Illustrations

Here are the illustrations I've done for my article so far, They were created and drawn using a tablet and coloured. Im very happy at the outcome of these illustrations and will be adding them into indesign later to layer up my article layout.

Magazine Research creative layouts

For this project I've began researching into magazine layouts that combine all visual aspect like illustration, type, colour and layout design. This layout are a few if the layouts i've been looking at each has been composed creatively for visual impact and will help me grasp the dynamics of magazine layouts.

Magazine Research Illustrative layouts

The Helvetica Movie

In the interview from Type Radio Bierut talks about his involvement in the Helvetica Movie and I found a clip of his part in it.

In the clip he talks about when the Helvetica revolution came about and the typical type the fifties had before the use of Helvetica.

THE NOTE BOOK

Michael Bierut is noticeable known for his humongous build up of notebooks starting from his first in August 12, 1982. He explains that a notebook is like a security blanket for him and he feels list with out one with him even if he doesn't open it. Looking through some of his work it seems that he does quite a lot of rough sketches in them, some of which are the final outcomes in his projects.

Michael Bierut is very passionate with his work and had a great knack for lecturing that makes his talk very interesting. His personality and charisma also shine through in his writing on the design observer website that really helped me get a feel for his character.

Bierut Typography work

Quite a lot of his typography work is black and white and very dynamic and if not black and white he uses a simplistic colour palette. These example of type are very layered and effective in composition.

Michael Bierut's work

Here are a few sample of Michael Bieruts work ranging from his book cover to fonts that he helped design as part of a project for the Art and Design Museum.

Michael Bierut

Michael Bierut is a graphic designer and critic. He began working as a graphic designer at Vignelli Associates and stayed there for a number of years before working at the Pentagram were he is still currently situated.

Here are a couple of videos I've watched on Michael Bierut

http://the99percent.com/videos/6056/michael-bierut-5-secrets-from-86-notebooks

Last Brief of the Year

The new unit is called Visual Communication in Context and its the last brief we're being given for this year. At the briefing we were all assigned a designer each that had appeared on "Type Radio" a radio station. I received Michael Bierut.

The project brief was to create a 4 page spread containing the interviews from Type Radio along with a set illustrations. We all had to listen and transcribe the interview and select a part to go into out magazine spread.

In order to create an article based around Michael Bierut I need to research into Bierut's work and personality along with research into magazine layouts,type etc. To gain a better understanding of magazine design.

Final Animation!

Here it is Guys!

Quick Animation progress

The animation is coming along now Yay!

just have to go back and tweak some type and make sure everting is timed well to be legible.