Monday 25 May 2015
Monday 18 May 2015
Painting
Ive always been sort of interested in paintings, it was one of the first techniques I think I remember learning. Recently though I have taken more of an interest in it, I think its down to seeing the variations of the art form and being able to appreciate it more. I particularly like art work that I feel translates across to and can be applicable to graphic design. Painters such as Picasso and Matisse have started to influence some of my work, there is a project at the moment that I want to use the paper cut out technique Matisse used in his work later on in his life.
I saw some Picasso ceramics when I went to Barcelona during the January assessment week. Amongst this I saw a lot of other art and it does make you appreciate something so much more when you see it in the flesh, I feel this is why this year I have really tried in some of my briefs to approach them with a much more handmade way, to try and incorporate more classical styles of art like painting. I feel using a brush and paint is a good way of acheiving a very unique image, Ive been using some chinese brushes with ink as well as water colour in a few of my projects this year. I feel by trying to expand my own skills and try new ones in projects has given me much more inspiration to take on other projects. My project where I went about creating scratch protectors for iphones was inspired by Matisse's work. I liked how his work from an outside perspective may not look like the masterpieces they are said to be, in some cases the look like 'anyone could do that', but its his understanding and use of colour coupled with the organic shapes and the large scale a lot of his most famous work is in. I did initially want to create a copy of Mattisse's work to put on the back of screen protectors as art for your phone. From doing differernt test and exploring different ideas I didnt end up using his work directily as inspiration, but instead the whole project was really inspired by his work and how I essentially wanted to create something new. I made a series of images that I drew quite quickly and could be considered badly drawn, but it was this style I was embracing to producing something with a bit of humour.
I saw some Picasso ceramics when I went to Barcelona during the January assessment week. Amongst this I saw a lot of other art and it does make you appreciate something so much more when you see it in the flesh, I feel this is why this year I have really tried in some of my briefs to approach them with a much more handmade way, to try and incorporate more classical styles of art like painting. I feel using a brush and paint is a good way of acheiving a very unique image, Ive been using some chinese brushes with ink as well as water colour in a few of my projects this year. I feel by trying to expand my own skills and try new ones in projects has given me much more inspiration to take on other projects. My project where I went about creating scratch protectors for iphones was inspired by Matisse's work. I liked how his work from an outside perspective may not look like the masterpieces they are said to be, in some cases the look like 'anyone could do that', but its his understanding and use of colour coupled with the organic shapes and the large scale a lot of his most famous work is in. I did initially want to create a copy of Mattisse's work to put on the back of screen protectors as art for your phone. From doing differernt test and exploring different ideas I didnt end up using his work directily as inspiration, but instead the whole project was really inspired by his work and how I essentially wanted to create something new. I made a series of images that I drew quite quickly and could be considered badly drawn, but it was this style I was embracing to producing something with a bit of humour.
Tuesday 18 November 2014
OUGD 602 - Greek food festival - Development
Developing the branding for this Greek festival food stall has been a process that has changed quite a bit. I want entirely happy with the way the branding was going, I felt it was too generic so I wanted to add some of my own influences into it. On one hand I have stated that the branding does need to be overly obvious due to the competitive nature of festival food stalls. The stalls need to be instantly recognisable for what they sell as so many people pass my every minute they need something that catches their eye.
Most of my research was based on my past experiences from the branding of food stalls which are usually very uninventive but effective. I wanted to take elements of this but also use quite a designed approach.
Coming up with a logo in this case isn't particularly important as the stalls usually speak for themselves.
For this brief I need to consider my target audience or more to point my target festival which in their own right have a target audience. Somewhere like Glastonbury attracts probably one of the widest audience for a british festival, because its been running so long it attracts basically every age demographic as there is something for everyone. As it is the biggest festival in the UK I think this would be the ideal place for the food stall.
I want to focus on the more luxury side of the festival in terms of branding but with the pricing I want to try and offer affordable food for the masses. Singling out an audience at a music festival I feel is a bad idea because profit maximisation is key, people will generally will go an eat what they feel like.
Ive been to quite a few music festivals so I feel for my self I am good primary research, I know what works and what doesn't and I feel from my own experiences I can capitalise one whats already out there. The main thing I have seen at festivals is the lack of healthy food or healthy food at a reasonable price. Comfort food is good for when your hungover but towards the end of the festival you do really feel the effects of chips and burgers.
I started my branding with a logo, although I have stated that for the purposes of a festival logos dont seem to hold much significance I need something for the brand to revolve around. Demeter was the name I decided on so I came up with a couple of designs.
I narrowed down my logo design to include either the Greek flag, an olive or an olive branch. I looked into colour schemes, the obvious choice being the classic Greek blue. I want the brand to convey a message of freshness and organic so I started to use greens in the logo. from playing around with different variations of colours and logo design I wasn't entirely happy with the outcome.
I really want the stall to speak for its self in terms of what it sells so I didnt want the logo to be the main focal point. I decided to go down a different route with the logo and try just use the name on its own.
I first tried to draw out the name in Illustrator with the pen tool but I didnt want the logo to be too clean cut because I dont think it fits entirely with the brand.
The brand values I established at the start were -
Fresh
Healthy
Homemade
Value for money
Having done this I decided to write out the name hundreds of times using different pens to achieve a different line quality. I selected the few that worked and scanned them in to manipulate and align them properly.
This was the result I came up with for the logo. I tried to subtly use the font to convey Greek origin. Using an angular typeface is synonymous with their alphabet and classic greek script. I added in the colour to reenforce the Greek connection and I also tried to combine the original logo design of the olive which I also think worked well.
After establishing a logo the next thing I felt I should move on to was the look of the van or the packaging design. I felt the branding needed something extra to make it more personal, I felt all I could really do at the moment is to add the name and the the colour scheme to the branding.
I decided to go about making a series of illustrations that could go across the whole range of the branding and packaging, that can also be used with the logo. I thought about what I could draw and I remembered some work from an artist who iv'e known about for a while.
Hes an Illustrator called Ekta who produces weird geometric illustrations. I felt that there was a style that worked well to illustrate the greek costal buildings you see when your there. The buildings are tightly packed together on a hill usually and are classically painted with blue roofs.
Using Ekta as inspiration for my illustrations I created something more personal for my branding which I think fits well with how I want the branding to look like.
I made this illustration with the goal of putting it on the back of the t-shirts which would be worn as uniform, this is something I can easily make by screen printing.
I think as a t-shirt design it could look good.
This is the second illustration I made was for use on the sign, I think it would work on a large scale and I feel the illustration is enough attract attention. I made a couple variations of this but I feel this works the best
Most of my research was based on my past experiences from the branding of food stalls which are usually very uninventive but effective. I wanted to take elements of this but also use quite a designed approach.
Coming up with a logo in this case isn't particularly important as the stalls usually speak for themselves.
For this brief I need to consider my target audience or more to point my target festival which in their own right have a target audience. Somewhere like Glastonbury attracts probably one of the widest audience for a british festival, because its been running so long it attracts basically every age demographic as there is something for everyone. As it is the biggest festival in the UK I think this would be the ideal place for the food stall.
I want to focus on the more luxury side of the festival in terms of branding but with the pricing I want to try and offer affordable food for the masses. Singling out an audience at a music festival I feel is a bad idea because profit maximisation is key, people will generally will go an eat what they feel like.
Ive been to quite a few music festivals so I feel for my self I am good primary research, I know what works and what doesn't and I feel from my own experiences I can capitalise one whats already out there. The main thing I have seen at festivals is the lack of healthy food or healthy food at a reasonable price. Comfort food is good for when your hungover but towards the end of the festival you do really feel the effects of chips and burgers.
I started my branding with a logo, although I have stated that for the purposes of a festival logos dont seem to hold much significance I need something for the brand to revolve around. Demeter was the name I decided on so I came up with a couple of designs.
I narrowed down my logo design to include either the Greek flag, an olive or an olive branch. I looked into colour schemes, the obvious choice being the classic Greek blue. I want the brand to convey a message of freshness and organic so I started to use greens in the logo. from playing around with different variations of colours and logo design I wasn't entirely happy with the outcome.
I really want the stall to speak for its self in terms of what it sells so I didnt want the logo to be the main focal point. I decided to go down a different route with the logo and try just use the name on its own.
I first tried to draw out the name in Illustrator with the pen tool but I didnt want the logo to be too clean cut because I dont think it fits entirely with the brand.
The brand values I established at the start were -
Fresh
Healthy
Homemade
Value for money
Having done this I decided to write out the name hundreds of times using different pens to achieve a different line quality. I selected the few that worked and scanned them in to manipulate and align them properly.
This was the result I came up with for the logo. I tried to subtly use the font to convey Greek origin. Using an angular typeface is synonymous with their alphabet and classic greek script. I added in the colour to reenforce the Greek connection and I also tried to combine the original logo design of the olive which I also think worked well.
After establishing a logo the next thing I felt I should move on to was the look of the van or the packaging design. I felt the branding needed something extra to make it more personal, I felt all I could really do at the moment is to add the name and the the colour scheme to the branding.
I decided to go about making a series of illustrations that could go across the whole range of the branding and packaging, that can also be used with the logo. I thought about what I could draw and I remembered some work from an artist who iv'e known about for a while.
Hes an Illustrator called Ekta who produces weird geometric illustrations. I felt that there was a style that worked well to illustrate the greek costal buildings you see when your there. The buildings are tightly packed together on a hill usually and are classically painted with blue roofs.
Using Ekta as inspiration for my illustrations I created something more personal for my branding which I think fits well with how I want the branding to look like.
I think as a t-shirt design it could look good.
Monday 17 November 2014
OUGD 602 - Childrens book brief - Development
This brief is pretty straight forward yet time consuming. some of the illustrations because of the process have taken nearly an hour each to do, Im happy with the way they have turned out and I think they look good as a sequence. I feel I have established a good style and colour scheme.
I went with quite a large square format for the book, I have also looked at existing children's books to see what a successful format and layout looks like. I have a couple chapters left to illustrate then I can start to play around with the layout of the type.
One thing different with this book is the fact that it contains a lot more words usually than other illustrated childrens books I have looked at, I have thought about enlarging the type and spreading it over more pages but I feel this will detract from the story. The main thing Ive needed to consider with this book is who its going to be read by. Because of the high content of text its has left me with only one decision of aiming it at parents to read to their children. the illustrations are there just to paint a picture to the children of how the story develops.
I am happy with the progress of this book so far and I think when I start to play around with the text it will really bring the whole project together.
I went with quite a large square format for the book, I have also looked at existing children's books to see what a successful format and layout looks like. I have a couple chapters left to illustrate then I can start to play around with the layout of the type.
One thing different with this book is the fact that it contains a lot more words usually than other illustrated childrens books I have looked at, I have thought about enlarging the type and spreading it over more pages but I feel this will detract from the story. The main thing Ive needed to consider with this book is who its going to be read by. Because of the high content of text its has left me with only one decision of aiming it at parents to read to their children. the illustrations are there just to paint a picture to the children of how the story develops.
I am happy with the progress of this book so far and I think when I start to play around with the text it will really bring the whole project together.
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