Stationary

The design brief was to design a stationary set for yourself or someone else, the stationary set included a letter head, business and a DL envelope. I produced a letterhead, DL envelope and a business card for an irrigation company. I developed my idea by making the stationary set for an existing company; I made a new logo and a trademark. The Templates we used for stationary are a template for a business card, letterhead and an envelope.

Typography

As a class we designed a different perspective of the alphabet by creating the filling of each letter. I was allocated the letters H, L, X and Z. For the letter H I decided to do “hotdogs”, the reason I chose it was because it was the first thing that came to my head and the letter reminded me of hotdogs. For the letter L I decided to do a lemon tree because the colour yellow would stand out on the back ground of the brown for the tree trunk. for the letter X I decided to do a treasure map because “ X marks the spot” would stand out and make it and contrast with the colours. For the letter Z I chose to do a zebra pattern because I liked the contrast of the pattern and colours. The final alphabet has many different colours, each letter has its own meaning, so that the drawing within it could be linked back to that letter.

blog banner.

Our design brief was to make a banner for our blog, we had to include the two Stella Maris logos and the theme was nature. The function and importance of my banner was to bring attention to the website and to make it not boring and add colour to it. To develop my idea I looked up pictures of animals on the internet and printed them and then sketched them, scanned it and then worked on it from then. When I first finished my banner, the background colour was blue and purple. Then I realised that the colours on it don’t really match the theme of nature. So I changed the background colour and I also added another text layer. The software I used was Adobe photoshop CS, in this program I used the tools: paint brush (for a textured edge), gradient tool, text tool and transparency. The website is my online blog and it is used for all my work and projects, other people can view it and can see what work I have done.