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Tuesday, 28 May 2013

All the briefs

Saturday, 25 May 2013

Submission Form & Evaluation & Design Context in PDF format

Submission Form

Design Context Publication

Evaluation Form

Friday, 24 May 2013

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

Thursday, 16 May 2013

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.

Wednesday, 15 May 2013

Design Context Book & Expansion

Postcards

Explanation Poster

Monday, 13 May 2013

Design Context Book ... Progress and completion

Final book

I want to screen-print the front cover onto book-rum. I originally wanted to paint the page edges and I asked at Vernon st.... I just need to paint with a airbrush. But because the coptic bind need buck-rum covers I felt like this would be to much. Below shows what I want it too look like.
The concept is taking a photograph from every country and pasting in the same place as in the book.
Below is how to change a image to halftone to screen-print:
Image for Screen Printing: 300 DPI ... Image > Mode > Bitmap > Halftone Screen > Frequency 75 > Angle 15 > Round

Insert example
The idea of the book was to explain (like in my dissertation) how design changes with geographic location. So I would have inserts every other 2nd page with the country, population and brief culture information paragraph. After thinking everything through I think this would make my book look cheap.... so I will make poster cards and posters for each country. This makes a range.

MAKING THE BOOK

The cover didn't turn out as clear as I hoped, but this adds to the distortion and confusion. I would have liked the screen print again with a better exposed screen that didn't let so much ink through, but I don't have the time. I will include a poster of a printed front cover with info about the front cover explaining the concept of content arranged in distance from my leeds address and introducing the idea of globalisation and its impact on design. This idea will also work across postcards.

BINDING

I am so happy with how the book has printed, the colours look great especially for images dragged from the internet. However there was two main issue when binding (look at the picks) tieing the thread was too baggy at one end. And at one point the pages ripped... I would love to print it again, but I just dont have the time. Maybe after hand in. Apart from that I am very happy. Starting designing this on Friday and it's printed and bound in 5 days.

Sunday, 12 May 2013

Designing the publication

Sorting out the content.
I have taken from 5 - 10 images from each design studio and drop them into place when te document is set up.

I wanted to use flags to identify the countries.... but I think it looks garish. Going to stick to co-ordinates.

I decided to choose Neutraface and Avenir because I wanted to use geometric sans-serifs. Also because together they are my favourite typefaces and are used in a lot of design I aspire to create.

Using a 9pt grid and margins: top & bottom 18mm, inside & outside 15mm. 5 columns with a gutter of 6mm.

Page size: 170mm x 255mm. Each design studio appears in order of distance from my Leeds address. I wanted to show my influences highlighting their geographical locations, I felt using co-ordinates was a much more interesting way than stating the country. I like how the audience doesn't know which country the studio is in, unless mentioned in the body copy. The images are not kept to the same grid, so freedom is given. Positioning of the headers alternates from top aligned to bottom aligned so it is obvious when one studio starts and another ends.

Thursday, 9 May 2013

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

Monday, 6 May 2013

Design Context Content

Design Context - What it looks like?
Coptic Bind
Roughly A5
Sections of countries:
UK - London V North
Scandinavia - Norway, Sweden and Finland
Europe - Germany, Spain, France, Netherlands, Italy
Asia - Hong Kong,
USA
Mexico
South Africa
Australia
Canada

London - build

Leeds - Box-head

London - Hyperknit

Glasgow - Marque

Manchester - Raw

Brighton - StudioMakgill

Amsterdam - Studio Laucke Siebein

Amsterdam - Frame Publishers

Berlin - Hello Me

Berlin - Paul Leichtfried

Berlin - Georgia Hill

Belgium - Salutpublic

Barcelona - Forma & Co

Barcelona - Two Points

Melbourne - A Friend of Mine

Melbourne - Co-op

Italy, Treviso - Fabrica

Italy - Artiva Design

Helsinki - Bond

Helsinki - Werklig

Finland - Tsto

Norway - Heydays

Norway - BureauBruneau

Sweeden - Lundgren + Lindqvist

France - Akatre

France - Leslie David

Mexico - Manifesto Futura

Mexico - Anagrama

Hong Kong - Things I Did

NY - Sagmeister & Walsh

Thursday, 18 April 2013

Design Context

Title: Terrestrial
Icons for each City / Country
The countries are:
England / London / Manchester / South,
Spain / Barcelona,
Germany / Berlin,
Australia,
Hong Kong,
America / Mexico,
Finland,
Italy,
Asia,
NY,
Canada

Where I sent them

Going to make a perfect bound-book...

That can be made in sections of countries that can be printed as posters to send back to studios that have responded (at this time there is none).

Concept

Terrestrial means ...

Having a worldly, mundane character or quality.

of or relating to the earth

of or belonging to the land as opposed to the sea or air

Monday, 8 April 2013

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.

Friday, 22 March 2013

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.

Wednesday, 20 March 2013

Design Context Mail-outs & Presentation 20th March

Mail Outs
After 2 full days of screen-printing and binding my mail outs are done.
2 version.
Sent to:
Hello Me - Berlin
Hyperkit - London
Marque - Glasgow
Forma & Co -Barcelona
A Friend of Mine - Melbourne
Bond - Helsinki
Clase BCN - Barcelona
Heydays - Norway
Lundgren + Lindqvist - Sweden
Akatre - France
Manifesto Futura - Mexico
The Chase - Manchester
Raw - Manchester
May Ninth - Manchester
ESKIMO - Manchester
Build - London
A - Side Studio - Falmouth

Emailing because they don't have an address:
Things I Did - Hong Kong
Tsto - Finland
Two Points - Barcelona & Berlin
Ro And Co - NY
Anagrama - Mexico
Paul Leichtfried - Freelance / Berlin

Presentation

Monday, 11 March 2013

Design Context Mail Out Mock-Up

where I bought my envelopes from

lovely translucent C5 envolpes on my way. 20 for about £17, they better be worth it! I'm going to make a light weight booklet or maybe just loose paper. I don't like my design above, I feel like I need to make something in book binding or maybe just make it more interesting. Something like this Yellow pages pull out from the last COLORS issue.

I'm also going to re-screen print my business cards, as I updated my website to www.sarahlroberts.co.uk. I am also going to use all of the lovely stock I have left over from Hannah and Séarlait's business cards.

Wednesday, 6 March 2013

Design Context Questionarries.

I went to Karen so she could help me think about what to say in my questionnaires that I will send before the 14th of March

Action

needs to be focused on something specific-

geographical locations

educational design

informative design- simple but makes you want to read on- functional

what’s your context- exploring the delivery method of educational design materials

topic- looking at the global arena of educational and informative design

respondents- these are people who already produce educational and informative design

Questions:

1. In producing educational publications, where do you start

2. Who’s your audience

3. Do you have different audiences and can you roughly categorise them

4. If you were producing an educational publication what’s the 1^st thing you’d do

5. How and in what way would this be different from approaching a different audience

6. What makes informative design different to other types of design

7. Do you believe that form follows function or are you primarily aesthetic s led

8. Do you think geographical location is important and how does it affect you design

9. How does geographical location affect your relationships with clients, particularly in relation to new technology and delivering good design

and finally………

10. Who or what influences you

11. Are you inspired by (music, environment you work in, art etc)

12. Which designers do you admire

13. At this moment in time who is your favourite designer

I redefined what I wanted to ask because I realised that although I love educational design most of my influences are also branding but mainly editorial.

Finalised Questions (this will be changed slightly for each respondent)

1. How would you describe your approach to design? Please tick the applicable.

Structured

Sustainable

Free Thinking

Inspired

Didgital

Information Driven

Logical

Emotional

Sketchbook Doodler

Mac Attached

Typography Driven

A Big Thinker

Analogue

If this doesn't encompass you... how would you define yourself as a designer?

2. What is the first thing you do when given a new brief?

You are creating a informative publication or brand, what is the first thing you do?

3. You often design for small businesses - what makes a good branding project?

4. Within your practice do you believe that form follows function or are you primarily aesthetics lead? Can you pick an example from a past projects?

5. Do you think designers have to move to one of the world's capital cities in order to be successful?

How does geographical location affect your relationship with clients, and new technology?

6. At this moment in time who is your biggest influence? And why?

7. How would like to be approached by designers who want to be hired?

8. What is next for you?
I will sent of 15 physical copies to other countries. Here is my lost below:
Things I Did : Hong Kong
Heydays: Oslo, Norway
Tsto: Helsinki, Finland
Forma & Co: Barcelona
Two Points: Berlin & Barcelona
Co-Op: Austrailia
Clase BCN: Barcelona
Ro & Co Studio: NYC
Anagrama: Mexico
Lundgren+lindqvist: Sweeden
Bond: Finland
A Friend of Mine: Austrailia

The Chase: Manchester & London (UK)
Red Design + :Brighton
A-Side Studio: Falmouth, Cornwall
Studio Makgill: Brighton
Hyperkit: London
Magpie Studio: London

Wednesday, 27 February 2013

Design Context Crit

Crit with Fred

Feedback...
So basically my question is ... WHERE does design exist? But I would like my question to be, Where does education and informal design exist within the world.
So COLORS would feature.
Along-side and other studios, publications, or even branding briefs that informs the audience to a lot of information or makes education interesting.