Bryan Patrick Todd Research

Bryan Patrick Todd is a graphic designer who believes in a simple approach with a strong emphasis on typography and illustrated elements. Below is a wall mural designed by Bryan. I chose to analyse this piece of work because it will inspire me to create something that will liven up the walls in the refectory.

Here is a photo of the side of a building which is being renovated into flats. Currently its just boring concrete.

Here is the foundation to Bryan's design. Even just painting it in one colour makes the building stand out from the surrounding buildings.

 

 

 

 

Here are two photos of the finished mural design. Now the building stands out really well and catches your eye. Although the plain black wall stood out, adding the design has made it stand out even more and broke up the wall a bit. I plan to do something similar in the refectory by adding designs to the walls to break up the red which covers the whole room.

 

 

 

 

 

Here is another wall design by Bryan. Once again he has used a black background and two colours for the design. The reason he has used a black background may be because it makes the colour on top stand out more. Also on both designs the colour of all/most of the text is white and then the third colour is for decorative things such as patterns, pictures and underlining. I think this is because the text needs to be easy to read and so the colour that stands out most on a black background is white. However if all the designs were black and white they could come across a bit boring and so a third bright colour like red and orange in these two examples is added to make it look more exciting. Something I will use in my designs inspired by Bryan is the use of three colours, one for the background, one for the text and one for decorative things.