OUGD503 - TBWA Papyrus: Brief Interpretation

Papyrus is a charity to prevent young suicide. The brief is create page of an adult colouring book which makes you feel calm when you don't feel in the right frame of mind which is called 'The Art of a Peaceful Mind'.

Hand drawn - 600 dpi - A3 Size
Digital - Illustrator file

Write a small description of the design.

Deadline
27th February 2017

OUGD503 - Stratford Literary Festival Book Jacket: Brief Interpretation

Deadline: 2nd March 2017

The brief is to design a book jacket for the Stratford Literary Festival Felix Dennis Creative Writing Competition Winners 2017. The theme of the book should be colourful, bright and have the interpretation of Sharing Stories. The winning entry will appear as the jacket on a Festival book which will be on sale at Waterstones Stratford-upon-Avon and online. The book jacket does not need to relate to Stratford but it will be ideal for it to.

Requirements

Dimensions: 235mm x 155mm wide Front and Back. Allow 1cm for the spine. The book title and Festival Swan logo will need to feature on the spine.

Book Title: Sharing Stories

Sub-title to appear on the front of the jacket:Stratford Literary Festival Felix Dennis Creative Writing Competition Winners 2017

Back Cover:Leave room for 8 lines of blurb about the book contents.

Leave 45mm w x 30mm space at the bottom of the reverse of the cover for the ISBN (bar code) graphic and 45mm w x 50mm high for our logo.

The ISBN will be: 978-0-9565064-7-4

You need to also include the following:
www.stratlitfest.co.uk

Cover designed by:   xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

UK £9.99 

Ideas

• Speech bubble to show 'Sharing Stories'
• Simple and illustrative to make it seem more personal and imperfect and to reflect 'Sharing Stories' - it gives it more character as do the stories in the book
• A reference to Shakespeare since it is his hometown
• Popular tourist destinations
• The shade of orange used on their logo into the design as people may easily recognise the colour
• Something to do with trees as Felix Dennis used to plan trees to help the environment 

OUGD504 - Design Production: End of Module Evaluation

OUGD504 module was exciting as I got to design a publication and also an app.  Publication outcome was slightly disappointing but designing for screen was enjoyable and was something I am proud to have made.

That idea generation of the publication was difficult because the only images that I had collected were of restaurants which categorised and limited the amount of ideas I had on the publication outcome. The only thing that I knew I could produce was something for tourists since locals wouldn’t need or use a publication something they already know about. The idea of the publication being the ‘Top 10 Restaurants in Manchester Chinatown’ was because I wanted to inform people of the top restaurants in Manchester Chinatown since tourist may not be aware of the area or the surrounding places. I had an idea to have the publication in partnership with TripAdvisor as it is more genuine sense real-life people have been to then restaurants and have their opinions so it helps the reader decide for themselves they want to go to that restaurant or not.

The publication didn’t turn out as well as I hoped because the stock that I originally wanted to use, which was satin/gloss weren’t available to print double sided so instead I had to use matte paper stock and even then, the cover had cracks since it was folded around the publication. It was disappointing as I tried to do again and although it did have less cracks on the fold, it didn’t appear as high-quality as they wanted it to be even though the publication was going to be free.

I enjoyed the Design for Screen more than I did the publication. At first, I dreaded the brief at first since I have no idea how to make a screen-based design since I have never thought of doing it are had the desire to make a digital design application. Once I thought of the idea, it gradually got easier and I found that I was over-thinking the brief and the design process. The brief was surprisingly easier than I thought and less time-consuming as I thought. Coming up with the idea and the design with easy since the problem that I had identified was a problem that I was having. It was easy to use my own experience to know what I want but then also take into consideration how other people felt about receiving parcels. However, during the early stage of designing, I was pushing myself more than any detail and over complicating the idea of the app and what I wanted in the app. For example, I had originally wanted the idea of having ‘receiving parcels’ and ‘sent parcels’ which made no sense because when you send mail anyway, you get a receipt which defeats the purpose of the app since it’s supposed to be convenient and automatically sync with emails so after asking others, I decided to get rid of that option and to keep it simple. The outcome of this brief was better than I thought it would be considering I have never created a screen-based design before. I was especially pleased with how the artwork and how I could make it look like it was a real thing.