Matchmaker.

 

This was a project for a real client 'Jotta'. We were given a brief that we had to design wrapping paper, so that it would be used for diplay on the window which would be covering a big present box. The wrapping paper we had to design was for a clothing store, which sold big fashion labels. I found this project really hard, but I did try my best, I went with something simple, as i thought that would look best as the website for 'Matches' was very simple and clean. The first design is just basic stripes from a few colours I picked up from a few dresses on the website, and the other design is a typography type wrapping paper. I thought this would be fun, and would give more of a Christmas feel. I used the quote "Fashion Fades, Style is External" I really liked the quote and thought it worked well with the Shop itself. I used the font "Chopin Script" as I think calligraphy writing seems to give out more of a Christmas feel.

 

Above another design I had come up with, and was my final design for the wrapping paper. I decided to go with a repetitive pattern as I thought that it would look best. I designed this using photoshop, I've also tried to do a few colours.

Below are the two I sent of to Jotta. Unfortunately I never got chosen, but it was real fun to do a live project. 

Pay To Play

This was a project where we had to design a pound coin fora cash prize of £50 for first place, we had to follow a brief to design what was meant to be on the coin as a design, this was to express the current global finacial climate.

On the front of the pound coin, I chose to put a design of an iceberg with the water at the bottom to show that we are losing the ice around the world because of the climate, and on the back of the coin, I chose to put a design of the globe with flames coming out of it on the side. This shows that because of the climate change, we are slowing burning everything and getting rid of it due global warming.

With the colours, I chose to keep it simple with just having the coin as the goldcolour as it normally would be on a pound coin and have the deisgn in black.

I also made a little model which was the same size as a real pound coin, I tried to carve the image in it so that i wouldn't have to spoil the look of how a real coin would look, but it wasn't really visable, which meant I had to go over the outline in black. Above is the hand drawn version of the coin before I designed it digitally using photoshop.

Meet Me On The Corner Part 2.

This is the map I had designed for the Meet Me On The Corner trip, where we had to travel to 40 different locations. This project shows mapping and way finding. I had decided to put it out onto a tube map, but I didn't exactly place the places I had visited where they actually was. I decided that to use the whole tube line would show what this project is all about, and it is still a map. 

Meet Me On The Corner.

The first stop was to American Apparel, I tried on a skirt.

The next stop was to Liberty, we had to take pictures on the stairway.

Then to the apple store on Regents street to check out email, where we saw tributes for Steve Jobs. RIP. xx

When we got to the Photographers Gallery, it was closed, so we took unusual pictures against the sign explaining why it was closed.

We then went to two different Record stores on Berwick Street.

The next stop was Star Cafe, where we stopped to have lunch.

Lying down in Soho Square.

Photography Bookstore! where I got to look at some good books.

Music store on Denmark Street and outside No 6 where the Sex Pistols used to live.

Geeking it  out in Forbidden Planet!

The strong smell of coffee.

Cheese? Not really my thing! Couldn't stand the smell of the store.

Amazing Graphical Skate board designs in Slam Skate City.

Oh no the Paparazzi at The Ivy!!

At the London Graphics Centre in covent Garden! Popped in to buy a new lead pencil and some 0.3 lead.

Magma Book store.

And finally, the most challenging task out of the 40! Van Gogh's sunflower painting in The National Gallery. 

Guidelines

Guidelines Booklet for 'Brand me up Buttercup!'

With the 'Brand me up Buttercup' project, I decided to take it a little bit further, and create a Guideline booklet for the brand itself. I decided to turn it into it's own company and brand. Here are the contents of the booklet.

Brand My Up Buttercup!

This was the third project i was set, where i was paired up with another member from my Graphics group. For the first few hours, I had to try and figure out Orron and find something unique about him so I could then create a logo without using his name. I found this difficult, but while we were at lunch he had a nose bleed, this is where I found out that he has nose bleeds everyday. I thought this was something I could then work with because not everyone has nose bleeds everyday. This is my final design, it's simple but effective.

Stairway to Helvetica.

This was the second project I was given on the first day. We were split up into 10 groups of 5 where we then had to pick out of random a font. We chose the OCR-A typeface. We then got on with the project as a group and went to research about the font, after about an hour we were writing up lyrics and about 2hours into the project we already had our song. the second part was to create a music video for the song we had written, we chose to use stock motion to complete the video and this was the final outcome!

The lyrics to the song.

Chorus (Girls): O C R A you're leading the way,

making things much easier today.

Verse 1 (Oliver): In sixty eight, that was the date,

O C R A became a recognised type face,

computers could read and people could read,

without it being too complicated.

Chorus (Girls): O C R A you're leading the way,

making things much easier today.

Verse 2 rap (Jean): Yeah.. O C R A, thats our type face,

1968 was a mad date,

Ray K was the dude who provided,

He got paid to pursue his designs mate,

Typeface designed to be the hardest,

Queen's New York I'm repping it for the artist!

Chorus (Girls): O C R A you're leading the way,

making things much easier today.

Verse 3 (Oliver): It's San Serif, don't you forget,

you don't have squiggles and many accents,

there's no way that it couldn't be read,

and if you can't you're messed up in the head.

Chorus (Girls): O C R A you're leading the way,

making things much easier today.

Chorus (Whole Group): O C R A you're leading the way,

making things much easier today.

Heres the Music video

Hello My Name Is.

This was our first project, it was something really different and made me think hard but realise that I didn't have the time to think about it, it was more like the first thing that came into my head when I to fill in the box. For each box theres a different title, and we were given a set time for each box, for example two minutes. This was a challenge for me as I am a very indecisive person, but when it came to this I was struggling but enjoying it at the same time because I was challenging myself. We were told to use a range of media's thick, thin, black, coloured pens, coloured pencils or anything else we had. This is what was produced in no more than twenty minutes or so.