Design context publication; freelancers.

Designed by Stephanie Jayne

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Steph is someone I know from college who creates cute designs and applies them to various different products which she sells. I really like her work because I can relate it to my own with the whole hand rendered approach and simplistic yet bright and bold design. The great thing about her work is that her style is very consistent and quite unique to her in terms of the quirky little quotes she places on products. 

Geek Table; brief four.

The other brief we had to do for the Geek Table in the same week was our guilty pleasure. Again this didn't have to be design related in order to make it more interesting to see what people would come up with. My guilty pleasure is the band McFly because they are quite nostalgic to me. I decided to design a piece with type this time because all of my pieces have been image so far and although this is my design focus, I could still utilise my geeky skill through hand rendered type. This is another piece that I've coloured using pro markers although it's not as obvious on this piece. This has worked quite well because the area where there is colour is quite bright. I didn't really get any further development suggestions for this brief as such but I have my own ideas about how I'd like to improve it so I will definitely have a go at doing it again. 

Geek Table; brief three.

The third Geek Table brief was to create a piece of design that represented our alter ego. This didn't have to be design related, it could be absolutely anything because we all felt this would make the outcomes a lot more interesting and personal to us. I decided to design something linking to Farming because I have this connection due to my dad and it's an ongoing joke that if I wasn't a Graphic Designer I'd be a Farmer. I've utilised the hand rendered style again due to this being my geeky skill and used pro markers to colour the image to mix my pieces up a bit. The main piece of feedback I got from this piece was that although the Geek Table understand it because they know me, it might make more sense to other people if I draw me as a farmer to go with it too because at the moment it kind of makes it seem like my alter ego is a pig! woops. 

YCN UK Greetings; gift bags.

The gift bag designs didn't take any development at all as such because they are based on the previous designs I have created for gift wrap and the greetings cards. I made these square in keeping with the elements I have already designed. I utilised the idea of repeat pattern down the sides of the bag to match the wrapping paper and then placed each animal in the same sort of position as on the card so that everything will continue to work together. I don't need to test the bag net because I've taken it from a previous project that I've used it in so I already know this works. 

YCN UK Greetings; gift boxes.

(The gift tags are included on the screen shot because this is the print document) 

The gift boxes were another element that were quite straight forward to design because I used the same sort of ideas as I did with the gift bag by mixing the wrapping paper and card concept for layout. The box net is also based on a box from a previous project so I know this works too. 

Surface pattern yearbook; my colour and cover ideas.

To move the yearbook on even further we all discussed going away and choosing a colour pallet that could work for the yearbook as well as coming up with some cover designs. The colours I've looked at have an even balance so they are neither femanine nor masculine and they are quite bright because when we've been in the surface pattern studio a lot of the work is really bright and bold. I noticed I've chosen colours that are in trend too because I've been working on the Tigerprint brief at the same time and these are colours I've researched for that. The designs I've created for the cover of the yearbook are quite tribal because this links to the idea of them being a tribe but I'm not sure how much this should be pushed although I do like the designs further to the back of the issue document. I went with the orange, yellow and blue/green because they seem to compliment each other quite well and keep the design really simplistic because it doesn't want to be too overpowering. 

Surface pattern yearbook; Tim Walker.

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We've asked Jessie from photography to shoot the work for us and when we mentioned the idea of a scrapbook theme she suggested looking at Tim Walker because his sketch books utilise this kind of style but more in the way that we are considering and not quite as crazy as Dan Eldon. I really like the idea of mixing up the image sizes on different pages like in the examples above because this will make the whole yearbook really visually interesting.