Great Scots!

I've got it!
So I was jotting down accents after it was suggested I do something around the different accents/regional dialects of England. Then I realised that I could personify the accents instead of the counties or regions. The example isn't very clear on the sheet, it was in that moment of madness that you frantically scribble down an idea as not to loose it.

Take an accent like Scouse. This would be the name of the character and he represents the city of Liverpool and the surrounding Meryside area that also has this accent. I would have a translation sheet for common used words, interesting facts about the city and surrounding area's ect ect.

Before this I was working on trying to summerise each region and it's counties. I was jotting down the flag, interesting facts and motto's and sayings.

(Hello spider scrawl and a rather off looking map of Yorkshire. )

It was easy to get this much information for Yorkshire as the counties within the regions are all pulled together into one large community. (not community, more like I put Yorkshire down on the county box rather than North or West Yorkshire now that I'm in Leeds.)

This didn't work so well when I get to the East Midlands:

(I apologise to the people of the East midlands. Maps drawn by a 4 year old)

It's like they've banded together, yet are completely separate from each other. I'm still pretty sure I can so something with this information. I now need to crack on and get some characters designed before the week is out.

Destinations!

Sorry East England, half of your counties have been chopped in half due to my lack of being able to draw solely on 1 side of an a3 piece of paper. I needed to get a feel for the counties and the regions. I had a bit of a blonde moment and didn't realise Bristol was down in the southwest. But that was the only one, I swear!

from here I plan to do a page about each of the regions, just to get a feel for them and the counties within them. I think that will be more achievable than simply personifying each county.

This is just England, as that's the country I'm focusing on. So before someone tells me that I've missed wales off again...

How Much Clearer Can I Get?

Mini crit with Fred and other's in the group went well this morning. I bumbled through my brief and had to pause half way through and tell myself off. Luckily, everyone got what I was getting at.

That I am personifying the regions/counties of England to promote the rest of the country and not just London. (Tourists can be a bit ignorant when it comes to other countries. We're all like that.) - This will be for Enjoy England (the official tourist board in the UK that represents the country and promoting it as a holiday destination)

Something that came up was about the language barrier and how I intend to get around this, especially with non English speaking people. Fred mentioned a guide I'd seen before, that he has, that's full of pictures and you simply point at what you want. (A great and lazy invention of the human kind.) I know it was meant as a joke book but Fred said it was the most useful thing he's used on his travels.

So I'm going to try and wrap the tour guide around something like that. I don't want it to become text heavy. Also to establish the different colloquiums of the English language. For example, a Geordie and and a Scouser sound nothing alike and certainly the rest of the UK have a hard time figuring out what they've said (despite speaking the same language)

A translation guide for different regions would really help in that way.

Something else that came up was the on screen presence. It doesn't necessarily have to be on the internet. It could be an Iphone app, and when you're in the region/county it automatically changes the wallpaper with the character that represents that place. Then there could be an outer link to Enjoy England.

Satement Of Intent

Final Brief

My brief for the final project of this year, taking form from the "my dogs are barking" brief. I actually don't have a brief tittle for this, but I know what I want to do and I think it can be a good strong brief.

All I need to do now is select the counties that I am going to research and to get cracking with it.

Edit: The deadline is the 26th of May, not the 19th. My bad. (I think)

Product, Range Distribution

So I've had a pretty clear idea of the brief I want to re write for this module. The "my dogs are barking" brief is perfect for the area that I really want to explore; character design.

BRIEF TITLE : My dogs are barking



I have an idea about using this as a basis for something to do with stereotypes and personifying and how this can be explored illustrative. For examples of personification please see the old context blog to the right.

OUGD203 Part 2 GO!

(images to come when I found that camera)

Giant work sheets from Fred's session on Tuesday. These where actually really, really useful in clarifying what we as designers want to achieve in these next few weeks. I know I really want to go into character design and I think the "my dogs are barking" brief is something I can really get my teeth stuck into.

IMAGE EVALUATION

During this module I have been able to concentrate on more illustrative type briefs. This was a module I really wanted to do well in because of the subject matter. There was a good core of briefs and I enjoyed working on all of them. However, I feel as if I have not worked hard enough on this module. I have not done enough back up work to support my overall final pieces. This is my own fault as I don’t prioritise and I let this module slip up the radar.

Despite this, however I have been especially pleased with my final brief as well as the book fair brief. With the book fair brief I was able to concentrate on something that I am passionately interested in. It was a struggle at first because I couldn’t think of a thing to do but that was what was good about it. I had to think about the subject matter long and hard and in doing so I came up with several good ideas and one that was made concrete.

My final project was also something I am very interested in; books and editorial design. I feel that it had been some of my strongest work but it could have been improved more. I think I was to do it again then I would have spent more time on the illustrations and coming up with a possibility of idea’s for the actually book designs.

Overall I have enjoyed the module and I hope to do more image based modules in the future.

Final Project!

Final project for the Image Module. Editorial book design of five of my favourite novels. They all have a common theme of pure "oddness." I decided to collect these together in one handy collection, also know as "An Odd Collection."





These are the finished designs and I'm quite proud of the outcome. I could have spent more time on some of the illustrations but I've never been good with time or prioritising for that matter.

And here's the box they slot inside:




And A compiled shot:


I missed not having any crits with this brief. In the end, I asked HJ for advice on the type as it's not my strong point but I think it turned out ok.