Week 3 Part 2: Idea Presentation

With our trip to London being completed last week, we soon decided to base the idea for our theme to present to the rest of the class: The best of Britain.

Having chosen this theme, a mood board was created as part of the presentation: with Britain having a particularly iconic culture that is reknowned worldwide, many of these elements such as the Union Jack's red, white and blue colours, as well as our Royalty and of course the UK's love for sausage rolls and alcohol were incoorporated into this mood board:


This was presented to the rest of the lecture group simply as it is, with a short clip of the national anthem being played to help get the point across. Ultimately, it was up to everyone else in the group, including ourselves, to pick any of the other ideas from other groups that were presented: Best of Britain lost out to the far more popular Third Dimension concept.

In hindsight, I wasn't entirely keen on the idea that we initially presented. That may be because, with the UK's culture being around us day in and day out in some way or another, it doesn't come across to me personally as being something particularly new or exciting to display for an exhibition.

With the concept presentation done and out of the way, the class was split into three teams: one handling exhibition related things, another designing a website for the exhibition, and finally the graphics team who will design the posters, flyers and such for the exhibition. With me wanting an opportunity to further develop my skills in graphic design, I joined the latter team.

Week 3 Part 1: Business Card

Basically this week, we were shown examples of existing business cards, and we were recommended to create our own, advertising what kind of service we would provided as advertised on the card.

I'm interested in pursuing a career involving Graphic Design, particularly sports team branding, so I have designed myself a logo on display in the middle of the card, to essentially display an example of the work that I would offer:



Obviously the font I did not design myself, but effects were applied to the two letters, spelling out my initials, showing right here what kind of work I can produce. The logo is a draft and may be changed in future, so maybe think of it as a placeholder for now.

I also produced a second version of this card, making changes to the description of the services I would offer at the bottom, but also giving it a brightly coloured background that would make it easy to notice:



The pantone for the orange I've used here is a bit more vibrant, which I think would help it to stand out more. But again, these designs are "preliminary" so may be changed in the future.

Week 2 Part 2: London Trip

Our group took a trip to London to help give us a better idea of how to further develop the ideas that we came up with.

Our first stop was the Tate Modern. Inside somewhere was a room filled with really old CRT type TVs displaying old recordings of... whatever it was. Something that was black and white and old.



At some point after leaving the Tate Modern, we decided to have a look for an exibition that was advertised in a newspaper, based in Camden and Leather Lane. Neither of these were exibitions per se, but they were empty shops that instead displayed neon light signs on the windows. Both of these appeared to be closed, but it turned out that they were essentially advertising each other, and that there was a bigger one to come in the future.



Finally, at some point we walked through the Chinatown area. Chinese New Year was being celebrated at the time we were there, so I felt it appropriate to share this photo which could easily be tied into the Travel theme that my group discussed.

Week 2 Part 1: Theme Ideas

As I have developed a better understanding of the module: we were put into temporary groups so that the lecture group as a whole will be able to come into agreement with one, greater idea for an exibition to be held at the end of the Semester. We will then be split into different working groups based around what we are best at individually.

The ideas our group of six came up with include:

Forgotten Technology - This exibition would essentially be a display of items such as CRT monitors, floppy disks and other old computer components that are considered archaic today.

Time - Clocks, watches, and other similar items would be on display with the general theme of the exibition also revolving around the Past, Present and Future.

Travel - While not featuring any elements relating to modes of transport, this exibition would be split into 6 areas representing different cultures from around the world.