Design Competitions/Live Briefs

As a PPD Task, the class was asked to research into current Design Competitions,

I looked at quite a few, but these were the ones which I found most useful and most interesting.

D&AD is a well known Design Awards so this was one of the first that I thought of.

My favorite Design Competition website was graphiccompetitions.com because it had a variety of competitions, instead of just one. It also caters for all design categories, so it had lots of graphic design briefs and photography, advertising, etc. So it's my favorite from the bunch!

I also liked it because of the variation in briefs, it wasn't just general artworks which can be entered in by designers, It also had briefs where you can design an accessory, packaging, etc.

I really enjoyed this task, it opened my eyes and made me more aware of the competitions which are available to enter into, and I will definitely keep checking, as doing this expands my portfolio too!

D&AD Student Awards

http://www.dandad.org/awards/student/2011

Northern Design Competition

http://www.northerndesigncompetition.co.uk/

Roses Design Awards

http://rosesdesignawards.com/

Graphic Design Blog

http://graphicdesignblog.co.uk/

Penguin Design Awards 

http://www.penguin.co.uk/static/cs/uk/0/minisites/penguindesignaward/index.php

Graphic Competitions

http://www.graphiccompetitions.com/

YCN Design Competitions

http://awards.ycnonline.com/briefs/

LOGORAMA

LOGORAMA

Logorama from Marc Altshuler - Human Music on Vimeo.

We were shown this in class, I think it's amazing! It mental seeing all the different logos in this, every time I watch it, I always see a new logo. It's really well done, and hilarious. Definitely a one to watch!

Weekly Time Plan starting: 04.04.11 (Editorial Project) AD108

Monday:


Continue developing Double spread and following page in InDesign. Start to finalize, and print development, start annotating to keep up with work.


Tuesday:


Finalize double and following spread, print off and mount onto Black card ready to hand in.
Continue with development book, print off any more screen prints, annotate, and begin Written Report.


Wednesday: 


Continue with Written Report, Evaluating my Final Piece (1500 Words max). Talk through research, any Ideas which have been taken from it, talk about the chosen Grid System and Layout, following onto the given Topic, what or who I Focused on, what the concept was for the spread, and where I got this from. 'Why why why?' what choices I made and the reasoning behind it.


Thursday:


Finalize Report, add any images which will help communicate what I have written, and print off to put with mounted work to hand in.


Friday: 


Go through research and Development, read through annotation and make sure that it's explaining my ideas fully, and finalize to hand in on monday.

AD109: BlueBridge Logo Design

BlueBridge

BlueBridge is another brief which is part of the Work Related Module.

I much preferred this brief to the Seaton Sluice one, I found it more fun and I liked that we could come up with our own concept. 

BlueBridge was a complicated project to begin with in terms of idea generation as the client stated they did not want any musical instruments or anything that was too obvious. So it was the idea, which I took time developing.

Eventually the ideas were flowing and I had tonnes of developments, various concepts, shapes, and typefaces. However I eventually narrowed it down to just 3 designs. All designs that I thought were the strongest concept and which suited the style of the record label and the requirements of the client. Which were, to be a contemporary record label, and be focused both on students and industry, as the purpose of the record label is to help students get from college into work so its about ‘bridging’ the gap between education and industry.

My 3 ideas were based on the initial ‘B’ for example I had a basic shape of a ‘B’ with a treble clef cut out of the centre, even though they didn’t want anything obvious I thought that it looked contemporary and that it was appropriate.

The second idea I had (which is my favourite from the 3) was based on the shape of a plectrum, with the block capitals ‘BLUE’ cut out the centre, I thought that it was simple, and again it looked really contemporary.

The 3 idea was the least obvious, I got the idea from a CD cover when researching on the internet. Originally the idea was to have two outlines of CD’s overlapping but I later added the line down the middle to make it look like two lowercase b’s back to back. The line also symbolised ‘bridging’ the gap between two CD’s. The colours I went for were light blues and green/blue and I changed the opacity so the colours showed through each other and in the end creating a great effect.

The Clients also seemed impressed with my ideas, and loved the concept however, there were other ideas put forward which fit their requirements much more.

Ad101: PPD Task (Design Agencies Presentation)

Design Agency Presentation

As part of our PPD module, we were asked to research into Design Agencies which we thought were interesting, and then put together a powerpoint presentation to discuss our findings and why we chose to focus on these specific agencies and we also had to choose one project from each site which we liked the most.

I was paired with Adam Ferguson, and we both chose two agencies to research and then came together to discuss our findings and put them into a powerpoint.

We looked at Pearlfisher, Hawaii, Ziggurat Brands, and The Partners. All of which had their own style.

I think my favourite design was the MySpace logo, which is so unusual and a huge improvement to the original, it's a quirky idea and I'd like to work on something like this in the future.

Weekly Time Plan starting: 28.03.11 (Bluebridge Live Brief) AD109

Monday:


Continue Development of Bluebridge logos, make changes that were discussed with Rachel and Ronnie.


Tuesday: 


Continue with Editorial Project, Finish developing the artwork and scan into the mac to begin developing in InDesign.


Wednesday: 


Finalize Bluebridge logo ready for tomorrow's presentation with Ronnie and Client.


Thursday:


Present to the client, get feedback and if taken further, continue developing any changes required.


Friday:


Continue Developing Editorial Project, put together in Indesign, take regular screen prints to put in development book to annotate progress.

Weekly Time Plan starting: 21.03.11 (Bluebridge Live Brief) AD109

Monday:


Present first ideas to rachel, and choose ideas to develop.
Develop the chosen ideas, show variations, and discuss with rachel and improvements to be made.


Tuesday:


Continue to develop ideas, try out on stationary maybe? see how it works.
Get some feedback on progress and start finalizing.


Wednesday:


Finalize design, and start producing stationary, maybe a few ideas on t shirts to show how the logo can be used elsewhere.


Thursday: 


present designs to Ronnie.


Friday - Sunday:


Continue with AD108 (Editorial Project) and finalize following page, scan designs for the front page (double spread) and develop further on the mac.