Hello, my name is Mark Jones. I am a soon to be Graphic Design Graduate on the hunt for an internship to contribute and further my skills as part of a design team. I have a huge passion for typography, printed material and general nice stuff!
"Open your mind to a new and innovative study into punctuation marks designed to coincide with any written language used to this day."
Peculiar Examples of Punctuation Marks demonstrates some symbols of punctuation that can be used in formal written conversation today. They express the emotions that people feel in everyday life. A selection of these emotion symbols have been chosen for this first edition. A symbol of punctuation that best describes where these punctuation marks have come from is the question mark which today is used in all kinds of written language. The question mark came from the scholars of written Latin who at the end of a sentence would add the word 'questio' to signify a question or query but later this was shortened to the letters Q and O. This became confusing as it was mistaken for the end of a word thus the letters were later stacked on top of one another it then gradually became the symbol we understand today. Like the question mark these symbols are to be used at the end of sentences to give a written conversation more personality much like the Emoticons used in non-formal writing. But these symbols create a more formal way of expressing emotion in writing and there reason for existing and origins are described throughout.
Me Printing & Binding the book:
For this project I started searching through magazines like Baseline and looking on Its Nice That for inspiration and spent about a week in the library hunting for something a designer might want. I came across different punctuation symbols such as the flabbergastrix and interrobang and after showing them in my presentation in the second week decided to make my own symbols. They had to have a purpose for being and in Adrian Frutigers book on symbols it had some information on how the question mark came to be, I then decided to follow the way the question mark was created and make my symbols that way by abbreviating the words people might use as emotion symbols. I felt the best way to display the work after making it in fontlab would be a book so that each symbol can be looked at and understood on its own in separate page spreads. The final really fun part was getting to go to Brignells and be taught how to bind a book by hand
Google is a very established brand which has so many sub brands that I felt it needed a new way of holding all the
different parts together. Google elements is a new device to understand all of the Google products in one place.
The Google Elements logo is a key of the five different sections of Google:
Web
Home & Office
Social
Media
Geo
There is the possibility for other sites to be added to these groups later.
I have created two pieces of packaging, the first is hand held and is a
promotional piece to be distributed in shopping malls and shops. Within this packaging there is a USB stick, on which is a virtual version of the hand held packaging that the user can plug into there personal computer and open the file within, the user is given the
opportunity to create a Google account and look at more of the Google
elements. When finished looking at the Elements and creating a Account they are prompted to download Google Chrome.
After the process is over the USB stick can be used as 2gb external memory to Google Docs.
This is a poster I created to advertise a production put on by the Anglia Ruskin University Theatre Arts Society called Paper Trail.
The poster features a uniform box to represent the sternness of a paper form its very ridged and formal but it also features large calligraphic letters P and T weaving around the form like a to represent the trail aspect of the play. The poster also hints towards the old and the new with the elegant calligraphic letter against the bold sans serif typography.
"At its hearts is a rather run-down archive office attached to a north London hospital and looked after by Mel, a young archivist. A middle-aged Australian lady called Angie arrives and wants to look in the archives to find out a bit more about her mother, who, she believes was born in the area but who died giving birth to her. As they start looking through the records, however, they begin uncover a very different story from the one Angie has always believed. Her mother did not in fact die giving birth to her, but lived on for another twenty years or so. This is hard enough to take, but Mel, knowing her way round the records, finds out something even worse, which is that Angie’s mother later got married and had a son, and that that son is in fact the man Angie went on to marry. In other words, Mel discovers a ghastly secret – that Angie spent some thirty years married to her own brother and had a child by him – and still doesn’t realize. What do you do? Do you tell her or not? This is the dilemma at the end of the play."
The Lakeland Walker magazine is already in publication (Britains oldest and best selling Lake District Walking Magazine.) The brief we were given was to create a document project, I really like editorial design and hadn't really had a go at it before.
We were taught how to create style sheets, character styles and grids using InDesign. The magazine had scope for being really cool with its amazing photography being totally diminished by the previous layout, and also the cool maps for going on walks that were so small you couldn't read. There was also an info graphic for guiding the walks that I re-designed.
With this project I wanted to question what is good design I wanted to give the magazine a fresh and new style more like one of those skateboarding or quirky magazines that I consider to be really cool like Little White Lies Magazine. First I created the new identity for the magazine, the Lakeland walker Logo. I wanted to make it smaller so it could be taken on walks without replacing the content on each page, it is square to benefit the landscape photographs, there is also a little subscribe leaflet that can be pulled out. On the map pages as you open them the maps sort of pop out in your face, these are stuck down with that temporary glue (the type when you get a new credit card.) The directions for the walks are on the back of the maps which can be pealed of and taken on walks without the magazine.
This was a book cover I created for Penguin Book Awards 2011 I chose to do the children's book cover award which this year was James and the Giant Peach.
This was a video I created for a competition by YCN it is an Ad campaign for Green & Blacks chocolate and is about the relationship that the colour of the bar has with its flavour. After all Green & Blacks is all about colour its even in their name. In the supporting content for the brief they spoke about how Green is for the natural part of it because it is all organic and Black describes the rich part of the chocolate, the name was decided by Craig Sams and his wife, Josephine Fairley, the founders of Green and Blacks in 1991 labled "the guilt free chocolate." The idea was that the consumer would see this and think about the about the relationship with the colour and the bar that they buy in doing so relate themselves. I used the words they use to describe the flavour of the bars on the front of there packaging and on their website to come up with the characteristics of the colours. I wanted it to be confusing at first so the audience doesn't realise it is an Ad campaign for Green and Blacks but that comes apparent towards the end. I tried to make it look hand drawn to give it that more natural look, I use the company typeface for one of the people speaking to give a hint to what its about.
For this project I was given a famous architect to research, there would be an imagined exhibition for this architect in which I was to design an A1 poster and an A4 leaflet. The main point of the project was to realise the transition between working at large and small formats and making both work on their own but keep conformity between them. The architect that I was given was Sir Giles Gilbert Scott the reason I decided to call the exhibition The Middle Line was because his whole thesis for his architecture was the relationship between old and new. Here is my response to the brief, the green colour of the leaflets and poster represent the original colour that Giles wanted the Phone boxes he designed to be painted the red dot indicates the colour that they are.
When we meat people we make a judgement about them and from their facial expression, tone of voice and body language can tell whether they are happy, angry, sad etc. and respond accordingly.
People with Asperger syndrome can find it harder to scan the signals that most of us take for granted.
Exhibition Guidelines:
Emotions:
Barcode Face: Each barcode, if scanned represents the emotion that should be on the face.
Are emotions a product of society, we scan the face to realise how someone is feeling. People with Asperger syndrome don’t recognise the expressions that can be easily understood by us.
To us a barcode is almost
impossible to understand without the right tools.
The VOID is a place for people to learn and appreciate the difficulty someone with Asperger syndrome might have when trying to understand how another person is feeling.
