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.