Tuesday, 21 December 2010
Wednesday, 8 December 2010
Initial Website Designs
Saturday, 4 December 2010
My new website identity logo.
This is one of the logos i have desinged for the website i will sortly be creating. I have come up with this layout idea for my home page through extensive research, looking at use of space and typography. When i was thinking up my home page i knew one thing that i didn't want a normal boring layout, with options on the left side and a picture in the middle changing depending on the option you click on. I found an image online with the same layout as what i have created here, i decided to make my own version. I have based all the words round my new logo, all the black, bold words around the logo are options that are linked to other pages these pages show the what the option is called. I wanted to bring a personal touch to the website so i included the smaller purple words that name a few favourite things i like. I am not sure yet if these purple words could be links but i am currently thinking it would make the site to busy.
These are some testers for logos that represent me as a designer and my name. I have chosen a graohic, bold design because they are the most effective and people remember them more. Purple is going to be a running theme through my website as i like the colour and iv asked close friends and family the question 'what colour would suit me' nearly all said either purple.
Thursday, 25 November 2010
New brief- Web Design
I have reseached and chosen some of my favourite artists to talk about they i like there websites...
I really like the layout of Caroline Gardners website -> easy to access
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Jason Munns--> simple graphic layout, small thumbnail when clicked on will appear large on the side.
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Anna Wolf -->soild title with a showreel that scrolls sideways
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Gerald Scarf --- Use of a splash page before you get onto the acual website.
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Final live brief outcomes for TLK and Inspire
This is the Final Inspire Poster that will be printed and shown around the university to promote the talks. I helped in the designing of the layout of the posters, I think they turned out well. The tickets that another section of our group designed also have the same layout, following the same continuity.
The inspire logo was designed by Russel. The logo represents the thought process of an individual being inspired, a visual representation of the word 'inspire'. I feel the colours used are very appropriate, even though pink sometimes can be seen as a girly colour. The pink in this case works well with the purple and the graphic image, appeals to a wide audience.
The TLK Logo was designed by Ben. The logo has a simple design that works on many levels and can be used for different media. The bold type at the top of a specially chosen colour choice. The white type and the muted colours give a fresh, light feel to the design. Each of the four colours will be one of the four events that will take place over the next year at The Arts University Bournemouth. When that event comes round the posters should be easy enough to change, just make that certain colour larger and drop down the other colours but still showing all the information.
Thursday, 18 November 2010
Presentation Layout Sheets for VCC2
These are all the presentation layout sheets i have made to show my final pieces accompanied by text explaining the meaning of each one.
Wednesday, 17 November 2010
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These are the layouts with the original text which still i still like but in my crit the typography didn't go down so well, the main concern was that the text looked to much like it had been done on paint on Illustrator tool. I have experimented with other methods of producing hand rendered text, using ink and paints, i tested them in the book cover layouts. I thought still that the original text looked the best and suited the random colour images on the pages and fitted the non-guided layout. These examples above are my preferred layouts.
I have now finished the layout for my front, back covers and spine, all i need to focus on is the title and what type i will finally use. The back cover is simple name, title, blurb and barcode with price. This same layout will follow out though out all my books, making my graphic system.
Tuesday, 16 November 2010
Thursday, 11 November 2010
Graham Greene Book Covers
I have designed six book covers to fit in a display box, this item this will be sold as a collectable for excising fans or for new readers. This box set will give the to reader to own and read some of Graham Greene's best novels. The books have a graphic sequence to them, the connection is when you lay the books down next each other in the right order they will make up an image of Graham Greene this image will also be seen on the outside of the box as a secret guide, I think Graham Greene would enjoy this little twist was he was in the secret intelligence service which influenced his book 'Our man in Havana' . The colours of both the books and the box are very bold with a black background which makes the bright colourful image and text pop, this for me sums up his career, his writing was always quite serious but at the same time being very popular. 
Tuesday, 9 November 2010
Book Cover Design
Chosen author Graham Greene.
Nautical Nonsense
My entry for Nautical Nonsense, a competition for students on Illustration, Graphics and Viscom. This is an opportunity for your work if chosen to be exhibited at 60 Million Postcards in Bournemouth Centre. All you need to pay is £10 to have your prints printed, after that all the proceeds go to you, its a great chance to get you work seen by the public. 
Wednesday, 27 October 2010
Recent Changes to Poster.
I relised that on my poster design that the reel of cheese/ also a record was not obvious enough, so i have decided to relate the image to cheese rolling down a hill, i have shown this easily by putting a darker shade of green on a angle to show the hill and making the image slightly smaller shows the direction of movement which help the reader recognise what the image signifies. Making the text bigger at the bottom, showing the activities as something you should focus on. [[posterous-content:pid___0]]
Recent Changes to Poster.
I relised that on my poster design that the reel of cheese/ also a record was not obvious enough, so i have decided to relate the image to cheese rolling down a hill, i have shown this easily by putting a darker shade of green on a angle to show the hill and making the image slightly smaller shows the direction of movement which help the reader recognise what the image signifies. Making the text bigger at the bottom, showing the activities as something you should focus on. 
Tuesday, 26 October 2010
Crit on Business Identity
The group crit we had on the 22nd/10 didn't go so well for me. I presented a mind map on projection and a few machetes to show my final business card ideas to be passed round. The crit lead me to the conclusion that i had take an obvious root into the identity of Buddy Holly by focusing on his image to much (glasses, suit, guitar), what they wanted was something about him but totally avoiding the obvious which i did catch when the brief was given to me. I have kept my ideas as starting points, but i have totally gone back to research to find a different root i can take this business card on.
The strongest bit of information that i came across was that when Buddy was a teenager, he first used a wire recorder to record him singing, i started looking at wire recorders for a while, then moved on to recording wire packaging which i really like the colours and the graphics on the boxes where really vintage. What really took my imagination was the reels that the wire rolled round which had graphics on to, then it came to me, why not make a business card in the shape of a ring with a whole in the middle, it would reference the musical side of Buddy Holly, and the piece of equipment that introduced him to producing the thing he would do as a very successful career. I also looked at his record label which was Decca Records but then got renamed to Coral Records in his prime years in the late 50's. The colours of Coral Record covers really influenced me, they had some really retro covers with all the right colours seen in the 50's, browns, creams, loads of orange, bold fonts and block colours. Corals actual records also have the round graphic circle in the middle of there records.
I researched the recording reels, there made of plastic and are on average 7inches in diameter and 1inches thick, which is massive when on average a business card is 85 millilitres by 55 millilitres, i don't want my business card that small but abit smaller to be practical.
Thursday, 21 October 2010
Summer Project
As a summer project we where put into groups to combine a previous project that we did on Indesign on an artist, which we learnt how to use the programme, learn about layouts and the artist we had to transcript, my artist was Ellen Lupton. There where four people in my group, we all uploaded our spreads and put them all together on Indesign, the way we got our spreads to flow was changing the fonts so they where all the same, that all the pages where on a six column grid, format all the pages so they fitted A4 and number all the pages. After all those changes we packaged the files and made it in to PDF so we could get the book professionally printed for £5 each book in the Enterprise building on the Arts Unviercity Collage Bournemouth campus.
We got the book back and we where all pleased with the end result. I thought that all the pages together looked better in the book, we only brought two books but we got a cheeky one free because there was an apparent blemish on one of them which i couldn't see, added bonus.
Business Identity
I have been given a name of a person for whom i am creating a set of business stationery for, a business card, Letterhead and a Compliment slip. The person i have been given is late 50's rock and roll icon Buddy Holly. I have been researching Buddy so i can understand him then i can reflect him clearly through the stationery.
The main things that i found out about Buddy, he was in a band called the Crickets. His iconic look and music was one of the pioneering influences for the rock and roll movement. 'Buddy' was a nickname given by his family. The 'Strat' was the guitar he always played. I found a quote about buddy when he was alive by a critic Bruce Elder 'The single most influenced creative force in early rock and roll', I liked this quote it sums up the impact that he had on rock and roll, even though his short lived success from 1957 to 1959 when he died in a plain crash at the age of 22. Buddy Holly influenced other musicians to come like The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and Bob Dylan, But the main influence for Buddy was seeing Elvis Presley sing in 1955 at Lubbock which changed Buddys view on his music alot, he wanted to incorporate lead guitar, strong rhythm and slap bass into his music.
What has mostly helped me think up a visual idea from my research is his iconic look, pin-stripe suit, geek glasses and his guitar. I created three prototypes of business cards i could make. I really liked how they looked, a jacket that opened to reveal the information, his guitar with the information written on then you pull up the fret board which reveals his name and a simple design o just his glasses that are glossy with the information written on the lenses. 
Wednesday, 20 October 2010
Live Breif
We have been set live brief by our tutor Neil for a new upcoming programme, that is set on encouraging students to come to a lecture once a month at the Arts Univercity Bournemouth. There will be guest speakers from the professional industry talking about there career and will be anwsering questions from students. We have been given the task to create a new name and logo for this event. We where given the name 'Inspire' firstly as an idea for a name. We liked inspired but thought we would think up as a group a few other names, Keen, Design Talk (DSN TLK), Dioid, Inspire-Aspire where are most popular ideas. We still liked Inspire, we felt that the word explained the event perfectly and it didn't come arcoss to heavy or intrusive. We are still bouncing ideas of eachother at the moment and individually having a go at producing them visually on illustrator. We have come up with 'Inspire' all colourful with wisps of colour coming off the end letter.
Monday, 18 October 2010
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I had my Crit for my Thankyou project, which i have made up a festival to thank dairy farmers. I am planning to show my thanks by creating a poster for this event. I don't think my Crit went so well, but i already knew why. I didn't present my work professionally and my actual poster where all wrong, like my tutor Neil said there is hierarchy between image and text. I showed for posters and they where all abit of a mess really. So Neil told me of a poster designer Jason Munns, i had a look at his work and was really impressed with the way he used graphic design to visually tell you all the information you would need to know. His posters are really simple but cleaver which draws your eye in to the image.
I have spent a while looking at his posters and they have inpired me! I have thought up a way visually a day music/cheese festival could be represented visually together. I looked at Jason munns posters and he is very influenced my music, he uses images of vinyls often, i took this and used it but made the vinyl playing look like the cheese you chase down the hill when you do cheese rolling. The images work perfectly together, both round and both have the same movement when in action, spinning! I spent time making the poster on illustartor, i want to now try and think up more ways for this poster to look. 
Friday, 15 October 2010
Thursday, 14 October 2010
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Thank You
The first project in our second year is called thankyou, we where given the option to choose a person to say thankyou to i thought long and hard. I decided to thank someone who produces one of my favourite foods, cheese, that person is dairy farmers. I decided to thank dairy farmers in particular because of how hard they work and all for not very much pay. I was thinking about what i could give them as a gift or gesture, i could't think of anything they would possiably want or need. So i started to think what would they appreciate? A day off.
I started to imagen an event that could take place that would say thankyou to dairy farmers but also celerate cheese, this event would be also an oppitunity for farmers to gather and take advantage of the people coming to the day festival by selling there products, having a livestock show and other events, this would benifit the farmer immensely.
I named the day 'Dairy Day' after the main event (its all about everything dairy and i want it to be a day festival). I am not actually organising this festival, what i am going to do is pretand that it is happening and i am put in charge of designing the poster for the promotion side. In this poster i will illustrate images that will relate to the countryside as will the colour sceme. My poster will show all the needed information and also be pleasing to the eye, this will hopefully actract people to the festival.
I felt that this project needed a logo, so i designed a dairy cow head within a light yellow triangle, the relevance for this yellow triangle is that it relates to one of my favouite cheeses 'The Laughing Cow' which has always been in my diet since i can remember. I could use this logo if i there was an opitunity to brand mercendice, it would make it recognisable and would create a strong brand idenitity.
The posters i have designed are quite simple, i am tring to keep the feel of the poster quite fresh with light colours. The four posters below i created arn't at finishing point yet, they still need development. The typography doesn't suit the images yet, but i am going to test more fonts. In the Crit, my posters will be assessed and hopefully i will get some direction to go in because i am currently finding it hard to progress with these posters. I need some help to decide on structure and layout, i want these posters to have all the needed information but at the same time to be graphic and have lots of negitive space.
Monday, 13 September 2010
Love Sick
I have been drawing alot this summer, this is the only one i liked enough to put on my blog. Drawing crazed birds doing different things, its all in the expression!
Drawing isn't enough, I need to start experimenting with all my programmes i have learnt over the past year in viscom as this summer has just consisted of working to pay the rent, need a loan quick. When my loan comes through i want to focus on getting a placement, first priority and spend loan on travel! you heard it first.
Sunday, 27 June 2010
Barcodes
Using ink and quill allows you to create some really bold straight black lines, perfect for this kind of picture...
I have always liked barcodes, they interest me. I used to collect them, the numbers in contrast to the width of the lines, what did it all mean (well i know its a code but a unique one, only for one type of product). I was always interested in identity and what if people where coded in one big super computer, what would my code look like. Putting barcodes with imagery of people makes a really bold picture, it ads structure and a sense of meaning.
lets talk binding...
I have found since i have learnt the art of binding books it has really made me realise how much i like the it. The end result is very satisfying and its a flexible way of creating a book when considering size, colour, paper and number of pages. There are many types of binding books which give different ways of stitching the spine. As a personal target i want to make more hand made books and use them as my sketch books, much cheaper than buying them and you get a better, more unique book.
Tuesday, 15 June 2010
Religion on the Brain
First of all i realise that i have misspelt 'religion'.
We had a work shop exploring typography, which involved a long slideshow of different creators and there font, and we discussed our thoughts on it and how it made us feel, it was challenging as it was hard to explain how the type made us feel. All this was to inspire us to go off and create our own type faces, we where given massive folders of all the different types we could be influenced by.
Everyone was doing very neat and tidy typefaces, using rulers and grids. I didn't want to confine mine to a grid or use a ruler so I used a more experimental approach. Using ink and quill and this inspiration from the Typeradio Interview with Ellen Lupton i used the word 'religion' and thought as she talks about how design is her religion i wanted to make the word her brain, as if it ruled her life. Using a gothic font hand rendered repeated within a template of a brain i created this.
Indesign Layout
Visual Communication in Context 1.
We learnt the programme Indesign to make a small booklet. I was given an artist Ellen Lupton, for the text i had to transcript an interview on typeradio with Ellen Lupton. I chose to theme this booklet in layout in calm colours with a very feminine natural style of drawing (swirls and colours) which i think works well together. The images i related to the text, mainly focusing on the word 'religion'. I enjoyed learning the programme but did find it hard at first to grasp.
Im FeelinG Funny.
IM FeelinG Funny... couldn't decide on which colour scheme i preferred. The black, gray and white one is shows tone. The green and white is bold because the white bounces out of the coloured background. The yellow and green is bright and colourful, reflects on the anchor phase more.
I have made this image up, the way i do this easily is to first draw a one line scribble (not taking the pen off the page). When i make this scribble i have no idea what i am going to draw. Scribble finished i now take time to look at it from different angles, working out what i can see, what to create. I then figure out an image and start adding to the drawing to make it more recognisable. Mostly i see faces, sometimes animals but thats all i see...
I get some really interesting outcomes from this method. The lines can give you the guide lines to an unexpected expression or position. its fun and makes me concentrate on the image.
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