Thursday, October 19, 2017

OUGD603 - 10 Briefs


BA (hons) GRAPHIC DESIGN



OUGD603  -  THE PLAN



Name:   

Connell Makepeace

Manifesto:

Over the first two years of the course, I’ve always had the mentality that I wanted to either learn something or do something new for each brief. I want this to carry over into my briefs for OUGD603 this year, even more so now that these briefs are self-led. For the duration of the course I have a small chek list of what I want to do/happen for my work:

- to work more with my illustrations within most of the briefs
- wanting to work more collaboratively both within and outside graphics
- Try and get more commission work through this year


Brief one (title): Prop Design within film

One of my favourite areas of Graphic Design is the design of Prop and sets within film and tv. From the gorgeous designs from the likes of the Grand Budapest hotel and harry potter, all the way to the out of this world sci-fi designs of blade runner and alien. For this Brief, I’ll be working collaboratively with an illustrator in creating a series of prop designs from a book yet to be adapted for the big screen.

Time frame: 4 months

Brief two (title): Ban the Toll (Save the green belt)

Back home in Rainhill, there are protests going on for Two major isuues

1)    A new bridge has been constructed that connects widnes with Runcorn. With this, the old bridge is to be shut down. This crossing sees 1000’s of commuters driving to get to work each day. The problem is that this new bridge is now implementing a toll for people to cross over it. While its only £2 each way, for people going to work every day will cost them £20 each week to commute which is crazy since the old bridge was free. On top of this, the council are closing off the other, non toll bridge in order to ensure people will use the new one.
2)    Rainhill has a fair amount of fields in and around the village, most of which is green belt land. A new contract has been issued that has now allowed investors to build houses on these green areas when there is many unused sites around the village that could be used instead. All this has been done without taking in to consideration of the people living there. If this plan is to go ahead, then 500+ new houses will be built on the green belt land and seeing what has already been built, these houses will be very cheap and small for people moving in   

For this brief, I will be creating posters and other relevant materials in order to help the movement against these issues

Time frame: end of November

Brief three (title): Megabots vs Suidobashi

This year marks the first ever international giant robot fight between America and Japan. Each robot has been in the making for the last few years (which I’ve been following) and has been planning this fight for the last two. In support of this event, I plan to create a poster showcasing the robots from each country.

Time frame: 18/10/17

Brief four (title): Doodles

Since the start of me using sketchbooks all the way back since highschool, ive always been doodling weather its been to come up with ideas or to help me remember parts of talks or lessons. Over the time ive had here at uni, Ive always had people looking at what ive been drawing and i keep getting told to do something with them. I feel like this is the perfect module for me to explore what I can do with these squiggles

Time frame:  Jan 2018

Brief five (title): End of year show - Branding

With the college of art gaining its university title this year, the end of year show for graphics will be the first year of the course to showcase with the uni status. While the last end of year show had some good work, it was unfortunately the weakest show of the courses (in my opinion). I was pretty upset with this as our course has so much to offer and show in terms of the quality that comes from everybody who’s part of it. With that said, I want to work on throwing my hat in the ring and designing a brand identity for the show to put forward to my peers. For this, I would like to work with one or two peers from our year group as I want this show to be the best part of the end of year show 2018!

Time frame:  April 2018 (at the latest)

Brief six (title): App design


Been asked in helping with creating an app design for a family member (More details on this in November once they have their idea set in stone)

Time frame: TBA

Brief seven (title):  YCN

(Yet to be announced)

Time frame:

Brief eight (title): Preacher Competition

AMC and PosterSpy are inviting you to create an alternative poster for the first season of Preacher, which makes its UK TV debut 23rd October.
Based on the comic of the same name by Garth Ennis, Steven Dillon and Glenn Fabry, the series tells the bizarre tale of a Texan Preacher, his unapologetic ex-girlfriend and an Irish vampire

The story
The first series sees protagonist Jesse Custer (Dominic Cooper), a reformed criminal turned preacher, struggling to escape is complicated past. Whilst lacking motivation and belief in his current profession, Jesse comes in contact with an unknown entity, which in turn unleashes a divine (and supernatural) power within him.
After crossing paths with foul-mouthed vampire, Cassidy (Joseph Gilgun) in a bar, he decides they team up with Jesse’s no-nonsense ex-girlfriend, Tulip (Ruth Negga) on a mission to find God.
But what they don’t anticipate is what else they’ll come into contact with on that journey.

Design notes
Please focus on emulating the look and feel of the shows’ first season, in addition to using red, orange, yellow, blue, brown and monochrome. The winning entries will be judged by AMC and BT Television. Feel free to create work in your own styles, but we encourage you to experiment with new and innovative ideas outside your usual range.

Guidelines
AMC are looking for Illustrated posters, photos provided are to be used for reference only. Please reference the trailer.
The poster must be A3 600dpi minimum, you are welcome to work at a larger scale if you prefer.
Please upload an RGB file in either JPEG or PNG format.
Please use the hashtag #PosterSpyPreacher when sharing/posting your artwork on social media.
You may enter more than once. Please avoid using photo comps and re-creating the original key art. AMC is looking for illustrated posters.

Time frame: November 7th (deadline the 9th)

Brief nine (title): daily challenge  

I started to do a project involving recreating a character form the transformers franchise into pixel art. The premise is that they have so many characters that I could design one almost every other day and the plan for the end was to have all of them apart of a poster. The response I got from these was great and I would like to carry this on and finish it. Along side this I would like to do icons from film in the same way

(side brief – weekly poster design for the film society)

Time frame: continous



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