Design for Print & Web Research

I started this brief fairly late, but had a good idea of what I wanted to produce for it. So I knew where and what to research. I started with looking into things which I was planning to create through this brief. I had compiled all of my images onto a pinterest board. 

Design For Print and Web Board

Considering that this was the final brief of the module I decided to use some of the processes I did not get a chance to use in the previous ones, or use things that I simply had not done before.

This next image interested me as I have always wanted to use holographic card and have always been intrigued with how you can see so many colours in different light.

After having seen this I wanted to try and get hold of some card which was similar or foil maybe.

Considering that I had included to brand the cafe as part of the gallery I also had a look into branding for cafes, which is when this next image really caught my attention.

I liked how they had broken down what fonts they had used in the branding the different variations of logos and colour schemes, along with any patterns that they had used.

I also looked into corporate branding as I came across images as such which gave me a few ideas of how I could go about doing it.

I also saw a few images of banners which gave me ideas on what I could have as inspiration, my trip down to london to the galleries tied in with this very well, which I have documented on my Design practice blog.

I was also thinking of some things like bags if the exhibition had a shop?

I searched for galleries and info and wayfinding and found some interesting approaches to how it had been done.

Now that I knew what I was going to be producing I started to look at booklets and things I was going to be producing like posters and corporate branding.

Design For Print Research

I started to look at images and things which I thought we related to print in order to get ideas and inspiration for what to do.

I have linked the pinterest board (link) which I used to compile all of the images I thought were appropriate. I have also linked a few here which I thought stood out to me the most.

This image below came up after I looked in to some of the processes I wanted to look into as part of this brief. One of them was foiling and this was one of the images which came up when I had searched it using designspiration 

I found this image interesting as I had never thought to use foil as a form of stock and I think that it works very well for a single colour image like the one above. I also like how it has been folded.

This next image was one which I found as I had said that I wanted to use florescent colours as one of the things I hadn't done before.

This image I thought made good use of florescent colour as I think that it can be done very well and also very bad and I think the selective use of the colour in this works very well.

This next image was one which interested me a lot as it gave me the idea of using holographic foil.

This next image intrigued me as I had never done anything using odd paper folding or binding, so that was another thing which I wanted to try during this brief.

I started to do workshops for things I had not done before. I have documented this on my design practice blog.

From looking at these initial images and after the crits I had on the brief, I started to look into things which I knew I was going to be doing, which I have pinned on to the same board. But these images below are some more which stood out too me.

This image was what I imagined when I was still proposing to do belly bands around each type of poster. Also the use of florescent colour.

The next image was one which was very crucial to my design decisions as it was after seeing this I knew what format I was going to have my posters in, in terms of folding and overall structure.

I like how this shows only a small snippet of the design but then folds out into something bigger but has been designed to work with the folds.

I had also created a separate board (link) for the style of info graphics I was thinking of using for my posters. 

This final image was what really influenced how I had the image side of my poster as I think the halftone photo and text on top worked very well.

For all of my poster all of the contextual information was found out when I was doing the processes or from last years inductions, I went and asked the technicians what and how things were done.

Design for Web Research

After Having decided what I was going to be doing my website on I started to look at websites which were of similar content and field.

http://www.wellgosh.com/

I looked at the obvious structure of the website in order to aid how I was going to design my website.

Both of these websites use a fairly simple grid on the homepage which consists of one main image and smaller images and some text.

For the research into what I will be doing for my content, I will not be needing to a lot as all of the content I will have from the publication I made last year as I took all of the photos myself as well as sourced all of the information on the brands myself.

I did create a pinterest board for design for web, but did not end up continue to use it as It was mainly for my previous ideas as I was not too sure what I was going to be doing. http://www.pinterest.com/RineshMistry/design-for-web/