It's your choice: Design development

Here is a mixture of designs, this is my full design development of creating the belated cards, gift wrap and git tag, i experimented with a rang of colour pallets, patterns and shapes and tones to get  the result i wanted to achieve.
The reason i chose to use elephants as a design foundation is because i like the saying 'elephants never forget' and i think it ties in with the idea of sending someone something which they have forgotten, however better late than never. The idea of the elephant are just meant to be humours and sincere.

The idea of the products is for an individual to remember thing thing they were supposed to send which they initially forgot, i think the saying below works perfectly in an ironic and light hearted humour way.

I particularly like the pattern fills on the elephant illustration i think these could work well as a selection of gift tags.

I found a really cute font called 'elephont', appropriate for the designs as well as some others such as 'cinnamon cake' and 'throw my hands up in the air'. I really like the hand written effect, i think it works well.

It's your choice: Design sheets

Speaking From Experience

BRIEF

Produce a graphic response/ graphic product /body of work that makes a statement, comment, observation or gives advice about your experience on your first year of this course. You will need to identify appropriate content, and develop/identify appropriate media/formats that will effectively deliver your concept to next years new first years. Will it be entertaining, advisor, informative or instructional?

Background / Considerations

Think about the new experiences that you have had, the difficulties that you have overcome and the new people you have met and the life skills you have acquired this year. Remember what it was like starting your first week, how did you feel and what emotions did you experience? Excitement, trepidation, fear or did you feel overwhelmed. You might have benefited from some advice, opinions and insight from others that have experienced the same transition. What might you say, do or give to next years graphic design students to make the transition into the student experience, particularly this course more welcoming? Here is the following task we were set by fred to identify what type of massage we wanted to convey: 3 messages that i want to deliver 5 reasons why it needs delivering 5 ways they can be delivered  identify 3 problems that could be addressed for each problem: 5 ways of why it needs addressing  5 ways of how it could be solved  messages: -how to get walk to college from liberty park -- quickest route -how to get drunk -survival food - basics -where to find a bargain - clothes, food, essentials -where to do a food shop -best weekday night life message 1: where to find a bargain (clothes) 5 reasons why it needs delivering: - to save money  - cut costs - be able to buy more - happy shoppers 5 ways it can be delivered: - an online website - a map - booklet - poster - zine 3 problems: -high street clothing tends to be over priced -new students maybe don't know leeds enough to know where to find bargains - vintage and charity shops a ret as well know/ advertised as much as hight street shops 5 ways of why it needs addressing: 'High street clothing tends to be over priced'  - to give people the opportunity to look even if they don't buy - to tell people about clothes bargains  - so that students don't over spend - so that students can get their moneys worth when shopping - spread the word about cheaper clothes shops around 5 ways of how it could be solved: 1.

Theory into practice: Initial ideas

Publication : A publication about the anatomy of type 

Name/ titles of the publication-
Face for fonts
Faces of the female fonts
A-Z of female fonts
Face-to-font

Concept-
A handy pocket size font book, made for girls in graphic design or fashion related courses to help to choose the best fonts for their design work. The nifty book will be designed so that finding a particular font is accessible through the A-Z layout, there will also be hints of mode and illustration throughout the book as well as relevant information about type and fashionable fonts.

Content-
Hand drawn typeface which incorporates the females form
Face of a fashion model portrayed in each initial EG. A- Agness Deyn
Feminine fonts

Audience-
Graphic/ fashion designers, useful for college work/ advertising/ learn about fonts
Designer newbies
Those interested in Typography

Theme-
Fashionable
Girly/ feminine
Identifiable

Deliverables-
Zine/ handbook/ swatch, roughly A5/ A6


Here are a few designs sheets i have done: