Polaroid Photo Canvas

Around twelve months ago, I had an idea in my head, which involved Polaroid frames. I wanted to create something with a decent amount of images on one big canvas. I had the idea of placing all the images in a Polaroid frame. I decided to get my design on paper so I would pursue it in the future. As Christmas was near, I was figuring what to buy my sister for a gift. I felt this was the perfect time to push this idea as if my idea worked out correctly, I could build on it by producing more.

After getting the design done, I sent the artwork to print as well as making the frame. After the attachment to the frame was finished, I had shown my friends and family. The best thing about this is every time you look at it, you see a photo, which you did not see the previous time. My sister was very happy and proudly hangs in her living room to this day. She has shown it to every guest she has had. I am proud to say that i have gone on to do three more canvas prints and more are being asked for. I learnt that pushing an idea and taking a risk can sometimes work out brilliantly.

Vrsus Beer

As I was doing some research, I found this add on the Internet (and also from the book, Creative Advertising). I love the way the bottles of beer have been used here. It sends the right message out to the consumer about the product. Sex does indeed sell and the use of shape within the bottle is very clever.

Queue Pushing - The Tolerance Brief

Today, Kat and myself reached a good stage in our thinking towards the tolerance brief. We both decided to sit down and talk about our ideas and show our input in them for improvement. We came up with some great things, which we look forward to pushing within the next few days. Here is our idea at this stage. Obviously this will again improve but the idea is getting stronger. Watch this space.

Holiday T-Shirts (Complete)

A few months ago, I had a job to screen print some holiday shirts. I finally managed to get some pictures for how they turned out. Everyone seemed happy with the results, including myself.

Fashion Sale

As I walking through Manchester the other day, I came across this sign for a clothes sale. It made me laugh as everyday I study the means and ways of advertising, layout, communication and most importantly, design and I see this little effort to promote a clothes sale. As poorly as it looks, this made me think that in someway, it sends out a message. Maybe not a great message as the little effort put in the sign to tell there customers about the sale interprets a tacky, cheap clothing shop, but the fact whoever was given the job to do this had one thing in there mind, quick, effortless and simple. Sometimes being quick and simple can produce some nice work (obviously not in this case).

More Ideas - The Tolerance Festival

Here is another design poster for the tolerance festival. The idea behind this is not show the entire story, but for the poster to show enough for the reader to get an idea. I have made the document look like an in- design file in some way by placing a box with the red symbol at the bottom to show an overlap of text in the box. Again, these are just ideas at this stage but the progress is going well.

Good Typography is Unnoticeable Typography

While looking for some inspiration, I was lucky to find this typographic poster (typepad.com), which made me smile when I finally worked out what the underneath type spelt. This reminded me what Paul Heaton told me while my time at Reform Creative. ‘’Good typography is unnoticeable typography’’