Friday 18 June 2010
FMP
For my final major project I re branded the Wella range of products. Here is an image of my 3D mock ups thats I created for the show, unfortunalty the bottles became distorted when I soaked off the original labels from the bottles which I had purchased so the labels didn't sit as well as I had hoped on some, especially the blue labeled bottle.
Resubmitting - V&A project.
Now we are nearly at the end of the coarse we have been given the chance to go back into projects to gain better and higher marks. As one of my projects that I decided to go back into I choose to go back in the V&A project. The idea I used was based on an emoticon that you use whilst texting friends or speaking on social networking sites...=], =), :) etc. This idea was to be purely type based compared to my previous design of images of an iPhone texting a friend.
Monday 14 June 2010
It isn't my best or favourite piece of work but I didn't have the final say to what was displayed unfortunately. This poster was made at the last minute because earlier in the first year I had created the numbers in the print room using the Letter blocks. Babs decided that they would work well in a poster so we found this book; '1000 Text Treatments' by Wilson Harvey and thought it would work well in a poster advertising that book.
For my FMP (Final Major Project) for my college course I chose to rebrand the packaging for the haircare range, Wella. These here are a few mock ups that I created in Illustrator to show what the range would look like.
My designs are very typographic - inspired by the popular range by Tigi called Bedhead.
These are just a few of the vector drawings with the labels on, aswell as making up 3D mock ups on small 100ml bottles (to be displayed in the End of Year show).
Earlier on in my blog I posted quite a few posts about my type project, where I was asked to create a poster to advertise a book based on Robert Brownjohn called 'Sex & Typography'.
I'd earlier created my own type for the word 'Sex' - this was created by having a type stencil and filling it with overlapping images of stick-men having sex in various positions.
I decided to change the layout of the poster to try and gain extra marks on the typography project and to hopefully have this poster displayed in the end of year show - unfortunately it wasn't chosen to be in either the end of year booklet or the show (which is quite rubbish as its my favourite piece!)
Compared to my previous design I do prefer this one, I did this in a range, with different colours, type and layouts but this one was the best out of around nine different designs.
As we are coming to the end of the two year course we have been given the chance to go back into projects to improve our work and grades that we had achieved previously. As one of the projects we had done in the first year we did a Retro Poster project. For my original project I had used a punk theme to advertise for Rimmel London make up...in the actual project I had created a Shepherd Fairey inspired poster to advertise Smirnoff (like the Obama 'Obey' Poster). Babs had thought that this idea was a good one to develop for the end of year show and to boost my Retro Poster project grade.
I then agreed to recreate the poster and create it in a Russian Soviet style, thats why I used the style of type I have and the effects I have.
Over all I am very pleased with this outcome and quite like the effect its given the poster, it works well for Smirnoff Vodka as it is a Russian product so the Soviet theme is a very good one to use to advertise it.
As I mentioned this piece has been used in the end of year final show, one of my three pieces.
Monday 22 March 2010
Another website we found was found on the Smashing Magazine link http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/07/30/50-fresh-portfolio-websites-for-your-inspiration/
The website (http://mnatwork.com/#/?state=0) is a blank website that you are able to draw shapes on to to reveal the website underneath.
Below are a few photo clips of the site through the stages.
The website (http://mnatwork.com/#/?state=0) is a blank website that you are able to draw shapes on to to reveal the website underneath.
Below are a few photo clips of the site through the stages.
Web Design
As part of our FMP we will have to create a website that will 'sell' us as designers, as part of this we had to look into a variety of websites that we like.
One of the sites that we have looked as was: http://www.psyop.tv/
The reason for adding this as part of my research is because the site uses a variety of material, for example it uses computer generated designs; as part of the animation for the adverts, and then hand made material, i.e. the typefaces and the boxes that the videos are in.
Below is a small screen shot of the website, but for more information on it then visit the site (which is above)
One of the sites that we have looked as was: http://www.psyop.tv/
The reason for adding this as part of my research is because the site uses a variety of material, for example it uses computer generated designs; as part of the animation for the adverts, and then hand made material, i.e. the typefaces and the boxes that the videos are in.
Below is a small screen shot of the website, but for more information on it then visit the site (which is above)
Monday 25 January 2010
Functional Skills - Google Search
As part of our work for our Functional Skills we had to learn about defining our searches on search engines like Google.co.uk. Below you will notice what I did to do this:
Search = Web Hosting
Results 1 - 10 of about 141,000,000 for web hosting with Safesearch on. (0.23 seconds)
Search = “Web Hosting”
Results 1 - 10 of about 85,900,000 for "web hosting" with Safesearch on. (0.26 seconds)
Search = “Web Hoting” + Buisness
Results 1 - 10 of about 69,200 for "web hosting" + buisness with Safesearch on. (0.26 seconds)
Search = Milton Glaser
Results 1 - 10 of about 207,000 for Milton Glaser with Safesearch on. (0.23 seconds)
Search = “Milton Glaser”
Results 1 - 10 of about 159,000 for "Milton Glaser" with Safesearch on. (0.24 seconds)
Search = “Milton Glaser” + graphic designer
Results 1 - 10 of about 53,900 for "Milton Glaser" + graphic designer with Safesearch on. (0.29 seconds)
Search = Golf
Results 1 - 10 of about 286,000,000 for Golf [definition] with Safesearch on. (0.17 seconds)
Search = Golf Car
Results 1 - 10 of about 73,800,000 for Golf car with Safesearch on. (0.27 seconds)
Search = “Golf Car”
Results 1 - 10 of about 400,000 for "Golf car" with Safesearch on. (0.20 seconds)
Search = “Golf Car” + Volkswagen
Results 1 - 10 of about 46,200 for "Golf car" + Volkswagen with Safesearch on. (0.43 seconds)
Monday 18 January 2010
The V&A Trip
Also, during the trip, we got the chance to look into the alcoves of the museum. We were lucky enough that the people at the V&A kindly checked their collection for old original pieces of graphic art work. These pieces consisted of work for the Sex Pistols, Silk Cut cigarettes (when advertising cigerettes was legal), Seat Belt Advertising etc.
The V&A Museum Trip (15th Jan 2010)
On the 15th January we were all taken to visit the Victoria & Albert Museum in Kensington, London. We were asked to go here as our latest project is to design a form of advertising to encourage young people, aged 11-19, to attend the V&A Museum more. We were asked to ask passer by's and visitors at the museum a variety of questions, based on why they think children don't come and what would make children want to attend the museum more. We also spoke to someone who was involved with the education side at the museum, who had set us the brief. We asked her what children enjoy most currently at the museum, what she, and the museum, thought would improve the attendance of young people.
We also got the opportunity to explore the grounds of the museum and take pictures and sketches of particular pieces that we liked. We were given the chance also to attend the 'Decode' exhibition but due to the que for tickets being ridiculously long no one got the chance sadly.
We also got the opportunity to explore the grounds of the museum and take pictures and sketches of particular pieces that we liked. We were given the chance also to attend the 'Decode' exhibition but due to the que for tickets being ridiculously long no one got the chance sadly.
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