improved type...

a hand-rendered version with an improved 't' for better legibility....although it now no longer matches the first 't'......though that isn't so much of a problem I imagine. maybe the extended part of the 'e' isn't such a good idea either. so many issues. 

book title type

running on the idea of triplets and whatever I spent some time messing around with this typeface I found....called Park Lane I think......it caught my eye straight away due to its similarity with musical scores, so it was an obvious contender. I initially drew this out by hand and then switched it up to digital, which looks somewhat less desirable than the original, which I'll upload at some point. 

Problems I noticed straight away were that the second 't' is too cramped and therefore becomes slightly less legible....looks more like 'triples' at the moment. I don't even know if 'triplets' is a good title word at the moment. The 's' has been slightly distorted as well, and this is why I often hate computers for how impossible it seems to just do something really simple. long. I wouldn't mind throwing in a couple of compound time signatures in the middle of the p where the e begins, on the score. Just for some subtle musical references.

books for book fair.

..................number 3 is the theme that I have been given.
Therefore after a short while of brainstorming and messing about I've decided that I will base my small edition of ten hot-dog fold books on the idea of triplet and swing-based rhythms in drumming, both which can be considered compound rhythms, meaning they are based around the idea of having a multiple of 3 beats in a bar instead of simple beats which would be multiples of two. Of course there are hundreds and thousands of variations, and of course these swung beats can be incorporated into 4/4 signatures and whatnot. and vice versa. but basically I'm planning to make some sort of simple booklet aimed at those who are interesting in learning some alternative rhythms, or even those who have never played drums but would like to get involved........

Final crit. 4/2/11

Issues raised...

:Colour palette used. Wasn't really sure why this issue was raised...perhaps it was not obvious as to why I chose these particular colours. Generally I felt that they had some sort of connection to the type of drinks shown on the graphs... i.e. yellow for energy, an energetic colour. hot drinks obviously link to red, and soft drinks being cold, would be blue. How this was not obvious I wasn't sure.

:Over crowding. really?

:Irrelevant elements. i.e. the overlapping 100ml in the background. I added this just for a small amount of aesthetic appeal, but perhaps it indeed is slightly too distracting, maybe I could fix this problem by further reducing its opacity or making it smaller or something. Can't be getting rid of it though, for I imagine it would just be too bland as a piece of design if this was the case.

:Amalgamate information. essentially, why did I make it on three, why did I not just make one big piece of design displaying all the data in the same place. To be honest, I don't know why I didn't do this. Maybe I will do this today and see what happens.

for final crit

poster designs for my final crit. i rekon the softer colours allow the graph to be read nice and clearly, and make them sit well as a series of designs.

refined ideas

the radar graph was useless. maybe this is just because i'm not that experienced at using illustrator. It was an achievement though, but sometimes it's just better to KISS......which i learnt is an acronym for Keep It Short and Simple...............or keep it simple stupid. So I'm going along with a new plan to create a simple bar chart but make it look unbelievable aesthetically pleasing. Of course I'm not one to judge. But here's some ideas anyway.....

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a few info graphical ideas.

I started learning how to make graphs and stuff on illustrator.......doesn't seem to be that much you can do in the way of actually creating a graph, but of course editing it after it's been made is just standard.

They're not very good but I'm just getting to grips with it really.

From just entering the data I created a radar graph of all 100 values of caffeine content. Removing every other detail of the graph just leaves this nice shape, but apparently as it contains no other information it is practically worthless. 

standard click to enlarge............

got quite a way to go yet. However I don't really want the entire of the final chart to be crafted entirely digitally......because I don't. I'll deal with that later though.