Egle Vesk's Folio (short)

Portfolio Works by Egle Vesk

MA Communication Design , Kingston University, London, England BA Graphic Design , Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn, Estonia

HOME Home project communicates what home means to me.

I research subjects like dream house to homelessness to existentialism and I analyze my own moving addiction. I map my research for accommodation, surroundings that make me feel “at home� and relationships. My aim is to connect visually and conceptually materialism, spiritualism, dialogism and create balance between these elements. I represent all three ideas on different layers using various sizes of pages for each group. I combine pages in a way that separate ideas can start to communicate to each other and construct double meanings.

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Egle Vesk / Graphic Design / Design Methodologies / Home

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Egle Vesk / Graphic Design / Design Methodologies / Home

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WHITEWASH BUILDING INTERDISCIPLINARY PRACTICE Compiled by Egle Vesk, Roxana Bacian,

Kerry Hyndman, Alex Dring BIP Project analyses the idea of selling an awareness.

The aim is to highlight the way big corporations whitewash over the negative aspects of their services, making the consumer think they are doing something positive for the world by buying their goods. Having looked at the ways companies use fear/guilt to sell their products, we plan to use this concept by taking green washing to the extreme. This means promoting negative products in a socially conscious and eco friendly manner. We chose products that had now become advertising taboos; either not being advertised or coming with serious health warnings.

Egle Vesk / Graphic Design / Building Interdisciplinary Practice / Whitewash

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INFOGRAPHICS FOR TRANSPORT BALTI RAILWAY STATION PROJECT The brief was to promote Balti Railway transport and design infographics that could be taken with you whilst traveling. I chose to design a brochure for the three different train companies that run from the same train station but had no common leaflet. I laid out existing timetables and redesigned the rail scheme and maps.

Egle Vesk / Graphic Design / Balti Railway Station

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ESTONIAN ACADEMY OF ARTS JOURNAL NR.4 EKA Journal NR.4 is compiled by second and third year students. The project aim is to introduce the graphic design as a discipline, the way it is seen by students themselves. Every student’s work became very individual and not always about graphic design itself. It is about things that do matter beyond a graphic design like: source of inspiration, cultural awareness, communication, research, creativity and so on.

Egle Vesk / Graphic Design / EKA Journal Nr.4

PACKAGING SOUND MUSIC FOR YOUR PLANTS Listen music: http://umblu.com/mfyp.html

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CONVEY Convey is a project in which the sound effects and the information they hold is transferred to a still image from a movie onto a spread sheet where an image represents a sound effect. The image next to it represents the real sound, how the effect is actually made. All thought the work is about sounds, it is just as an example to show how much information can be exploited by unknowing.

Egle Vesk / Graphic Design / Convey

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COMIC BOOK FIRST IMPRESSIONS First Impressions lasts 3 seconds and forever.

This comic book reflects hard on things that have created strong impressions for me in London. Story is treated spontaneously with wittiness and humour.Through the project I test my powers of observation and have a bit of fun.

Egle Vesk / Graphic Design / Innovation And Exploration / First Impressions

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Egle Vesk / Graphic Design / Innovation And Exploration / First Impressions

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Egle Vesk / Graphic Design / Innovation And Exploration / First Impressions

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TEA PARTY TYPEFACE Tea party typeface was specially created to illustrate and headline a chapter of Alice In Wonderland by Lewis Carroll.

Egle Vesk / Graphic Design / Typefaces

ASCETIC TYPEFACE Ascetic typeface was created for ecological reasons. In that we only use ink to print out parts of the letter which makes it recognizable.

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VIA — SOCIAL CONSCIOUSNESS Via intends to portray power structures to communicate views about imbalances of power and wealth.

I use dialogue, binary oppositions, texts and images to create a visual essay to show connections between social consciousness and social inequality. This project is an experiment of construction and deconstruction of meanings. It does not deliver ready made solutions instead I apply ideas of opposition to rise questions and open discussions about the matter.

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Egle Vesk / Graphic design / Final Masters Project / Via—Social Consciousness

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Egle Vesk / Graphic design / Final Masters Project / Via—Social Consciousness

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THE COMMENT This work was developed after reading online comments of an Estonian daily newspaper. The Comment is about the merge of old and new mediums and the ways they meet each other in odd circumstances. I found similarities on my own thoughts and those of Roland Barthes in his essay called The Death Of The Author. I altered the original newspaper articles and created a new version of it using comments from the online newspaper.

Egle Vesk / Graphic Design / The Comment

THE TALLINN’ 91ONWARDS WE WILL PROVIDE The project is compiled by first year students during a week-long workshop. The Tallinn’ 91 Onwards became a collection of newspaper covers. There are certain elements in the newspapers that always have their own identity and form. I play around with typical graphic elements and re-use them in my design approach.The cover story is about the world greatest terrorist organization called society.

We Will Provide is performed by Egle Vesk and Remo Randver. Text by Remo Randver and photos by Katri Kuusk.

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SHIP HAPPENS SHE This book is compiled by first year students. The starting point of this assignment was a short story called The Flying Enterprise. I focus on romantisation, unsolved mysteries and open ending of the story rather than on the tragedy. My part of the work named She is based on the original short story with small changes in it. For an example I swopped the ship’s name with word she to let the story sound more like a love letter and I did experiments with the text, using the same content in new form solutions.

Egle Vesk / Graphic Design / Ship Happens

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BOOK SERIES H.G.WELLS These three social novels by Wells talk about social order, personal liberty, modern slavery, moral relativism and relations between sexes.

My challenge was to create a hardback cover design that works as a set and establish the books as timeless fiction. Cover image illustrates a character and the subject of each book and bonds the series together.

Visualized part of a locomotive wheel portraits either class struggles as broken circle (Kipps), center of relationships as coupling rod (Love and Mr.Lewisham) or modern slavery as spokes (The History of Mr. Polly).

Egle Vesk / Graphic Design / Book Series / Herbert George Wells

Purpose of the book jacket is to hide damaged parts of the cover to communication controversial aesthetic and raise questions about hidden and revealed stories. Fashion of lapels, fabrics and patterns give us sense of occasion and introduce identity of Edwardian gentleman.

Spoiled book covers reflect social critisism on subject, like changing values in society (Kipps), low versus high morality (Love and Mr.Lewisham) and diversity of meaning (The History of Mr. Polly).

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FINAL MASTERS PROJECT PORTFOLIO Final Masters Project Portfolio is showing how I was processing my Final Masters Project. It is collection of research, visual examples, design concept and design decisions.

Egle Vesk / Graphic Design / Final Masters Project Portfolio

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LESS IS MORE This project was created during a short class of marketing. The assignment was to pay close attention to the ways we completed briefs in other classes. T he comic book is talking about the production process itself with a “Do it yourself” attitude. As I was inspired by everyday life and I decided to divide a diary-styled storyboard into chapters to make it more clear for the viewer.

Egle Vesk / Graphic Design / Less Is More

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Egle Vesk / Graphic Design / Less Is More

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