Timeline

Last week of TAFE for the year and I need to post some of the things that we did for the assessment. In this case, here is my 'future' timeline

Pieces of Work to put for my exhibition

Matt Drake here,

It's near the time for exhibition and with that comes at the time that I need to display some of my best works, here is some of the pieces of work that I'll be displaying:

My A3 Poster (my 'future' poster):

The Zing Nightclub Stationery (A3 Poster, A4 Letterhead, Business Card Front and Back and With Complements Slip

CD Cover Project

Kidsons Cycles Logo Drafts

Company Logos

Video Tutorials

For my tutorial I need to create. I have made my intention in attempting to create a HDR panorama both with the use 'Merge to HDR Pro', Photomerge and Content Aware Fill. Unless that changes, I felt that I'm going with that as Panoramas are essentially new to me and that will also teach me a few things, in addition to teaching others (well...trying to)

I'm yet to decide on where to do the photos for the panorama tutorial, but will decide on that by Next Monday time. As for the software, I'll be using the software that came with the Mac (which was somewhat a surprise as the version of QuickTime Player that is one the Mac has screen recording capabilities).

I'll keep posting as the weeks progress

UPDATE (31/10/2011): I have started to find some examples of tutorials on HDR Panoramas, in which should allow me to create a tutorial like these, but adding my own spin.

HDR Pro and Panorama through Photomerge

Creating Panoramas Manually

Merge to HDR Pro (Parts 1 & 2)

UPDATE (08/11/2011) - I've finished my own Photoshop Tutorial, it can be accessed here

Design Brief

My apologies for not posting this earlier, I had things to do during the holidays in which making posts was not possible. But anyway:

I was given a design brief by Tristan Boersma to create some business designs for a fictional comic book shop called 'Stan's Comic Corner', in which I had to create the following:

- A Logo with Slogan
- A Point Of Sale (POS) 3D Promotional Product
- Website Mockup
- Shopfront Mockup
- Brochure of Business (A4 to DL Brochure) OR 4 Page Booklet (in A5) OR A2 Poster

In the first consultation meeting, I had came up with some concepts, as shown below:

In the first consultation meeting, we decided to go on with the yellow logo in the top right of the first set of logos. The summary of the meeting was as follows:

- The use of a borderless logo
- Avoid the use of Blues
- Decided on the Red Text with Yellow Background
- Slogan needs to be orientated with comics
- Eliminate the 'Wagga Wagga' Sub-Heading

In the second consultation I received feedback on the works that was to be done and fix up a few things, here is the feedback I've received on the work in progress:

I continued on the work, as well as fixing up the odd issues on the existing stuff based on the feedback and produced the following final works during the holidays:



Stan's Comic Corner Logo and Slogan (both in Full Colour and Black & White)

A5 Booklet - Front Cover (Page 1) and Back Cover (Page 4)

A5 Booklet - Inside of Booklet (Pages 2 & Page 3)

Shopfront

Original Photograph taken from my Nikon D5000 SLR (image of the empty shopfront on Baylis Street in Wagga Wagga, where Fletcher's Photographics used to be)

Shopfront Mockup of Stan's Comic Corner

Website Mockup

Newspage

Comics Search and Listing

About Us

3D Point Of Sales Product

Overall, I was rather satisfied with the work I've produced and I felt that I've met all of the requirements of the design brief that was given to me.

Stationery Logo Drafts

I was meant to post this earlier, but because my interwebs was down and I had important matters to attend to, that was not possible. But anyway, I got some drafts for the stationery logos, as shown below:

Kidsons Cycles - Employment Obligations and Resposibilities

Well as I post this, we've finished for this Term.

I'll start by saying this was a rather interesting term, having both highs and lows and rather some interesting times that happened the last term.

Anyway enough of the reminiscing, what I'm here to post is about what I had to do throughout the duration of the Kidsosns Cycles Rebranding Project.

My responsibilities for the project was Print Researcher as well as writing the Style Guide. Part of my responsibilities as print research was determining specific print requirements for things such as business cards, colour specifications, jerseys, etc. During the time of the project, I had to contact Clothing Company 'Cannibal Clothing' who (based up in Tweed Heads) make the thousands of jerseys available for cycling shops (this including Kidsons Cycles) and were more than happy to help with my enquiries and provided me the templates available.

The second part of my role throughout the project was the creation of the style guide, which interestingly, turned out that Kidsons Cycles never had a pre-existing style guide available - meaning that I had the 'fun' part of creating one from scratch, although I had to wait for my classmates to finish the Business Cards and Letterheads before defining the style guide throughly. In addition, I had to define the colours used with the new logo and associated stationery.

Apart from that, my role in the project went somewhat smoothly, although the thing that I can improve on you be more consultation with classmates when setting out standards in relation to the style guide.

More Logos, Stationery and other things

Drakie here,

Today we were given some business names from our classmates (in my case, mine is from Katelyn), for each we come up with logos for. These are the following logos:

- Markham's Construction (the boring one)
- Divine Hair and Beauty (the so-so one)
- Zing Nightclub (the awesome one)

For each of the logos, we have to come up with the following:

- Business Card (AS 90mm x 55mm)
- A4 Letterhead
- With Complements Card

In addition, we have to come with one of the following for each business:

- A3 Poster
- A5 Flyer
- Swing-Tag
- 3D Point Of Sale Item
- Fridge Magnet
- Bookmark

All of this being due 25th October 2011