Logo Design - Personal Project

I've been trying to come up with something to use as my personal logo for the design and photo work I do. These are some of the ideas I've come up with so far. Let me know what you think! I love feedback!

Final Spreads

Here are my final spreads for my book which include the book jacket, end page, title page, table of contents and my two double page spreads. Enjoy!

Book Jackets and End Pages

Here are the full book jackets and two end page designs.

Revisions

These are revisions from critique from classmates and my professor. The table of contents do not have the color hue/overcast that they do on here, something went wonky when uploading them on here.

Inspiration

I encourage all designers/artists to check out designspiration.net if you haven't already. It is a website packed full of inspiration for anything and everything. 

Enjoy!

Title Pages, Table of Contents, Bios and a Nifty Publications Logo

Possible Final Layout

I designed this layout after talking with my group and progressively working in class and asking opinions. This is what I have so far, and I dig it.

Project 4: Creating a Book

YAY FINAL PROJECT!!!

Our final project for BDS 102 is creating a book. For this book we were asked to choose an artist, from our field or not, and write up an essay of sorts about them. From there we created three sets of two double page spreads including work from our artist. I chose Daido Moriyama as my artist, he is a street photographer. I recently did a project in my photo media 101 class over him and have grown to love his work.

Today in class we critiqued each others spreads and figured out what else we need to design, along with getting in our groups and deciding on a book title and where things will go in the book. I'm pretty excited because I am paired up with three other photographer students who chose photographers as well, so we get our very own book of photographers. Our book is called "The Photo Book," simple and to the point because we think that our photographers are all fairly minimal and simple. The other photographers in our book are Cindy Sherman, Diane Arbus, and Annie Leibovitz.

Layout 1

Layout 2

Layout 3

Wayfinding Inspiration

For our first project this semester on wayfinding, I looked it up to see what it really was or could be along with seeing the images in class, and I really liked what I saw. There was a lot of big text, bold colors and great design, especially design packages overall, but there was no way my group and I could do anything like that in just a couple of weeks. And even though we couldn't do it all, it doesn't mean I can't dream up how I might use these things for my project or for any kind of wayfinding on campus.

Now I would like to share some of the photos on wayfinding I found, like, and drew inspiration from and say what I would do on KU Campus with these ideas of wayfinding.

This photo I liked and we could actually use in Strong, the building my group chose. It already has some signs similar to this, they are just more horizontal and stick out farther and have a yellow, serifed text on them. I think this text looks much better and the design is very sleek and modern. I think something like this or maybe just a happy medium of the two would look great in Strong Hall.

I liked this photo because I like the layers and color use to show different areas. I think this kind of idea would work well in building with multiple floors, obviously, and we could even incorporate KU colors or just one color with different tones. I had originally used this idea for my group but scratched it later because it was just too much and too modern for the style and feel in Strong Hall.

I liked this photo mainly because I like the sleek, modern look and how contrasty it is. I like the orange popping off the white and grabbing your attention. This could be used in any of the drab, gloomy looking buildings on campus, just to give them some new life. No offence KU, I love you :)

I like the idea of wrapping big text around a corner to grab attention from multiple angles. A group member of mine, Jake, thought of doing this for our group with one of our signs that leads to the stairs. I think this could be really cool and useful in any building on campus. It might even be cool to have it in all of the buildings just for some cohesiveness throughout campus.




So those are just some of the inspirational photos I have saved up on my flash drive. I have some others and I might blog more about those another time. But I definitely want to keep these images around for more inspiration on other projects that might come up.

Have a great weekend!
-Rhiannon

Paper and Shadows

 

 

Right now in class we are working on our final project. We are making, well, kind of paper lanterns, kind of lamp shades, kinda...sorta...   *ehhem* We are working with paper and cutting it and creating shadows. It's pretty interesting, a little frustrating at times, but fun.

When we started just playing with paper I made my designs starting with paper airplane folds, cootie catchers and making snowflakes. Now I've decided to just work with the snowflake idea but I've kind of turned them into lanterns. I'm thinking it will hang from the lightbulb...but I'm still not sure, it could just sit on the floor or table. 

The design I've been working with has been almost tribal like, or like Indian art with a lot of geometric shapes. Then I started doing just slits in paper that was similar to a print I did in my fundamentals of fabrics class last semester. It's a lot of diamonds and just slits in paper that create diamonds, lines patterns and mountain designs. 

My professor and I started messing around with making some of the slits fold and giving my paper a 2D and 3D effect. And I really like it.

Here are some photos of some of the models I've done.

 

Dribble

For our latest class project we had a small group and constructed words to represent what they were and be an environment that made sense with the word. My group got the word "dribble." The first thing that came to my mind is, "Hey, we're a basketball school. Let's go with basketball dribble," and my group members thought the same thing.

 So we constructed our word in our school colors of crimson and blue and made the dot of the eye a basketball. We decided to put our letters in front of Phog Allen in front of Allen Fieldhouse, and boy was it glorious. I had a lot of fun taking pictures of our word in the environment and later on one of my group members, Amy, and I decided to take pictures with the word in different areas inside the Fieldhouse. So here are some photos of our dribbling journey.

"That's the new me"

Don Norman talked about the "3 ways good design makes you happy" on TED Talks and happily discussed his ideas on how it all works.

Visceral was his first way of happy design. He explained this by saying that, in design, we express this by using certain fonts or using red to portray something that's hot. Or having a nice car because you love the design but in reality it needs a lot of upkeep.

Behavioral was his second idea for happy design. It's sub-conscience, like most things we do in a day. It's about feeling in control of something, like a knife he had shown at the beginning of his lecture, it's designed perfectly to make everything you use it for easy and with almost no effort.

Lastly, he talked about reflective. It's sub conscientiously saying that you like the attention. You want to have the Hummer rather than a simple Taurus. You want to go for what's bold, not what's safe.

His whole lecture is saying, we should be happy with design; being positive helps to generate great design.