Design is about doing: Revisit/ final designs

Further development to posters
I wasn't fully happy with my previous posters and i wanted to re-work the style and colour scheme of them. I was aiming for a more subtle approach using pastel colours and simple vector designs, i wanted to portray icon british imagery in the designs such as: the queen and her corgis, i think this approach would make the posters look more appealing as they are supposed to show 'great british weather'.

Here are my final three designs, i think using Frederick's quote to inspire my posters was helpful as i wanted to portray the quote it self in the design, expressing light hearted humour about the British weather. 

This is the poster i decided to send off to the Erik Kessels compettiion, over all i'm pleased with the outcome, using iconic British imagery and sayings helped me underpin  what i wanted to portray.

Design is about doing: The poster brief

The brief

You are required to design a series of three A2 posters (portrait from) that communicate:

''It always rains in your country. Make a poster for visitors to the UK explaining why so much rain is attractive. Don't be sarcastic. After all, rain can be romantic, useful or beautiful.''

Background:

Poster will be seen by people representing the creative industry in the north.

Erik Kessels will be judging the winner of the competition who will be rewarded with a print of their poster, and the rare book 2Kilo of KesselsKramer and A New Kilo of KesselsKramer.

Poster 1 Is inspired by the quote written by Frederick The Great ''A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in''

I thought using this quote could be quite interesting, meaning that Great British weather gets everyone, including the queen in her iconic topless hat. Light hearted humor to engage with the viewer?

Poster 1 - complete

Poster 2 Is inspired by the famous propaganda poster produced by the British government in 1939 'KEEP CALM AND CARRY ON..', i decided to use this as a foundation for the poster as the quote is eye catching and remember-able. 

'Let if rain cats and corgis' i developed from the British saying 'it's raining cats and dogs' referring the amount of rain we have every year.

'Corgis' - royal family twist.

Poster 2 - complete

 Poster 3

Poster 3 - complete

Design is about doing: initial ideas

Here are a few of my initial ideas

WHAT / IS / A / LINE ?

Lines:

1. Maps
2. Road markings
3. Guitar strings
4. Zips
5. Bricks
6. Queue of people
7. Pipes
8. Prison bars
9. Train track
10. Queue of traffic
11. Sky scrappers 
12. Skyline
13. Curtains
14. Blinds
15. Stitching
16. Books/ bookshelves
17. Mazes
18. Heart monitor
19. Keyboard
20. Text
21. Graphs
22. Shapes
23. Blueprints
24. Animal prints
25. Crops - crop rows/ circles
26. Spider webs

Likes:

1. Ketchup
2. Music
3. Crystal castles
4. Leopard prints
5. Coca cola
6. Urban outfitters
7. Denim
8. Festivals
9. Brogues
10. Seafood
11. Photography
12. Holidays
13. Australia
14. Piercings
15. Vintage handbags
16. Pocket watches
17. Spaghetti bolognese 
18. Oasis - band
19. Fur coats
20. Painting
21. Monster munch
22. Red lipstick
23. Salvador Dali
24. Laura laine - illustrations
25. Camden - London
26. Black and white patterns
27. Jelly
28. 60's
29. Harry potter
30. Johnny Depp

LINE/LIKE/LOGIC

Stitching / Leopard prints / Typography

Animal prints / Crystal castels / Photography

Guitar strings / Oasis / Publication

Skyline / Australia / Publication

Zips / Crystal castles / Typography

Shapes / Salvador Dali / Colour theory

Mazes / Festivals / Type and grid

Stitching / Vintage bags / Publication

* Make a publication about the manufacture of vintage handbags

* Create a font/typography which could promote crystal castles/ title for album/ poster design 

* Create a publication based on my favourite band oasis, their legacy/ music/ song writing/ Noel and Liam quotes/ Old album covers etc. 

Colour theory investigation: Saturation

The third part for colour theory was to show saturation in the images, the contrast of saturation is formed by the juxtaposing of light and dark between the background and the object.