This is a collection of some of the things I produced in my first semester doing Graphic Design at the University of Salford. 

The module was called Form & Content which consisted of 15 workshops on all different design principles which each came with a task for the lesson. These are some of my strongest workshop tasks.

For this workshop I was given a large block text full of information and had to decide for myself what I deemed important or not. This is the poster for the event Design City Reframed applying the information with a relative sense of scale, whilst considering appropriate readability. 

Grids & Canons

Again, I was given a block of text, only this time it was compulsory to use all of it. In this workshop we focused on the alignment of text within a grid system. 

My work is a poster using grids in InDesign with headline, image and bodycopy. I considered choice and size of typeface, colour (text and background), size of image and positioning of text relative to the grid

Texture & Rhythm

Here I was sent out into the rain to take pictures of interesting textures and later make them into Posters. 

The left is a starry night sky using two different textures for the stars and the moon. The pattern of the larger stars is the Scorpio, which is my star sign.

The right is more abstract and with this one I played with colour a lot (the squares are shaded turquoise but look grey on the pink background). I like how the squares get darker into the middle and only continue on one side. The continuing square is also slightly smaller and doesn't align to the right side perfectly.

These two posters were made using the pictures taken in the Northern Quarter in Manchester for the Texture & Rhythm workshop. 

Typography

In this workshop I furthered my knowledge about the meaning and importance of good typography. For this task I made gravestones with my most hated typeface and vowed never to used them again.

I enjoyed making the gravestone in the session so I doodled some more later that day. I also posted them to my instagram.

What I liked most about the gravestone task was the witty comments everyone wrote about the horrible typefaces