Leaflet design...

I went to the clothes show this year and there were a lot of new little boutiques selling their new ranges there and each boutique tended to have their own promotional material for instance leaflets...this one I liked inparticular, I love the hand drawn element and would like to start drawing more and involving it in my work that I am doing in 3rd year.

Festive Leeds Bag competition brief...Research and Inspiration

Existing bags for Leeds live it love it...simple bold type with limited colour palette...

Experimental typography, effective way of communicating an idea creatively and attracts attention and draws people in.

Idea of simple patterns could work well on a hessain style bag and will be appropriate for a wide range of audiences if it is tasteful.


Cath Kidston bags...great example of fun creative patterns that attract attention.

Below fun and playful design using limited colour palette...something simple and effective could work with my designs for my bag I think as long as it is new and fresh!

Below more elegant, sophisticated designs suiting a particular target audience...too obvious designs.

Looking at imagery and graphics from the Festive Leeds website, taking into consideration colours, typefaces, layouts etc that are existing already.

Packaging...

I chose to involve packaging into my t shirt brief as I thought it was essential that I improve my skills in this particular area, looking at design in context for packaging I really notice the level of professionalism and I really don't think my work levels up to this standard, I want to become more confident in this area.


I spotted this little packaging design, I really like the 'cuteness' of it and I also spotted the little tag that is attached to it with a little chain and I think this could work really well for my tag that I am going to attach to my t shirts. It just looks alot more professional that having say string.

The packaging below caught my eye mainly because of the type used really but I like the simplicity of it and I want an element of simplicity in my t shirt designs.
Exciting and experimental packaging...bringing a fun and interactive element into design.

T-shirt packaging...

I wanted to maybe create my own packaging for lollys involving my 'taste tees' logo much similar to the example below.
I bought these and sweets to photograph with my t shirt and packaging, I actually thought the type on the packaging was really cool, it's the same kind of style as my type that I have used through out my t shirt brief.

This tag design i found on one of my items of clothing...I've picked it out because of the chain used...I want to use this chain for my tag/label to make it look more professional and hard wearing.

I thought this was really cool packaging...It looks like the t shirt has been packaged in meat packaging...its placing the t shirt in context but its almost out of context also, inappropriate context that strangely works.
H&M tag...I need to consider the material that I am going to use for my tee's...whether it be string or ribbon etc...I was thinking of maybe using a waxy kind of string because that is quite strong and resistant and not as messy as string and is more appropriate for my style.

Simple sleve packaging but works nicely...

Self promotion...

Creative way of promoting yourself...I really want to think of something really unique and individual...it's taking me a while but I want it to be perfect and I dont just want to settle for anything.

Resistance brief...

The very current issue surrounding Rihanna who suffered from domestic violence....I think it was good in a way to show that celebrities don't always have the high life and people who are suffering from it also may look up to Rihanna and speak up if they see other people are struggling too...so I could maybe involve her into my work...having someone that people admire and look up to!

I have decided to follow the path of domestic violence and relate the brief of interpreting the brief in this direction.  Focusing on the resistance to domestic violence  and producing a factual campaign to make people more aware and open to that fact that it is happening all around us and to reach to women and men that need help.

I have picked out a few campaigning posters that I found on the internet, I found alot of them involved hard impacting photography and not alot of illustration has been used at all in this subject so I think I am going to mix it up a bit and see if I can still recieve the same kind of reaction with hand drawings.

The poster will have to be very hard hitting and almost a bit offensive to get a reaction from people and make them act on what they have seen and get people talking about it for changes to be made.  There is a kind of different out look on how to communicate the issue, the collage of the womens face is quite an effective idea, it doesnt directly communicate what is happening but once you know it is really effective.

www.eioclothing.com

Here are a few tees that I thought were pretty cool from eio clothing...I haven't really found many printed womens tees but there is a good example here of the sort of style of t shirt that I would like to print onto.
Also there is the example of a colour variation that I think really stands out being black and gold...I could maybe bring this combination into my designs instead of just using black and red.

Peter versus Toby...

Range of t shirts made by this guy in australia...i really like the simplicity of his range and the limited colour palette. One of my friends had one of his black and white photographic tees on and it looked wicked although i dont think they were screen printed i think they were done digitally.