Adding Colour.

So I'm slowly starting to add colour to my patterns. I'm just using one colour as i don't want to make the images to complicated. I don't think that the colour is doing to much to the patterns and think that they look better left as black and white image's?

Trying Different shapes.

Applying my patterns to some unusual shapes. I feel that these dont work aswell as some of the others. They are beging to look a bit messy and also some are beging to look a bit normal.

Cropping and Repeating/Layering.

So basically trying to generate different patterns from the ones I have already made, by cropping, layering and repeating. Also I'm slowly trying to add colour.

Applying Patterns To Landmarks in London.

I applied my patterns to famous landmarks in London to see how they would look on an architectural shape.I then merged of them altogether to create a skyline of London.I think the one that works best is the zebra print patten, as i feel that the contrast between the white and black work well together.

Generating More Patterns

 Generating more patterns. Trying out different shapes to see if i could make them more harsher on the eye. I found that circle's worked the best as when you repeat the patterns and put them side by side, the small areas of white space make the images more confusing.

Developing Ideas.

Zebra 1

Zebra 2



Tiger

Giraffe

I liked the idea of trying to create optical illusions, So i  gave it a go and came up with the idea of using animal prints as they are designed to confuse or hide them from them bring hunted. I found images of animals heads and positioned and repeated them in such away that it is hard to see that their is an animals head in them.I like the out comes and am going to continue to make and develop these.

Adding Colour

These are from my tracings which i made from La Pedrera Rooftop photograph. I scanned them in to photoshop shop and started to add colour to them, as well as cropping, layering and changing the opacity. From these my favourite ones are the spiral ones. 

Random data pattens.

I was given a grid that had a X and Y axes to work with, I was then given a dice, I had to roll the dice to get my gird coordinates, with does coordinates I plotted them on the grid which took me to the square that i could colour part or all of that square in to produce a random patten.

 From these random data pattens we had produce a piece a graphics that shows the number of people that live in the whole world as well as individual countries as well we done this as a bar chart. The second piece is the percentages of the amount of people that voted for political parties, we used the percentage of people that voted for that party to increase or decrease the patten that we used.

Patten making



Original's



The 3rd task.I was given a sheet of 3 different pattens to work from. I had to creat a patten tile from these's so that they could all be interlinked. This task was very challangeing as it was hard to creat a patten that interlinked with one another without it being a square. I then scanned these in to photoshop and repeated it over and over again to produce these pattens.

I then chose one of the pattens that I had found and turned it into a positive and a nagative image, and layer it.

I was given a photograph of La Pedrera Rooftop architecture to work from. I had to trace different pattens that I could see from that one image.

Ditti Press's 12 Swatches.

These are the 12 colours we have to work from.

The Ditto Press Brief

Ditto Press is a printing/publishing company based in London. We are looking for a new publication that shows off the capabilities of our printer in an innovative and intersting way. The final product will need to reflect our aesthetic and make full use of our machines potential.

We are looking to produce a small publication that addresses a range of issues:

• The way the ink sits on the papers
• Legibility
• overlapping different colours
• Different photographic rasterisation effects
• Gradient effects
• Anything else you can think of

the final product will carry a selection of test prints designed by a range of students. Each student is required to submit a novel idea for binding the publication, which we expect to be beween 5 and 10 test prints.

Ditto Press

Ditto Press is a print-publishing company based in London. They were the first company in the UK to specialise in Risograph printing, Which is a cross between digital and screen printing. Some of their clients include the ICA, the Tate, Kensington Royal Palaces, John Morgan Studio, Neville Brody, 176 Gallery, the German Embassy, Abake and Off Modern.