Dialogue Exhibition

I really enjoyed last nights exhibition, it was good seeing everyones designs in screen printed, what I practically liked about the exhibition was the amount of colour used within the screen prints. You can tell a lot of work has gone into this exhibition and I think they have really pulled it off! It looks great! Above is a picture of my entry it was also displayed on the wall. 

Peice of Graphic Design- Ken Garland

In pairs we have been asked to design a piece of graphic design for Ian Anderson. This could be any piece of graphics we want, the brief is very open. Firstly to know who I am designing for I decided to do a bit of background research into Ian Anderson, here is what I found. 

The first thing I found on his Linkedin page is that he is the founder of the company The Designers Republic, I looked into some of their work to see if this could give me some inspiration. 

A colourful coke bottle design 

A poster design by the design republic

A simple yet effective record sleeve design

Me and Katie have noticed that he is from sheffield and is a northerner, so we were thinking maybe we can do something to do with the north and south, or the top 10 things of a northerner. 

To start now we need to research into all things northern. 

Finding things that were northern was tricky, so we decided to go with northern slag, things that only northerners say. Here is the first design above, I wasn't really sure what to do and was just experimenting, I sent this design to Katie

Here is another design idea I had as I wasn't really sure what look we should go for, I started to experiment with an app I have on my mac called letterMpress, thats basically like print but digital, remembering that we have to send this in an email

Katie came back with this design as she felt the red was too harsh of a colour and looked quite angry, I agree, she also changed it to this font which I also prefer called Bebas Neu. We also decided to make a series of these maybe 4, and possibly have them as postcards as people like to keep them 

I downloaded the font and started to experiment more, I thought that instead of having different images on each one, to keep it consistant maybe we could have the image the same and change the colours to some that complement each other well. 

Dialogue Brief

What is dialogue? 

1. a conversation between two or more people as a feature of a book, play, or film.

   "the book consisted of a series of dialogues"

   synonyms:

   conversation, talk, communication, interchange, discourse, argument;More

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1. take part in a conversation or discussion to resolve a problem.

   "he stated that he wasn't going to dialogue with the guerrillas"

Ideas 

• Mobile messaging
• Speech bubbles 
• Phone
• Emoji's
• Languages
• Mouth
• Stamp
• Sign Language 
• Brail
• Social networking

Internet inspiration 

Just after a quick google I found this image quite interesting

Social networking logos, are very simple yet effective designs, its interesting how the biggest social networking sites twitter and Facebook have both gone for blue but in different shades. 

The queens head off a stamp, which are on letters a good form of communication

iPhone icons used within iMessaging

Typography 

Below is a piece of typography from one of my favourite designers Kate Moross. I like the use of colour and how it stands out on the black background, I also like the hand drawn element to it.  

 Below are some of my own experiments that I stated to play around with, just some hand drawn type that I have scanned in and manipulated on illustrator. 

A scanned in piece of paper with some of my ideas on

Illustrating the iPhone typing icon 

Above is an image of a piece by Hattie Doodles, where I got the idea for a face from. 

Here is my final submission for this 'dialogue' brief for yoke, it is suppose to be a face, the eyes are the typing icon on iPhones, the eyelashes are forward slashes, and the mouth says 'hey' in braille, another form of communication. As the image is getting screen printed on top of someone else's design I didn't want to over complicate it, so I tried to keep it quite simple yet unique. 

Manifesto

man·i·fes·to

  [man-uh-fes-toh]

noun, plural man·i·fes·toes.

a public declaration of intentions, opinions, objectives, or motives, as one issued by a government,sovereign, or organization.

First things first manifesto 

By not using the internet and asking a couple of second years this is how much information I gathered about first things first manifesto:

1964-2000

Didn't want to work commercially 

Ken Garland was the main man

Skills put to a world wide use

They think that graphic designers just work for money

Against consumerism

Here is the manifesto that I found online: 

We, the undersigned, are graphic designers, art directors and visual communicators who have been raised in a world in which the techniques and apparatus of advertising have persistently been presented to us as the most lucrative, effective and desirable use of our talents. Many design teachers and mentors promote this belief; the market rewards it; a tide of books and publications reinforces it.

Encouraged in this direction, designers then apply their skill and imagination to sell dog biscuits, designer coffee, diamonds, detergents, hair gel, cigarettes, credit cards, sneakers, butt toners, light beer and heavy-duty recreational vehicles. Commercial work has always paid the bills, but many graphic designers have now let it become, in large measure, what graphic designers do. This, in turn, is how the world perceives design. The profession's time and energy is used up manufacturing demand for things that are inessential at best.

Many of us have grown increasingly uncomfortable with this view of design. Designers who devote their efforts primarily to advertising, marketing and brand development are supporting, and implicitly endorsing, a mental environment so saturated with commercial messages that it is changing the very way citizen-consumers speak, think, feel, respond and interact. To some extent we are all helping draft a reductive and immeasurably harmful code of public discourse.

There are pursuits more worthy of our problem-solving skills. Unprecedented environmental, social and cultural crises demand our attention. Many cultural interventions, social marketing campaigns, books, magazines, exhibitions, educational tools, television programs, films, charitable causes and other information design projects urgently require our expertise and help.

We propose a reversal of priorities in favour of more useful, lasting and democratic forms of communication - a mind shift away from product marketing and toward the exploration and production of a new kind of meaning. The scope of debate is shrinking; it must expand. Consumerism is running uncontested; it must be challenged by other perspectives expressed, in part, through the visual languages and resources of design.

In 1964, 22 visual communicators signed the original call for our skills to be put to worthwhile use. With the explosive growth of global commercial culture, their message has only grown more urgent. Today, we renew their manifesto in expectation that no more decades will pass before it is taken to heart.

Ultimately the first things first manifesto wanted to change graphic designers priorities. 

Katie and I then thought of our own manifesto that included what we enjoyed within graphic design, what morals we believed in and more general things. 

  

Scotch Egg & Rap

We learnt a lot about concepts, appropriateness and problems today and how to solve them when you are stuck or have hit a brick wall. It is all about trial and error, as graphic designers we solve problems, we need to try and test things and ultimately make it better. A scotch egg is a good way of thinking of concepts, at the core of every problem should be a concept, then following that a few ideas you have come up with, the ideas should of come from a wide variety of research and then finally you should have your final resolution from doing all of these things. 

From this we then made a rap to help us remember about concepts and how they work: 

Concept comes first

When you can't think of one its the worse.

Thinking of more than one idea,

Is our worse fear.

Remember to do your research,

Whether its individual or teamwork. 

Finally you have a resolution, 

Oh yes! A solution.