For the crit, I am showing my blog and have printed some sheets of work. I've also re-written my briefs as these will be useful to help people who don't know anything about what I'm doing to understand my work. I also realised that the old briefs I had written didn't totally make sense now that I have changed a few things.
Questions I want answering:
1. Does the logo design for the Graphic Design Museum work as intended? (To appeal to a wide audience and to last the test of time)
2. Which colours do you associate with the internet?
3. For the stationery brief, should I go with the pixel theme I've been looking at or look into Icongraphy?
4. Should my graphic design rulebook contain images or be type based only?
5. What do you think of the decorative heading text I have made for the rulebook? (See printed sheets)
Feedback:
Plan of Action:
After reading the feedback, here is what I have decided to do based on peoples opinions:
Brief 2
- Won't go with the pixel typeface as it is too obvious and not creative enough
- The colours I have decided on to represent the internet are blue, green, black and white
Brief 3
- Take the range further with merchandise etc
- Make sure the words of the typeface are readable and make it more like a proper typeface, so use the same glyph for each of the same letters in a sentence
- Think of the content, a bit of writing for each statement to back it up (Such as with the "Its not how good you are..." book)
- The purpose of the book is to motivate and inspire so it is better not to call it a rule book but a guide book
- The U.S.P of the book is that it is attractive to designers because of its design and the print finishes used
- The purpose of the typeface can be explained in the book. It looks good, and it makes designers think about how they can alter a font to customise it to how they want it to look, rather than just going with what is easily available
Brief 4
- Use helvetica or typefaces that are more relevant/important to graphic design in designs to appeal to target audience
- The previous audience for who the invites to the opening night would be sent to was too broad, so I have narrowed this down, to graphic design industry professionals including 'celebrity' graphic designers, such as ones that would appear at design festivals like typo, and members of the media to put the museum in the spotlight, like graphic design magazines
- I will avoid using gradients in the logo as this doesn't work
- I am going to continue to experiment with the logo design rather than settling for what I have now, as there are still changes to be made
