NSS Poster - Competition

On friday I submitted my design for the National Student Survey poster competition. I'm not quite sure its a finished design but I'm hoping they like the idea behind it. 

It's supposed to read as two sentences, one statement: "What is on your mind, is on our mind". I felt it portrayed the message the NSS wanted to get across in a thought provoking way. I'm still going to work on it because I think I'm onto an interesting idea and would like to get it right my portfolio.

The Grid

Today we had a tutorial lesson on 'The Grid', an essential tool used by designers in order to create coherent work which is aesthetically pleasing but also controls the viewer and tells them where to look next.

The Brief

We were given 4 grids and were required to use them to make a range of poster layouts:

• 1 field - Idea, Image, Strap-line, 2 Logo's
• 4 fields - Idea, Type, Strap-line, 2 Logo's
• 12 fields - Idea, Image/Type, Strap-line, 2 Logo's
• 20 fields - You decide combination but must include 2 Logo's 

I was quite happy with the work I created today, the task taught me a lot and I think it could prove to be very useful when creating my final poster for the Graphic Projects module.

UKFSEG - Branding

Along with the logo we had to create a web banner and poster that portrayed this message of education and forensics. Both had to contain specific copy and the logo. I originally created the web banner below using this idea of education as growth and progression. It related back to the idea of a student adding to a collection of books as they progress through a university course.

The web banner was created in Flash and used a 24 frame per second frame rate. It was my first time using flash but I enjoyed using it can see it becoming very useful in the future.

Next was the poster, I wanted have a similar brand through out the two pieces but it was very difficult to create a poster based on the colour schemes and background used in the web banner. I ended up creating the image above the night before the hand in. It came from an idea of DNA as building blocks. I was trying to create a visual expression of a 'forensic profile'.

If I had time I think I would go back and try to work this poster idea into my story board. Possibly having the building blocks/DNA pieces moving and forming a profile and then light from the left creating the shadow.