Friday 19 December 2008

Apple's new product Mactini



the sad thing is it wont be long till this is actually true

Saturday 6 December 2008



This reminded me someone in my class who did something similar but wasn't quit yet done,But this works very well as there are more to look at and it works well with composition gives an even effect.

Friday 28 November 2008

Graphic design?

-It has a purpose to cummunicate to the audience in any sort of media to convey information.
-Using design give out information to perticaler details
-visual problem solving
-Quality
-Quantity
-aware of printing techniques
-Use of colour understanding the choice of colour and price
-balance
-contrast
-shape and form
-texture
-value
-Function

Know the rules before breaking them?


To break the rules maybe you dont have to know them,But what sort of rules.Printing technique, layout maybe, sticking to the rules will get you payed.Breaking the rules might break you.lack of money or trust from companys might think you wont give out the goods.

Big questions to a big man
I couldnt answer them ,Maybe to truely know what graphic design is you have to work for it to know it?










Tuesday 25 November 2008

evaluation

BA (Hons.) GRAPHIC DESIGN – END OF MODULE SELF-EVALUATION

Module Code - OUGD201 Module Title DESIGN FOR PRINT

Level 02 Semester 01 Credit Value 20


1. What skills have you developed through this module and how effectively do you think you have applied them?

The skills to this module is probably
- Using my time better,Updating my blogger,and able to play around with the idea of cd case that parts of could see through which shines from the cd inside,rather from my original idea was to have coloured paper behind it.
- developing constant ideas,many design ideas for t-shirt logos created over 200 thumbnails.
- Looking at primary and secondary research and analyzing of overall opinions like high lighting words that could be helpful from the questionnaires for the general public and professional blues players From this I created my logo and company name this was called inspired.
-skills on photoshop and 'thinking out side of the box',fro example creating my smoked effect with notes was very easy because i didn't completely rely on photoshop and I didn't use smoke to create smoke,i used ink in water which still creates a smoke effect but better, and in photoshop and invert it and few layers and used brightness and contrast. Learnt the skills that you don't need to be a brain boffing in photoshop.

2. What approaches to generating work and solutions to problems have you developed and how have they helped?
- I struggled to create my my final piece like for example my screen print on t-shirts as I was a bit rusty and the screen created many be not sure what i was doing so I had wendy for most of the day helping me.
The Cd case was a bit of a problem trying to get the information also having the songs and the logo fit write in composition on the cd case but was able to see though the case on to the cd disc shining through and still-able to read it in a small space or area on the sleeve.





3. What strengths can you identify in your work and how have/will you capitalize on these?
More professional final product, and photograph them more clearly and good quality.
deign sheets of t-shirts building a vast amount to see which works the best.
work faster coming up with quick ideas on dont panic brief machine and sticking to the idea and developing and improving to its pententual
listening to other opinions asking for help from friends and third years
understand what I need to do in crits




4. What weaknesses can you identify in your work and how could you exploit these more fully?
Ask for more help
Understanding the print process and colour process more clearly at the beginning of the module ,It took me long time to understand all of them sometimes got a few mixed
upread more about them
look back at my work rather than moving on and forget about it
analysis work



5. Identify five things that you will do different next time and what do you expect to gain from doing these?
by in making more notes
learn to understand the printing process earlier
do my colour process early
do more on colour brief more
as I thought they where unbalanced


6. How would you grade yourself on the following areas:
(please indicate using an ‘x’)

5= excellent, 4 = very good, 3 = good, 2 = average, 1 = poor

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AttendanceX= 4
PunctualityX= 4
MotivationX=4
CommitmentX=5
Quantity of work producedX=4
Quality of work producedX=3
Contribution to the groupX=3
The evaluation of your work is an important part of the assessment criteria and represents a percentage of the overall grade. It is essential that you give yourself enough time to complete your written evaluation fully and with appropriate depth and level of self-reflection. If you have any questions relating to the self evaluation process speak to a member of staff as soon as possible.

medevil help desk

umm i think ever one can relate to that!

Saturday 22 November 2008

blue movie trailer

Blues is so good they even made a movie about it, Actors like Beyonce Knowles,Adrien Brody and jeffy wright.

Thursday 20 November 2008

costs

This is an example of printing cost of a CD wallet.But not in English money roughly $1.5 is a £1.



Another example of cost but two different examples of screen print t-shirts.





This is a lithography print cost looks a lot cheaper than screen printing t-shirts.
Because my cd wallet is small and the labels so i can put the whole thing on A4 sheets so this will save money.

Boards

This is my final boards for my good brief
1.introduction research
2.Development
3.marketing
4.final piece












Wednesday 19 November 2008

grey scale research








My Greyscale
I use digital photography and also covert the photograph coin in illustrator.So I have a good mixer of of both. I layered the greyscale on top of each other made it look 3d.





grey sclae research

t-shirt

This is printed on the back of the t-shirt



design of label with shiny asertate paper on top,the bands log at the front





All of the band equations
This took a long long time to come up with finding links of humar and linking with blues music at the same time.Also trying to find bands that link to other bands but not effending the fans of the bands.

package

stickers

these are my sticks that goes over the packaging with different t-shirt sizes shows,small,medium,large,extra large.So this will give a wider audience to buy the product.

research t-shirt and packaging

These are a few photos of a shop selling only bands t-shirts.Some are packaged some are on a coat hanger and some are just folded.I like the display because it looks professional and more appealing.This is why I choose it to be packed to have the t-shirt and CD inside.







development

Many many people in my class has ask how I created my logo so this is an simple example how I did it.

WEBSITE

These are my ideas of what other websites promote t-shirts.





I created an idea if I ever promoted the inspired packaging with t-shirt and cd.But not quit sure what to price it.

screen print method and lithography



This is an example understanding the process of lithography and screen print.Which I would use to produce my cd case packaging and t-shirt.

Tuesday 18 November 2008

Screen Printing

This would be the technique used to create create screen print on my t-shirt and my packaging.But because I'm only using two colours black and white,T-shirt the t-shirt is already black so I would screen print it in on white.The packaging is also black and would again screen print it white.
This is a video that I found which is very helpful if I wanted to do do this professionally.

Screen Printing

Saturday 15 November 2008

CD case

This is my CD case I've produced,at the front of the case I've got the logo and information as well.It explains what blues is about and should be aware of it.At the back I have the flam and the list of songs.







These are my ideas of labels for my t-shirts,I thing I will use the long thin label as it looks more professional.I used silver paper behind the assert ate this will give it a similar theme to the t-shirt and CD case.

Friday 14 November 2008

blues work

These are just a few of my questionnaire,I gave them out to find what the general public so I can see if they know blues and how much.







I under lined a few words from the questionnaires to find a key word to use as an logo. From looking at the questionnaire I found that not many students don't know much about blues music and don't relies the music they listen to are linked to blues or been inspired by blues.

These are my design sheets of what the front of the t-shirts with the bands logo.















These are what i have choosen for my final designs but not yet sure weather they should a large size in the middel of the t-shirt or should be small in the top corner.





And these are back of the t-shirt with the sums.



The text is smaller than I thought so I might change the layout of the t-shirt to i could improve it or if it works as a long line.

Im playing around with the labels so see what shape is should be and weather to use ribbons of what colour to use.



Im creating my own logo i wanted to use smoke and the word inspired mixed together,so these are my smoke images I produced using ink and water as it was differcult to take photos of smoke.











This is final my logo to promote and bring awareness of blues music



This is my CD case design,Ive created my own logo using the word inspired. This will be on CD case and t-shirt.On the CD case Ive put 12 songs that have old blues music and music that we listen today which are all linked together.This so far my design the idea is to print it on assertate.




ideas for packaging.
The idea is to have the logo and the sum on the back and and the bands name with there logo at the front.I will have to put the t-shirt size as well on the package.