Week 09 – 2D

Tuesday 20^th September 2011

Today we confirmed that Josie Trayte designed the winning headline to be used in our Design Exhibition. We also made our own invitations for the exhibition with the inclusion of the Ten Squared logo below.

Reference (Image above): Josie Trayte ten squared headline.jpg

GROUP EXERCISE – Concept Realisation

PRODUCING A RANGE - 15 mins

Sketch in your Visual Diary or Illustrator

1. Clear rendition of 3 invitation / flyer layouts using the logo & text supplied

2. The design must have space for sponsor logos

3. CDU logo must be on the bottom right – check branding rules

BLOG - 15 mins

Each student post the group results in your blog with images and descriptive text

PRACTICAL – Design Realisation

30 mins – Illustrator / 10 mins Presentations / 10 mins Blog

1. Layout your version of all 3 designs decided on in the group exercise

2. Show your results to the class

3. Blog screenshots of your work

My Ten Squared Invite Draft (Front)

Reference (Image above): 10sq invite wb draft front 01.jpg

My Ten Squared Invite Draft 1 (back)

Reference (Image above): 10sq invite wb draft back 01.jpg

My Ten Squared Invite Draft 2 (back)

 

Reference (Image above): 10sq invite wb draft back 02.jpg

My Ten Squared Invite Draft 3 (back)

Reference (Image above): 10sq invite wb draft back 03.jpg

YouTube Clip

Invitations.wmv

Custom designed invitations by Goofidity Designs.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHkjjhN8f6Y

Commentary

This clip inspires good design methods for invitations. Layout and colours are very important. In the video we can see a vast array of different invite combinations from goofidity designs. These are amazing combinations. I would like to apply similar aspects to my invites when my illustrating skills are up to scratch which could be a long time.

Reflection

I decided to use last year’s exhibition invitation as a template because it was approved and I really liked the layout. I then applied our current headline ten squared and played around with different colour sequences as well and changing the text to suit this year’s correct information. It was confirmed that the ten squared logo requires a white background to work well. I wanted to keep the front simple and to the point with a little mystery. This entices the reader to turn over the invite for all the information. I am still not happy with my final designs especially the back as they have too much negative space in the middle. At least I learnt more about layout and colours via this exercise