visual communication taster week evaluation

Over the visual communication taster week I learned that there is much more to areas such as Illustration and graphic design than I had previously thought. Looking at different artists at the beginning of the week, I became very interested in illustrators Dennis Chapon and Olivier Kugler. Being shown their work lead me to understand the differences between artists in illustration as well as prompting me into doing my own research. Through this I began to look at the work of David Litchfield as his work is similar in style to those we were shown. I think I have been able to draw inspiration from all the artists I have looked at through this taster week and that this has helped me in getting closer to figuring out that visual communications is a field that I would be interested in pursuing.

 Then looking into hand rendered type, Tim Yarzhonbeck's work particularly  inspired me to create unique type and try and stand out. This wasn't very transferrable into the practical side of the week, as observing packaging and creating hand rendered type from that left little room to expand the type's uniqueness. However, I did transfer the skills learnt in observing type closely and analysing it. This then helped me to draw more accurate type within my work.

 Creating our final piece of work for the week then taught me that composition and minimalistic, thought provoking ideas are generally the more successful ones in a sense that obvious thinking and overmaking a piece, specifically within hand rendered type, could ruin it. Experimentation with types of media and the use of shape and line also was extremely important whilst creating hand rendered type.