Project 22 - Too sweet

Design for my confectionary. This was a cool project idea, who doesn't like sweet things? So designing my own packaging was fun. I chose white chocolate ( the best chocolate in my opinion!) I pretty much made something I would buy if I were to see it in a shop. Its aimed at the female market, bunnys, pinkness - stereotypical maybe but I figured if I was going to design something cute and girly I may aswell go all out! It doesn't look as bold here as it does in full size or the size it would be if it were sitting on a shelf. I think it  does look a lot better on A2.

Project 21 - McStack

Buy ten burgers and stack them up. Sounds easy, but it's not exactly... 10 burgers do not actually sit on top of each other very well without wobbling and falling over! My large drink cup helped a bit and acted as a support for them, and eventually I got the photo and drawing done for this project. Despite the problems, I actually quite like my finished drawing.

 People give you strange looks when you stack burgers in Mcdonalds, I'm not sure if they thought I was greedy or just a bit insane.

Project 20 - I'm Game

I'm Game involved creating a game for graphic designers. I chose to make a card based game in which teams have to name a brand, with the help of a team mate attempting to describe it - but without saying certain words popularly associated with the brand. I designed the box, cards and score sheet.

Project 19 - Goalscorer

I planned out the next 30 years of my life for this project. I did it in stages such as by the year 2020 I want to have: .........
I chose to display it in an hourglass to represent times moving.

Project 18 - Holiday Havoc

This was my favourite project of the holidays so far because it gave me the push I needed to do something i've never done, but have always wanted to do. Without this project being set no way would I have done this during the christmas holidays! I've always made excuses - too scared, too busy etc etc... So I finally did it, I went and gave my first ever blood donation. Hopefully it wont be my last, there was a lady there who  had just given her 27th donation which I found really inspiring. I used to be terrified of needles, I guess i've overcome my fear as I lay there with one in my arm for 10 minutes and didn't freak out!

Project 17 - Jokeshop

For this project I created a short animation based on the following poem:

Rub a dub dub,
three men in a pub,
ten pints of lager
and onto a club.

Project 16 - The Haymakers

Edited photos, used for my book.

Some of my original photographs.

For The Haymakers, I had to wake up at the crack of dawn and create art work. Since I'm not usually up as the sun is rising, I thought it would be good opportunity to capture the sunrise through photography. I wanted to focus on the colours made in the sky, and change from dark to light. I think that the way the sun tints the sky different colours as it rises and sets is beautiful. I am pleased with the photos and managed to achieve what I wanted with this project.

Project 15 - TV sketchbook!

At first this project seemed like it could be quite fun, I like television like most people do so taking photos whilst watching it didn't seem too bad. However.... it took so long! About 3 days of taking and cropping the photos, and then getting them all layed out also took ages! I am more confident using Indesign now, I'd never used it before this project so I'm definately better at it now than I was. I tried to pick a selection of images, some are really random, some are from my favourite programmes or music videos of my favourite bands and artists.

Project 14 - Konigsberg's Ouevre

After watching 'Midnight in Paris' at the cinema we were put into groups in which to create a 1 minute remake of the film plot. It was challenging to cram an entire movie into a minute! we used a black and white effect to represent when the film's main character travels back in time and full colour for the modern scenes. Our idea was to summarise each scene in as short a sentence as possible, with some comic effect.

Project 13 - Farm to market

For farm to market we had to visit Hackney city farm and a market of our own choice, where we had to draw specific objects and animals. from our rough sketches we had to make 9 simplified logos. I've been practicing illustrator and this has helped me to get a little better at it.

Project 12 - Skate or die

I really enjoyed this project, it's probaby my favourite so far actually. I liked that there were four different themes for the skateboards, meaning that there was good opportunity to have a variety of ideas. I'll explain what each of them is about..

 This one was my favourite to do. It is the 'pro model for someone particular' board. I chose my boyfriend, as he likes skate culture and fashion so thought it was fitting, and I know pretty much everything about him and what he likes! The style of imagery is based on one of his favourite tattoo artists, who uses bold black outlines and lots of blue. He has a Tshirt designed by him which is really similar colours and features katy perry with loads of tattoos. I thought I could draw him and represent things about him using the tattoos, each one in the image has a meaning. For example the ship in an hour glass is a tattoo that I drew for him, he loves images of panthers, He likes pin up style images (she's meant to be sitting on a wheel because he is obsessed with motorbikes and cars, not sure if you can tell to well if it's a wheel though). Pretty much everything about this represents his identity, from the way it's drawn, to the 'cous' written on his arm ( his nickname).
The words on the T-shirt are his favourite song lyrics ( he also has them tattooed on his arm) and represent his love of music, which is a pretty major one so I made it a larger detail.

This is the 'conceptually lead' board. I am vegetarian, and wanted to pick a concept I actually believe in, so went for that. I wanted to do something gross and shocking, many of the famous skate deck designs we were shown in class were pretty controversial, so I wanted to do one like this to evoke the feeling of traditional designs. I chose bright colours to make it really cartoony and to make the images stand out. The burger is green because I wanted it to look mouldy and add the the revolting effect! I am not actually myself interested into converting everyone from eating meat, It's my choice not to and I don't like to force my way of living onto others. However it's something that I personally believe strongly in, so it was fun for once to take the role of 'radical vegetarian'!

This design is 'purely decorative' I chose a couple of my favourite things to doodle and incorporated them into a decorative image. I didn't use colours for this one because I wanted the attention to be on the lines and shapes used, plus adding colour to a silouette would really ruin the effect I feel.

This is the 'typographic' design. I chose a quote that I saw on my tumblr feed recently and loved. I chose retro pastel colouring to evoke the currently popular 'keep calm and carry on' style products available homewear etc, which I happen to really like.

Project 11- Think crime

For this project we had to think up the perfect crime, then display how it would be done. When thinking of ideas, I figured it would make sense to do something that I would gain from, if I was really going to break the law i'd want it to be for something worthwhile! Robbing Topshop made sense since I'm a bit addicted to clothes and it would be a good way of getting some new ones for free....

Project 10 - Graphic design cookbook

This project was challenging, but getting to eat the cake at the end made it somewhat easier to handle! We had to make a cake in the shape of a letter, then make a recipie book style page to accompany the photograph of it which is the 'final piece'.