The role of posters in graphic design

Design Brief :

Design a Bauhaus inspired A3 poster for an open night at Stella Maris College 2012.

Process : 

researching poster and this history they have, found the style of posters that appeal to us. 

The Bauhaus design period was also researched, finding text, imagery and information that we believed to be relevant to this period.

we then made a mind map to express our ideas and direction we will take in our poster. we then found our related Bauhaus posters, and outlined why we think Bauhaus is individual. 

diagonal lines, dynamic colours, sharp lines, Bauhaus font. and a contemporary style.

firstly i choose my image of the school. 

i then edited the colours, and added sections of different color, and added in diagonal lines. similar to Bauhaus.

i then added in important information.

And joining lines.  

Finished Product.with school logo included.

MUGS

Our latest task

1. Design a commemorative Factory designer mug and have it printed online at Vistaprint

2. Design, print and manufacture a package to promote your mug at the factory

The mug was to resemble the factory (our working space)and to express the feelings and memories we have had here.

once done brainstorming on ideas and collaborating many ideas into one we then submitted our piece to be printed onto the mugs.

To start my design i drew my image, then scanned it. then edited the the colors so they were vibrant. i also made the black outlines bold. 

I wanted to include a strong text into my mug design. and i felt creative was a strong word to sum up the ideas and the feeling that the factory has.

This is the image of my final design.

We also created boxes to package our mugs. This is an example of the template we used to create the box. once we printed this, we then cut it out and made our box.

The final design. 

CHALK BOARDS

Last year we were asked to redesign a chalk board of a chosen cafe. The cafe i chose was a cosy little cafe in harbord called the kitchen door. the cafe is arty and is full on vintage furniture, the chalk board i design had to reflect this. My chalk board is in the shape of a mug, this resembles coffees and other typical cafe drinks. The menu is only for warm drinks and i have made them in the font of the cafe which is oranges, reds peachy colours all warm colours.