Sunday 22 November 2009

Amelie (the newest addition to 80 castle road) she loves to play with orange wiggly worms :)

http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=1171572251363&ref=mf

My first attempts at word as image (a wee bit of typography for screen prints)

For our fundraising as a year group we have arranged an event to raise money for our final year show, Coffee Republic have said they will exhibit a selection of prints through-out December to help promote our fundraising event which is being held at postcards. They have a PR company who are going to run a story on us and try and get the event promoted in as much local media as possible. Also Coffee republic mentioned that they have been chosen as the venue for Bournemouth's annual local business meeting (which is happening in December). This means massive exposure for those who have work up at this time. They seem really keen to help push our work, get it seen and get it sold.

The Brief:

"Design a unique illustration based around the theme "animals".

Illustrations can be submitted as either a one off hand rendered piece, a screen print or a letterpress.

All work must be A2 in size and finished to the highest possible standards as it will be going up for sale into the public domain.

All prints will be framed on submission at a cost covered by the course."



a cow











a pig











a chicken

having a tad bit of trouble linking me animals together.... hmmmmmm

Friday 20 November 2009

Finally conquered time management

So after handing in "Visual communication in context 2" today with no last minute rushing what so ever and with all projects to a decent standard Im preety happy how each of my final pieces turned out apart from "thank you" as me and the printer may of had a small disagreement on that one :( , Im thinking I may of just nailed the whole time management thing (at last). fingers crossed anyway. After this unit, Im feeling more and more inspired to crack on and do some more live and competition briefs...















Evaluation

Looking back on this project (New "from"Old), I have realised my attention to detail was lacking. I have since re taken the photographs and changed a few bits on the final designs, so they are ready for my portfolio for example the back of my labels are not alined with each, minor details like this are actually major details when it comes to going for an interview, and showing someone your portfolio. It is a matter of whether you will get the job or not.















Evaluation

Reflecting on my Business Identity project, I have found some of the typography needs work in order to be ready to print for my portfolio.
This was a hard project for me as I couldn't quite come to terms with the fact I was designing business stationary for a dead person and not myself. I can now understand the reasons behind this, as if it where for a client I would have been dealing with the same problems. I needed to make this bold and attention grabbing and I think I achieved this after many designs.














Evaluation

I really like the out come of this. This project was called "Thank you" we had to say thank you to someone of our choice, I chose Josephine Cochron the inventor of the dishwasher. I had many final designs for the outcome of this project but after speaking to sally she told me the others where un necessary. I think I really achieved the antique look for this photograph seen as it was taken in our sink, this photograph shows how much more work we would of had to do with all the washing up, if it wasn't for her wise invention.














Evaluation

I really had fun with "Communicating Ideas" this project enabled me to really push the boat out with my ideas, this project was more about the idea itself than the design. I planned to create a social experiment to test how the average person gets affected by sound. I was really happy with the outcome, and the process was fun aswell, I learnt alot from this project and in the future I would like to set myself a project which expands on this.


We now have until next thurs, which is when we get our new briefs to crack on with those. Also for our fundraising as a year group we have arranged an event to raise money for our final year show, Coffee Republic have said they will exhibit a selection of prints through-out December to help promote our fundraising event which is being held at postcards. They have a PR company who are going to run a story on us and try and get the event promoted in as much local media as possible. Also Coffee republic mentioned that they have been chosen as the venue for Bournemouth's annual local business meeting (which is happening in December). This means massive exposure for those who have work up at this time. They seem really keen to help push our work, get it seen and get it sold.

The Brief:

"Design a unique illustration based around the theme "animals".

Illustrations can be submitted as either a one off hand rendered piece, a screen print or a letterpress.

All work must be A2 in size and finished to the highest possible standards as it will be going up for sale into the public domain.

All prints will be framed on submission at a cost covered by the course."

which also needs to be done by friday so... no rest for the wicked ha! I started looking into what illustrators have done on the subject matter before and i've found some real good stuff:










Friday 6 November 2009

After Fireworks, Sparklers, Marshmallow's, Toffee Apples, Cider and Brainstorming...

So after a very much uninspired yesterday with a few forced ideas and some panicking, today has been good! I was just taking my morning stroll to Costa and that was where the magic happened, hello creative genius you rescued me :) 

Basically I picked Julian Treasure and his talk on the 4 ways sound effects us... 
My plan is to create a social experiment to test how the average person gets affected by sound. Basically Im going to have a set of four blank boards whether they are white boards, chalk boards, wooden boards, (are things I still have to consider) each will have a set of headphones and will be placed in a busy environment (Im thinking Southbank) The headphones will each be playing different sounds (music or noise) but each will have a specific "mood" 1, Happy (something along the lines on Stevie Wonder: Master Blaster/or Dont you worry bout a thing?) 2, Sad, (Ive looked into a few film soundtracks pearl harbor being one) 3, Calm (was thinking something along the lines of Amiina: Seoul) 4, Uneasy/Angry (M83 Car chase terror or even just an alarm of some kind) Attached to each board will be some kind of drawing equipment which will be determined by the style of board I decide to go with, the idea being that it will make people stop and interact. On the board somewhere there will be the words "express yourselves here" if my theory works, each individuals drawing should be effected by the sound they are hearing.

Even after this afternoons tutorials Im still feeling pretty inspired (even more so in-fact) the feedback from Justin and the guys was good, I was told to listen to John Barry, John Williams, and the soundtrack to the film "Apocalypse Now", also maybe look into doing a "Smart board" type thing/ I should look into something along the lines of the Etch a Sketch too. But other than that I was told to crack on and "just do it" in the words of Nike :) 

Its now 07.25 pm and Im shattered........ZZZZzzzzzzzzzzz

Thursday 5 November 2009

1 Second sound recognition.

SABBATICAL: - Noun*

Any extended period of leave from one's customary work, esp. for rest, to acquire new skills or training, etc.


Wednesday 4 November 2009

Ted.com

So We've been given the brief for our new project "Communicating ideas" we have been asked to watch 7 talks from desigers such as Stefan Sagmeister, Mena Trott and Julian Treasure. We are then asked to respond to the idea presented and then communicate it visually by an appropriate means to the British public. We need to consider how the information would be disseminated and how to present our concepts.






















I have just finished watching the 7 videos the majority of them are very interesting indeed :) I think before I start my idea generation Im going to choose a video and watch it until I can pretty much recite it word for word, so I can start with my concepts with the best possible knowledge on my subject matter.

Monday 2 November 2009

Just a few things to look at...


http://vimeo.com/4660085 - A talk by Michael Crowe & Lenka Clayton they speak about their personal work and then move onto their ‘Mysterious letters’ project in which they send a handwritten letter to everyone in a small village. It has an excellent concept and is  beautifully delivered.

http://www.lenkaclayton.co.uk - link to her blog, for those of you who don't know Lenka is an Artist/film-maker/teacher.

also I just come across this site:

http://www.itsnicethat.com

it has on it some awesome designs, illustrations, advertisments, talks and even jobs!!

http://www.katemoross.com - well worth a look, this girl is only 23 and she is the pioneer of ISO and there in house Art director. 

“Kate Moross seems to be able to turn anything she touches in 27 million carat gold”
 VICE MAGAZINE






Dreamweaver...

So... Neil has been teaching us dreamweaver on tuesday evenings which I can honestly say is pretty damm awesome... considering we are only two sessions down, and I have dabbled with dreamweaver before, I am learning alot, and its not boring yey! I am also looking forward to my tuesday evenings in UNI which doesn't usually happen on these short courses. So thanks Neil! :)


CANNED! Not my finals, as im still on the hunt for some thin, shiney paper, but the design is there...











































"Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration, motivation, and a pinch of creativity". - Bo Bennet

some good stuff...

http://www.aisleone.net/2009/design/8-ways-to-improve-your-typography/

http://www.kendeegan.com/ - worth checking out a definite re-blog but some awesome designs :)


New from Old

The next project, which surprisingly I thoroughly enjoyed. We had to re-brand and design packaging from one of the following:
*Tapioca
*Lard
*Mushy Pea's
*Rice Pudding
*Fondou
*Tinned Pie's
*Spam
*Lunchen Meat
*Tinned/Canned Vegtables

After alot of Market research and idea processing I came up with a few design's this one is my final piece.













































Once I've photographed these labels onto my tin's I shall upload them to show how they will look on the shelves.

Basically the idea behind this is to re-brand and re-market tinned vegetables to the wealthier demographic, to do this I decided on adding a slight sex appeal to what would usually be a pretty bland product which mainly only the older generation generally  buy, due to the fact "tinned vegtables" have a long shelf life.

I decided to position my product in high end supermarkets such as Waitrose and M&S as this is where my target consumer would be more likely to shop...

I've been slacking on the blog front!

Well it's been a long while since I have posted, In-fact it was two briefs ago.

Firstly, project two, Business identity: we picked names from a "hat" all the names in the hat had a connection (they where all dead) we where asked to design a set of stationary for our chosen person, I chose Emmeline Pankhurst: She was the main suffragette, the woman who got women the vote! A very important, well respected, determined lady, who the women of today should owe a lot of thanks too. I found this project hard as I wanted to show the passion and importance of Emmeline, without undermining her.