What Is A Line... Visuals

For my What is A Line brief, I will be focussing on Photography, below is a collection of each visuals for each quote, although I will be looking at 'A formation of people , objects or things on/besides each other'. All of the images I have used are my own.


'A mark indicating position, connection or boundaries'




This image indicates position.





This image indicates a boundary.

This image could indicate connection and boundary.

This indicates position and possibly boundary.

'A connected series of events, actions or developments'

The following three images documents a development.

This one image shows a connected series of development- the traffic.

The above three images show a connected series of developments.

'A formation of people, objects or things on/besides each other'

This shows a formation of people.

This shows a formation of objects (tiles).

This shows a formation of people.

This shows a formation of objects.




This could be a formation of objects.

Don't Panic...Vogue

This is part of my research for the Don't Panic brief, as I have a keen interest in Photography, I scanned in the Tim Walker 'Vogue' photos from his book 'Pictures' and felt it would be appropriate to put them on here.



The Lily Cole image shows her laid on the Front Cover of an old copy of the magazine. Props around the magazine, include a camera lens other photos and a cable which had to be specially constructed for the piece. Talking about the camera, it is quoted in Walker's book, '...we had to reproduce every mark, every etched number and the texture of the original but 50 times larger.'
This is a fantastic image, it hasn't been manipulated, which would be the easy option to achieve this effect, so it really does work.



This is a Vogue cover for the Italian version, from February 2009, featuring Pixie Geldof photographed by Steven Meisel. The subtitle at the bottom, 'so young so cool' is in a sans serif, thin, rounded type, to represent the young and fresh looking face on the cover, which is not the face I am familiar with after the media published images of her partying looking quite drunk.
The colours in the photograph are very neutral, and give Pixie a natural look, her eye make up is fairly dark but the soft colour of her skin helps retain a youthful appearance, as a lot of young celebs are often caked in make-up making them look much older than they are. Her pose is very relaxed and comfortable and focusses in on her face, ideal for the subtitle 'so young...'.

What Is Graphic Design? Continuation...

This is a continuation of my first Design Context blog, where I will carry on looking at what Graphic Design is, and what I like/dislike...

This is the front cover of 'The Walk Book' with audio walks through London, Paris and New York by Janet Cardifft but written by Mirjam Schaub. She had given people walkmans which guided the participants through the cities.




I love the design of the book, there isn't actually a CD in the front cover, but it relates to the fact that Cardiff works with audio. The blue, pink, black and grey seem to really work together for this cover. The text is equally as interesting, the way each letter is put together seems to be a combination of two letters, for example, the first a in Janet, is a combination of a C and a backwards R.

This is the inside cover, I am quite a fan of black and pink together, and it works really well on the white background.

This is an advert in a free paper/magazine for an exhibition at the V & A. The exhibiton is for digital design and shows off the latest advances in design technology by international artists and emerging designers.

The design, from a distance looks like an intense close up at some kind of precious stone, but when you are closer, it looks like a pixelated pattern, the green text for the title works well, it stands out without popping too much, the V&A logo in this same colour keeps the design looking uniform.