Live Projects

Whilst at college I have participated in many live projects. I found taking part in these projects an interesting learning experience.  It gave me a taste of what the design industry may be like.

The first live project that I participated in was a Christmas card project we were task with producing a Christmas card  for the company Paperchase. The design chosen by Paperchase would be made into a card that would be sold in shops. I produced three designs that were presented to Paperchase however the designs that I created were not very good they were very simple and lacked the style of the current Paperchase cards this was mainly due to my lack of mac knowledge, as this competition was at the start of the first year.

this was the best out of the three designs this was probably due to me not creating it on the mac. the majority of the image was created using watercolor and gold foil ink.


                                                 

the second live project was for the Artist Laure Thomas we were tasked with producing a poster that advertised her work and the Beaney Art institute. Laura was producing a stain glass window made of thread for the exhibition y, the exhibition was sponsored by muse maker and the national lottery, so it was important that the design had some strap-line related to the window or weaving.

I produced three designs for Laura all based around the muse maker logo and weaving. I focused on producing work based on the muse maker logo as Laura felt it resembled her work. the designs i produced weren't to bad but i felt that focused on the wrong thing to design around.


This was the design I focused on. i tried to make each block resemble and stain-glass window to tray and relate it to Laura's exhibition piece.










The final live project that I participated in was to produce a logo for the new addition to KMFM, KMFM Extra they wanted to create a design that would target a younger audience they thought a design based on graffiti would be a good idea. I focused on this a produced a number of designs based around this concept.



 This was my strongest design however I feel the design isn't very strong. once again I was focusing on completing other projects.

Although my outcomes weren't the best, due to my lack of mac knowledge, I really enjoyed participating in the live projects and found them a great learning experience.