Bank Gambler LOST 1.4 BILLION

I was reading news articles about the recession  and found about a man who worked for the bank called UBS.  He lost £1.4 Billion .

His name is Kweku Adoboli  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20338042

After reading about this article , I decided to draw illustrations and make typography relevant to this story for magazine layout practice and developing my skills  for graphic design.

Here is my illustration. The man was a gambler.Therefore, I decided to produce a slot-machine which is own by the bank. Because  the banks and the Adoboli gambled with our money.

Gameover – Adoboli lost the money before the recession – he could have been one of the causes.

I used a 10 to make this font !

 

The other half

I did not think that the illustration was exiting and interesting . This is because its was quite plain and boring . I decided to make a typography. using Money as a subject. My first plan was to get my 1 and 2 penny jar and produce the fonts out of that, butt his hand been done already.

So I decided to get a £10 note and scan it. I then looked at the note and found all 26 letters within the note. Some letters where difficult to find. – I tried not to use the letters on the note because that would have been boring.

I Managed to find all 26 letters within a £10 note.
Some where more difficult then others.

My Favorite letters are the C (queens hair) , the ‘E’ from the Queens Crown and the ‘D’ , ‘P’ , ‘Q’ which are from the top , with all the curly bits are.

Some letters where very difficult yo find such as the  ‘U’ and the ‘Y’ .

I went on to use this font for my magazine covers.

Simple Typography !

I decided to set my self a challenge: To create  Simple but interesting fonts using only Adobe Photoshop and i could take longer then 30 minuets for each Set.

The Top set of Fonts- are the more successful fonts (in my opinion) I tried to make all the fonts unique and interesting.

For most of the Fonts I used the blending options and some of the Filters.

Clean and sharp.

Lots of layers .
Was the most complicated out of all of them.

Looks Futuristic

Looks complicated but i just used the Emboss tool.

Whats your Favourite ?

My First Typography

I decided to create ‘fonts’ using Adobe Photoshop because there are endless possibilities and it can  be done so much easily then hand-drawing and / or taking photographs to produce Typography ( which I did before) .

For my first Photoshop Font ,  I made a Fiery text. Which was much more simple then it looks.  I first picked a text ( I used Trebuchet)  I gave the font layers – in the middle was dark red , then a light yellow and more red on top of that. I blurred parts of each letter. I then Liquidfied  each letter to make it wavy like fire. After this was complete I  found an image of fire and put it on top of the text and rubbed the unimportant areas.

The Bottom font (fire) was the original.

Playing with the Filters on Photoshop.

This is My first Post.