Week 19/03/11

We have now made a start on our final project. This project requires me to complete two briefs and write a proposal. The brief I have chosen for the project and proposal is for a brand called Badboy. The company sell products for martial arts fighting, particularly clothing used for training. I have chosen this brief as I have not worked with clothing before. I also have previous experience with this type of culture as I worked in a bodybuilding  gym for two years and have an idea of the type of clothing these men want to wear.  On Tuesday I wrote a plan for the proposal, I aim to have the full proposal finished by next Tuesday.  

For contextual studies I completed the essay plan on for Tuesdays tutorial. I want to have the first half of the essay draft done by next Tuesday, I will be working on this over the weekend. In todays lesson (Friday) I am updating my blog and working on the NHS brief where we have to design a logo for the Newcastle Medical Photography Department. I am starting my ideas for the  design by researching other medical photography logos. I will then start to mind map and sketch ideas. 

Subeaze Flyer

We were asked to create a flyer for Subeaze. The flyer is intended to advertise the company to construction workers currently close to finishing their current work. It will be placed around construction sites in places used by the workers such as toilets and canteens.  I wanted the flyer to be eye catching and easily read so I used a white background to emphasize the text and images. For the imagery I created silhouettes of common tools found on construction sites so that the viewer can relate the contents of the flyer. I kept the information very simple and used a question to draw the reader in. 

Design a Twizy

Here is my entry for the design a Twizy brief. 

Subeaze

Here are my final designs for the Subeaze website. They asked me to design four more symbols to represent each branch of the company. Each one represents either oil, security, manufacturing, catering, mining, and construction.

Week 30/01/11 Typographic and Editorial Design (C1470)

I completed my research of looking at the typographic circle and now I intend to look at other editorial pieces to gain some inspiration for my own design. I am finding this part difficult as they brief isn't clear on the use of pictures and the amount of information I need to include. I aim by the end of this week to have finished all of my research and development and come up with the final design. The last 2 weeks have been busy with other projects as well.


Last week my logo design for Subeaze.com was chosen to be used on part of their website, they also asked me to design a further 5 symbols for each type of business they are branching out to. I worked on this over the weekend, with the deadline being Tuesday. I also worked on the A5 flyer for the next part of the Subeaze.com project and aim to get this finished by Friday. 


I have also been working on the design a Twizy brief, which was to create a design for a cars exterior. My idea behind my design was the emphasis on the car being used specifically for the city, being small and nippy. I looked at street art which links to the urban theme of the car, it is also influencing the design world heavily at the moment. This led me to the idea of the car driving through paint, I felt that the drips and spray of the paint would create an eye catching design. I have created it in illustrator over the weekend but feel the front of the car looks quite plain and needs something more to complete the design. I will work on this over the next week and aim to get a second design done by the deadline the 17th of Febuary. 

Week 16/01/11 Typographic and Editorial Design (C1470)

Last week I completed the research tasks 1 and 2, looking at David Carson's and Andrea Tinnes work. By annotating their typographic styles have provided me with the initial inspiration for the Pentagram brief. On the Tuesday the class was introduced to the grid system for setting up editorial designs to ensure they have balance. I also completed the class workshop on InDesign, this has helped me gain a better understanding on how to use the program which is essential for this project. 

This week I aim to get at least eight pages of the Circular Magazine annotated and analysed by Friday's lesson so that I can start to develop my ideas for the cover and two page spreads. I also need to choose a speaker from the Typographic Circle website to base my project on. 

Final design for Penguin Book cover competition and module C1428

This is my final design for the illustration project, I chose to design a cover for the Brothers Grimm Fairy tales aimed for children and adults with children. After looking at Toki Doki and Tado I went with cute contemporary design that I felt would attract both the target markets. I chose a very light blue background to make the images on the page stand out as I felt white would be too plain. 

I liked experimenting with the composition of the characters, particularly the thickness of the lines and overlapping of the opaque colouring. I found that I was very restricted on time for this project and this is evident in my design. I would have liked to experiment further this the typeface in the title as I feel that it doesn't look quite right on the page as it is quite thin and doesnt catch the viewers attention as much as i would have liked.