Skate or Die!

Above is the two skateboards I have designed, the one on the left is the Conceptual Lead design, as I wanted to do something with the City and on the right is the Typography design. 

With the left design I chose to take a photograph in Central London in Trafalgar Square and do a long exposure showing the light trail. I chose to use the 80s style skateboard as I feel like it showed more for the photograph.

On the right, I chose to use the quote 'Don't Stop The Beat'. I don't really have a reason for choosing this, as I just like the quote. As final skateboard, I don't feel as if i made it the best I could. Now that I'm looking back at it, I feel as if there is too much going on. Maybe I should have just kept it more simple. I chose to use the 70s style board.

Here are another two skate boards I have designed. The one on the left is the Purely Decorative design, and the one on the right is the design I had to make for someone. I Chose my little sister.

On the left, I chose to keep it floral and a bit more girly, as I feel that there aren't many female boards out. I kept it blue as I didn't want to make it too feminine and the different shades gave it a different effect. I chose to use the 00s style board.

On the right, is the design i created for my little sister. She is really into an online game called 'Maple Story' and I chose to base the board on the different characters from the game. I went on their website to get some inspiration as I don't really know much about it myself and I saw a range of characters and chose to mix and match the looks around and come up with a few character designs for the skate board it self. It took a really long time as I wanted to make sure they looked like Maple Story characters and not just any cartoon characters. I chose to put this on a 90s board.

Think Crime!

This was my perfect crime, it took me a long time to do this as I didn't want to do it by hand. The story behind this is a restaurant serves human meat, they kill people, but to get rid of their evidence they serve it in a restaurant and the customers seem to really like it! I chose to keep it in the same colour scheme to make it look like a comic book, but I found it really hard to keep the first box in the colour scheme, I also left that to last as it was the most difficult box to do, as I couldn't come up with how they would commit the murder! I also wanted to add a few more boxes at the beginning showing why they murdered the victim, but I didn't have enough time for the deadline as it took me about a week to complete it. 

Typography Cookbook.

This was a project which challenged my baking skills. I have never baked before, so it was something new and fun! There were times where I found it extremely hard, as I had to make sure the mould was secure and it wouldn't leek out or over rise. For the mould, I used cardboard and stuck it together with selo-tape. This took me about 30 minutes as I wanted to make sure it was right. I then wrapped all of the mould in foil, just to make sure it wouldn't catch on fire. I then began baking, chocolate fudge cake! i found the recipe online, and followed it through. End product, it was ok. Not the best, was really dry and hard in some places! A fun project indeed.

Top Trumps!

For this project I had to create me own Top Trump card, I was given the template but I then had to edit it all to fit my card, it challenged my ability of using illustrator and indesign as I have not used them a lot, it was hard to get the hang of, but the tutorials my tutors gave me was really good! Here is my card, it took me one nights to do the best I could as there was a lot of learning to do.

Wing Of a Bee 2.

This is the colour version of the wing of a bee project. As I didn't read the brief properly where it said it had to be in full colour! This is the end result.

Wing Of A Bee.

With this project we had two weeks to complete, after coming up with designs after designs this was the one i came up with. I wanted something to do with floral, but at the same time not to make it look so feminine. I then went on to go with the theme of Nature. This was actually my second design, as the first one it wasn't really communicating well according to my feedback sheet. It took me about 3 days to complete the hand drawn version on A2. But with the illustrated version it was a totally different story. As I have never used illustrator before, this was a big challenge for me, even with the illustrator tutorial with my tutor Dan, I still found this very hard. In the end it took me about a week and a half to finish this. But I am very happy with the final outcome.

100 New Uses For A Brick Part 2.

The second part of the project was to complete the 100 new uses of a brick digitally. I used photoshop as I don't know how to use illustrator well, I used the pen tool to create all my brick designs and used the typeface 'Arial' to label each design. It took me a few days, but the end product I am very satisfied with. 

100 New Uses For A Brick.

The first part of the project was to draw out 100 new uses for a brick, it was a challenging task, but very fun as it worked with your imagination and I was able to see how much I went out of the box, here are my 100 sketches that I completed during today's lesson.

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.