Studio Brief 4 - Final Designs

Keep Blogging - Blogging is hard for everyone at the start, a lot of people in level 4 didn’t realize how much we needed to blog, so it’s quite universal across level 4 that keeping up with blogging is a challenge. What i wanted to show in this design is how important blogging actually is but also showing the students side to blogging. So the mix of academics and students influences mixed together.

In a David Carson typesetting, i started of by communicating that blogging is important and the need to keep on top of it. Then interrupts a comment, which says, “fuck blogging” but has been crossed out to represent a students not wanting to publicly expresses their opinions to their tutors. Then incomes another set of information saying that blogging is good for your development but if you’re struggling then don’t be afraid to ask for help. Lastly the title is used to at a vertical angle to guide the users eye onto the body of text.

Always Remember cop - When it comes to context of practice, i always put it to the back of my mind, always thinking it’s not as important at the moment and thought that there isn’t no point starting it due to having the whole year to do it. The big title being the main feature on the page. Typeface is Helvetica to show both styles together. Post-modern and modernist styles. Typeface is in red to contrast against the black and white in the background. Also red is used to attract and alert it’s presence as red is a very demanding colour. Background layout and text is my own take on how i feel towards cop.

To play with the word “remember” i decided to miss out a few letters of the title just the emphasize the main objective. The way i designed the layout was to show the full destructive nature of your mind when you forget something for too long. Your mind builds up with the amount of work you haven’t done and all this information becomes jumbled up into one. The body copy along with the title links in with this aspect. Having everything bunched and clustered gives a sense of chaos. Then near the bottom a black bar with the text “Confused yet? Just don’t forget cop” This section is just explain that if you don’t want your mind to be clustered all together then just don’t forget cop.

Don’t be stressed - This poster is about not being over stressed, no necessarily saying don’t be stressed as it’s not going to make someone instantly become calm. It’s meant to be a tip to not take it to seriously. Do your work but you don’t need to become over stressed about it. When times are bad i want people to look at this poster and think that they shouldn’t take it so seriously.

The layout is a contradiction off stress. Even though I’m saying don’t be stressed the poster is designed to make you a bit stressed. The poster isn’t meant to be a cure for stress; it’s a bit of fun that i want to communicate in a post-modern style. The title and colour is the same style to the previous layout. However the words are upside down, therefore you have to spend a little longer working out what it says, making you more stressed. The type setting is a representation of me. Trying to tell some one who is extremely stressed to “don’t stress, it will be okay” i sometimes feel like shouting. So the ‘y’ coming off the ‘okay’ is meant to communicate an over stressed mind.

The other body text below is information to students who become stressed but in a post-modern fashion. It may be un-readable but it’s expressive and is my personal touch on that piece of info. If it becomes un-readable for some people then that’s why the title is there, big and dominant on the page to sum up the whole poster in a couple of words.