Semester 2- Children's Book

For our Narrative and Motion Design module we were asked to complete the Puffin digital book prize brief and create a young children's book for an Ipad. My story is based on teaching children about main colours- red, blue, yellow and green and is based around a cat called Moby. My story is called 'Messy Paws' because this little cat gets very messy as he tries to learn about colours. 

I was influenced by Paul Rands simple bold shapes and colours and textures and Oliver Jeffers use of type. Once we had our storyboards finished we had to add a button to flick through each page. I made my button a hand painted paw that i scanned in. I also added a cat noise to give an extra layer to my story.

This is the final story, which i am quite proud of.
 Click Messy Paws and press the paw to go to each page!

Semester 2- Poster design

This is my final poster design for Design and corporate advertising module. We were asked to pick a quote and design a poster based on it, taking influence from other designers. 

My quote was 'In the past we branded slaves. Now we are slaves to brands' by Jonathan Barnbrook. Within my poster i then took the idea of people wanting to have/be a brand, but in the past, being branded was a bad thing. So i have used the shackles as a metaphor for slavery and bracelets/gold/brands. There is also a small dollar sign which stands for 'sale' and 'slavery' The typography is laid out to look like a stamp because in the past, slaves would have had a metaphorical stamp over their head to be branded as such. I have taken influence from Saul Bass's work in my design, and the brown background and choice of typography i feel, reflects slave imagery that i researched.

Semester 2

This week we had two hand ins for the two modules we are doing this semester. 
One was for a Narrative and Motion design module which was to create a children's story book for the Puffin digital book prize, the other was for Design and Corporate advertising module which was to pick a designer quote and design a poster which expresses it. I really enjoyed both of these modules and the outcomes of each.
I will post the final designs on my next blog.