Designs and Publications
I much preferred the subtractive style over the additive as my preferences lead towards the minimalistic.
Taking away details and breaking things down into individual lines and shapes was an interesting style of work.
Breaking images down to simple shapes allowed for easier recreation of the general feel of images and allowed for repetition to be used in future images as simple shapes are easier to tile and repeat throughout a piece.
One of the biggest questions I was asking myself during this exercise was about whether doing something like putting a solid colour over a section, am I creating an additive piece by adding a new colour or layer, or am I creating a subtractive piece by covering up details.
These images used an additive drawing strategy. It’s not a style I enjoy as my style more revolves around minimalism.
However I felt that the use of repetition was useful in creating shapes and visual interest. I would continue on this style of creation to break away from the symmetry and grid like structure and use it to create more complex shapes or images.
I also found that adding extra lines and shapes to existing cubes to create smaller shapes inside the cubes and to turn existing shapes into other things that exist. Such as the cube being turned into a building with a few extra lines.
The first of this sequence was simply arranging the most similarly looking boxes just to get some visual relationships.
The second was using all the line work I added around the edges of the boxes as well as any significant markings from the boxes artwork. Photoshop was a big help for this as I could layer everything easily. This produced some interesting lines and shapes as they are all similar sizes but have new alignments when layered over each other.
The progression of one of my final works for Creativity and Design.
“Everything will be okay in the end. If it’s not okay, it’s not the end.”
“Everything will be okay in the end. If it’s not okay, it’s not the end.”
The second iteration of my custom block typeface.
Micro Publications 