Visual Communication Eye Catching Colours

Eye Catching Colours   9th October

Once again its Thursday and the end of week one for Visual Communication. The time goes so quickly when you're working hard. The last couple of days we have been getting to grips with new programs like Photoshop and Wordle. We also have looked at lots of different styles which are some of the tools at the fingertips of a graphic designer. Before we got into any of that, we were told about how to make a design sheet. This is something we have to do as one of the final pieces so we can show our thought process and our finished work. With new computer based processes to remember, and get used to, there was a lot of running through my mind.

After the talk about design sheets was over I started creating things in Photoshop. The tutor talked about Psychedelia. The eye catching bright colours and swirling text makes Psychedelia a very good tool for graphic designers. When I first tried, it didn't go well as the vivid didn't seem to go with the selection of photos I had. However, learning the different ways to manipulate colour in Photoshop was something very useful to learn. After the colour change, I then added some text. This time it was my own choice on where and what size text to put in. Each one of the words I wrote, I had to change the font, colour and the layout to make it a personalised design.

After a quick try out of some different designs we were then talking about other styles. One that jumped out at me was Pop Art. I started to look at Andy Warhol's work, the way he used bright colours in blocks that made you look at famous people and well known objects in a different way. Looking at Andy Warhol's art gave me something to think about and try.

Each style I learned about gave me ideas about how to create new versions of the same image. Each style gives an image a different feeling and changes the meaning of it. With this in mind, I'm looking forward to starting my final piece next week.