Poster

As part of my range I have designed a poster that people could put on their wall. It is similar to the Blue whale information graphic but with more information and detail like the world map in the background.

Vector Titles

I made / luckily found vector files of the Tarantino film titles. I want to have the original type faces from the films because each film has its own personality and look so giving each film the same type face I think would kill of the the character of each film.

Cool Mural

Tarantino Album

I thought the 'blood' splattered style worked well with this album cover. The 'the' within the 'T' also is a cool touch. 

Book Mark Designs

Designing book marks. I added a quote from McMurphy which I think works. The ones with just the cogs I think would look good as a book mark.

Big Kahuna

I made a vector to use for the part of the packaging for the dvds. The Big Kahuna burger logo. As seen on my DC blog HERE

Cover design

I added a quick explanation the supplement which I felt it need if it did fall out of the paper. I also made the colour a smaller strip to give the image more impact.

Supplements Design

I gave white space to the design to reflect the book cover design. I also made the chapter colours smaller and gave a little information on whats "inside"

VP Page

Decided that there might be to much orange so we inverted the colours for the VP pages

Visiting Professionals

For the VP pages we sent out forms asking 4 questions, what does the ideal student need, Why do you love design, Three words to describe your time on the course and what inspires you.

Final Book

This is the final book. I think I have done well with creating a contemporary book design that would entertain, educate and amaze people about whales.

Submission Cover

I went with the yellow cover with the orange type. I am happy with the cover. I think it communicates the book and the type works well with the imagery.

Final Cover Ideas

The colours below (apart from the red) I think are working. I added a doorway behind the Chief to represent a hallway and adding marks up the wall communicates a corridor. I think the water dripping down the front works with showing the 'inner workings' of the hospital. I cant decide between the brown and blue and the yellow. Yellow is the colour of madness and It does create a more vibrant and visually appealing front cover.

The spanner with in the cogs represents McMurphy who in the book is the spanner in the works of the hospital. He riles up Ratchet and switches things up in the hospital.

Corridor

I thought using windows to make the hallway seem more legit. But It made the design a bit too busy. I think using a shadow may be a way of subtly showing an area.

Cuckoo Colours

The design is working, but the colours I am using aren't working that well. I also think I need to develop the hall way to make it seem......more like a hallway.

Cuckoo Cover

Developing the whole cover, back and front. The design develops into using more cogs which I think works well and is visually exciting.

Using this sketch below I had an Idea of showing The Chief  mopping on top and underneath showing all the machinery of the hospital

Cuckoo Ideas 2

Exploring the type face I produced with an Idea I had of using a Cog and an eye communicating the machine of the hospital with the Nurse looking over the patients.

Type For Cuckoo

Looking at type that isn't too straight, also looking at different sizes to make it seem a bit 'all over the place' I then produced my own typeface and again made it seem a bit squewiff.  I think the type face I produced works well.

Cuckoo Ideas

Starting to design the cover. I was thinking of trying to have big simple shapes on cover. But after doing some designs I think there should be more detail which will make the design POP.

Hand Type

Did some hand drawn type for the cover. I think a font that is a bit messy will communicate the madness of the characters in the book.

Idea Sketches

Developing composition of front cover. I think that The Chief should be the main character on the front cover. Also cogs should be involved as the Chief hallucinates machinery etc.

Thornes Brighton

Thornes in Brighton utilised their building when branding the food store. The large building number and white type on the grey blue makes the whole place stand out.

Front Cover Mock up

Made a mock up tp make sure the type isn't to big and it works in real life. I am happy with the design and hopefully when I print it out properly it comes back to me perfect.

Jackie Brown

Another minimal poster.

Initial Sketches

Couple of initial sketches. First one revolving round the Chief as the book is written from his prespective. The other from behind of Nurse Ratchets legs showing her dominance over the patients.

More Interesting outsides

Tarantino fan Art

Halftone

Some more examples of use of halftone. 

top - Typography with a big gap between each dot. Makes it look more rough, I think thats what I want to got for. Something more hand made sorta feel.

Bottom - Very subtle use of half tone blended with solid lines. Looks more slick and computer-fied where as I want a hand rendered look almost screen print like, imperfections etc.

rainbow

Hand drawn Type

I think the book cover would work well with some hand drawn type as the looseness of hand drawn style resonates with the characters in the book.

Visiting Peeps

I was in charge of scanning in all the signatures, organising and giving them colour.

Visiting Professionals

Visiting Staff

Hand writing

To communicate a sense of personality and interaction of the course we thought of having the tutors write down their name in their hand writing. It shows more personality rather than a typeface. We thought the red really popped from the orange and the double page spread of this would look sick.

Then we decided that we could use the hand writing idea for everyone in the yearbook. Below are all the students.

Structure

Supplements

As part of my brief I want to design the covers of supplements that would be part of a weekly realise to promote the release of the book or programme. The supplements would come with the theguardian. I have tried to involve the colours of the different chapters in the book which the supplement would give a taster of.

Ocean Giants Front Cover

Here are my design Ideas for the Ocean Giants publication. I started of using simple vector shapes but I realised that a real BBC book would use this style and I went on to use photography with subtle use of type. I think the designs towards the end work better with the amazing image of the humpback. I think the white space helps complement  the vivid blue and also is consistent with the generous white space through out the book.

BBC BOOKS

Researching into BBC books, found they all have the BBC book logo which I found. Other examples of BBC books.

Photography

This is a good example of what we want in the way of composition when we do the photography for everyones work. A birds eye view shot and also a diagonal shot which shows the range of a project.