Sleep driving

I like this poster i feel it could be used in a think tired driving campaign with a bit of a twist almost like a promotional event that doesn't exist. This is something i am really considering for my independent project now. Below are a few facts i learnt...

'An estimated 300 people a year are killed where a driver has fallen asleep at the wheel.Research commissioned by the Government found that falling asleep at the wheel accounts for up to 20% of crashes on motorways or similar roads, and as many as one in ten of all crashes on Britain's roads.' It would certainly seem there is a problem here, theres an obvious target audience and it lends itself to many choices of media.

Gnarlsss Barkly

This is one of my favorite music videos in a long time, based upon the psychiatrist drawings of what do you make this blob out to be.... It is a great way of demonstrating what is on someone's mind or maybe manipulating people into seeing something. I think this could be well used in many design concepts in this coming year.

Orange peel

A building i have always had an interest in is the northern imperial war museum. Designed by Daniel Leibskind it is based upon the peel from a peeled orange. I like the idea that the waste of an orange in this case is the most important bit for the inspiration behund te design.

Bum website

This is ag great website i came across it is very well laid out and i like the tone of voice of it, the clinical light feel gives you the opinion they are a clean cut well organised and thought out company despite the cluttered look. It is a very easy website to use it is interesting and i can appreciate how websites like this encourage people to spend their money.

ermmm....

Not really what you'd normally expect to find when you are walking around LA, it certainly took me by surprise. i think its great. I think many people would read a lot more into the peice though and take a certain dislike to it though. Inspirational not really, something i intend to recreate.. not really, possibly a good dissertation example of subliminal advertising for BT!

Doodling

I think thus is a great piece of artwork. I'd hate to think someone could just doodle this down after seeing a coffee stain. I believe this is the first time i have seen a tea stain being used in a non cliche sense. the many different levels of te artwork are what makes this piece for me. Could artwork like this serve a purpose in advertising or is it just inspiration... a starting point.

Cartoon

During my placement year i have created a few flyers in a similar style to this, i think it is a very attractive and appealing look. It proves thatt is not all about bright colours and that yellow and white can work well together longest they don't clash or contrast too much. This type of design i feel can be applied well to environmental issues and gives a look of longevity and portrays trust.

V-Neck

it seems that high street fashion is on a cycle, sure clothes are never the same, but flares came back in, trilbies became fashionable again ish! and now for the past couple of years v necks. How ridiculous will they get though. Its undeniable there is a very homo sexual tinge to it, get big where a low cut top. Its almost the guys competing against one another rather than competing for the opposite sex. how absurd will the v neck go, maybe a v-neck onesy.....backless?!

True or false

I have struggled to verify weather this is a computer generated image or a photo. It is stunning, it is a great combination of contrasting colours and lines, almost art nouveau meets art deco. It begs the question of what us the building... it would make a great office and what shape is the building in its entirety?

Mercedes Benz

it is a shame because it is such an idyllic idea that the mercedes benz garage could actually look like this. You want to believe it but clearly it is not viable and this is just a promotional shot. I enjoy the idea of breaking an item or concept that someone is so familiar with, down into the raw construction and glorifying it. This advert sats so much more abut the ercedee range tha the car itself.

Recycling for architecture

This is one way of sustaining the enviroment i guess! Its practical its resourceful its contemporary i guess and its cheap to build.... yet it looks awful! However one guy made it look good....

and then puma got a hold f the idea and launched there first ever movable shop. Cleverly this shop can be placed an opeed out in different locations al across the world.

Damian Hurst

I am a big fan of Damian hurst however i did not approve of his auction. I feel it was greedy, yes he made a lot of money but it was not artwork that was sold honestly. He pushed art dealers and collectors into a corner. By selling all this artwork at once he was flooding the market and potentially devaluing his artwork but as a result of this, all those that owned Damian Hurst artwork had to by more artwork to keep the value of it high to save loosing money. As a result of this Sotheby's and other art collectors ended up spending up to 16 million just to save Damian Hurst from his own self destruction!

Apple nails it

Apple is probably the strongest brand in the world at the moment and this advert i noticed n TV just confirms that. They are completely aware of the green issues and so they confront peoples fear with this friendly fun little advert which despite saying your mac will be ruined after 1000 charges people still love. There use of childish illustrations and white space is very effective and admirable. i am interested by this greener life and carbon footprint issues and feel that is a major part of design at the moment, possibly something i should look at for my independent project.

Bond

after watching one of the bond films i decided i almost felt more entertained by the opening credits than the rest of the film. I looked through a series of bond intros and this was by far my favourite. I love the style it is done in, i believe any frame could be a piece of art. Dull colours and lines would not normally stimulate me as much as this intro but t is very well put together.

Layouts

Randomly i have started to work on the layouts of pieces of artwork i produce. The layout effects the content hugely and i feel that not enough time is spent on it. This layout is completely random. Now imagine the letters all placed in the middle of the page on the same level, it wouldn't look half as good. It is something in third year i will look at to offset my work and make it look more appealing.

Think Campaign

I am particularly interested in the think campaigns, i believe they are ok.... but could be better i feel there is a lot of material to work with and that they are not thinking outside of the box. This is a campaign i would consider doing my independent project on. it strikes a cord with me because i am aware that i drive tired and i since my sister fell asleep at the wheel it raises the awareness for me personally. I intend to choose and independent project that is very universal and applicable. I intend to finish with a piece of work that employers can relate to when i apply for jobs, so i feel such a national campaign would do this.

olympic mess

Following the constant reminder of generally how messed up athletics is, e.g HE/SHE MAN LADY it leads nicely to our awful 2012 logo. I can understand the concept behind it which is cool yet what poor execution!

In october the 2016 host will be selected and above are the fore runners. Visually i find the chicago one the most appealing. the madrid identity is to childish for me and the Tokyo is a poor jucstaposition of contradicting themes i feel. Reading more into the chicago logo the concept behind it is the chicago star set upon the green parklands, sun in the sky and blue of lake michigan.

big comp

a random website i came across where a few people decided to discuss their favourite colour, is this a new tren everyone wants to be green have more girls answered to this survey hence pink and purple being in the top colours...

Fabio, Paddy and Alan

Colour is a popular method of attraction not only in the design and advertising business, colour is used as entertainment in the entertainment industry, from scantily dressed girls to lighting.

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Vivid piece of art!

This is a striking piece of artwork to me because having done a lot of flyers i appreciate how hard it can be to achieve such rich colours especially when it comes to print maintaining them in this way i find next to imposible! 

design week cutting

Green peaces new campaign stages a large amount of its artwork in this layout, its based on the concept of a birds eye view of the countryside, its very pleasing to look at and surely green is a colour i will have to look at far more.

panting dog

i'm not a massive fan of shoes or fashion itself and i think these would look bloody awful on most girls but theres something very striking about them, the crisp bold stark colours maybe?

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Interesting use of both colour and typography, stemmed from the idea that your brain fills in the gaps, in my opinion it makes a nice static print, by covering up all but one line it becomes much harder to understand and according to the artist, adding one more line of type makes the piece much less comprehendible. 

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A website i stumbled across is hex day where it encourages you to chose a colour each day the below quoted explanation explains.

Jon Sykes: Hexday is "a social experiment in color picks" I guess that's what I'd say. It's hard to say really. It's evolving. Originally it was probably more of a test web app. I was just starting to use CakePHP (which is awesome by the way) for my personal project web apps, and I came up with an idea that if you allowed people to pick 1 color and only 1 color every day, what would they pick. So I built a web app around the idea. 

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Wearing red makes you win sport!

Man utd seem to have a fairly strong track record with the colour as do arsenal as do china iin the olympics, 51 golds! the top 10 overall medal winning countries have the colour red in their natural colours, a beautiful accident or is their a trend?

Split brain...obviously!

apparently there are two sides to the brain, color and visual elements activate the right side of the brain, your emotions, and the printed words effect the left side of the brain your logic. Hence typography and colour being the fundamentals behind good design and hence when you try to read these piece above its rather confusing!! It is something i am interested in but this is a little two psychological for me, i am interested by spurring a reaction like most design should but i do not want to look to deeply into it.

Sony tv add

Colour is the main selling point for the sony bravia, a series of very clever and colourful adds where created, despite the selling point and subject being colour the advert reflects very well an idea of fun quality and attention to detail and more obviously imaculate execution, all things one might look for when buying a tv.

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ipod colours

Old Colors

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New Colors

IPOD's gone all grown up is it that they feel they should now be targetting a new market, getting the ever reluctant older generation into technlogy or is it simply that they feel these are better colours and their original buyers will replace there old items. Why isn't there a bright blue mac book pro, personally i prefer the older colours! I always feel the smaller the item the brighter the colour it should be purely for the practical purpose of not loosing it!

Viral advertising

I became aware of the stone phone. Everyones favorite phone it could perform most house hold chores and would be everyones must have item. Funnily enough the producers of this phone were nothing to do with phones at all, they are a recruitment company however you can guaranty they would have got millions o hits from it. I can't help but feel it may not be the best idea though because the traffic they would pull into their website would not necessarily be their target audience. Surely a different item or service would be more appropriate. Interestingly was the colour and shape they chose to look at. This they believed would be the best colour ever.... and the best shape ever... Is it?

Exhibition visit

At the moment i am taking a particular interest in colour so i decided to look at Banksy exhibition. Not only is he notorious for his black and white stencils, which are evidently very powerful despite there lack of colour, an obvious argument against a proposed dissertation title, but he is also very clever how he does use colour . In this exhibition Banksy did use colour in a very clever way often jucstaposing his choice of media, making the compositions more vibrant exciting and attractive. These were often contemporary industry colours such as Easy-Jets orange amongst others.

Exhibition visit

This is the booklet form an exhibition i went to. Despite not being able to rotate this it is clearly the booklet from the Tate's colour chart exhibition. A useful insight into the unprecedented role of colour in graphic design, fashion design and interior design. The exhibition looked at the moment when artist began to perceive colour as a ready made rather than as an expression of their creativity. The exhibition demonstrated well how colour is used sometimes in a very lazy way as a short cut more or less. It was an interesting exhibition and i took away from it this obvious lazy use of colour and how if you choose to deconstruct many pieces of art and design, the true irrelevance becomes apparent.

Holliday snaps!

Intending to look at some of the fundamentals behind design it only seems right to begin by looking at COLOUR just come back from Cuba so a few of these seemed relevant...

Two relatively shoddy photo's but the fact is that the colour makes them pretty cool photos, now this country has very little money since about the 1960's. The only way these vehicles change is they break get fixed by a man in a hut and then they are sprayed as loudly as possible, this is the cheapest way to show off or make a point even the relatively newer cars there were sprayed ridiculous colours. The fact that public transport is yellow in colour creates a brand as such, and considering there is absolutely no advertising or branding in this country except for that of the revolution (che and what not) this could surely demonstrate the fundamental aspect behind design itself is colour!