Updates

So both competitions I entered got absolutely nowhere. I was a little bit gutted. And without sounding big headed, I personally thought mine was better then both of the winners.

http://www.iom3.org/content/student-starpack-2011-brief-c-winners

They both just seem a little weak to me. And if you read the comments on the silver finalist, it actually didn't actually meet most of the specifications. Any way lets move on.

I got given a brief a while ago that called for an a3 board with a story in the style of a graphic novel.

The story must have taken place in the last week of last term. And all that happened was that I went to the pub...alot. so I'm goin to need to jazz it up a bit, graphic novel style.

I started by making some characters and trying to render then so they look the part.

My Female

Me. Although more hench and more tanned

So they took me around 7 hours to do both. With an entire a3 page to fill out with a story board i could be looking at some late nights.

External submission for the Tango brief

Ok so among other things in the last few weeks, I had to complete the Tango project for external competition submission.

This call for the work that I had already done on the models and the design boards but with and extra part; a viral advert to go with the models and campaign.

It was a little last minute because I though the dead line was the 25th (it was the 9th) but i manages to do what i thought was a very good job.

I have never even contemplated storyboarding before so I didn't know what to expect. I drew up a quick sketch then began to draw it all out on the computer using my graphics tablet.

I set out with the intention of keeping it black and white but it seemed a lot better when I started to add colour.

My Sketch for the board

The final thing

Overall it took me around 6 hours to complete.

Looking at it, it may seem very bizarre and not make any sense but i tried to keep it solely as a viral advert. when it would make you go: 'Oh my god did that actually happen?' and 'Mate, check this out!', and that is what a viral advert is all about, violence aside.

Finalization of Tango...for now

Today I printed and finished my Tango project. It was a long and strenuous brief but I got it done before the deadline.

For the internal assessment, I had to produce a technical report, a 'kick-ass' model and 3 presentation boards.

The culmination of my work

When it is all put together, it doesnt look like a lot but believe me, it was.

I'm so glad I got it done before the deadline. It makes me feel like I worked really hard for the final outcome (which I did)

Some more work to be done on the external submission but that will be posted up if it is good enough.

Tango Design Boards

Today was a very productive day even though there is not a great amount of work to support it. I managed to get two of my design boards completed and will probably need a few tweaks to get them perfect.

A work in progress

Hopefully all will go smooth so I can get them all in on time.

But that is work for another day.

Tango Bottles Completed

So today I got to work to finish the Tango bottles. I printed out the labels and stuck them on. Ideally I could have done with photo paper and a better adhesive but for the purposes of getting a few pictures it was all I needed.

Not having a decent camera was a bit of a pain but Hannah has a D50 so I just borrowed that and set out for a shop so my bottles could be in the right environment.

I first went to ASDA but because of big stores being so anal about this kind of thing, they wouldn't let me take any pictures in the shop. So instead i went to the local newsagents.

In the fridge

Next to the original 600ml Tango

Spot the new Tango

Funky Labels

This is my favorite picture

It was really satisfying to see them finally done. Hopefully the guys at StarPack and Tango will like them as much as I do. I think I will apply to the external competition. Don't mean to blow my own trumpet or anything but I think I have a relatively good chance.

All left to do now is finish the report, do the design/presentation boards, create some point of sale items and story board a 30 second advert. Sounds a lot more when I write it down. Oh well, looks like a busy week ahead.

Sunday Sunday

Not a great deal actually happened today. Me and Hannah went to Manchester to look at the BITA (British Interior Textiles Association) fair. it took us 2 hours and £60 to get there by train and a further £30 in taxi fares. All in all it was a semi worthwhile trip. We had a free lunch and mooched around the stalls for a short while. Hannah really enjoyed looking at the fabrics and i was actually impressed by some of them. I just had ideas for hand carved chairs with this purple material over them. Pretty royal.

There was also a lot of designers of curtain rails and ends. Not a market I had previously thought of. But some of them were very interesting indeed. Some modern and some more traditional, but cool all the same.

On the way back, we went through Manchester Piccadilly train station and I noticed that it is actually a very nice building.

I liked the way the monitors are placed in the old open space

The roof over the station

I just really liked the roof. The contrast again the modern moving walkways.

Oh, and as a side note; On the train back i found a perfect example for the nurture argument between misbehaved people being bad because of nature or nurture. A man, pissed off his face belching and shouting and swearing to the carriage with his son chanting along with him. That boy will just be another skinhead and a statistic for violence. As long as he's not my kid though eh?

Tango Labels

I almost forgot about the Labels for the bottles. I think I went with the best design with consideration to the shape of the bottles.

The Labels have all of the relevant information as well as a strong simple logo with a decent variation for each.

So far this is the best picture I have. I don't have a working printer and all of my flat mates are away for the weekend. Nor do I have a good enough camera to take decent pictures. Or a camera at all for that matter.

They are the labels. Hopefully soon I will have some actually pictures to put up.