Finished Project

Thankyou Tim for being a model!

Finished Ration pack for first year students. As not to strave in their first week if the student loan hasn't come through and they don't have their parents to depend on.

Went with a more rustic and "stoney" fel in the end. I think It works well with the army themed idea.

The Magical World Of Craig Fawell

I've had these floating around for a while, better upload them. They're not quite finished, sort of need polishing but I think they get their point across. (The text hasn't been added yet on these ones.) And there are a few spelling mistakes and names spelt wrong. -.- That will be corrected.

Colours need fixing and the annotations underneath the images need to be added. Also, I have one more image than I should do. *counts* No, 2 more than I need but I don't think I'm counting your face book Picture Craig, loving the hat. This has taken me a while to get my head wrapped around it but once i sussed out the layout, everything else sort of fell into place. Not bad for my first magazine spread. I think...

Packaging Examples

I found this really good expamle of how I sort of want my finished 'speaking from experinece' ration box to look. http://www.thedieline.com/

Also from The Die Line:

I LOVE the simplicity of this design and that you can see waht's inside of it. Certainly going to keep this in mind.

Design Direction Board

It's not pretty and I'm not proud of it but it gets it's haphazard point across. (I only had a night to do it seeing as how I wasn't in the previous week)

Sometimes I have trouble speaking and will stop for along time in the middle of a sentence. My crit group where really good about it though and gave me a helping hand. I now know what kind of direction I should be taking this breif. (I've also dropped the idea of drawing characters for personifcation...takes too much time.)

Illustrators

I need to start practasing my anatomey and general illustraion skills some more. But ere's some work I really apprecaite. (Though will never achieve)

http://danielauhlig.blogspot.com/ : Daniela Uhlig

http://tjandamal.com/ (she doesn't give her name on anything, but i know she's a graphic designer from Texas. ='D ) http://bigbigtruck.deviantart.com/ :

Speaking from Experience

New breif and this time it's looking at our own personal experience from being a first year and how we can help next years newbies. (or not help them.)

What is the problem?
The the first years come into all this sudden money that they have not bee used to before. Silly spending ensues on non essential goods and their food budget is cut considerably. Up until the next Loan installment, not everyone has enough money to eat.

What are you going to do about it? (identify, inform, promote)
I intend to Promote a ration box for the 1st years that they can use in case of emergency's.

How are you going to do it?
By researching various existing ration boxes from all kinds of backgrounds. Also looking into what cheap pre-packeaged food exists in the current market. (nothing that needs to be frozen or refridgerated.)

Re Design: DS Books

Here is the re design for the DS Books. After swapping our Briefs with Ben and Kate, they gave us an audience direction that we where previously lacking.

The new Boards: (Will be updated when Blogger decides it wants to play nice.)

The original colours where going to be this: (But as you can see it did a better job of burning retina's than it did advertsing an online book club. So we fiddled around with the colour schemes and settled on yellow and green. We thought perhaps this could still be deemed as feminie but not as in your face girly as the pink was. (Not ever girl likes pink or likes to be asociated with it.) However the image I made for the magazine advert was deemed (In our prestaation) asociated with a very young feminie market. With this new information I think our target audience could be that of "cosmo girl" instead of young woman.

This in it's self changes our whole concept from getting woman in the 20-35 bracket to ingage with reading through the Nintedo DS book feature and online book club. It could now be appiled to young girls with the same aplication of book club feature through the nintendo DS.

I've found a differnt type of Book club recently. A couple of Marvel Artists have a Pod cast book club running where they discus graphic novels and comic books they have previously read. Who says the market doesn't exist. ;D