All the briefs

   

 

Submission Form & Evaluation & Design Context in PDF format

Submission Form

Design Context Publication

Evaluation Form

Photographing all of my Products

Today all of my FMP work was photographed by Lauren Danks (a second year photography student). Here is a selection of photographs we took together. I love the lighting we had, they look great on my boards.

Hunter Gathers Books

Hunter Gatherer Posters, Event and Merchandise

I will propose the event to be held at Mexico Project Space as the space is the right size and the right atmosphere.

I had to change all of my illustration files again so the backgrounds where transparent, this took all morning.

All of the posters work apart from Jungle and Oceans as the background colours are too dark for the black drawings. I would love to screen print these, but I don't have enough time (I don't think) so as a bad compromise I will lighten the background colours  of Jungles and Oceans.

I will digitally print them tomorrow with James.... good luck to me.

Alternative Posters using coloured lines instead of coloured backgrounds, as seen below coloured backgrounds look best apart from Jungles and Oceans as the colours are too dark to make the black illustrations stand out.

Printed Poster Test
The full colour posters printed better than I imagined. I am very happy with these.

Final Crit

Today was the final Crit.

After feeling not too bad about it last night. I went to bed and woke up at 10:30. The crit started at 9:30. For the past two months I've had really bad eczema and now I can't sleep because of it. 

So I had no feedback for the crit, but it helped being around peoples work and seeing where everyone else is up to. A few people have told me they like my Design Context book which is nice. I now know exactly what I have to do. It is a lot but I think I will get through it all. So here is another list:

Brief 1: type posters PACKAGE

Brief 2: Print letterheads and cv. Make textile sample PACKAGE

Brief 3: Event, Posters, Tickets

Brief 4: START

Brief 5: Help Chris tomorrow mock - up a book and print the poster

Brief 6: Print Posters and Postcards

Brief 7: FINISHED

So brief 1, 2, 5, 6 and 7 and nearly finished. I will have everything finished (and printed) for Monday at the VERY VERY latest.

So that from Monday (maybe before) onwards I can start and complete Brief 4 (DRUGS) and finalise Brief 3. 

I have a photography student  photographing my final work on Thursday the 23rd. 6 days before deadline. Which gives me a lot of time to finish of my boards, and my PPD: portfolio and branding.

So much to do. But I think it is do-able.

Bound books

Printed and bound my books today. So excited and relieved. I didn't mess anything up at all.

Now all I have to do is mock up the event. Make posters and tickets, and finally make merchandise.

The Crit with Fred

This went surprisingly well.
Basically.... 
Brief 1 (Séarlait) expand so it is two: branding & full typeface use.
Brief 3 - Hunter Gatherer, make full use of illustrations and use colour.
Brief 2 (Hannah), Brief 5 (Fashion Yearbook) and Brief 7 (Mosses Centre) Finish them for next week making sure when Inhand in they look consistently branded in a pack.
Brief 4 - DRUGS use colour. Going to make this a significant brief
Brief 6 - Context could be posters..... but I want to make a book. 

Finish Brief 1, 2, 5, 7 for next week, so I can focus on Brief 3, 4 and 6

Printed and Final Publications

FINALLY I have finished and printed all of my books, going to bind them on Tuesday because Monday is a bank holiday. I feel like this is going places. 
Arctic

Deserts

Grasslands

Jungle

Mountains

Oceans

Rivers


I spoke to Andy and although I am not sure what I want the posters and event to look like he said I should defiantly use the illustrations to their full potential.

The range:
Posters,
Tickets,
Opening Night,
Merchandise.

Illustrations

It's taken me the beat past of a week and a half / 2 weeks to do ... mainly because for every subject there are 1-5 drawings. 
Here are all of the illustrations I have used and drawn.
The concept behind the drawings are to explain the content more visually using black lines for the important detail and white on black for background (unimportant info). This creates a hierarchy of viewing.

Mountains

Watching the DVD Mountains and screen-shooting images as reference to draw from

Mountain's Printed

Survival Guide... Finalised + illustration

I competed the survival guide before I started the main seven publications. As a result of this the illustrations I created first for the survival guide was not in the same style as the seven books. So I re-drew the illustrations using my graphics tablet to create the same style. I printed the publication on a different array of textured paper including: off-white newsprint, bulky newsprint and cartridge. The publications at the event will be printed on recycled stock to save money.

Final Printed Version

Illustrations

Survival Guide update

Printed Booklet
Because I'm a idiot I forgot to turn on print blank pages..... other than that it printed well!
I like the illustrations of fire, shelter and water bag... but the others of kit and seasons look bad. I will re-do these and print the final one this week.

Ray Mear's Illustration Books

Once again looked to COLORS for inspiration.

They have some really great iconography mixed with watercolour paintings and hand drawn diagrams. 

I woud like a mix of hand drawn, and computer icons in my publications.

Book Format: Hunter Gatherers... BOOK BINDING

Ana Mirats

Today I went to book binding to see if making my books could be in this format. Needless to say I was there for the whole morning. . . but I made two cover mock ups and I think they will look great, glad I made the effort and now I know what not to do for my finals.

I've chosen my 7 colours for the 7 books. The 85x80mm emboss has been made with a piece of cut-out copper. The images need to be just less than that 85x80 size so you can see the de-boss.

I used 1mm and 2mm board as the 2mm maybe to heavy and thick for the stock, as it may tear the book... but 1mm maybe too thin and the de-boss could be too un noticeable.

I prefer the 2mm.... but I'm going to test out on the double newspaper print to see if it endures.

Making the Books

Hunter-gatherers Books Formats..

I FNALLY HAVE ALL OF MY CONTENT!!!!!
I've been gathering all of the words since tuesday, but now all I have to do is place it, add images and draw stuff.
No biggie.

Mountains Ready for Illustrations

Jungle Ready for Illustrations

Grasslands Ready for Illustrations

Deserts Ready for Illustrations

Arctic Ready for Illustrations

Rivers Ready for Illustrations

Oceans Ready for Illustrations

Planning some more.

With less than 2 months left... 7 weeks to be near exact.
It makes me want to cry.... so I made a list of everything I have to do. 
Whilst working at home over Easter I managed to put together all of my final boards. So to do a short summary I have to photography Séarlait's and Hannah's branding (Brief 1 & 2)... then that is finished. I have submitted The Mosses Centre (Brief 7)
I am working with Chris Van, Cherry and Kirsty F on the Fashion yearbook which has now been scrapped to the 2nd choice. We are all working on poster designs and will have the final content on the 15th of April. (Brief 5)
So that leaves:
Hunter Gathers (Brief 3),
ISTD Books Still? DRUGS (Brief 4)
and Design Context (Brief 6).

I am creating the smaller guide today for Brief 3. I will print it this week and continue to gather all the content and design for the full publication. In this is need to create a mock up exhibition. Creating posters that focus on a certain group / person who survives somewhere in the world.

For DC (Brief 6) I am defining my final studio choices. I hope to get some answers to my questionnaires back asap.

Survival guide

18.5 x 14.5 cm
Bound with an elastic band.

Title / Front Cover - How To Survive
1st DP - Humans have survived in all of these situations
2nd DP - We can from here ... and now we are here.
3rd DP - Question. Do you know how to survive? Do you want to be dependent?
4th DP - Surviving in the UK - Cloths
5th DP - Kit
6th - 9th DP - The Pursuit of: Food, Water, Fire and Shelter
10th BACK - Learn more?

Initial Type and Layout
Page 6 is the best... defiantly going to work it out tonight.

Initial designing placing / typing all the body copy into the right pages. 

I'm going to go into uni and print this off today to check sizes and pagination. Hopefully there will only be a few tweaks. Going to check for widows and spelling mistakes. 

Then all I have to do it make the little illustrations and I'm done.

Then it'll be one book down... 7 to go.

Initial design 2.... Sorted out all of the spelling mistakes and type errors. 

Going to work on the illustration / find some images if I cant draw them right myself.

Content Sections

The introduction to 'The Human Planet' book is 5600 words, and most of it is a massive history lesson on humanity. Something that I feel is irrelevant. I will sorten this, add to it and make it relevant to my topic of humans surviving all around the world.

I found it hard to split the content into sections... but when 'The Human Planet' book arrived and I looked through it the content is split into land conditions..... which is actually really logical  so that is what I will do, but I will take out some content.

The ones in purple are the ones I will feature in the book I make

Section One - Grasslands
The Tough Planes (info / intro)
Stealing the Lion's Share
Firepower
The Honey Pact (bird finding honey)
The Arrow of Knowledge
Taming Game and Fighting Rivals (Donga)
Herds, Homes and Horses
Snake Harvest (The people's grasses)
Invading Elephants, Plagues of Birds
Ultimate Domination (Helicopters, Cattle, Australia)

Section Two - Oceans
The daredevil Percebeiros (collecting barnacles)
The Dolphin Partnership
The Biggest Catch of All (harpooning whales)
Ocean Navigators
Respected Hunters (Shark)
Weathering Storms
The Art of Surfing
The Life Of A Sea Gypsy
The Ocean Uprising (Conclusion)

Section Three - Rivers
The Fish Cornucopia (Man walking across the river)
Waterfall Fishing
Elephants as Water Diviners
Walking on Water
Ice Control
Living with the Amazon (turtle conservation)
Angry Rivers and Bountiful Floods
Growing Bridges
Old Man Rivers (conclusion)

Section Four - Jungles
Eating the Unthinkable (Spiders)
Darting into The Canopy (blowpipe hunting)
Outsmarting Hornets
Heavenly Feathers
Harnessing the Elephants
The Death-Defying Sweet Tooth
No Forest - No People
The Curse of no Contact
Monkey Mothercare
Canopy Living

Section Five - Deserts
Dry, Hot and Deadly (intro)
The World's Most Gruelling Shopping Trip (finding water)
Watching The Pools Dry
The Desert Fishing Contest
The Hardsmen Who Chase Snow
Wild Animals As Honoured Guests
Gardening Where it Has Never Rained
The Underground Eden
The Most Glamorous Husband
Aqua Vitae (Conclusion)

Section Six - Arctic
Highways of Ice
Shark Fuel
The Bounty Below
Hunting The Unicorn (Narwhals)
A Mess of Auks
People of The Reindeer
Bear Law
Here Comes The Sun (Conclusion)

Section Seven - Mountains
Mining The Inferno
The Bat-netters
Sweetness From The Sky
The Men Who Teach Eagles
Geladas And Grass 
Animals That Give Everything
Mountain Blindness
Avalanches To Order
Funeral In The Sky

Section Eight - Urban
Out Of The Mud
A Wild Town
The Pink-City Monkeys
Bat City. Texas
Pidgeons in Fantasyland
The Urban Organism
The Wastelanders
Postscript (Conclusion)

Taken from Ray Mears: Outdoor Survival Handbook
Clothing
Kit
The Pursuit of :Food, Water and Fire
Tracking
Shelter

BOOK FORMAT INSPIRATION
8 Books on one box.... with a CD with more information on how to survive 
Leeds University Binding Place  : I don't think I will use here... It's cheaper and will probably look better if I do it myself. I want to perfect bind my books and seal them with a fabric edge.
A smaller booklet will be handed out free to anyone who goes to the event. This will be black and white and very cheap to produce.
The event will have a section for each segment, and a condensed version of the booklets. This could be taken forward to a website.

What I need to Finish

Today I have designed all of my final boards for submission... very early, but now I know exactly what I have to do, and what I need to photograph. I have nearly finished both Séarlait's and Hannah's Branding brief.
For Séarlait's:
I have to Print her Portfolio and letterheads, Cv and Compliment Slip and Sticker more tools, lazer cut pencils and photograph all of the final products.

For Hannah: 
I have to make her website on cargo, order moo cards, create her mail out, print everything and photograph. This has to wait on her creating her FMP patterns. So as of now I cannot do anything.

Design Context: 
I need to email my questionnaire to all of the other studios I did not mail. 
I need to gather all of my content... but I want to wait until I hopefully get responses.

Hunter Gatherers:
Get all the content soon! Know what bind I will use. Start to draw / sketch images for the publication
Gather the content for the survival guide. 

ISTD: 
Gather Content.
Think about the publication layout.

Fashion Yearbook:
It's still up in the air if we will actually do the yearbook. It's looking like we may drop the whole brief. 

A lovely long list ...

21st February Crit

Feeling pretty positive

Not being big headed, but I think compared to a lot of people in the group I had a good amount of work to show and the most annoying thing about these sort of situations are that I have so much more background work... I have all of my stock ordered... I just need to carry on making. 

I didn't really get any feedback that helped me, or told me something that I didn't know. So a pretty pointless crit... but at least I have done work.