Competition Brief - Visual Onomatopoeia

So I want to focus my designs on Onomatopoeia, the idea of words looking how they sound, and trying to achieve this through typography design of chosen individual letterforms and words. I found an image which explains clearer:

Firstly I need to pick the phrases I intend on designing for poster format.

Accessorize - Screenprinting

So, I screen printed today. I tried to get as close to the colour palette as I could, but it proved difficult. So I've decided with the prints to create packaging mock ups, and potentially some Christmas cards, and wrap for the store.

The range of stock I printed onto.

Competition Brief - Starting

So I needed to look back at the competition brief and really make a start on what i was going to decided to do for it. So the brief:

Brief:

You are required to design a range of advertisement, promotional and product material which will be driven by your 'Doing my nut in' outcome. The products designed will need to investigate sound recordings from the British Library Sounds collection, focusing on accents and dialects. Design material will need to have a typographic and language focus.

Considerations:

Consider the way that different accents may suggest particular fonts – some bolder, some softer, sharp, distressed, condensed, thin, fat, serif/sans serif etc. You decide – the possibilities are endless.

Background:

Use whatever methods and media you consider appropriate to convey your solution effectively – as long as you express a solid idea, inform us and show us your typographic skills. Make sure that you incorporate typographically detailed text matter that expresses an information hierarchy. Remember that words and language are our collateral and that your submission should be essentially typographic.

Mandatory Requirements:

Broad range of research

The products designed need to be typographically led

A range of appropriate advertisement, promotional material and retail graphics

I have decided:

For this brief I intend on creating a range of poster designs, for promotional and advertisement purpose of my 'Doing my nut in' publications. These will explore the relation between spoken and written language. My content will be a phrase taken from a sound recording found on the british library recordings - Accent and Dialect, and constructed in a way to make the words look how they are said. I will be exploring line weight, shape, and height of letterforms to create a visual sound. I also intent on exploring soundwaves and how these can influence my design decisions. 

Accessorize - In store mock up

So I wanted to know how my designs would look across a store format and how they would be applied. I tried to mock up the store, (not very well) to show how my designs would be applied.

Typosgraphe - Screenprinting

So me and Sarah went down to screen printing to print content for the exhibition itself, thsi included the A1 two colours type timeline poster (which took two os us the pull the squeegee!), A5 two colours leaflets and A3 two colour Posters. Although it took a long time, we managed to print a ton of leaflets out which will hopefully make more people aware of the event, several posters to put around the events, and the posters which will be placed in college and the White Cloth Gallery to again, make people aware of the event. 

OUGD302 - Managing my time

So todays been rather stressful! Got told past competition briefs didn't count at the mandatory competition brief, that it had to be one from this year. So within the next week I really need to look at some, start researching and creating. I'm going to try and put aside 2 / 3 days to do this.

My diary really has had an important part in keeping me up to date with everything! I've followed it so far, got into habit of planning my entire week on a sunday evening ready for the week ahead so I'm never stopping wondering what there is to do.

So Wednesday:

9 - 12 - Screen printing Accessorize Poster
1:15 - 2:30 - Illustration talk with Fred
Onwards - Design Accessorize floor graphics, wall graphics, the display standas and a look book.

Thursday:

9:30 Progress Crit
1:00 Drop in print - Accessorize posters, tags, boxes, bags, hangers, stickers
3:00 Create a default board, to apply Casa Mia and Doing my nut in brief
PM - Research competition briefs - Choose one

Friday:

9:30 - 12:00 Design for web
1:00 - Print drop in - Accessorise products
2:30 - Construct Accessorize products from print over 2 days
4:00 - Research for new brief
7:30 - Inpress Dock street

Saturday:

PM - Concentrate on starting competition brief

Sunday:

Concentrate on Dissertation

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