Coda Poster - fixed

Coda Poster

Finally got round to actually doing a live brief! This was actually quite fun and frustrating but isn't that the curse of all designers?

What I had to do was create a simple A4 poster with the following info:

JOIN CODA’S NEW CARNIVAL PERCUSSION BAND

WORKSHOPS IN DRUMMING AND PERCUSSION FOR ALL AGES AND ABILITIES EVERY WEEK

YOU MAY HAVE TAKEN PART IN A WORKSHOP IN YOUR SCHOOL OR WOULD LIKE TO TRY DRUMMING AND TO MAKE SOME NOISE

NOW YOU CAN COME ALONG AND JOIN OUR NEW CARNIVAL PERCUSSION BAND, LEARN NEW MUSICAL SKILLS AND TAKE PART IN LOCAL CARNIVALS AND FESTIVALS

NO EXPERIENCE NECESSARY

CHILDREN AGED 8 AND ABOVE AND ADULTS WELCOME

EVERY WEDNESDAY

STARTING 3^RD MARCH 2010

5PM TO 6PM

THE PHOENIX CHILDRENS CENTRE

CULVER ROAD, NEW MILTON BH25 6SY

£1 PER PERSON

FOR MORE INFORMATION AND TO TELL US YOU ARE COMING PLEASE CALL CODA ON 01425 276 161 OR EMAIL CONTACT@CODA.ORG.UK

At first I took the word 'simple' very literally and the results were less than flattering, not something I'd be proud of at all. Therefore I did a 180 and this is what I came up with! I like it apart from the face that I can't decide which version to choose from, and I need to correct the colour of the headphone on the character - the actual band needs to be white but I can't seem to make Illustrator cooperate with me at the moment...

Business identity crit

Business identity tutorial

I didn’t have much to show Neil in today’s tutorial but I presented my ideas and I got good responses. Through my research I’ve found that Iris really wasn’t a girly girl, for a lack of better terms. She cheated on her husband yet he still stayed faithful to her and she knew what she wanted in life, as shown by the fact that she never let her editors edit any of her text in her novels. She was a strong, powerful woman yet in so many ways she was like a man. That’s why I’ve chosen to keep to a simple colour scheme for the business cards, no bright colours or fancy borders, just simple and straight to the point.

Another thing is that she explored the idea of existentialism and I had a mini brainwave to make the business cards clear plastic to reflect that idea. The letterhead and compliment slip would be clear as well, not necessarily made out of plastic though, maybe acetate.

Iris Murdoch

Iris Murdoch? Why couldn’t I get Marie Antoinette instead! Don’t get me wrong blog she’s interesting and all but I can’t hide the fact that I’m jealous of the people who got Ghandi or Buddy Holly.

So far my research of her has shown that she’s an English author and philosopher who was strongly influenced by Plato, Freud, Simone Weil and Sartre.

She suffered from Alzheimer’s in her later years and eventually died in 1999, which wasn’t that long ago actually. I’ve ordered her book – The Sea, the sea, which won a booker prize and have bought the film – Iris, which is based on her husband’s memories of her.

Long critique

The group critique went rather well if I’m honest. Yes it was extremely long and in my opinion would have worked better in small groups but it was a rare chance to see everybody’s work and see how different everybody’s ideas were. I found it really educating as well, for instance I found out the guy who invented the Internet was actually born in Wimborne!

I didn't really get as much feedback as I had hope for but I took it as a sign that I was along the right track and my idea was nearly finished. Neil did suggest that I maybe put memorable quotes on the back of each ticket instead of a train watermark because it seems to celebrate cinema more if I were to reference great films that everybody remembers.

1st tutorial

Small tutorial with Sally and a few others today, gained some helpful ideas from Sally to push my project along. It was suggested that maybe instead of thanking the brothers directly I could thank the people who go to the cinema because without audiences, moving images would have never taken off. The idea of creating a ticket stub with thank you on it was suggested and I think it’s a brilliant idea. I want to eventually create a modern ticket stub and also a vintage style one with maybe an art deco border with the fonts used during the early 19th century.