Pandora Digital Presentation

The way in which Pandora display their online presence in their promotional booklets is very professional, it is concise yet allows the audience to easily see what is on offer to them. I think the way in which Pandora display their website pages is particularly effective. I want to try to use this style of presentation within my design boards.

Dock Street Arts

After our event this weekend, our work has been left up at Dock Street Market as part of Dock Street Arts and as a result our logo has appeared on the flyer (although he accidentally used our old logo design). This is essentially providing us with another platform in which we can showcase our work to another audience.

Simple Print Collateral

Again, this is another example of print collateral that utilises a simple colour palette.

I want to have this use of simplistic vibrancy within my inpress print collateral.

Print Collateral

I think using a two colour palette on white stock can make the design look fresh, well designed yet playful. Following this design direction could work really well for the inpress print collateral, especially considering that we have four colours to utilise.

Inpress Wayfinding

We are considering how best to publicize the fact that we are holding a shop to those in Dock Street Market.

I think applying the type directly to the walls works really well, however, I am not sure we are going to be able to do this. So we will need to speak to Jake (the manager) and it may be the case that we just have to use a large scale print to mock this look.

Reindeer

I am going to use this image of a reindeer to draw my own reindeer for Christmas card designs to sell at the inpress event.

I am going to use the following image as inspiration for the style of the illustration I want to create. I do not want it to be a life replica, but instead have a more quirky feel.

Unleashed

Unleashed is a shop run by third year graphic design students, like us, who also sell prints. I think this demonstrates that by running these events we are moving in the right direction and helping us and others to get out work out into the real world.

Design Visibility Quotes

Design is intelligence made visible.

~Don Newgren

Good design is obvious. Great design is transparent.

~Joe Sparano

Good design is a lot like clear thinking made visual.

~Edward Tufte

I want to use a quote concerned with the visibility of good design as it will allow me to use embossing in a clever way and will relate directly to the type present. The three quotes above seem most apt to my concept.

Box and Colour

I think the use of a different coloured box around the empty space (or where the type would be positioned in the case of a letterhead) could work considerably well with the inpress colour scheme. In effect it would produce a sort of border around it.

Coloured Print Collateral

I am proposing to design the inpress print collateral using the four inpress colours. I have now come across the above design which is an example of what I was considering; I want to four designs which are all the same, apart from the colour. I also think it will work well if the reverse is the same colour to contrast with the white front.

One Sided Embossed Business Cards

This one sided embossed business card looks very well designed and considered in respect to the print processes that it uses. Niall and I want to use a design similar to this for our business card design; we want one side to be flood coloured one of the inpress colours and the other side to contain the inpress contact information. Minimal but informative and to the point.

Berg & Berg.

Using traditional print techniques, the simple design capitalizes on this making the focus of the design on the crafting of the print. I think this is an important aspect we need to consider within our design seen as we are concerned with print.

Minimal Print

 

This minimal design here uses the infusion of the orange colour in order to make the print more playful. I think we could use a simple technique such as a one colour inclusion to make our print collateral more appealing.

Print Collateral

This print collateral is much more busy and vibrant. I am not so keen on this design as I think the busy colourful pattern distracts from the information and at the end of the day it is the information that is important, not the pattern and colour.

letterhead inspiration

I think the simplicity of this print collateral works really well, the simple colour scheme and minimal layout communicates the relevant information but allow the focus to remain on the  content.

Fresh

A lot of my design use a very basic one or two colour scheme and this is becoming my design style. This pair of trainers provides an example of how I see this within my design work; I have a white blank canvas with something beautifully crafted on it (i.e type or imagery) so I then do not want to bombard this and overshadow the design with lots of colour and extra clutter that isn't necessary. Therefore, in my eyes, I see it necessary to use minimal colour in order for the focus to remain on what is important in the design. Nevertheless, this colour must be well considered and work in relation to the design.

Website Design

I think this very linear website design is very simple, it uses a basic colour scheme in order to clearly navigate the user around the site and this is the main goal for any website design; easy navigation by the user so that the focus becomes about the content.

I have been researching different business card designs in order to inspire my designs for the inpress business card; I want or business card to be minimal yet look professional in it's appearance.

Blind Emboss.

When we considered blind embossing our business cards, we wondered what the effect of the blind embossing would have on the reverse side (where the contact information would be presented). The following demonstrates how this process can be executed to a professional level.

Blind Embossing

We had discussed on Friday, the possibility of blind embossing our logo into the front of our business card, and even book a laser cutting slot on Wednesday to allow us to experiment with this. I have had a little look into various blind embossing and how to go about producing this result without spending a lot of money in doing so.

At first I was not sure about blind embossing ou Inpress business cards as the company name is one of the most important pieces of information being communicated and the effect of blind embossing does not necessarily heighten the hierarchical position. Nevertheless, since seeing these blind embossed designs I have decided that it would look effective, especially if we then had the reverse side coloured one of the four colours.

Just had a little look and it seems you can pick up a blind embossing machine along with a customized plate for around £25/30. I think this is a reasonable price and a good investment for Inpress if we are going to be using it on all our business cards and branding material.