The Canterbury Tales A1 poster

My poster up in the shop.

Graphic Design Shop - Off The Grid

Inside the shop, theres a desk by the entrance that had badges, bags and leaflets about the show and Collage, we each had a A1 poster put up of our best work and it ran for a week. A rotor was made so that two people would look after the shop for an hour and a half each time so it remains open throughout.

Christmas Coca Cola

While updating my projects i changed the colour of my

Retro Coca Cola poster and added some parts to it such as the reindeer and sleigh giving it the Christmas theme.

Web

As part of my web unit i had to create a

webpage in Flash which shows information about myself as well as

work that i have done, i came up with this simple design that has an

enter page, about page and gallery page.

Packaging Project

Two packaging designs for Glen Moray.

Shows a Puffin with the brand name behind,

after doing i noticed the spelling mistake on Moray.

For the second poster i tried adding in more blur to make the Puffin stand out more and also added some effects.

Bridging The G.A.P.

End of year show Friday 7th June

Our Graphic Designs shop is located in Longmarket, where each student is able to show off an A1 poster.

http://cantcol.wix.com/offthegrid

Final Posters

Finished posters advertising The Canterbury Tales.

Coloured up finals for The Canterbury Tales

I coloured up the posters using Photoshop and gave them several different colours to see what one works the best using colours that fit the theme.

Final Posters for The Canterbury Tales outlines

I choose to advertise two tales from the Canterbury Tales, and these two are what i came out with for my final pieces, The Millers Tale on the left and The Knights Tale on the right, each object in each of the posters are to do with each of the tales.

i gave them a old style effect for the background that came from tea staining an A3 page.

The Canterbury Tales Poster Idea

I scanned in one of my drawings and using

Illustrator and Photoshop i worked up this face design that could

be used For the Millers Tale poster.
I coloured it up using subtle light and dark browns

The Canterbury Tales thumbnails

Watercolour with Pen

 Thumbnails and drawings for my FMP

The Canterbury Tales

For my FMP - Final Major Project, my last project for college which is an exam, i choose to base it on  The Canterbury Tales and produce posters advertising it for my final pieces. After calling i took a visit to The Canterbury Tales after opening times to take photos of the characters and scenes throughout the attraction to help with my project.

Borough Market Project

While on my Borough market Project i produced this stencil with a made up slogan to advertise the Borough market, i scanned it in and edited it in Photoshop.

Advertising Project

I choose to advertise Coca Cola for my Advertising Project, using the slogan Open Happiness i came up with this poster, it shows cola pouring out from the bottle with the slogan behind and along the bottom using a retro style.

Type Project

Fork Alphabet

I took 26 individual photos of forks in shapes of letters and put together in Photoshop to create an alphabet.

Hand In The Window

I created this hand in the window using a number of different photos in Photoshop, using a scanner i was able to scan in my hand giving the effect of a hand pressed against the wet window.

Type Project poster ideas

For my Type project i had to choose a book to produce a cover that is different to the original covers.

choosing New Illustration With Type i tried out putting it in a block grid, i cut out parts of the letter and then hung each one up and photographed them to see what effect comes from it.

Type Project Poster Idea

Using collage for the design, i produced a poster idea for my Type Project.

I scanned in the collage and using Photoshop i gave it an effect to look like a newspaper and added in a table background to finish the scene, giving a feel of looking down at a newspaper.

File formats

Learning the various file format meanings in collage

TIFF -  Tagged Image File Format
PNG -  Portable Network Graphics
GIF -  Graphical Interchange Format
IND -  InDesign Document
PDF -  Portable Document Format
PSD -  Photoshop Document -  Bitmap
AI -  Adobe Illustrator -  Vector
JPEG/ RAW



BITMAP - Pixel based, when zoomed in or stretched it becomes pixelated, image zoomed in by 500%

VECTOR - can be scaled by any amount without loosing quality, TYPE image zoomed in by 4800%

File format/ web

HTML - Hyper Text Mark Up Lannguage
CCS - Cascading Style Sheets
FLA - Flash document
MYSQ Database -  Server that provides multi user access to a database such as creating an account on a website
FTP - File Transfer Protocol
HTTP - Hyper Text Transfer Protocol
SWF - Small Web Format - is the flash source file format for playing flash animation