Little find.

Don't you love it when you find something that you had completely forgotton about!

The other day I was browsing through some blogs that I like, through this browsing I end up discovering new sites I like and spending three hours exploring instead of doing my assignments.... oops.

On one of the sites I saw these :

How adorable is the typewriter ring! The thing I liked about these was how I didn't even notice the ring at first. The packets were the things that got my attention. I'll admit I'm a fan of the vintage look and these two designs definitely  have elements of vintage in them, the faded material the use of minimal colours...

I feel bit bad at the moment as I can't track down the blog I saw these on, as soon as I find it I will add that up onto here, as they are divine.... and how can someone surprise me with one if I don't have the site written down.... <3

Printy print, cutty cut.

Today I spent time printing, then cutting, then printing, then cutting, then screen printing!!


Good eight hours of print and cut. But still I would say that it was worth it! 

Clearer photos to be uploaded soon.

Sandwich Boards.

After the last post I looked at how signs and posters were made.

One thing I noticed was how the signs were either made from wood or metal.

This has made me question how I will make my poster and signage for D&ad brief. 

Maybe I could make a sandwich board using screen print to put logo and text onto it...

D&ad added identity.

Now that I have my logo it's time for corporate identity and any added promotions etc ticket, poster. The signage around the hospital also.

Above is the signage and ticket. The ticket would be put on each patients tray at lunch time. So they know the exhibition is there.

After a discussion with my tutor we spoke about how to make the signage, and how to keep it in tone with the theme!

That means looking at how signs were made back in the day- how did they print and make posters and signs... thats the next step.

D & ad

For D & ad I chose to explore the idea of the traveling museum in hospitals.

So far I have chosen the name and from research came up with a concept.
Now for the making part!

The concept behind my designs began when I looked at vintage toys and their packaging, that was due to me thinking about what would appeal to a wide age range. The style of bright fun colours would attract the children and the vintage style would appeal to the older age and remind them of things from their childhood.

For the name I chose 'Den'. Do you remember being a child and building a den? I do, and I always had my teddy with me. I thought about how art is often treasured and when you are a child you would take your most prized possessions into your den. As you got older the place 'Den' changed and would be more of a study, but in that study you would still keep what is close to your heart in there (collectables, books, photos).

Above was my choice for the logos. I decided to go for the top one, as this fitted in with some of my earlier research of hanging puppets and signs. With the circus theme it now almost looks like an acrobat.

The bottom two are in the style of a ticket! One in circus colours and the other in candy-floss colours. The candy-floss colours were chosen after I looked at what you can buy/get at a circus. 

Hand made type

Marmite Typography!

Here is some type I created by using Marmite. Smelly work. 

Closer look at some of the letters.

Marmite Screen print

These screen prints were illustrated by Chris Malbon and  ink covered and screen printed at White Duck.

You can see the amazing detail in this poster, the shading in the fork and the marks in the bird. 

I would never have guessed this was a piece of screen print from a far. The colour has been applied perfectly and the shadowing done immaculately.