As a distance learning student at OCA you’re not an autodidact, you have the benefit of tutor reports and a formal assessment at the end...

'If you are not willing to see more than is visible, you won't see anything’ Ruth Bernhard (1902-2006) Alberto Giacometti had already...

Start by doing your own research into some of the artists discussed above. Then, using slow shutter speeds, the multiple exposure...

Start by doing some of your own research into the photographers discussed above. Then, using fast shutter speeds, try to isolate a frozen...

The Designs Workflow /Monday; Printing, Getting Materials for book binding and hard cover making, Book Binding & Sewing I was so excited...

Using a found book, significantly alter the appearance of the pages to create a new volume that is personal to you. This can be any kind...

Find two artists’ books that you feel demonstrate an interesting relationship between their form and content through the materials that...

Below is an extract from Jules Verne’s 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. Using a single typeface of your choice, lay out the text in as...

This two part exercise aims to understand the relationship between typography, the grid, and the page in more depth by analysing existing...

Find as many examples of type as you can from a range of sources, including newspapers, magazines, flyers, leaflets, online, and printed...

Your first assignment asks you to create a small publication or fanzine based on your interest in books and their design. It allows you...

Brief Given the current development of the book from printed to digital technologies, What do you see as the future of the book, for...

Consider the importance of books to you both personally and within a broader global sense. First of all, think back to the earliest books...

This quick exercise is designed to introduce the idea of analysing and reflecting on the work of others, and to give you some material...

Brief A youth theatre club is performing a production of Abigail’s Party. Mike Leigh’s tale of suburban taste is set in the 1970s and...

Newton and Ridley, the brewers best known for their pub, The Rovers Return, are opening a cafe/wine bar nearer the city centre. The bar...

Brand Presentation If all is well make up a presentation pack to show the client – in this instance your tutor. some articles and...

The Brief This exercise is about how you deal with two different spaces to work in. You have been asked to design an A3 poster and an...

Brief For this exercise, you are going to make up a poster list for yourself. It is intended that you keep it pinned to a noticeboard or...

Find some examples of information graphics. For example bus timetables, city maps, diagrams or representations of statistical data. Look...