Wednesday, 25 February 2009
Faber& Faber (live brief)
In a team of three again we have entered into a live brief competition but this time the examining body is D&AD! this is a huge opportunity to get your name out there in the graphic design world. D&AD is a massively respected organisation so to win this would be great for positive exposure and a way into getting an interview for a job or possibly some freelance work.
This was typed onto orange layout paper, it creates an interesting effect because bleed does not occur nearly as much as with more pour us papers.
A quick chat to visiting lecturer Hayley and the team had decided to simplify our thinking and remember that the person buying this book probably doesn't care too much about the design and care more about owning the words written inside. We had a look at how we could link the designs to what the books are to make them more of a special thing to have and own. We looked at the layouts of screenplays themselves and how they are written. One distinguishing feature that all script books had in common where that they had been typed on a typewriter, so this is where are experimentation began. These are one off prints and to reflect this we have used a typewriter because it is far more precious and rare because as close as you might get to recreating the same page many times it could never happen.
This was typed onto normal printer paper and the bleed we felt was very nice and gave the individual aesthetic that we where looking for.
using a typewriter you have a choice of two colours that we felt was also important to the simplicity of the book cover and made us perhaps consider more what we where typing and how we used the colours.
We used thick cotton print paper and liked the bleed that happened with the red ink and think that the black lettering looks unique with the different pressures and missing solid colour gaps.
We continued thinking along the lines of one offs, print and old limited yet satisfying techniques.
We decided to use type blocks but in a slightly more experimental manor. The type is obviously backwards but a quick image flip horizontal in photoshop will fix that.
We began to build entire patterns with the blocks face down. this was to represent the checkered patterns that New York cabs had in the days of "Taxi Driver"
A yellow background gives this a more taxi style.
This is an example of how the text looks when it has been flipped horizontally.
This was typed onto orange layout paper, it creates an interesting effect because bleed does not occur nearly as much as with more pour us papers.A quick chat to visiting lecturer Hayley and the team had decided to simplify our thinking and remember that the person buying this book probably doesn't care too much about the design and care more about owning the words written inside. We had a look at how we could link the designs to what the books are to make them more of a special thing to have and own. We looked at the layouts of screenplays themselves and how they are written. One distinguishing feature that all script books had in common where that they had been typed on a typewriter, so this is where are experimentation began. These are one off prints and to reflect this we have used a typewriter because it is far more precious and rare because as close as you might get to recreating the same page many times it could never happen.
This was typed onto normal printer paper and the bleed we felt was very nice and gave the individual aesthetic that we where looking for.
using a typewriter you have a choice of two colours that we felt was also important to the simplicity of the book cover and made us perhaps consider more what we where typing and how we used the colours.
We used thick cotton print paper and liked the bleed that happened with the red ink and think that the black lettering looks unique with the different pressures and missing solid colour gaps.
We continued thinking along the lines of one offs, print and old limited yet satisfying techniques.We decided to use type blocks but in a slightly more experimental manor. The type is obviously backwards but a quick image flip horizontal in photoshop will fix that.
We began to build entire patterns with the blocks face down. this was to represent the checkered patterns that New York cabs had in the days of "Taxi Driver"
A yellow background gives this a more taxi style.
This is an example of how the text looks when it has been flipped horizontally.
Portfolio/ C.V.
I have decided to not include an address in my C.V. at this present moment in time because as soon as i have finished Visual Communication i will be between addresses and between countries so i feel that my phone will be the most reliable form of communication in conjunction with email.
These are the finished greeting cards that i designed for Guys 18-35 as small gifts for there friends in the pub. After conducting some questionnaires i came to a rather overwhelming conclusion that men 18-35 did not tend to purchase a birthday card for there "mates down the pub" instead they where far more likely to simply buy them a drink. This is the culmination of the two concepts. The buyer will select a beer or cider that there friend drinks and purchase a voucher from (in this case) Weatherspoons, with a birthday message attached and room to write to........ and from.......... the voucher then tares off and allows the receiver to buy there drink and keep the birthday message in there wallet. 
My anti Gambling poster. I wanted to convey in a simple way just how damaging gambling debt can be! The photography shows clearly a man down on his luck and the copy tells the viewer how this happened.
The animal watch packaging design drawings. The wave shaped constructed plywood says surf, and the plywood says skate. The cavity inside where the watch is housed also contains the watch after purchase so that the user can use it as a bedside clock as well. 
bus ad shell poster design for the Royal British Legion. Because this is supposed to be placed at a bus stop i decided to put it in context and use the visuals of the bus route map to create bullet points that convey facts about where the money from donations really goes. I feel the information contained could easily be taken in by the viewer because a person waiting at a bus stop does have the time to stop and read.
My type radio double page spread magazine layout, the text was taken from a radio interview with Ellen Lupton then i transcribed it and created this layout. I chose the title "Design is a Religion" because this felt to be one of the more interesting and frankly crazy quotes from this particular interview. The text is laid out to represent a cross which is one of the more prominent religious icons. 
This was created during a "drift" around Bournemouth. A "drift" is where you simply walk around a new place, on this occasion Bournemouth was a new town to me so i decided to look up at some of the more interesting architectural features in Bournemouth town center. I was looking from a different view then normal because i was looking from directly bellow each structure. I feel that this has a rather Russian constructivist feel because i have used collage to piece all of the elements together with sky.
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