Tuesday 20 January 2015

Screenprint Posters - Social Awareness

I started to try out some visual work for my video game project by exploring how to visual the facts I'd found out. I created the posters in InDesign and tried to play with the words on how I presented the facts. So I tried to make the "Sharpen" seem out of focus on the poster about eyesight and for the gender I did a male and female video game counterpart. The font along the bottom was not a successful choice for silk screening as it would dry out too quickly and result in it not printing. I also think the screen was either too exposed or there was something on the paper because it would print grains. The grains did go after the screen dried out with some ink on but then so did the font along the bottom. I'll have to change the font if I want to print these again. 

  
This one I haven't made into a screen yet because it needs to blur with half tone dots, using an effect blur won't come out on the silkscreens. 




Sunday 18 January 2015

Paper craft - Social Awareness

My new project, Social Awareness, is looking at how video games affect children both positively and negatively. I tried to think of a way that I could portray the message for both children and parents but using video games to represent my message. The most popular video game for children is Minecraft, it also offers a lot of positives to video games. So I created a paper Steve and a friend to represent how playing online allows you to make friends. I want to do a series of these posters but putting the characters in real settings not game ones. It just so happens to be very wet at the moment restricting my use of outside.


Just a mock up poster. Hooray for Steve!

Sunday 11 January 2015

Artists I like #7

Upon doing some research into some artist for my Social Awareness project, which I'm looking at video games, I found this artist who draws video games but as children books. He manages to give the game a new title that makes it seem more suitable for children. He also creates covers for TV series and movies. I really like these illustrations!
His website, tons more to see: Jo3bot