RESPONSIVE : FINAL BOARDS

Project report :

YCN CHURCHILL :

COLLAORATIVE - Personal boards

COLLABORATIVE - group boards

Puffin :

Village :

Secret 7' :

Dazed ans Confused :

Creative Networks :

to dry for :

LCA :

Wedding :

RESPONSIVE : Crit on Final boards

The crit on the final boards was really useful it flagged up things that i needed to address / re address, such as size of copy, which I only noticed was too large once briefs were printed. It was also mentioned that I needed to add a small explanation of my concept to each board. Another peice of feedback that I got from both crit-ers was that I should expand one of my projects, and push it further then what is required of the brief.

Plan :

- expand a brief

- reduce copy size

- add explanation to boards

RESPONSIVE : BRIEF collaborative - review

 Whilst we were generating research we got approached by David asking if he could join our group. We thought it would be best if David knew our concept and brief first before he decided he wanted to be with us, otherwise there would just be trouble.  

David liked our idea and so joined our group. We all had the same direction and tone in mind for this project and this was really beneficial. We as a group worked well together, we met up regularly, were in contact via email, forwarding back and forth work for evaluation, and we all brought something 

different to the table and concentrated on that area. We also had no falling our , or drama it was a really positive experience working with David and Lizze, and I feel we came out with a strong brief from working together.

The reason we originally chose Uk greetings is because we both agreed that we wanted to do a project with a light tone, as the briefs most of the time are serious, this was our chance to have a bit of fun with a concept. And I think we successfully achieved it to make the project that way.  Although we created a jokey, fun card I don’t think it hindered our professionalism, we e-mailed one and other when we wanted to discus work rather than using text of facebook, because email feels more 

professional and is used in more professional ways.  We also filtered to content so that it wouldn’t 

offend anyone who is marking it or views it at YCN, which is a sign of professionalism. 

This has been the most successful collaboration I have worked in, as it has actually been a collaboration we all had different talents and weakness’s which meant that we supported one and other and worked as a team, not how some collaborations go where one person does the lot and it’s awful.

 The  only problem we encountered was when the laser cutter didn’t work for creating our stamps, which was very frustrating as it was a main part of our visual look and concept have the card type made by the process of stamping, but it was just one of those unfortunate things and everyone was once again very Professional about it and just accepted and moved on quickly to come up with an idea of alternatives, and now we have learnt our lesson to be more aware of time scales when relaying on a machine as things can go wrong. 

From this group work I have witnessed my different and beneficially ways of working, This was an

enjoyable project and I’d happily work with my group again.

RESPONSIVE : BRIEF Collaboration -submition

Submition boards

RESPONSIVE : BRIEF Collaboration - Submition time

We have divided the jobs to do for submit ion, Lizzie will be doing the boards, layout and copy and me and david will be mocking up .

My mock up's :

Lizzie has mocked the cards up with a really lovely texture over the black which makes the  cards have very realistic look. 

RESPONSIVE : BRIEF Collaboration - laser cut

We were so close to finishing our project without a hic up that something had to happen really, and had to happen at the final stage of creating the stamps. For some reason the laser cutter or the wood or we did some thing wrong, but the laser cutter just wouldn't do as it was told and was working so slow that we were in there for hours causing a que. In that time we only managed to get the logo laser cut, but again this didn't work well, it didn't engrave deep enough and the wood kept flaking away. 

Although it looks like it wouldn't stamp, I did try it and it does work but just not to the finish or effect that we wanted it to. We were all pretty exciting about the stamp concept so it was a bit of a downer that it didn't work. Instead it means we are going to have to mock everything up on the computer instead, as this way we will be able to mimic the level of finish we were after.

RESPONSIVE : BRIEF Collaboration - Envelope / illustrations

Envelope :

Lizzie found a really good format for the envelope. It looks like a normal envelope but it unfolds into a heart shape, which works perfectly with our concept. We have also decided that this envelope will have a secondary purpose and be a heart shaped poster once unfolded. We decided on the concept that each card has its own illustrated poster that illustrates the phrase.

Illustrations :

 

Me and daivd did some sketches of ideas to illustrate the phrases, we then all picked which ones we thought worked the best and I drew them up so that they all were drawn in the same style and worked with the whole series 

Finished illustrations - 

RESPONSIVE : BRIEF Collaboration - development

Logo :

Lizzie managed to resolve the logo vs pie vs heart issues and has come up with are ally clean logo with a cleaver way of incorporating the hear in the top crust of the pie. She has used Gill sans as it is a northern type face, this decision shows how considered the logo is, which is really good and represents The North brilliantly

Type :

David has also finished the digitising of the typography and has put the phrases together which again look really good and capture the look we all wanted perfectly.

David has booked slot for us to laser cut the phrases and logo into stamps, and once that is done we're are so very nearly there. 

RESPONSIVE : BRIEF Collaboration - crit

Boards for Crit :

Feed back :

The style of this crit was really interesting. we had to pitch our brief and concept and then the pair we pitched too took our brief off us and worked on it for an hour. It generated some interesting ideas and caused some excitement in the other group which was good to see as it mean our concept of being humours worked

The ideas that were generated by the other group were very amusing and creative, but a little too risky for YCN, but it was a really positive crit and our group left with a fresh head after it, ready to get on with everything and start pulling everything together, as deadline is looming.