The morning after...

I handed my work in yesterday after working for 29 hours straight.

Here are my final presentation boards:

ISTD Brief

NMM Brief

Branding Brief

Ten Pound Brief

Also, in true Kyle Bibby style I found a folder today (the day after my deadline) that I thought I lost, that contained some back up work and research....



Any thats probably it for this blog now, I'll be starting a new one for my Final Major Project soonish. Exciting.

Flash (aaaah aaaaaah)

I have been making these Flash animations over the last week or so, but couldn't find anywhere to upload them for free. Today I discovered Go2Album, so here they are.



If this is being 'clitchy', or crops the right of the banner off, click here to see it full size and quality.

This is a standard sized web banner. I will be used to promote the campaign and will link to the website. It will also be available to a donor to embed into his own website to show his support for the campaign.



This is the Facebook web icon/graphic that will be available to the donor. It will appear on their Facebook profile in the column on the left hand side (with the games and the photo albums):






This is also available to donors after they sign up. the dimensions are suitable for Myspace, but can also be embedded onto another website/blog.

This is a screengrab of my Myspace profile (that I haven't touched in years) with the banner embedded.

Thompson Fame

I just discovered that Thompson put my T£N print ad on their blog.

Cheers Guys!

Final Stationary

I reckon I have finished the converge brief.

After the feedback from my final crit (and the feedback from the letter i sent into the real world) I have decided that a fully embossed envelope would not be appropriate.

There are legibility issues, as well as issues regarding photocopying.

Speaking to Jo Guilmore AKA Quibik, he told me about a letter head that he did for a client with little money which involved choosing a recognisable paper and printing the header on it as part of the letter (ie setting up a Word template, so that every letter you write automatically prints out a letter head.)

I have decided to emboss the logo, but print the details out with the rest of the letter.

To keep consistency across the stationary I have just embossed the logo on the business card as well.

I got my Ellie Poo envelopes, so I have embossed them with art+design+change. They look good.

Installation final mock up

So I fancied myself as a bit of a tradesman. I went to Homebase and bought some perspex, a hack saw, glue gun, nuts, bolts, washers and some sandpaper.

I had the idea of 'knocking up' (in true tradesman fashion) a perspex model. I had dreams of hanging out in the workshop with the band saw. But no. I had to use an acrylic cutter. With an acrylic cutter you basically score the perspex a load of times then snap it. This is a bit of a hassle. More so when you can't find a perspex cutter and have to use a hand held tile cutter.

I have blisters all over my hands, my fingers are really stiff and there is perspex saw dust all ever my kitchen. It took me so long - I would say around 4 full days in total - to make. I spend literally 6 hours just sanding the perspex.

One particular highlight was when I tried fitting 3.25mm bolts into 3.5mm holes, not realising the measurment of the bolts doesn't take into account the thread, and ended up having to file the thread of one side of each bolt to fit them through.

Anyway, its gone midnight and here it is:




And thanks to the wonders of Photoshop:

Avant Garde = No Go

I wasn't sure whether or not to use Avant Garde, along side Lubelin Graph (which is basicaly a serif version of Avant Garde).

I was concerned that it was a bit awkward as body copy, so I went on a few design forums and discovered just what a cardinal sin using Avant Gard for body copy is. Sorry God of Type.

So now I'm using Franklin Gothic along side Lubelin Graph as the brand fonts.

It took God like a whole day to make the stars and stuff

Things are getting a bit hectic now, what with the deadline looming closer and me still being miles away from finishing.

Anyways, yesterday I found a few tutorials on the internet and make me some space to go on the cardboard box:



And here is the final designs to be printed on the acetate. I added some simple diagrams to show the read how to use the books (it became apparent that it is not as obvious as I hoped after the crit on Wednesday):




I also designed some covers for different sets in the series - the image with acetate over it seems to work pretty well. It is fairly adaptable.




Today I put together tho box. It looks good and I'm really pleased with it, however my craft skills let me down a little. The acetate sleeve is far too tight and you can see the double sided tape all over it.

Book is now books

After my crit today I have decided to make (or propose) a set of ten books - one per planet - not one book with ten sections.

This means that I need to design a box for them to go in. My first thought is to use acetate to make something with layers that compliments the books inside.



This was one idea I had - to use CMYK seperations, but the acetate isn't transparent enough to make a black. The top colour is a little dominant.

The idea that I want to go with involves using an image of space one a cardboard box, with an acetate sleeve with black text on it - black on black like Johnny Cash...

Book: Done

I have made a to-scale mock up of the Jupiter section of 10 things you should know about science: Astronomy just in time for my crit tomorrow:




These photos show the cardboard cover folded out, and it underneath a page - isolating the info, yo!

NHS

I got an email from Josh at Thompson yesterday asking if I could do something similar to my T£N print ad for the NHS. So I'm pretty psyched on that!

They wanted a circle that said 'we're in this together' in it. Here are some options that I emailed over to them:

Embossing Attempt

I went to the Print room this afternoon to try and emboss a business card with one of the presses. I couldn't emboss it the way I have with the letterhead because the card is too thick to see through with a light box.

It didn't work too good. The card I was using as the stencil was too thin and I couldn't moisten the business card enough because I had already printed on it, and I didn't want the ink to run.

ISTD Mock-ups

After my tutorial with Lorenzo, I have decided to make an installation that would be part of a museum exhibition, as well as a book to go with it.

This morning I made some mock ups:

PHOTO OF INSTALLATION

This is a cardboard mock up showing how the installation would work. The different layers are free to slide in and out. I'll try and make a more detailed mock up out of perspex.



This photo shows a couple of mock ups I made to see which binding method would be best to hold ten sections of ten pages together.

The top one is (im)perfect bound, and the bottom is section bound.

The idea with both is that each of the ten sections would have a cardboard cover. Each of these ten covers would be bound together - essentially making a book with ten pages. The ten pages in each section would then be attached to their card board cover, so it is more like ten ten-pages books bound together that one hundred-page book.



These two images are of mock ups of seperate sections. They both have a cardboard cover that wraps around the pages - meaning that a section of it can be slid between the pages to isolate the information. Both books are bound on the left-hand side, however on the top image the cover folds around the right-hand side, and on the bottom it folds around the top.

More embossing

I have attempted to make the letter head completely embossed. This will make it more unique and more environmentally friendly.

Because I was limited by how small I could emboss type I have had to make the details really big. However, I quite like it.



I have typed up a letter to my parents in the Isle of Man, explaining the project and asking them to show the headed paper to 'the real world' to get some feedback. I am concerned that it will not be considered legible enough.

I have also been experimenting with embossing envelopes. It works quite well on this brown envelope. I have just ordered some Ellie Poo envelopes (that will go with the headed paper).



I have found some cool examples of similar stuff:

Naomi Hirabayashi - Invitation for Boycrews Co.

Milkxhake - Wedding invitation for Ruggerro Baldaso in Italy

T£N - new logo

I have redone the logo for the campaign. The typeface is less modernist, and the logo is less 'logo-like' and simpler:



Here it is all aboard the poster:



You may also have noticed that I moved the logo from the bottom right to the bottom left. I felt as though it almost looked unimportant on the right - like a sponsors logo for example. However, on the left it is viewed before the copy.

convege

I have been trying to design the Converge letterhead and business card. I was initially going to put a spot varnish on the business cards, but I have changed my mind on account of spot varnish's poor environmental credentials.

So I decided to have a go at embossing instead:

Letter Head - Art+Design+Change

Same, but with text

Letterhead - Logo

Letterhead - Logo and Art+Design+Change

Same, but different

Business Card - logo

How I made Jupiter

I thought it was worth mentioning how I made Jupiter. I was quite important for me to make the typographic image as accurate as possible.



As I wanted to represent the planet accurately I used a photograph. I Live Traced it into nine colours (saving the tenth for the faint rings that aren’t visible on the photograph. I made each colour completely different to see the sections clearly.


I then created a path in the same shape as the planet (including the rings) and filled it with Lorum Ipsum. I changed the colour of the separate words to match the different coloured sections of the image.

Counting how many words of Lorum Ipsum were in each section allowed me to find 10 appropriate passages. Using the Lorum Ipsum as a guide on the layer below, I coloured each passage and fitted the words together like a jigsaw.

I'm not sure how apparent that is from the image - but it shows the live traced planet, beneath the Lorum Ipsum beneath the final copy.

Jupiter progress report

I managed to replace the latin with 10 layers of understandable information:



I have printed it onto acetate and bound it rather crudely:




I now need to decide on size and format. I think it would look good really big.

I want to try and make it a fold out wall chart, meaning that some of the information would have to be upside-down and inverted in the planet, so that it would be the right way when folded out.