Summary of term 1

It was a tough semester with a lot to do every week with some challenging projects and live projects, but I enjoyed designing them all and I learned alot! I especially enjoyed doing the 3 live projects: iPhone Cover design, Spar Reusable Bag design and the All-Ireland Scholarships poster design. Winning one of them made it very interesting and boosted up my confidence in my work. I'm hoping it won't be the only project I'm successful in.

All Ireland Scholarship

It took a few days to finish this poster about the All Ireland Scholarships, but I enjoyed making it.

I originally drew this tree for my illustrator project (magazine cover) and I wanted to use it here because I came up with the idea of making Ireland look like the top of a tree and the counties as leaves on this tree.

The font used on for the county names of the leaves is Celtic because I wanted to add an Irish touch to the fonts used in my poster. And thankfully I found a few lovely Irish fonts, but this suited the leaves more.

I wanted to add all the information relevant for the Scholarships but didn't want to put in a lot of writing, so people can get all the info they need in just a few seconds, and those who want more information can find it in the website URL that I added on the bottom of the poster.

I used the color scheme from the All Ireland Scholarships website, because I believe that one color scheme should be used in all its designs and I added their logo that I found in their website.

Brief 9: A4 Advertisement Layout

Target audience: Women

Magazines to appear in: Women's Health, Easy Health, Cosmopolitan and Glamour

This ad can appear in any women's magazine.

I wanted to create a new product that doesn't exist, because all the hair loss products I saw look like medication and what I wanted to create is a product that looks like a normal shampoo and that would be acceptable and not create sensitivity. 

I found a tutorial online on how to draw a shampoo bottle and that's how I came up with this product. I created the brand name and the website is not real, but added it on the ad because when looking at ads about such products, some people would like to go get more information about it before buying it.

Brief 7: Corporate Identity 2

At first I tried out the european flag colors for the Playwell logo because its a European manufacturer, but it didn't look like a logo for toys manufacturer, so I thought to use more colors to make it look like it's for toys.

Brief 6: Corporate Identity 1

As soon as I saw the name Bagel Bite the image of a bitten bagel came to my mind, and that's what I chose to do as my logo design. Little did I know that a lot of the other students had this idea as well. 

The bagel was easy to draw but the 3D part was complicated.

Brief 5: Spar Bag Design

Summary of Design: Theme: Spar Paisley

A paisley is a popular design that was used to decorate royal regalia, crowns, and court garments. It is usually woven on high quality textiles for gifts.

I used the paisley because it’s a lovely design, it gives beauty and represents good quality, and Spar is all about good quality.

I used the spar colors to design the paisley and added the spar logo inside the paisley to give it uniqueness and specify it to Spar.