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  • Year 1
    • Introducing Visual Communication >
      • The Comic
      • Technical Skills
      • Drawing & Visualising
      • Colour, Composition & Narrative
      • IT Sessions
      • Workshops
    • Multi-Dimensional Graphic Design >
      • 2D
      • 3D
      • 4D
      • Set Exercise
      • Workshops
    • Other >
      • West Walls Brew Co
  • Year 2
    • The Designer's Toolkit >
      • Alignment & Hierarchy
      • Contrast & Negative Space
      • Balance & Colour
      • Hotfoot
    • Type & Typography >
      • Hierarchy & Layout
      • Magazine Layout Design
      • Responsive Digital Typography
    • Graphic Design Projects >
      • D&AD: Yahoo!
      • Museum Brand Identity
      • Information is Beautiful
      • West Walls Anniversary
    • The Critical Designer >
      • Research Blog
    • Other >
      • Uptown Gallery
  • Year 3
    • Independent Research Paper >
      • Research Blog
  • Ryatho.co.uk
 

Technical Skills
​VISUAL COMMUNICATION

Activities: Week 1

Task 1: Create a saddle-stitched sketchbook
Task 2: Create a A5 landscape, stab-stitched book
Tutorial used to learn stab stitching
Task 3:Create a perfect bound book
Task 4: Window mount a postcard behind an A4 sheet of mounting card
Task 5: Surface mount 6 postcards onto an A2 sheet of card
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Task 6: Flat mount a piece of coloured card onto a piece of foam core
Task 7: Draw an outline of a perfect 45mm square in the middle of a sheet of A4 layout paper
Task 8: Emboss a circle, square and  equilateral triangle onto a sheet of white A4 cartridge paper. 
Task 9: Cut out a perfect circle with a radius of 50mm out of a sheet of A4 thin card
Task 10: Cut the word 'SHOP' out of grey card and mount it on an A3 sheet of white cartridge paper
Task 11: Create your own intricate cutting using a craft knife

Activities: Week 2 (3D)

Task 12: Create a perfect cube (80mm long), A perfect cylinder (80mm high x 60mm diameter), and a pyramid (80mm height x 70mm width)
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​Task 13: Create a 3 dimensional capital R using the typeface Rockwell (extra bold)
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Task 14: Experiment with surface patterns using folding and cutting
Dramatically lit Photos:
Task 15: Create a low-relief paper sculpture of a coat of arms
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Project 2: Paper Toy

Exercise 2
Design a 3D paper toy to be presented as a net cutout, alongside a 3D model of the toy.

Research

Paper toy artists
Matt Hawkins
eBoy (Sauerteig, Kai Vermehr, and Svend Smital) Pixel artists
Mr Printables
Mocked up 3D Mr Printables
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Development

Initial sketches
​Head shape development
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Net design (Outline and initial colouring)
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Wasn't happy with original colouring, appeared washed out. Upped the contrast on the final revision of the net.
 

Final Outcome

Net design
Net mockup
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