Johnson Banks Fail

From time to time I look at the Johnson Banks Thought of the Week blog, and there is was the new (horrible) Ravensbourne logo, I was thinking oh how odd they have mentioned the logo, I wonder hope they came across it, then i realised they designed it!  The identity overall is good but the logo looks like there has been no consideration put into it at all. Splitting up the word Ravensbourne into Raven-sbou-rne is totally pointless and does not add anything to the design, it makes it harder to read.

This the responses on this blog sum it up really, the logo just isn't what people like, and seems a shame that they have decided to use any of the design students at the college to come up with ideas instead they have paid a design company to do the work for them.


http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/8/view/9809/ravensbourne-college-identity-scheme-johnson-banks.html


Unsurprisingly facebook groups and parodies of the logo have been popping up around the place, its like the 2012 Olympic logo saga all over again.

Wedding Stationery for Sophie and Steve

The research book for this project can we found on Issuu http://issuu.com/rachel_irwin/docs/rachel_irwin_wedding_stationery

So far Save the Date fridge magnet cards have been created, along with an invitation pack.

Feel Good Drinks

These are the images I entered to the YNC competition for Feel Good Drinks promoting Fruit not sugar, I came up with two types of designs, firstly these cut out typography and fruit ones, which are bold use a colour scheme to reflect the types of fruit in each drink. And secondly the fruit people photos, where i have created characters using fruit and used humour to communicate with the audience. 

Showtime is paying off.

Despite the fact that is seems to take an abnormally long time to upload a single image to showtime,  I have more proof that showtime is a worthwhile doing, I just received this email from an interactive designer:

Hi Rachel,

I saw your work on the LCC website and thought it was lovely. I am an interaction designer (www.anab.in) currently working on this project :http://powerof8.org.uk

In the first phase of this collaborative project 8 of us have got short stories/words of a possible future world in the form of "idea maps". I am looking to get an information designer to help us visualise these "future maps" - I can explain more if you are free and interested in something like this? 

Hope to hear from you,

cheers,
Anab

Anab Jain | http://www.anab.in

Which is fantastic, I've never really been approached before, except by family and friends, so this sounds like a great opportunity, i've emailed Anab back and hopefully can help them out.

Showtime

I seriously need to update this blog, need to put photos on from my portfolio and from the show, also have a few issues and things that i have seen that I would love to mention just got to find a few spare hours to get down to it.  

Must also update my Showtime profile and YCN profile, now that I have nice images of some of my work I might as well upload them and get some exposure, and its definitely worth doing so cos one of the images I added to Showtime is the profile image on the UAL homepage representing the Showtime page for LCC, which is pretty snazzy. There are only 13 pages of Showtime profiles for LCC atm, which is surprising i thought there would be more, i reckon a few people have forgotten to make one. I didn't even know my image was on there until someone else pointed it out to me.

Life is out there

When i received email with stuff in like "she's rarely had a holiday in the passed 20 years", it really does make me doubt some people in "the industry", I doubt the world would fall apart if many people took a 2 week holiday every year, so i find it very odd that this woman hasn't. Is she really the only person who can do that job?  More shocking ST seems to thing this words would encourage me to go running head first into a graphic design studio saying " take advantage of me i'll work for free for a month, it would be an honour to be in your presence!" I don't want to be defined by my job, I don't think my job should ever be the most important thing in my life and I don't want it to be.  I am a hard worker, but as the saying goes "No one ever says on there deathbed, 'I wish i'd spent more time in the office.' Life is out there." I think some people forget that.

also just remembered this on noisy decent graphics, which i think co insides nicey.

Habit 7: Take Lots of Time Off: Principles of a Balanced Life

There was an article in The Economist a while back about how the best US presidents worked the least hours. (Bush used to to take loads of holidays, but he increased his tally by always working very long days.) Obama doesn't start work until the kids have gone to school.

As I've mentioned many times before the reason successful people can do more stuff is exactly the reason they are successful. They are better at getting stuff done. They make the best use of their time. They don't waste a minute. They know that an hour off is as important as an hour working. Successful people go on holiday. You should do that.

Typologies

business cards typology in colour order, when laid out flat reaches from the front of my house to the back!

Vernacular Type

my buttons i have created for the soical networking links

close up of the navigation bar

my hand drawn alphabet, based on my magnetic letters

website so far.....

^ This one is a mix of all the ones i have created 

Think this one is my favourite

Blue Monday

more conventional web page layout.

grab and drag website layout very rough first mock.

Adopt a plant..

One day group project for DPS, set by Gilles & Cecilie Studio. Being entredonneur instead of being entrepreneur (given back instead of taking from).  Brief "What would you change today?"

WHAT? What would you like to change today?

WHY? Why would you like this change to happen?

WHO? For who is this change? Who needs to be involved?

WHERE? Location

WHEN? Timing, one time action or sustainable change

HOW? Which actions are needed? Planning.

ADOPT A PLANT

Lucia, Jane, Rachel and Shia-Ying wanted to make people

stress free and more green by adopting an edible plant.

(Herbs, fruit and vegetables) Gardening is therapeutic,

it makes you more happy and less stressed. They made

small packages with a small cardboard pot, some soil and

a seed wrapped in cloth (so that the soil would not fall

out when bringing it home in your handbag) and a tag

with instruction. These natural gifts were given out for

free.

Fancy a Coffee?

paper

today one thing went wrong after another! firstly i found out you can't put your own paper in the A4 printers at uni, then i find that the paper we we going to use in the a3 printer is 10gsm under the minimum weight. So in the end i have printed the a4 sheets all at home, but having to do it though my PC not my mac cos for some unknown reason it comes old pale through when i use the mac to print, even though they are connected to the same printer! so i have had to download a trial version of Indesign onto the PC in order to print them, I would have printed them via PDF format but you cant adjust the scale of all of the a4 prints to 95% you can only do stuff like scale tp page which is no use. Whereas on indesign you can set the scale at whatever value you like.

Website

The images are all the ones we will use for the yellow one we are going to have a stack of letters but i think we need to photography that and for the stickers one i think we are going to photograph that. But basically i think this is the rough layout. I will add the extra two pages in a mo, the We are curious page and the page that opens when you click on are you curious? to get you to fill in your details.

White verisions which i think we will go with 

I thought i would try the coloured ones but i really don't think they work as well

cake boxes

Don't ask me why but after Sarah spoke to us  today I wanted to try and find a more unusual cake box design, i know we probably won't have time to use this one but this it what i came up with and i have tested it in my green card.

Its not perfect but its pretty much there!

Green card attempt

First testers