Thats it...final designs

Printing our final tote bag designs

This is the final stage! Printing our finalized design solutions onto canvas tote bags. We did discuss what would be the most cost effective method, also taking into consideration our target audience of students. Tote bags were cost effective, fitting into the 'eco friendly' category many companies aims for, and useful as an item to students. One of our team members, Sophie, purchased 5 tote bags from a craft store, one for the each of us, and some transfer paper to print our designs onto. Personally I have little knowledge of the process needed for heat tranferring, but other teams members did, so combining each of our knowledge we were able to omit this process in a successful manner, creating a product with a proffesional finish.

Here are our finalised bag deisgns:

Sophie's - inspired by the home comfort of baking.

I find sophie's illsutartive skills very impressive, she's skillfully controlled when creating the definition of lining. Using thick and thin lines creates a texture like appearance, complimented by the pastel colour pallette, creates a life like, and i must admit 'mouth watering' design!

Her typography works well along side her illustrative ability too.

Cherry's - With the idea of the real home comfort a nice home brew.

I must admit, when seeing an inital sketch on paper, i didn't think much to his design. But His photoshop skills really brought his work to life. Defining lines, carefully to not be so bold in his approach. Using a harmonious approach to colour pallette, considering sophie's too, meant consistancy in each of our designs.His simplistic typeography works well with his detailed illustrations; the design doesn't look to complicated and 'busy'.

My own design - Routine and time management will benefit you in the long run, along side university studies.

I decided to approach this immediatly with a monocrome colour pallette, as I believe limited colour really suits my style of illustration and hand drawn typography. My simplistic approach

Yafat's - Trying to let new students to know to make the best of this new experiance.

Yafat worked prodominantly is type, but also using illustration to create letter forms which i feel really works well here. His hand drawn type is interesting as it doesn't follow any path nor grid, instead it's quite free and its size fluctuates throughout the design. The use of very bold text, with delicate illustration and smaller text works really well, it puts across two big messages in seperates ways highlighting them both.

Will's - His approach was different, more of a warning to 'freshers' to, as his design states to 'think outside the bottle', in hindsight bear in mind, there are consequences when drinking.

Me and Will I feel hold similarities to our style approach to design, he has a real flair for hand drawn typography, which makes up the mass of his final piece. His bold, approach, and different font styel to each work is a real treat, its original. And i feel visually appealing. Unlike my own, his type is filled rather than just an outline, which compliments his bold, block illustration of a bottle. I also like the idea of all his word being off centred and offlined; he doesn't restrict his work to a gridelike formation.

As a group, we made the design to design and create a logo to go onto each of our bags to create continuity throughout. It also gave it a proffesional approach. Will draw up a logo, stating 'in the bag', telling our audience about our product, that it does in fact have contents. Here is the logo design:

Here's a selection of our initial idea's, drawings, and plans in which we mounted up to use within our presentation we had to give to the rest of the class. We would be explaining our approach to the brief, telling of our solution and attempting to 'seel' our product. Seeing all our work together, we had a visual image of how well we all worked together, each of us had a rnage of illustrative skills which complimented eachothers work, considering we were randomly put together as a group, I feel we have been pretty lucky to have been put together.