Amy Winson Production Blog

Today in my workshop with Stephen, we was introduced to editorial design for album covers. He started off by showing us the basic resolutions for web and print. We made our own custom document for 360px x 360px. Below shows the link to the presetation that I did in this workshop:  PART 1 We then put the margin to 12px and changed the document so we had no gutter. We also changed the grids & guides so the document grid was visible. We went into the adobe preferences and added the 30px for the gridline and 6 for subdivisions. This allowed the grid and document grid to fully align up. We also adjusted the keyboard increments to 1px so that it would snap to the grid and be more in level. I worked with typography, leading, tracking and shapes to create the following based on the document settings above. PART 2 I then moved on to look at images and text together in a more editorial style. We worked with the object style options for ap...

Today I visited Manchester to explore Graffiti. I was stunned by my findings. This has helped develop my research for the Identity brief. I found these pieces on Hilton and Port Street in Manchester. Every time I turned a corner on Hilton Street, I was gob smacked by another piece of highly detailed and picturesque piece of artwork. I noticed their was a variety of styles that I found: Minimalism graffiti - use of two colours, sense of 3D and use of contours to enhance certain areas for example cheekbones. Below shows the strongest pieces that I think follow this style.   Rainbow graffiti - use of more than 4 colours, vibrant, use of bold thick outlines, sense of graphics in the work. Below shows a few pieces that I think follow this idea.   Dark graffiti - use of darker colours, sets a moody tone, often to do with a person or event. Below shows this style of work.  

Context & Research For this workshop we was tasked with creating something that could be moved using new techniques in After Effects. I initially wanted to create a character. However when I thought about this, I imagined creating something very simplistic that could follow a narrative style. I had the vision of a clock and thought of the idea of an Alice in Wonderland theme (The Rabbits Clock). I did think about the rabbit however I thought it would be fun to create the mind of the rabbit and how his focus is on the clock and the time. The rabbit carries the clock because he is always late, I always find this funny because he is always late yet the clock is always with him and is so large. This is something that I could work with and purposely create a very large clock or multiple clocks to show the point the time is always infront of him. I decided to look at the way the clock looks in the video in order for me to get an idea for how I could illustrate mine. This clo...

In my second workshop with John, we looked at creating the alphabet with our 3 chosen typography designs from the last workshop. I had designed 3 completely different typography designs so I felt this might be really complicated as I only worked with a few letters last time. Typography isn't something I've been involved in that much in the past as I usually focus more on colour, composition and other similar elements however it was fun and challenging to have a new focus. Below shows my typography designs from my first workshop. The Workshop Typography 1 I started off with my first typography design, this was quite grungy and bold. In every letter, an arrow was present so the challenge in this case was how can I get the arrow to be involved in the typography without it looking too much or out of place. I decided for the letters that curved more that the arrow could curve inside for example C or G. For letters that was more straight lined I decided that a line could be ...

After my few workshops in After Effects with Sara, I felt like I really wanted to try and understand the programme. We have been taught the basics so far and how to use the softwares however I know all the Adobe programmes compliment each other in order to get to a final piece. I decided I wanted to work with Illustration and Animation which is two things I have NEVER done before. This was challenging and I was really nervous to begin with. After having a basic knowledge of the programme of Adobe Illustrator and Adobe After Effects, I set myself a brief. BRIEF: TO PRODUCE A PIECE OF ANIMATION WHERE IT HAS BEEN ILLUSTRATED IN ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR & EDITED AND PRODUCED IN ADOBE AFTER EFFECTS I began by thinking of a topic. I had several ideas: Light switch being flicked on and off The sky changing colour Drink going down in the cup Rain falling Snow falling, sun coming up and then snow disappearing I decided to go with my final idea as I felt it had a bit more of a nar...

In my second workshop with Stephen, the main topic was Editorial design. We was focusing on the US standard size for the size of the In Design spread. What is editorial design? Editorial design is for magazines and websites. Once designed, this would be passed on to someone to code. The workshop We started off by setting our page up. I used the following settings below: Once I set up my spread, I then pasted in the image we was using to refer too and scaled up to my margin. I reduced the opacity to 50% so I was able to see what work I was doing on top of the image. I stared working with kerning, tracking and working with scale in order to scale the letters Alanis to fit similar to the document on the back. The reason why we was playing with these metrics and spaces was for us to have more attention to detail and to work away from the default settings.  Below shows the settings I decided to go for and what this looked like. Below shows after me playing with dist...

In my workshop with Stephen, I was introduced to InDesign. This is a piece of software that I have never used before and has always been very daunting to me as this is something Pro designers use. I know this is something I need to learn and begin to use in my day to day life but I was very scared and worried I couldn't get the hang of it. We went over some basic steps for example how to set our page, export our piece as PDF's and working guides. We was given a task where we had to copy 4 posters. The first one we was given clear instructions which made it more helpful. I was given the poster with the guide on which made it very easy to count and work out how many squares had to be coloured in. Below shows the outcome of my first poster on the left and on the right the original work of the designer Josef Muller-Brookmann. I was really happy with how this poster came out and I felt this allowed me to get a good idea for In Design and how to use the software. However f...