Thursday 8th October, 2015
In Thursday's session for process and production we covered the first session for our InDesign work. Within this session we did some work on the designer Josef Muller-Brockmann's work, re-creating our own adaptations of his designs. Because of Muller-Brockmann's extensive use in the field of grids within graphic design, using him as an influence was a good choice because of how well we can go about experimenting with the grids on InDesign.
Looking at the examples below you can see my adaptations of his work that were created in Richard Nash's session. The first piece that we moved to create was his piece on the "Musica Viva" with the long black bars and type all set out carefully. We made sure to follow the exact measurements that Muller-Brockmann used as to get the closest possible compatibility to his creation.
The second piece that I created in reference to Muller-Brockmann is the design he created for the stravinsky berg fortner posters. These are quite similar to that of the above piece for musica viva, but instead the image has been twisted with straight white lines running across the strong blue background. This design proved to be a tad more complicated because of the fact that the image needs to be twisted. All of the lines need to be perfectly in place as to not run off the edge of the poster where it shouldn't and the gaps between them should be measured out correctly.
This session definitely helped in my understanding of the InDesign program and how things work within it. It's boosted my understanding of how the pages are created and set up with the proper industry standard measurements, guidelines and bleed areas. After these experimentation's, I definitely think that the designs that are created for my Sense of Place brief may indeed involve some experimentation with the program to see what kind of results can be attained - especially in areas such as my grid work in 'Frames, Grids, Micro and Macro' where Muller-Brockmann has been taken down as an influence.
