Aimee Hooley, Graphic Design Student, UEL

It's A Royal Knockout

These are my responses to part 1 and part 2 of the royal brief. We were given about an hour to completed each project during one of our lessons. The first picture shows what I think Kate Middleton and Prince William were thinking the day before the wedding. I draw an image of Kate tripping over as she walks up the isle for Kate's thought bubble and for Williams' I drew beer bottles (he's just thinking about getting drunk after the wedding). In the second picture, it shows my own thoughts about the Royal Wedding that we had to respond with using any kind of graphic design. I decided to use hand drawn type and a drawing of a small baloon. The reason I chose to make my design this small is because I was fairly excited for the wedding, but I wasn't over the top excited about it. I did however end up going to the wedding and it was a nice day out! I quite like projects like this where we have very tight deadlines to work to because it puts a good presure on you to think of a good idea and pretty quickly, which I quite enjoy doing.

Wish You Were Here!

These are my re-invention of the postcard, keeping only the concept. In the top picture you can see how the postcards look as they will be delivered, with the address of the recipient and the postage stamp. Then you remove the lid of the box to reveal the contents, and a message on the inside of the lid. The idea is that when you go on holiday, you can purchase these small clear boxes and you can fill them with whatever you like that you find on your holiday or that references the place that you are in. For example, for one of the postcards I have filled it with sand and other beach like objects. I have changed the idea of having a romanticised 2D image of the holiday destination on the postcard by using 3D objects that can be kept as memorabilia. During the class crit my classmates said that then liked my idea, however one thing that was said was the big blue clips on the boxes are quite chunky and it kind of distracts away from the delicate objects inside. So one way to improve my postcard idea would be to buy more plain styled boxes.

Iconoclastic Plastic

For my icon design I decided to recreate an already exsisting icon (Apple logo) and changed it by using a different fruit. I chose carefully which fruit that I was going to use as I knew some fruits wouldn't work as well as others. The famous Apple logo has a bite taken out of the apple so I needed a fruit that you could bite into, for example, a pineapple or a kiwi would not work for this. I researched the type that Apple had used and found that it was Times New Roman, and I also added the Registered 'R' for authenticity. I think this works as a logo and perhaps it could have worked just as well if Apple had decided to name their company Pear instead.

The Ereda Project

The Mile High Type Club

This is my giant letter A that I created out of roles of green display paper. It is taken from the font 'Broadway BT' and I have accurately represented it on a large scale. The A is 156 inches tall and this measures to 3.9624 metres. I drew this letter in my sketch book to begin with that measured at 6.5 inches tall, so I times that by 24 to get the measurements for the large A. I chose to times it by 24 because the A that I drew in my sketch book had a width of 2 inches of the thickest section of the A, and the roll of paper that I had was 48 inches wide. So this meant I could times 2 by 24 to make it fit. I used my mother in the shot of this picture so that you can scale just how big the A is in comparison.

Justin Bieber, No Fear

For this brief I chose to use Facebook to help me. As my status I wrote: Right guys - For my graphics class I am doing a project about JUSTIN BIEBER. If anyone would like to contribute, then please leave a comment with ur thoughts (any thoughts at all) of BIEBER himself here: thanking you xxx. I got about 19 comments from this status and about 97% of the people wrote something negative about Justin Bieber. I think Bieber is like marmite, you either hate him or love him.