Btec Subsidiary Diploma Graphic Design- Nshape

Students were asked to create a design for a new "N-Shape" phone using Abobe Photoshop and Illustrator. They had to produce all elements of the images themselves from the photos to the brushes they used.

Grant: This is a design that I came up with for the N Shape. I made the guitar on adobe illustrator but going around a picture using a pen tool and adding certain detail to it. I tried to achieve an image that advertises the phone within the catergory music.

Vishal: The design itself heavily relates to an exisiting advertisement by Samsung, which examines how sound waves are interpreted, here through the use of large circles.



Ryan: This is my attempt at advertising The 'N-shape' phone I was aiming for an elcetronic futuristic feel.

Vishal- A2 Art 'Update'

After finally getting my infographics work completed for my graphic product I have started to explore a more diverse side of my creativity. The focus is now on relating my work to Shepherd Fairey as well as translating it through a message which relates to the theme of Snollygoster.

One interesting graphic that I came across during the Election earlier this year has started to shape the recent progress I have made within this project. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/election2010/results - this is the link that I found which depicts a proportional measure of seats won by each party in the 2010 General Election. I noted that the pattern and style that this graphic has been created through is one that I could utilise for my independent development, therefore I began to produce an array of patterns using stencils to experiment with composition, scale, proportion and style.

The results were terrific and I decided to relay the pattern from the infographic onto these stencils by using Photoshop – further layering it within the vectorised image of Gordon Brown seen within my previous post, as well as “despeckled” images of the Labour rose. All of this led to the below outcome of a party political poster that takes advantage of all of my research upto this point.



In relation to Shepherd Fairey I feel the piece has strong visual links with the way in which Fairey uses “worn” images and stencilling, however to kindly humiliate my own support for left wing politics I have also created the below piece which heavily relates the Fairey-esque style of stand up politics; labelled as “The Social State” it relates to the surveillance and interference of our previous government within society, exposing the disparity between our fair democracy and other more extreme left wing socialist dictatorships. It is this piece that brings me to the end of Task 11 and onto my independent development – therefore I wish for my work to evolve into something much darker, and maybe much more cynical.

The next stage of this project is now to explore the reverse side of left wing politics; Conservatism. More so by exploring the role of religion and society within a conservatively dictated nation, namely the Southern States of the US, as well as our own current “Conservative” arrangement.

Vishal-A2 Art and Design

The project brief for art this year was titled as “The Art of Lost Words”; to pick a word that is in danger of becoming unused from Save the Words and to bring it back into the vocabulary through means of products, posters and individual artworks. I chose the word Snollygoster (a shrewd, unprincipled person – especially a politician) from a frantic array of lost phrases that yelp every time you hover over them, who would have thought such an historical expression of significance would be hidden beneath such vulgarism? Anyway, I am glad that I found this word as I am confident that I can reintroduce it back into the vocabulary at least within petty advertisements or slogans for political parties, a technique that I have found interesting undertaking within my sketchbook.

As well as this, I have tried to relate the word to Bush-era politics which define, in my opinion, the true connotation of the word Snollygoster. I have explored this through the use of info-graphics, which presents information that I have collected online regarding the recent political history of Britain, Europe and America through means of Military Expenditure rises, popularity of administrations and the usual jargon that follows political debates. 

My latest endeavour was to create an “individualised” artwork; however I chose to take inspiration from Shepherd Fairey’s truly amazing work on political sentiments – using powerful illustration and subversions to publicise one’s opinions (a characteristic I would like to apply to the word Snollygoster). Throughout this I will be experimenting with different patterns, portraits, quotations and stencils to create work that has relevancy to my project, as well as the personality of Shepherd Fairey. I have alot more to do throughout this project and for the year; in terms of research, development and maturing my own creativity, yet so far I have enjoyed finding myself through this very interesting project brief.