The Noise music festival posters

Finally i have something to blog about this... i got a bit behind with this task. I had so many ideas that would have looked great for this task but i had difficulty getting it from my head to the computer.
This is the first one i done - looked good in my head but crap when it got to PS.


This one i like - it uses the logo that i like the most and its simple. I thought of putting more things in it but it would have been overkill.

Childrens Characters

We were asked to come up with five characters that would appeal to young children. These are the characters i came up with, they are mainly based on lollies (which pretty much all young kids like), except for the dog. First i done rough sketches of the characters, then drew them again bigger and coloured them in. After taking photos of the drawings i put them into Illustrator and using the pen tool and live paint i got these images.

Logo Creation Process report

One normal day at Tafe I came in, ready for a day of pen tool in Illustrator. This was not to be... Class started and we got separated into small groups- I was with Elise and Nathan. Once in our groups we were given two minutes to come up with a name for a graphic design company. We put the first initials of our last names together and came up with PPL Design (pronounced 'people').

We then sat down with our 'Client', Mr Steve Deaconsfield, a solicitor who had recently opened his own law firm, Deaconsfield Solicitors, and was looking for an image. He had been a solicitor for 25 years; previously worked for another solicitor, Craig Lyle; his firm had been open for roughly six months, in an office on Baylis Street, had a steady clientele, and a staff of 26- five of these solicitors. We had to design a logo for our Client, which would be used everywhere- stationary, uniforms, etc. His needs were specific- he wanted a 'cool' coloured logo- specifically blues and greys; he wanted it to be simple, classy but not clinical. The logo had to show the company was professional and trustworthy. He also wanted to possibly incorporate some kind of motif which represented Wagga, Australia or Law. We discussed details like money (he had a big budget so this was not an issue) and when we would meet up next to present ideas and get his opinions on them. The clients expectations were reasonable.

Immediately i got ideas floating through my head and had to get them down on paper. Some of these ideas involved the Murrumbidgee river (which flows through Wagga), Gum trees, justice scales, Australian flag, and crows. My original sketches were bold, simple and primitive.


PPL Design sat down and spoke about the specific requests the client had made, and we shared the ideas we had initially, both visually and verbally. We sat as a group and started sketching our own ideas, and also began putting our ideas into Illustrator. Every so often we would present an idea to the group and ask each other for feedback, and share ideas.

Of my original ideas, i scrapped the ones involving the justice scales, crows and the Australian flag. These seemed a bit too complex for what the Client required. I had another idea of a D inside of a diamond, and I focused my attention to making a logo which used a curved motif to represent the river with the initials DS; and a logo using a tree and curved motif in a box, with the words Deaconsfield Solicitors somewhere on the bottom of it. I drew more detailed sketches in my sketch book, and then began designing them in Illustrator. My first coloured sketches in my art book are better than the sketches in my notebook, but still needed a lot of work.


After a bit of time spent in Illustrator, I came up with three possible logos for the Client - a D inside of a diamond with parts of the D cut out; one with DS and a curved river motif underneath; and the one that i was most happy with, a box with a river and tree motif in it, with the words Deaconsfield Solicitors under it.



PPL Design met again with the Client with all of our possible logo designs. We explained our logo ideas individually as he went through our print outs. Of my three ideas put forward, the client liked the DS initials with the river motif, and the box with the tree and river motif.

After the meeting with the Client, we sat back down and had a chat about our logos and then went our own ways to work on our own. I made a few changes to the logos i had designed- with the initials logo i made two changes, in turn making two different logos with the similar idea. With one i made the text smaller so it fit into the curve of the motif; and the other i moved the motif up so it was in line with the bottom curve in the S and it flowed through the D.

With the square logo i simplified the tree so it was just a circle and a rectangle. I also made a variation of it so the words are inside the square, which i found looked a lot better- more tighter. Of all of the final designs i was most happy with this one, and would pitch this to the Client the most.


These are the two I think are the best-


As this logo design went on, i couldn't see a lot of progression in regard to the tightness of the logos, especially with the one in the box because that is tight enough as it is. I seen the most progression with the initials logo. I am happy with the progression of meeting the Client's needs - i used the specified colors, included some of the motif themes he specified and kept the logos simple and professional. As a group we progressed well from the initial sketch stage to the final logo stage.

I was in control with the typography, there was not a lot of problems with that because the Client wanted a professional logo so there was no need for fancy fonts. I didn't feel like the technology held me back at all - i was confident the skills i had learned thus far in Illustrator would be enough to let me do the task. I believe i would have done just as good a job on my own away from the group, although the extra input was helpful.

In the real world, i don't think one day would be enough time to do this job. There are things to consider such as meetings with the client (not many real life clients would be willing to have meetings every few hours) and researching the type of business- this may not be as easy as looking up the industry on the Internet, it may involve going to job sites or meeting with other people who are more knowledgeable about the industry. For a real job like this I have no idea how much I would charge - maybe around the $500 mark. It is only a logo, not a business card using the logo, or a poster, etc, but it still takes a lot of time, thought and effort to get the logo from an idea to a tangible object (even if it is a file on a computer or a piece of paper). This is pretty much how i expected the work of a graphic designer to be - the process of meeting with the client, brainstorming, getting ideas onto paper then creating them digitally.

Overall the day's work was an enjoyable success. I enjoyed the process of meeting with the client, right through to finishing the final copy of the logo. It was successful in the way how an idea was conceived and watching the idea evolve through various execution methods. I enjoyed working in a group, and also by myself.

Recreating Pictures in Illustrator

Happy St Patties day!!!

With yesterday being St Patricks day, it was no surprise to see green all over the internet. Those bored kids who make facebook apps are the worst (or best) at it! I love what google done to their logo, it still looks classy but you can tell why it was changed.

Logos

Here are the logos i have sketched and made again in Illustrator...

Logos in Illustrator

Using the pen tool in Illustrator we done this exercise of recreating the Canberra Raiders logo.

Logos...

sketches of logos for a florist, gymnasium and dental clinic.

My music festival logos

First ones.... not too exciting because PS wasnt doing what i wanted it to do ('what we have here is failure to communicate...')




I like the idea of this one, if i could get the face drawn right in photoshop


Similarly, this one is cool too (those pink bits are meant to be lips)



Just a random one i made..



This one is the best of the lot i think..


Pros- it is simple, an easily identifiable shape, easy to read.
Cons- may look funny in color, not very musical.
Will it work in black and white? yes.
Can it be printed small and still be legeble? the main 'noise' part yes, maybe not so for the 'the' and 'music festival'
Is it easily identifiable? yes i think so.

Music Festival Posters

a few really cool and effective ones...


This one is especially good i think because it is a busy poster, and has a lot of styles in in, yet it shows all the information and looks good.
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This is cool, its busy also but it is affective. A lot of effort would have gone into the drawing on this poster.
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This one is bright and colorful, yet isnt too detailed to look too busy.
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This poster is simple yet effective. The logo is simple, and can be easily transferred to paper or mechendise. The colours are nice too.
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This poster is bright, colorful, and different. I like the one style of the buildings against another style of the trees. It is a bit busy though, with different colours clashing with each other (eg, the adicts logo against the softness of the sky).
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This poster is bright, bold and interesting. Even though the festival logo doesnt stand out as much as some others, you do see it after you initially look at the bear.
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This poster is awesome, a lot of work has gone into the design of it. there are a lot of colours which are effective in catching people's attention. There are sun rays, which since it has been pointed out in class, there does seem to be a lot of everywhere. In this case i think it adds to the effectiveness of the design. The logo itself is a bit hard to work out - is it just the banner or is it the guitar, flames and feather/petal things as well?

Using camera settings for what they are NOT meant for.

This photo was taken with the 'fireworks' setting on my camera.


This photo was taken with the 'Snow' setting of my camera.


This was taken with the 'available light'setting on my camera.



This photo was taken with the indoors setting on my camera, this is my favorite!!