Rob Lycett Creative Suite 1: Bitmap Experimentation and an Introduction to Indesign

Bitmap Experimentation and an Introduction to Indesign

 Each Thursday afternoon, students have a 4 hour workshop with either John Kelly, Rob lycett or Sarah Nesturuk. The students have been separated into three groups, group A which is my group, covers the graphic design students, group B is a combination of both graphic design and animation students and group C are animation students.

 The first workshop my group had was with Rob Lycett. As a warm up activity he introduced the group to bitmapping in Photoshop. Bitmapping is where you convert an image from RGB format into a BMP format, the image will first be prompted to be converted to grayscale before the conversion to BMP. Then you can choose intensity and shape for the bitmap effect, Doing this results in a black and white newspaper look which adds a textured feel to the image. We were provided with a range of photos to choose from that we could edit, I chose a skull on a tree stump as my image. Below is the outcome of bitmapping said image.

 When it comes to using bitmap on Photoshop, I have a familiarity with the effect but have never fully used it until today, however I might consider using this effect as a possible design asset for future projects/designs. 

After the Bitmap activity we were then introduced to Indesign. Due to my Design & print apprenticeship prior to joining the university I already knew basics to Indesign such as the creation of guidelines, bleeds, margins and slug, utilising master pages and linking/embedding imagery. This provided me with an advantage to the task that was set for the remainder of the workshop. Afterwards we were shown a variety of posters created by Josef Müller Brockmann, a swiss graphic designer who also studied architecture.
I find his work to every simple yet effective, it gets the message across with a minimal design to accompany it. The works of Josef have in fact inspired many designers of the 21st century. For the remainder of the workshop we were required to undertake the task of recreating one of Brockmann's posters by eye. An interesting fact about the poster we will be recreating is that although to most the poster looks like simple shapes placed vertically, when in fact it actually reflects the harmony of the song that the poster is promoting, the subtlety of this was rather fascinating. I found this to be a rather enjoyable workshop and below is my recreation of Brockmann's poster.   





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