Timothy Stokes Graphic Designer

Everything is a Remix Nothing is completely unique 'Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing' In today's world everything has been done in one shape or another, so how do we produce new and exciting things? We tweak, we spin, we adjust.  We watched a documentary called Everything is a Remix in today's lecture, and it was very enlightening. We found that as designers we need to create covers, not copies, take something that has been made before, adjust it and change it so it becomes yours and not a blatant copy of the original IP.  We re-use ideas because they trigger nostalgia within us. 74% of movies are based on books and games or are a continued sequel because react to what we already recognise.  Kate Cullinane said 'it's the measure of a designers ability to reposition these in the most successful way for the audience that determines the effectiveness of the piece'

In this project we had to use the adobe capture app on our phones to create a vector image and colour palette to use in creating a piece of art. I enjoyed this and found the app to be very advanced and useful. I took an image of a poster I have on my wall in my bedroom and then used the colour palette of browns, greens blues and greys to colour the image, and then added some text for flavour.

We had a visit from Johnny Ford, Creative Director of Finger Industries. This company is known for their brilliant characters and animations. They have done a number of adverts for Lloyds Bank and other big customers.They focus heavily on their ability to uniquely portray characterisation and colours in their work, here is their more recent show reel.

This weeks guest lecture was two guys from a Leeds company Brass ALT. They do a number of different work but their main job is to create advertising for social media. They work for clients such as Haribo, Lucozade, Maoam and Ribena.  This is one of my favourite pieces by them, which they did for Haribo.

Over 3 weeks we have been working on developing an alphabet of new type, the first week we worked on the letters AEGNS, and then further previewed those types to work on full alphabets, and in the final week we focused on finishing one final alphabet (Found below) I have had alot of focus on Typography through my first and third studio projects so these three workshops have been really critical in helping me appreciate styles, inspiration and how to really develop my typography.

The fourth video made in Process and Production After Effects workshops. Working with the multi views and camera tool to create living 3d type. This workshop came in very handy for creating one of my Visualisation of Sound Animations found below. Being able to make good use of the camera has allowed me to bring the video to life, make it alot more interesting and make the concept come alive.

In recent lectures, coinciding with the current studio project, we have been looking into visualisations of sound. Visualisations can be listed under 3 categories, which each split into smaller ones but I won't cover that. Graphic Notation -pictures/symbols/illustrations -a language that represents musical notes Graphic Interpretation -album covers -marketing techniques -font/typeface developed from sounds -the meaning behind the song Graphic Experimentation -elements of the piece of music can be exaggerated -timed motion -physical prints/painting  James's seminar went over alot of the work he did while at university for visualisation of sound, one piece hit me specifically as being really innovative and awesome, here it is;