockwise. Beach workshop is inspired by the concept of Charles leadbeater, as expressed in his essay 'The beach Ethic' A quote taken from his essay explains well the concept of the beach game is "Beaches are ordered without being controlled. No one is in charge [...] Underlying the beaches appeal is a simple idea: the beach is a commons where people can self-organise and play [...] There are no zoning regulations, fences, nor white lines to tell you where to go". One of the player have to take the first turn and place a dot then following clockwise turns the next player will need to place a dot in the centre of the largest empty space on the paper. We can stop drawing when we all think and agree the beach is crowded. I had fun with this game, because i think it is very special experience for me!

The same rules applies for the circle game as players taking turns clockwise. The aim of this game was for the players to be able to draw a perfect filled in circle under 30 seconds timer. This game was difficult in my opinion because we had under 30 seconds to draw a circle, so your rushing at the same time but it was  also fun to engage with other people. I must say our circle was the most horrible one drawn, not only did we not have time to fill them in but we also wonky ones. 

Overall I am glad I participated it was stimulating and would take the opportunity again. 

Reference: 

Maurer, L., Paulus, E., Puckey, J., Wouters, R.  (2013). Conditional design workbook. Amsterdam: Valiz. 

Character Development

Today in process and production lesson we were introduced to production techniques creative process to create a character for our cereal package which we will also eventually design and produce prototypes. We were told before hand to bring the basic essentials for drawing like sketchbook and drawing equipments. The outcome i received from this lesson was three papers of character sketches and productions layouts for a new brand of breakfast cereal.

Whilst sketching out my characters i considered the form of the character and making them dynamic so they are interesting to look at. I designed them in different face expressions and positions while also aiming for eager look. I wanted them to look eager being around the cereal. The age group i aimed for was from 4 to 10.