Brief #2 - Typographic Expression

The third brief that I will be doing in response to this module is the Typographic Expression brief. I've chosen this one as it is a great brief to use to take my mind off the bigger briefs for a while, and will give me more work to put into my portfolio to show off my design skills.

I did the same again and wrote out the key points to the brief and put them on to a drawn out brief to use as a guideline for typing it up.

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IMAGE OF DRAWN BRIEF

I typed up this brief using the brief template, and a copy has been printed and put into my submission folder.

Brief #3 - Hot n Tasty

The second brief is the Hot n Tasty one. Again, I did the same as I did for the last one and made a list of points from my blog posts and put them on to a drawn out brief to use as a guideline to write it up.

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IMAGE OF DRAWN BRIEF

I typed this up on to the brief file downloaded from moodle. A copy of this has been printed and put into my submission folder.

Brief #1 - Make Your Mark

Now that I've started making decisions on the briefs that I am wanting to do during this first module, I've started to get them wrote out into an actual brief form so that they're ready for the studio workshop.

To do it, because I want to make sure that I include as much information about the briefs as possible, I first wrote out the key points from previous posts into a list, and then put them on to a quick hand drawn brief to give me a guideline to follow to write them out.

Brief #1 is the Make Your Mark brief. This is one of the four that I have chosen to at least do in this module, so I have made it number 1.

Here's the list of notes I made for the brief, and the hand drawn brief with them put on to that I have used as a guideline to writing out the brief properly.

SCAN OF NOTES

SCAN OF DRAWN BRIEF

I typed up the brief on to the template file downloaded from moodle. I have decided to rename the brief to Make My Mark instead as it is personal to me and my work. A copy of this has been printed and put into my submission folder.

ISTD Brief

I have fancied doing an ISTD brief for quite a while now, so it's obviously going to be one of my ten briefs. I like the idea to use one of these briefs to make into a really substantial research driven brief, producing a publication as the outcome to hold the information that I research and find out.

As well as being a competition brief, this will also be a good skills driven brief as I want to produce some sort of high end looking publication, focusing on the type and layout skills in it pushing them further than what I have already.

But first, I must choose which brief I would like to have a go at.

Decisions

After the briefing back on to level 06 with Fred, we were informed that we need to have at least a minimum of 4 substantial briefs to do in response to the first module. Considering the briefs that I have so far, I think I have these covered as they are ones that I want to get started with straight away.

The ones that I want to use for this module for definite are:

• Make Your Mark
• Hot n Tasty
• Typographic Expression

I also want to have a solid, research driven brief (which I will come to blog soon that will be based on an ISTD brief). That then covers the 4 minimum briefs. We were told that there must be one competition brief, one live brief, one personal brief and one that doubles up on any of these.

Make Your Mark - Personal & Competition (D&AD)

Hot n Tasty - Live

Typographic Expression - Personal

Research Brief - Competition (ISTD)

Obviously, I want to try and push myself to do more than 4 briefs to try and ensure that I fulfil the module criteria the best that I can, so I will plan my time out effectively and see what I can do. I don't want to spread myself too thin and not complete briefs to the standard that I would like to, but at the same time I don't want to spend too long doing one thing when some of the time could be better spent doing others.

The other ones I would possibly like to also do during this first module is the collaboration with Baljeet on a branding brief, and possibly the fashion brand one. I am also going to keep my eyes open for any live briefs/other competitions that may come up.

End of Year Show '13

When I was on the ND Graphic Design course at this college, in the first year they set one of the briefs on there for us to come up with an idea to put forward to pitch to the live end of year show brief competition. I really enjoyed the process of this, and have read the emails since then with the brief on there and fancied giving it a proper go.

The outcomes for this brief will be determined by the requirements of the brief that will be sent out from the college, but I will make sure that I aim to fulfil the requirements of it with a solid idea.

Collaboration #2

Another collaboration that is on the table is one between myself, Baljeet and Beth. We have talked about working together to pitch for us to design one of the year books. We all worked together during level 05 on the Enterprise brief, and we each brought different but useful skills to the brief and I believe that it would be the same when we come to doing this brief too.

Which year book we will be pitching for is yet to be decided, so after a cheeky pint I think we will have a lot more decisions made that need to be.