Overall Reflection.

Now having finished this project, all ready to submit. I'm overall very pleased with out everything has turned out. Perhaps even one of my favourite projects I have done throughout my whole university experience. Nothing I did in this project ever felt like a chore, which can only be a good thing! I learnt a lot during this project, including learning new software and learning some new photography techniques.
This project has truly given me back my motivation, which I lost after the first semester. This really helped bring my creativity and motivation to continue to create and explore.

Poster and Website

Here are my finished promotional poster and website design. I tried to keep all my final displays cohesive with one another, like using the same font and colour throughout each design. Also using the same polaroid style photos in the magazine and poster publications.

I really like how these have turned out and how they all work well with one another. I think displaying my finished work really brings it all together as a 'brand', which is something I aimed todo from the beginning.

I also feel like I now have everything set up and ready to go to actually go through my plan of eventually selling some of these products! 

Presenting my work...

I got slightly stuck on how exactly I could effectively (and artistically) present my final works, without just submitting a loaf of JPEGS. So after discussion with Ryan I came to the conclusion of creating some magazine and website mock ups. Therefor creating a more interesting way to display my final work and ideas.

I quickly mocked up the following magazine spread, using Indesign. I like how it turned out, however I would like to push it more and bring it to a higher standard. I also plan to create a few other magazine spreads, promotional posters and a website mockup, all being cohesive with one another.

Previously I had created some posters, with the pictures I took of the phone covers. However I do not like how they turned out and hope to progress and come up with a better poster.

Reflection

As my project work begins to finally come together, being able to see all my work brought together is really rewarding. It also gives me hope that I can actually create a body of work I am happy with and will be keen to show off to people. Which is great! It's also something which doesn't happen to me often with my own work, I can be very hard on myself, particularly with my art work. Which is never a good thing and something I'm constantly trying to improve on.

T-shirt Designs!

I'm also really keen to implement my designs onto clothing too, rather than getting anything printed I plan to just implement the designs digitally.
So I went out and took pictures of Ryan in a plain tshirt and took to photoshop to implement the designs. I'm pretty pleased with how these turned out!

Reflection

Even though these tshirt designs are simple, I'm really pleased with how they look so far. Creating designs for apparel is something I've always had a huge interest in and I think it's really special that somebody, who perhaps doesn't even know you, would want to wear your art. Therefor this thought really spurs me on into creating more designs and graphics fit for apparel.

Fruit/Veg printing - Media Test

I decided to have ago at printing, with fruit and veg! I know from previous experience you can get some pretty interesting results from printing with different objects, with different textures etc. I am a huge lover of mixed media and incororate it into as many projects as possible. I think mixed media just brings art and design up to a another level and gives an added interest to the work too.

These are how the prints turned out, I used black acrylic paint, mainly for the fact it dries pretty fast. Meaning I can quickly scan them all and get them into my computer.

I then came up with these phone case ideas from the initial prints I did! 

I used image trace again to help transform the scans into vectors, then played around with the shapes a bit, tidying them up etc. Then eventually putting colours on them.

Phone Cases!

I also got a few phone cases printed off too! I would have liked to get more designs printed off but it would cost too much money, so I chose some of my favourite designs.

Reflection

Looking back through these pictures of my finished designs on the product, really fills me with great joy. Developing a project like this, is something I have wanted to undertake for a long long time. It is also something I have never really done before, I've also learnt how to use Illustrator which is now my go to programme. It's great! 

I no cannot wait to develop this project even further and begin to start selling my designs and these products! 

Badges and Stickers!

I decided to get some designs and logos printed off onto a couple different projects, just to see what they would look like. Also an opportunity to take some photographs and implement them into my final work.

I really like how they have turned out and hope to get more printed off in the future! 

Reflection

As I begin to expand my designs and logos on other products such as the stickers and badges it really excites me for all the possibilities this project could bring. Therefor I am very excited and these products have encouraged me to keep continuing with the project and continue to develop and expand my ideas and plans.