Industry - Design Development: Unit 8
Industry - "Plastic Beach" For this unit I was required to create a typographical response to a quote with relevance to environmental impact. I chose to explore the work of the band Gorillaz, in particular their album Plastic Beach - as it directly links to the theme of environmental damage by human negligence. By the end of this project I had a total of 2 outcomes, one being a digitally animated quote and the other being a physical poster incorporating a variety of relevant materials to portray the meaning of the quote, alongside a typographic image of the quote. I feel these outcomes were fairly successful in relation to the brief, as both used my understanding of colour, shape language, and experimentation with forms to portray a message relevant to the brief and representative of each chosen quote. In particular, I believe my second outcome was successful due to my experimentation with materials I wouldn't normally use. I decided to laser cut a piece of acrylic plast