Team logo

Me and Karl for obvious reasons, decided to call our team........."Northern Monkeys" and this is my idea for a team logo! what do you think?

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Bob Dylan and Robin Hood Tax

I think I may go for Bob.....it has the message for the cause, he has purposefully used really general reference points so the song is both iconic and lasting!

Other ideas include;
Isley Brothers - Harvest for the World

I posted this on Facebook and got a huge variety of suggestions including Grandmaster Flash - The Message and Nine Inch Nails - The Hand that Feeds You, but definitely to wordy and not suitable for my stand up and fight in a merry way, folky vibe!

Posted it to the Robin Hood Tax page and they had a vote and are all in favour of the Bob Dylan idea, so I reckon that's my tune!

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Studio Diary - A Paid Design Job!!!

So have just been commissoned by my local pub to create a poster for a band night. It has to be black and white and I have a few logos that need to be included but other than that I can do what I like. It is a poorly paid job, but paid all the same.....my first £20 for my work (well not 100% true but keeps the poor student designer image up)!!!! :)
I'll keep you posted with my progress but it'll be all about thirds, contrast and lines I think although may throw in a character or 2!

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Studio Diary - Bits and Bobs

Just going through some of my bits and bobs and found this in my photos. It is my mood board for the "You" Brief. I started out as a mood board and it slowly became more of a picture or piece of art but I wanted to call it a mood board as I felt it really captured what the whole feel of my piece was to be like. Anyway feel free to comment or critique constructively! Although probably won't change it :)

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SMiles Studio Diary

Thirds!
Working with Design Elements and Principles I created a poster for my to be finished "You Brief". I wanted to use the images of the big owl on the small world and have the sky and clouds as a massive visual in the poster to show the feeling of air and space and freedom.....which was the main thread of the story.

So I played around with a few ideas and experimented with the layout and settled on the owl and earth in the lower 1/3 of the page slightly left and looking up, giving an anchor point and to take the eye upwards to the words.

The clouds are bold in white and black and they contrast against the blue background, taking up the remaining 2/3rds of the page. I wanted to use the principles of movement, contrast and size in order to create the impression of the air and freedom. The typography is my own, hand drawn, scanned in and traced and the placement of the wording is dynamic and informal. I used bold colours in order to contrast against the background, whist staying true to the overall colour scheme.

Elements and principles used in my piece are:
3rds, contrast, colour, shape, line, movement and size.

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SMiles Studio Diary

Info-graphics Brief

OK so this brief has finally started to make me think about what I need to do to make what I am doing on this course my career. I have been trying to put my finger in why this is happening now, is it the fact that i like the idea of producing info-graphics....is it just the timing...who knows but it has started!

So my first objective bearing this in mind was to choose something that is relevant, current, dynamic and not totally saturated yet! I thought about issues and areas that I would like more information on and it came to me like an arrow whooshing past my ear.......terrible pun there........The Robin Hood Tax.

It is a brand new campaign which has the possibility to be massive. It has broad support and is starting to make tracks, but my issue is that the website whilst fun and a little garish, isn't that accessible for the facts and in a sense is aimed more at already conformed anarchists/activists or "socially conscious" people and doesn't have as much pulling power to average "Joe Public". This is very evident when viewing the amount of people as fans on Facebook compared with the number of people who have signed the petition via the website, a staggering 75% more on Facebook. So is this due to the information being less accessible via the website, is the more concise information on Facebook easier to understand? Also there is definitely a space for a piece of visual beauty to hook people in.

So i started to make my presence known via the Facebook wall and an email to the group via their website. I mentioned my desire to make a piece of info-graphics for the campaign, which i said that I would be more than happy for them to use if they so wished to. they have responded by saying this is an area they are definitely interested in moving to next and are really happy to help me with any information as and when i need it.

So feels like I have stuck my foot in the door and now I just need to get on with the goods.

Here is the link for my brief inspiration.

http://www.robinhoodtax.org/

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