James Norton
Hi, my name is James Norton and I have been learning and practicing the world of graphic design for the last 3 years and I have loved every second of it. My original ambition was to go into packaging design as this was something I was interested in at school but thanks to a foundation diploma at Ravensbourne my thoughts changed. I took the path to go into the visual communication section of this course which completed changed my view point for what I wanted to do in the future. From here it was an obvious jump to go onto the course at Camberwell where I have learnt so much and from this decision I have developed a real understanding of graphic design. My future endeavours were shaped by the last year of this course as I became very interested in typography and layout. I would very much like to go into book design, where I can practice my skills in typography and layout.
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The pieces can be read inside the box as if turning bible pages.
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The pieces were placed in a confession box to reflect the sins within the song.
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The typography reflects the religous feel to the song.
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A typographic response to the song ‘I am a walrus’ by the Beatles.
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The format is designed to reflect the ploice siren that John used at the start of the song.
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I used typography to also show the music visually.
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A set of colour coded research books looking at the relation of what we hear to what we see, Visual sound.
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I looked at many aspects of visual sound, from graphic notation to …...
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...... Music artwork
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A visual response to the song ‘The way we were’.
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Different colour papers were used to reflect each note of the song.
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Each note lenght is reflected by the lenght of the sheet of paper.
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The pitch of the notes is reflected in the thickness of the paper
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A lyric book designed for a new rock band called ‘This way up’
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The arrows interact with the lyrics in all of the spreads.
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Arrows where used individually on the instrumental pages to reflect the nature / sound of the piece.
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The arrows were used to reflect the bands name and are used through out the campaign.
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This booklet was finished with a red stich to complement the black and white design.
