Finals OUGD301

Finalised Briefs and Final Boards


Brief 1: Branding Daniel Chappell

Brief 2: Learn a New Trade: Taxidermy

Brief 3: Leeds Market Re-brand and Way Finding

Brief 4: Plan UK - YCN 'Because I Am A Girl' Campaign

Brief 5: Typosgraphe - Collaboration

Additional Briefs
Brief 6: Prospectus Concept Pitch

Brief 7: MHG Filming

Board Covers

I wanted to create A3 covers. 
So I designed them to be relevant to the brief .., After printing I realised that it has completely separated all of my boards and made them look like they don't belong together. So I am going to print some simple ones uses the same typefaces and layout as my submissions forms and boards. 
I must remind myself that over complicating things just looks messy.
Below is a pdf of what I printed:

Here are my new improved ones:

A lot better and much more neutral. It works well with my CD case and I love the natural feel of stock. The sizes are A5 folded so a buldog clip can group the boards.

Tomorrow I will print A6 versions to group together my print hand ins. I will also make a band to fasten around my Timeline Typosgraphe Poster.

I am very happy with my branding and know they look way more professional than my original ideas. I am trying to be more organised.

Printed all of my boards!

Taxidermy Website

top-10-fonts-designers-love

I needed to chose web fonts for my proposed Taxidermy website. I wanted a serif and sans serif font similar to the print versions. I decided on Georgia as it is a very common font and has a similar curve as Garamond. I chose Corbel in replacement for gotham because it is a fairly new font and the closed I could find to the large circle shape counters. 

I emulated the design of the publication onto the web layout.
The website would be used as a news feed and a community where audiences can voice their opinions and share their experiences of the trade subject. 

I am very proud of these two pages I designed. I feel it is enough to get a idea of what the live website would look like. On the whole I have really enjoyed this brief, every part of it was interesting to me. 

Taxidermy

I just need to: 
put in designs of the issue covers Fisherman and Horology,
design a website 2 pages.

final

Photographing everything for my boards

I booked out Studio B last week for today from 4:30-9pm. Since having the photography induction I know I need to document my final outcomes a lot better. Every placement I have been on they have always said students websites are very impressive when they have good photography and a theme. 

I rented one Digital SLR, 2 lights, 2 stands and 2 cables. I also used a large table for taking photographs on. One of the photography staff helped me set up the camera, but they left at 5pm. Every time I moves the camera I had to adjust the ISO or Apiture, Lisa had also warned me that all of her photographs turned out blurred when she put them onto her mac, because the quality of the view on the camera is bad, you cannot tell. Due to his I stared taking photographs with my iphone... and my SLR photographs are mostly blurred and my iphone photos look great. Very very glad I used my iphone, the only problem is on about 25 out of 264 images have different temperature of colour.

SLR photographs (the good ones)

Taxidermy

Typosgraphe

Dan C

Leeds Market

Because I am a girl

This took ages to upload! so many photographs. Going to add them to my boards now and change the type and layout so it creates a brand.

Final Crit

Feeling positive today I had a lot of final products compared to some and I'm happy with my position. I am photographing all my work today, and i just need to fix one design for all of my boards instead of trying to recreate the brief in each set of boards. I have at least one thing to propose for each brief... so this work is very do-able and hopefully stress free.

 Feedback

The final crit today

I created by boards all to reflect the individual briefs, but after the crit and seeing everyone else boards it was easy to see that the individuality of the brief is lost with the design of the boards. I decided to re-design them to create a brand for myself and submission.
I hope this makes my work look more unified.

Boards ready for the crit

Because I am a Girl: Plan UK

Leeds Market

Taxidermy

Typosgraphe

These are my boards so far, ready for the final crit, I know they're not great but it was more of a case of mapping out the content and writing than making them look good. I have decided to reflect the brief ithin the boards. I thought it was a nice touch.

Taxidermy arrived

So excited, and very proud of what I made. 

Drawing for the Taxidermy covers

clocks and old prints

I have happy with these final covers, but I know if I had more time I would have loved to have done all 12 in the series. I would also liked to spend more time on each design like i did with Taxidermy. These are a rushed version of what my intention for the other covers would be, but you can defiantly see the style's that would be used for each design.

Taxidermy other covers

older blog posts on the other issue of learn a new trade...
1. Uk fisherman
2. Lapidary (forms stone and gems into items) "I feel a tinge of sadness. I really hope that people who take it up as a hobby will keep it going," said Alan Cleverley, the last remaining lapidary in the Quarter.
3. Uk farmer
4. Seamstress (dress maker)
5. Blacksmith
6. Chimney sweep
7. horology (clock or watch repair man)
8. cut throat barber
9. roof thatcher
10. upholster (furniture)
11. steeple jack

I deciding to create just two more cover so you can see what the whole set of 'Learn a new trade' covers would look like. I would have liked to do all 12, but the illustration takes so long to do, creating 12 just isn't possible as I don't have the time and this brief isn't my largest.

I am going to create the UK Fisherman issue and the Horology issue

Reading through the briefs again

Steph spoke to me today and said she had o do another brief. Typosgraphe was my competition brief and these apparently doesn't count as one, because it cannot be submitted. Which means I have to do another brief, which means I have no time at all! 

Hopefully going to screen print tomorrow after the crit. 

Things I have to do:

screen print: Taxidermy poster, Dan's business cards, Leeds Market bags and wrapping.

Dan's drumstick pencils. 

Dan's posters.

Design 2 covers for the taxidermy brief, propose more posters 

Leeds Market history posters - stamp

New competition brief

ALL OF MY BOARDS

I have booked out next wednesday night in a big photography studio so I will have lovely photographs.

Typos: 

cut business cards,

way-finding,

boards

Taxidermy:

x2 covers

sp poster

make real... printing costs, where would it exist?

boards

DanC:

sp buisness cards

print posters

lazer cut drumstick pencil

boards

LeedsMarket:

sp / print branding

history poster

tote bag, mock up

price up everything

boards

Live Competition brief: start

printing with James

Getting the the files to print was a nightmare.
Timeline poster

I knew there was another process you had to do before screen printing to your images. I just couldn't remember what it was. All of the youtube tutorials were talking about how to print images. So when I went into university I spoke to Mike and he explained what to do. The whole morning was a rush. Below are the settings I applied

The effect you have to apply is halftone. The frequency depends how many dota you see: 65 is quite high. 75 is the maximum you must go, this gives you fewer dots but looses tone. Mike suggested 65 as this will have more visible dots, but shows more tone. The outcome is different on each image, because all of mine are from the internet they are as varied as they ever would be.

Mike also showed me to save as a post script file which is great for screen print negatives as it divides all the colour onto different print outs. This took ages to work as well. My print slot was 11am. I had to leave this over lunch for James to print.

Leeds Market

I didn't have time to print onto different stocks or do a test color print, but I like the outcome anyways, going to print more tomorrow.

Taxidermy Poster

James had stock prosaically for screen printing negatives. I printing the taxidermy and timeline poster on this. a2, it's big but looks good.

Taxidermy poster

website with all of the eye information on

 

Missed Taxidermy delivery: re ordered for next thursday
Must ring 01132 455677 at 7am to see what time it is being delivered.

got the brown bags through.