Swiss Typeface Supporting Poster (Part 1)

I posted last week about the Swiss Typeface I made for my project, well I stated early on that it was always my intention to design some supporting promotional material to show it off. Well, here's a poster I've done today. It's an A3 of lots of different media cleverly mixed through different layers and masks etc. It's been a lot of work, and I've really enjoyed making it. I'll post different sections of the body of work under new posts just to explain more about the images, just to keep it more organised.

So these first four images show the incremental/sectioned elements that make up the overall piece. I started of with a graphic that was built up using lots of different circles and altered rectangles (my intentions were for it to represent the square cross of Switzerland). The third image down you may notice is made of chocolate, this was an effect which I knew quite well and was keen to use for this particular piece. The other two images depict photographs and images that I used in the digital collage, all edited beyond belief... And of course the Typeface itself. The overall feel of the graphics mirror the style of the Typeface; sharp edged, primitive and graphic.

Type Point of View

Have you ever wondered what happens on the other side of a computer screen? Yeah, well it's probably not this... But it makes for a nice idea, so I tried illustrating it! I Used my wacom tablet and did some drawings in Sketchbook, it's turned out all right, however I think the colours seem a bit washed out, so I've posted the non-colour version too. The Typefaces I've personified are: Helvetica, Futura & Akzidenz Grotesk.

Curriculum Times New Vitae

Who's to say that a CV has to be a formal written document with Times New Roman everywhere? In my opinion, no one. In my opinion, this little A4 piece of paper above totally embodies the entire point of Graphic Design. Information. That's all a Curriculum Vitae is, information. And all Graphic Design is, is communicating that information in a way that catches more attention. Take that bar chart for example, it does exactly the same thing as me writing down (in Times New Roman) what I enjoy doing in my spare time, what my interests are; but it's cleaner like this.

I used Bebas Neue for nearly all the Type, and ran the layers over a few textures. I scanned in my own pieces of paper that give the interesting folded effect. I also added extra layers in Photoshop, where I wrote essential pieces of information down in pencil, and splashed some fluid over it. The whole point of a CV or resume, is to get the attention of the employer, and I feel confident there won't be many others with a CV like this.