OUGD503 Reflection

The module itself was stressful as there was too much to manage as well as the final briefs. The module has overall significantly helped in my drawing skills since all I did was illustrations. As the briefs were broad, it allowed me to design what I wanted and in a style I wanted. The Papyrus brief intrigued me as it was for a good cause and the final outcome of the design worked better than expected since the requirements were simple and allowed me to think input my own experiences on the design. As the brief was for a colouring book, I didn't have to think about colours decisions which made this brief fairly quick and easy to do.

The Stratford Literacy Festival Book Jacket design was more difficult to do as I didn't gather as much information as I could. I knew the book would be about Sharing Stories but I feel like I could've done with more insight and information. The final design turned out very simple and not as effective as I would've liked but again, I wished I had more information.

The YCN UK Greetings design was one I was excited about since I've always wanted to create some sort of stationary and the greetings collection allowed me to do so. The UK Greetings brief was very broad and so allowed me to design a greetings collection that was influenced by a real life issue and actually support a charity. Each design was inspired by a real life endangered wildlife creature so that people become aware of the issue and could potentially help to reduce the threat of their endangerment. The illustrative designs allowed me to experiment with different media and skills so that I could best represent the animals/insects and has helped me to further improve my illustration and drawing skills. As the greeting cards were made for everyday occasions, it really did make an impact of the serious nature of the issue. Creating all the physical designs were stressful, time consuming and infuriating as it was getting tedious repeating the same action again and again but at the end it was the most rewarding. Having seeing greetings collection as a set really made me feel positive and happy that I could produce a whole collection. The coming up with the collection name 'ENDangered (Wild)life’ was not difficult at all as I had obviously written and said the words a few times but adding in the capital letters and punctuations emphasises the whole meaning of the collection. This brief really showed me the power of design and how influential it can be and how it can impact on people.

OUGD501 Reflection

This brief has helped me understand more about packaging and the consumer appeal. It has helped me understand the mixed options and attitudes people have towards packaging and how it makes people feel. It has taught me how mens products are suppose to be seen as more manly and so use masculine connotations/beliefs and colours and women products are seen to be 'girly', bright and 'soft'.

The final outcome of the practical work was to showcase a unisex product that shows the product for what it actually is and what it is for rather than be aimed at a certain gender. The final outcome allowed me to develop my drawing skills more as well as packaging design skills.

OUGD505 Marks & Spencer Lino Print

As I had said in my 1st year presentation, I wanted to experiment with more traditional printing methods so I chose to print my design for Leeds Public Spaces in lino as I had already used screen print method for last years tradition print design.

As this is my second time doing a lino print, it wasn't as bad as I had thought. It is very time consuming and it is really easy to accidentally cut through the design but it did turn out to be easy as I remembered. It was more difficult to cut around the designs that has smaller elements such as a smaller typeface or design but in the end it did print fine. However, the final design of my print did not turn out as well as I wanted it to because of the lino elements that I had cut out did not turn out as planned and just did not look good.

In the future, I would still like to experiment with lino because I think that if it is designed by something that you created digitally and really have an idea, and then transfer onto lino, it can really turn out how you want rather than having to use other work to try make things fit together.

Creative Report Publication Evaluation

The final design of the digital and print publication, they are both laid out different and I prefer the layout of the digital design as it is how I originally wanted my print to be. The overall publication did turn out as well as I hoped as it shows Jess' personality through the publications with the colours and the designs. The stock for the print publication also isn't the best as the final design had cracked on the edges which makes it appear slightly unprofessional. All in all, the final outcome turned out as well as I hoped and it had allowed me to create the final outcome just as I wanted but it to be also about Jess. 

I wanted to create a publication for the final outcome as I would be able to send Jess a physical copy and to also be sure about my decision to not specialise in editorial design after the OUGD504 brief. I can now say that editorial design is really not something I am good at or what I want to specialise in as it is too complicated and confusing to me with the layouts and the printing process of it all.

Creative Report Printed Publication

  

The final printed publication didn't turn out as well as I hoped as the cover had cracked on the sided of where the cover has been folded. The publication has been perfect bound as it looks professional and clean.

Leeds Print Festival 2017

Leeds Print Festival 2017

Dr Me

• Collaborate with different artists around the world who specialise in different areas in print 
• Don't print on A3 and patch it all together 
• Shop called 'seven' asked artists around the world to create a piece for seven so that they can sell their work there
• Mike perry asked them to curate an exhibition funded by kickstarter retrospective show - 3 shows - they were the 2nd show. NYC
• Wondering around wandering 
• 365 days of collage - sold online £10
• Inspired by staying at an air B&b which their walls were filled with art 
• 2nd - Collected a lot of collective matter from places such as NYC 
• Cut that out - colours may vary
• Book of collective collages of contemporary graphic design - 500 illustrations - KK Outlet
• LPF - Shoulda woulda coulda 
• Gratuitous type 
• Rob bailey - TLF posters 

After uni - mike perry internship - sent portfolio - went to NYC for an interview and now have a studio outside of Manchester now.

Ali Hanson - It's Nice That

• Studied at LCA & Chelsea college of art - art director at It's Nice That 
• Will founded its nice that in 2007 as a project at uni in Bristol - website. 2008/2009 started to get interest - got help from friend called Alec Beck - now a team of 39
• The graduates programme started in 2009
• Over 1 million people visit he website every month
• A Load of Jargon 
• Local characters 
• Channel 4 
• Arjowiggins 
• 12 monthly talk events a year
• 2 issues of printed pages 
• Ali worked in print publishing before INT - rollercoaster, wonderland and man about town
• Enjoyed putting the magazine together but the content wasn't for him - liked the idea of INT online content 
• Made INT in-house publication - printed pages
• A/W 2015 - Kanye west was announcing that he was running for president - legal matter - have to have face 13 times removed to avoid getting sued - celebrate the graduates they have each year
• S/S 2016 issue - Don't Hug Me I'm Scared 
• A/W 2016 - john Morgan - work and family 
• Jack Davidson - took images of his kids, his home 
• Olympic Games - famous faces 
• Nice commission - Andy Roter 
• Design process usually takes 2 weeks 

Pat Bradbury

• Graduated in Brighton 2011
• Specialises in hand drawn/realism designs 
• Wanted to be a skateboarder and jungle explorer when younger 
• 3rd year - abstract/expressionism 
• Vietnam art intern to teach lessons to kids 
• Created mural in playground 2-3 year olds 
• He works in collage a lot 
• Teaching qualification and goldsmiths 
• Personal work - abstraction 
• Group residency in Iceland - meet people of different practices 
• Wrapping paper for wrap magazine 
• Print for MH jeans 
• Raymond Pettibon
• Likes to create lighthearted and fun designs

Marcroy Smith - People of Print

• People of print - studied illustration at Brighton university - Brighton university - year below people from ITN
• Has a department store on their website to sell their publications and now sell other people's work 
• People of print book for Thames and Hudson 
• In perpetuum 
• Kick starter for print isn't dead 
• Worked with a company called cool print 
• Kickstarter for the 2nd publication so that they could fund the screen printed covers 
• Hand screen printed

The main reason why I attended Leeds Print Festival is because I've never been before and I also wanted to know more about print rather than digital design as I wasn't as keen on print design. Having gone to the Leeds Print Festival, I have realised it is not for me as I feel like my work is more neat and precise and I feel like it would be more difficult to achieve that by doing print. I think I am more of a typical modern designer and the speakers have work that are more edgy than my own style and I don't think I fit well into the category. 

However, it was inspiring to hear talks about how people specialise in different fields and how they have made their way into the industry after university as it shows that everyone has a struggles and different ideas of design.

Exhibition at Colours May Vary

To see different designs to what I produce or what I have seen is always interesting as it shows how broad design can be and how their is a field for all types of design. It was inspiring to look at the styles through the design and how it can reflect on the artist themselves.