Tuesday 10 May 2011

Other magazine

I really enjoyed the magazine project so i decided to design one of my own in a subject which i was interested in, so i decided to design a skateboarding magazine. I designed the front over and the double page spread as i thought it would be more interesting to do instead of a follow on page. When i designed the title i actually placed all the method logos under one another to see which one looked best and when i did it i thought it looked really good just having it like that. I chose the colours of the text from objects that are in the photo. so that they matched instead of having random colours like yellow and green etc.
For the double page spread I thought it would be a good idea to have an image which is symmetrical and have the body text on each side with a large header at the top left. for the colour of the text on here i also decided it would look good if it was the same colour as the graffiti on the pillars.

Monday 9 May 2011

We were asked to design a logo for space bar which is a bar in the College area which is just for students 18 and over, I played around with some fonts and I created a logo which I thought would be suitable for the bar, then I thought it would be better if I got the 1st letter of space and create it into an actual logo on its own so that they could use it for other things like stamps and placed on t-shirts and had the word space bar underneath in a cool writing, I chose the colour blue mainly because when people relate space with colour it is normally blue. I also changed the colour of the font to orange as it is a complimentary colour and it makes it look more interesting.

Live Brief



We were asked to make a live brief for our next project. For my brief I made a leaflet for the bar that I work at which is North Bar near  Central Station, before I started designing anything I asked the manager of the bar a series of questions to help me design the leaflet to his fitting, some of the questions included what style would you like the leaflet to be which he replied an urban like look. Also I asked what age range are we wanting to attract, his answer to that was from 18 to 30 as it is warm up area before The Cut which is also another popular bar for young people. I thought it would be good idea to take my camera out and take some photos of urban art work, as it started to get dark I took some photos just outside the bar, then I thought it would be a good idea to change the settings to slow shutter speed so when the cars went past it left a trail of light which I think would look interesting and different for a bar leaflet, I took a few photos like this so that I had a variety to choose from. A lot of them had too many lights and looked all over the place but there was a few with a good amount of lighting and a black area for the text to go.  


Blue Bridge Logo

We were asked to create a new logo for Blue Bridge, these are some of the design which i have ended up with. The final one that i am most likely to pick is either the top left or the middle right as the top left even though the letters are very close together you are still able to see that is says B B. i really like the middle left but i thyink i may need to make some changes to it as it looks a little too much like the letter D until you actually read the blue bridge section.  

magazine project

We were told to create a magazine double page spread and a follow on page. we all got given a certain subject,I l got PENSION AGE WORKERS ON THE RISE, so I did some research looking at a lot of different magazine pages. A lot of the interesting and different ones were mostly music magazines, they used a lot of different colours and they play around with the headers to make it more eye catching. There wasnt much I could put on the magazine so i tried making it colourful  but not too colourful so that it was suitable for the target audience age which was around 30-80.  I included some graphs and quotes to make it ;look more interesting and to keep the reader entertained.