Final concertina

Love

The first thing that came to my mind when thinking of the word was love heart sweets

I used the Image above to make the
love heart sweet spell the word flux
instead of the usual things they say

Spikeyy!!

I found this quite difficult to think about in terms of a visual language but started to experiment with pins

Then I started to look at holly leaves and arranged them to make the word

Toxic

I decided to keep this one simple and just look at the colours used to portray the image of toxic through the colours used, I stuck to Greens, Blacks, Yellows because they are toxic colours and remind me of things like acid and mould and the colours Black and Yellow indicate danger and warnings.

after looking at these images I decided to go with this
one for my final piece

Plastic

I found it quite difficult to think of initial ideas for the word plastic so I started with some obvious things,

I made the word flux out of plastic lego bricks.

Then I made it from plastic Hamma beads. 

You place a sheet of brown paper on
the peg board that the beads are on then
iron over to melt the beads together

Then I made the word flux from plastic fridge magnets.
This will be final image because I like how simple it is.

Childlike Flux

 

I began with a spider diagram of everything that was childlike I could think of, other words that the same or similar to the word childlike and any other childlike things. I then looked at some old school books to see how a child would write and the shape of the letters and asked family and friends to interpret how they think a child would write the word 'Flux' using primary coloured wax crayons.

And then I looked at fonts that were related to children's handwriting and copied them into my research and added colour, as I think that bright colours reflect the idea of something being childlike greatly.

Vintage flux

Some words that come to mind from the word Vintage. 

Classical

Floral 

Old/worn/outdated

Victorian

I started of by researching Typefaces that looked vintage using the ones on my mac and on dafont. I looked for a serif old fashioned style lettering and traced them from the screen.

When I'd found a font that I think best suited its purpose and style I traced it onto a piece of paper and tea stained it then slightly burned the edges so that it looked old and vintage.

I also think that floral patterns have quite a vintage element to them so I took photo's of some floral patterns on my clothes and around my house.

Image from a prospectus from
Nottingham trent University
that I had on my wall.

  


Above are some scans of patterns in my clothes