I began my illustrations for this project by creating this pen drawing of Rita Ora, one of the performers at the festival. Once i had scanned the design into the computer a lot of the quality was lost so before i add the image into the final design i will need to edit them on photoshop to increase the quality. 

These are some examples of layouts i have collected from the internet. i liked these mainly due to the minimal use of colour. i think that by staying with a mainly monochrome scheme with simple hints of colour the page looks very attractive despite simple designs. this is something i would like to carry through and experiment with in my own work.

research into festival programmes
This link will lead you to an example of the research i collected into past festival programmes, i seen this design and decided i didnt want to create something as complex and busy as this one. i want to create a leaflet which is a lot more concise with a select amount of information, this will look better and not be too long to keep the reader interested.

As we have been given the oppurtunity to create our own brief for this module I have decided to do a editorial based project again as I really enjoyed the typographic circle brief. As I have so much freedom with this project i wanted to make sure it was something I really enjoyed so I wouldnt lose interest during it, as we have quite a long time to produce the work. My final project is going to be a pre festival guide for v festival. Originally I planned on creating a programme for a festival but once id thought about content ect, i thought that a guide to send out with tickets before the festival would be a better idea and something that hasnt really been done previously. I plan to include things like information about artists performing at the festival, with illustrations, festival camping tips and many other things. I feel like this would be more useful to a festival goer as they will be provided with essential festival info before they're there.

Typographic circle..

These are my final spreads for the typographic circle magazine supplement. In order to get to this point with my design i needed to complete a vast amount of research into past circular magazine designs as the brief specified the work i created must fit with the style of previous publications. After designing the front cover i decided to continue the vertical lines throughtout each spread to keep a theme going throughout the design, i think this works well and adds a visual point to my quite simple design. i chose these colours as i thought they would compliment eachother well and from my research i noted there was little restrictions for colours to be used. In my design i kept everything central in the page and didnt use the outer 2 columns in any of the spreads, or put anything except the vertical lines in the upper or lower parts of the page. Overall, i am very pleased with the outcome of my design and feel i have produced something which fits the outlines of the brief well and would fit with previous typographic cirle designs. My work was voted the best in my class by my classmates, which has gave me more confidence in my work. During this project i have gained a lot of knowledge when using indesign and decided that editorial design is somthing i am very interested in and would like to persue in future projects.

Made Thought..

My current brief is a live one for Pentagram, i have been asked to create a supplement for the typographic circle magazine. This is for a competition from D&AD, in which entrants are required to submit a series of three supplements with the subject of past speakers for the typrographic circle. For my design i chose to include the design company Made Thought. I chose the work of this company as i loved the continuous style throughout their work for the many clients they have. The design of this work is heavily type based, with very simple, bold typefaces used in many of the pieces. Alot of the designs are full of constrast, contrasting colours, grey pages with gold edges for example, sharp edges with bold text contrasting with soft colours.

2nd level bistro..

This is the logo i designed for a brief we were given by the staff of newcastle college. I kept the design very simple and sophisticated as i felt this would fit well with the space we were designing for. The bistro is a staff only area, with no student access on the second level (which is where the name came from.) I also created a letterhead using this design to show that the logo will fit with a selection of things. Looking back on this design i am not completely happy with it and feel there are a few changes that need to be made to complete the design in a way which i am happy with. However, i feel like this project has helped me to begin developing my software skills which is an ongoing target i have set myself for the year.