Words of wisdom posters

Somewhat related to the words of wisdom video, these where a selection of posters made for the class that was going to become first years. For this project, I went with a strong WW2 with the recently unearthed Keep Calm And Carry On posters serving as a strong influence.
Printed on special kind of paper it produced a very nice aged effect. I should really dig them out, they are a joy to look at.
This was really a fun experiment into textures and materials. Given that it was a smaller quicker project, without a fixed brief we had a little more elbow room to fiddle about with ideas and such. And here is part of the end result. (If I ever do find the originals from whatever portfolio they have hidden themselves away into I promise to catch a few photos. These digital images do them no justice at all!)

Perfect Day

Another poster campaign, this one again was a fun one.

It's a little trying to sell the "Perfect Day" to someone, more so in Scotland where the negatives outweigh the positives sometimes. So for this project I decided to look at ways of just teasing people with famous Scottish icons to entice them to go to Scotland in the hope of seeing more. It's really the opposite of a poster designed to show you what you can get, the idea here is "You have to come here and see if for yourself."

Scoopy

This probably leans closest to the strangest project I have worked on, the product was Inflata-scoop. A product designed for catching dog poo in an inflated bag.

Well it was so bizarre I just had to take a whirl at it. 

My concept for this project was a little silly, but an enjoyable idea. 

Back in the 50's all sorts of ideas where being made real, hover cars, helicopter cars, jet packs, it was this era when any silly idea could seem plausible. So I thought, why not give it a 50's feel? So I did, but I pushed the idea further to give it a little more depth allowing for some more artistic elements to shine though, I eventually settled on a strange grunge/retro 50's design. It was a strange mix, but I seemed more pleasing than simple colours. 

The tag line "Because Sh*t happens." was just simple honest, as a dog owner myself, I know what it can be like when your out walking and then... It was something other dog walkers would remember, and most importantly be able to relate to. 

The design itself would be used on simple lightweight paper packaging, the product was incredibly small and so therefore didn't require a major amount of packaging, and I decided like most pet food and hygiene packaging that should be kept simple and just be a small paper carton with a cut out for the handle. 

Monster Much poster campaign

This was a fun little project that we where tasked with some time after christmas, the idea was to bring monster munch back into the world somehow.
I opted for the big social gathering of movie nights, where everyone would have snack food, of course the snack food of choice being Monster Munch! It was a challenge and a half to get a working idea on the go, but the main idea is linking movies with Monster Munch, the eventual idea was just to have movie posters with quotes and clues, some obvious, some not so, this was part of a contest where people could win prizes online. All part of the "getting people to take part" concept that so many companies like to do these days, the internet and such groups as twitter and facebook making this so very easy and fun to do.

See if you can guess what the movies are!

Words of Wisdom

A project given to us to produce over the summer holidays concerning the first years. By now we where all sort of second years in the class, so we all had to produce a video that helped us give our own personal words of wisdom to the new first years in Graphic design.

It was the first time I had properly worked with abode after effects to produce certain movements with the images and text animations, however it is a good learning curve and I hope to learn more with it as time goes on.

Cabe brief

Our first major brief for the year. It was from Cabe Space, the concept was to try and get people to use more of the open park space within the UK. My solution, to use circus themed posters just to give the feel of theatrics and a grand nature for something I feel we all take for granted.

Introduction.

Welcome to this blog. It's a small hive of little ideas and projects that I've collected over the last few years as a graphic designer in training. A sort of personal digital gallery as you will. And in working my way to the halfway point in my time at Telford. I think its about time I had something to show the big boys and girls in the industry really what I can do.