Brief 2/ Example Products/ Computer Arts

Here are some examples of the types of products I would be wanting to create for the brief where I will be producing stationery. I need to think about how I would display the products when I actually make them, and also, could do with working on my photography skills.

As seen in Computer Arts - I've taken some photos of their designed for life pages where they include a few products they recommend for that month, all which would make great gifts for the type of people who read this magazine.

Looking at these photos has given me some ideas for what I can create, and how I can arrange the products in a creative way.

Example products:

Cards, posters, cushion covers, cases, t-shirts, badges, tea towels, plates, cards, toys, notebooks, bags, stickers, novelty items, coasters.

Brief 4/ Exhibition Design & Leaflets

Leeds Museum - Treasured exhibition

York Museum

Leeds Art Gallery

Henry Moore Institute

View Bradford Media Museum Photos

I've visited Bradford Media Museum for one of my ten briefs about the internet, and took some photographs of the exhibitions there.

Collection of leaflets from Leeds tourist information office

Brief 2/ The Internet/ Opte Project

The Opte Project

I found out about The Opte Project at the Life Online exhibition. It seeks to make an accurate representation of the extent of the internet through visual data. The images are not only useful and educational in teaching people about the internet but look beautiful, and are even shown at the Museum of Modern Art.

cheswick map

This is another internet mapping project. I think the results created are so interesting and could be used across a variety of products.

 

The above graphic was featured in Wired magazine in 1998.

It would be impossible to make something similar with accurate information so I don't know yet how I would use these images in my design practice. They could just inspire me to create patterns that look similar and are based on this theme. 

Brief 3/ Rule Book/ Illustrated Type/ Quoteskine

The Quoteskine book by Lee Crutchley is what gave me my initial idea to create a graphic design rulebook. I really like the idea of loads of hand drawn images and text put together in a sketchbook. Designing something like this would give me the freedom to try out lots of design skills as not every page would have to match in with the rest. The quotes in this book have some meaning to them, which made me think about including inspiration or rules.

I found out about this book through the computer arts magazine so here are some photographs of the spread:

Here are some photographs of the book from the website. I'd like to get my hands on a copy to see more examples of his work. I need to be careful not to go to fine arty if I'm creating something like this, which is why I wouldn't want all of the pages to be hand drawn, I'd want to include some computer based typography.

The book demonstrates totally different styles of typography, some mixed with image.

As well as the book, the prints are available on other bits of merchandise, such as these postcards, which made me think about how I could take my rule book further, extending on my product range.