Image Module - Final Project

This Kanji symbol represents that word for River.

I created the symbols in Illustrator. The background texture was produced by scanning in a crinkled piece of sort thin paper.

This Kanji symbol represents that word for Mouth.

This Kanji symbol represents that word for Forest.

This Kanji symbol represents that word for Mountain.

This Kanji symbol represents that word for Rice Paddy.

For the final project of the module we were asked to take one of the previous completed briefs and develop it further. My original plan was to take the book that i had designed and to add the other alpha bets of the japanese language.

I decided that this was probably not the best thing to do in the end because we only had a limited time to produce the work, however I decided to maintain the Japanese theme and to develop the type as image brief that we had already completed earlier.

Above are 5 out of the 10 posters that I designed for the brief. I decided the focus on the oldest Japanese alphabet known as Kanji. This system of writing is derived from ancient Chinese and uses symbols that look like objects in the world around us.

I really enjoyed this project and think that I have created a series of eye catching posters that work very well together as a set. If I were to so this again I would think about screen printing the images to give them a more historic and sort of vintage feel.

Image Module - Book Fair Brief

Above are examples of Japanese bound books. The top one also has a leather bound front cover.



My plan was also to bind the book using Japanese binding. The obvious choice for a book about a Japanese alphabet. The diagram above shows where to drill the holes on the book to prepare it for binding.




The Katakana alphabet consists of these symbols. All of which I planned to put into the the book, each having their own individual page with the english phonetics at the bottom in small writing so the people who would potentially buy the books could pronounce them.



The bottom half of this page is a section taken from the second page of the book that explains the japanese vowel system an how the Japanese people pronounce them. I kept the design in keeping with the front cover and the red circle represents that Japanese flag.




The top half of this A4 page is the front cover of the book. I decided to make the design fairly minimal to represent the japanese peoples to the point attitude. The font that I used for the english is text is futura and for the japanese symbols I used a type face call Std W8. I later decided that this would also be one of the main themes for the book that I would use to represent all the symbols.

The bottom half of the page is one of the Japanese Katakana symbols and this is how they would feature throughout the entire book.



For this brief we were to select an object, shape, colour or sound and make a series of books about the chosen subject for a book fair that would be taking place in the University of Leeds.

I decided to make a book about one of the japanese alphabets called Katakana. As I am currently learning the japanese language I thought that it would be appropriate to link it with my studies at college.

Japan Appeals