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Mood board for Self-expression poster

The formation of this mood board was chosen specifically based on the words that I picked from my mind map. The process I used was Google & DuckDuckGo images for the words that I had written down. After spending time picking wisely, I managed to form a mood board that strongly relates to my self-expression poster.

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Mind Map for Self-expression poster

The following is my progression of how I came up with the idea of design being a sense of “Freedom”. I decided to understand the different ways of expressing freedom based on formal words that everyone secretly uses on a daily basis.

As seen below each word portrays the idea of how words of freedom link well with the idea of artistic freedom. 

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Saul Bass

Saul Bass was an extremely well-known American Graphic designer, in which with the help of his designs in film posters, title sequences and even corporate logos during the 1950s made him a household name during his era. During his career in which spaned over 40 years, Saul Bass helped in aiding Hollywood’s most iconic filmmakers by designing their movie poster.

Most honourable mentions to Saul bass’s name was to design the movie posters and motion picture title of: Psycho (1960), Vertigo (1958), The Man with the Golden Arm (1959), North by Northwest (1959), and Spartacus. Bass did title sequences, film titles and credits that were usually played in the theatres that had movie curtains. These movies during the 1950s are still highly in influence today and are mostly reviewed as classic movies that generations will learn to love each time, they watch it. Saul Bass burst into the film industry when famous director Otto Preminger personally asked him to develop a poster for the hit action film Carmen Jones in 1954. Not only was Saul Bass a successful Poster designer, he was extremely accomplished as a logo designer, having designed an abundance of noble corporate logos in America such as: The United airlines (AT&T) Logo, Kleenex tissues Logo, Girl scouts and the Continental Airlines. Saul Bass legacy expanded the field of graphic designing stupendously and challenged all aspects of visual boundaries. He will forever be remembered as an inspiration to today’s generation of graphic designers and motion graphics artists.

3 of Saul Bass Best art can be seen above:

I have chosen these three works because of the abundance of Saul’s bass’s presence throughout America. Recurring visual elements are strongly represented in his movie poster vertigo and his logo design of AT&T and give the canvas an abundance of display. Multiple use of different colour and indirect design are represented in nearly all of Saul bass’s logo artworks, however a positive sense of eccentric design is displayed in his movie posters. This is where the tiniest details have been included to expand our imagination and enforces us to fill in the gaps ourselves.

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Review 

The way i designed my 8 compositions developed from the era of how artist started using a mixture of colour and shapes, to portray a new aspect of discovering multiple different outlooks of each art is displayed. I managed to tackle the way colours tend to bend with each other, when they come in to contact with one another. The outcome refers that no matter what colour comes into play black, plays a major role in outlining and making the design pop out with excitement and calmness.  

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Anatomy of Type

Liked Fonts

I chose the font “Long Shot”, due to the reason that it mixes a modern, nostalgic and san serif look that can be used to grab people's attention with its bold look.Furthermore, the “Long Shot” font reminds me of the movie “King Kong”,due to its semi-slanted layout.  

I also chose the font “ Voice in my head “ by Chequered Ink because it provides extremely sharp ends to the end of most of its letters, similar to a dagger.Moreover the font can clearly be used to reference a heavy metal rock band, whilst also relating to a neo-sci fi movie title.

Lastly i picked the font “Assassins” by Alphapet & Type, as its perfect when you want to remember a Game series such as assassins creed which relates to a historic look. The serif design provides a smooth and pointy comfort to the end of each letter tip. Lastly i adore the presentation of the comma used.  

Disliked Fonts

The reason why I disliked the font “ Janda Stylish Monogram” by Kimberly Geswein, was because it provides an impression of use to one side of Gender, females. This means that only females can relate to these designs if they wanted a Girlish Title. The font also slightly unreadable but can be used to advertise a flower shop.

I disliked “Drift Type” by TracerTong because its completely unusable to many aspects. The first impression makes you agree that it's a unprofessional font, that can only be used as humor. On the other hand, the use of nails to stick together each letter can be interesting to look at.

Lastly the reason why “Hammer Keys” by Matt Lyon is bad, is because it gives the impression of a very retro and old design which is mostly outdated in today's modern world. The letters are all not aligned in a simple row and some of the letter can be seen jumping higher or lower than one another.

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First post

Hey this is Prince J Koomson

This is my first ever post on a blog , forgive me if i act eccentric.

i have a passion of becoming an UX designer/Programmer so my desires are set to match my actions.

Peace

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First post

Hey this is Prince J Koomson

This is my first ever post on a blog , forgive me if i act eccentric.

i have a passion of becoming an UX designer/Programmer so my desires are set to match my actions.

Peace