Marty - P.P.D: February 2012

Wednesday 29 February 2012

Reflection on OUGD202

This started out for me as a project that i hated the sound and the concept off because i couldn't get my head around the way in which it all worked, the style of having to work with all these different forms of paths, if you clicked a button in the wrong order then something later down the line would go wrong and this could throw the whole load of work you just did in the bin.

Once i got into this project i really started to like it as the way of which i went about doing things really started to look good, i started to receive compliments on the work i were doing and this really helped me to boost further along the line and create more work, i also did a lot of 9.30am - 9pm at university to make sure that it was finished in time because i were warned by the tutors and the third years that it was much more time consuming that what you first think.

Overall i received 66% for my over grade for this project, which was my best yet, i feel very happy with that and now understand the work load that needs to be put in to achieve such a grade, i also understand the concept of following the design process and meeting all the target areas of the brief to get the grade.

Friday 17 February 2012

Presentation Plan...

this is the first business plan that we have decided to make up so that we are able to work with what we need so that we can work on what sort of information we need to have done in time for the rest of the meeting work, there is the financial side of things missing but i still think that these could work with a design concept which really helps us to expand and not limit what were trying to achieve.

Making Your Mark

I needed to create a branding for myself, this would make the creative CV much easier to create because then i could design around a theme or something which would make such a vast change to how i wanted things to look when they are all linked together. Something simple yet can communicate on all formats and all medias.

These are the first four designs which i came up with off the top of my head however i dont think that they express who i am as a designer at all. They all are type based which to a certain degree do express what and how i feel but there not showing my skills exactly how i want.

I then started to look into the way in which i could just have it as type based branding, i think this idea went out the window cause it was following the same style as what i have shown above, by not expressing the design style which i have.

The idea then came to me to try and link the two together, something which i thought may have worked, by mixing the pure type with the "logo like design" which i created, i may have created a branding i were pleased with, however once i tried to do this i designed something which i felt expressed calligraphy and illustration more than clean cut graphic design.

This is the final style which im really happy with, i feel that the way ive mixed my first letter of my first name then my middle name which most people dont know about worked rather well, this came to me when i thought you dont have to brand yourself as your name.

the way in which ive made the name and the line underneath show the design which im doing has made this work personally for me, it also shows the style of work which i do aswell, its very crisp and has a strong way of working towards it all.

CONSIDERATIONS
Scale - the scale is something that i will need to make sure that it works on all scales, I think that my branding will achieve this.

Content - the main content will be placed elsewhere on each document as i want to keep the branding simple and crisp so that it reflects my style of work.

Colour - the colour of my branding is going to be simple and be kept within the monotone so that costing will be kept down and it will work on all formats here.

Production - i plan to screen print my business cards cause i think that it adds that little extra touch towards it, and the quality of the print can then be done

Friday 10 February 2012

Location... The Unit

We went to visit the unit which was in the outskirts of leeds, this however had a very professional feel towards it and this is what made us pick this to be the place that we work

These below are some images of the Unit from when we went to see it, these are somethings that i think can really work with a style that its clean and we could see ourselves working from these buildings

Wednesday 8 February 2012

OUGD202 SELF EVALUATION

Final Outcomes for OUGD202

Above is my packaging design which shows off how the first view of my design will look.

Untitled from marty edwards on Vimeo.

This is my completed final sequence which I have completed. I hope you enjoy it.

Tuesday 7 February 2012

Final Video for OUGD202

Final outcome for OUGD202, this was a project that was an absolute nightmare for me at the start but the more i got used to the program the easier it became, the work began to become more fun and by the end an enjoyment to work with, Although i would have liked to be able to make more work to do with this without having to work on other projects, but that will never happen in graphic design.

Im pleased with my outcome and i hope that it gathers the grades which will reflect the effort that i put into it.

Business Cards

These are then the business cards which i have created o that it all can fit together and continue the link, i think it was the right choice to make sure that everything was designed by one person you have a consistency to the overall effect of what you expect to happen...

These are some of the possible outcomes to which you could make things work, i think that the ones which would work the best would be one which is really simple and something that can work without the thought having to go into it as this will make sure its the most legible it can be.

These are the prints which are ready for print, these have a really strong style which you can see once they are embossed and are also changed to make the most of what you want to expect form these things then you can really see whats going on, these will be embossed and also have a gloss effect on the outside so that the blue still sits in the correct position

These are the final printed designs

Monday 6 February 2012

Label Design

For this brief we decided that the best way to go about making sure that everything was linked together was to advertise ourselves using a method of creating orange juice which really links together so that we can make sure that these have the same style of working that links everything together...

Below are some designs that i created for the orange juice...

This has a range of all the orange juice that makes sure that it all fits together so that you can see whats going on but makes sure that it fits and reads right, this is the one which we decided to go with and what worked best to make sure it has the correct detials needed to work

Thursday 2 February 2012

Enterprise, Group Targets

Below is a list of my personal assets which i can bring to the company, this will help us to save money and make sure that things are made the most of when it comes down to the final view of things...

- MacPro 15"

- Adobe Creative Suite CS5.5 Master Collection

- HP Inkjet printer, scanner, photocopier

- Books - artistic, design based, illustration based

- A3 Light Box

- Layout Design Table

The second target for our group which we set ourselves was to investigate 2 locations which we would consider to base our business.

Middlesbrough

Printers -

http://www.blacksheepprinting.com/

http://www.garmentprinting.co.uk/t-shirt-printing-middlesbrough/

http://www.middlesbrough-printing.com/