Grace Walker Communication Design

For the t-shirt designs, I researched other event t-shirts to see what information was included on them. I found that they included the title of the event, the location and the year. I used my logo on the back for the year and put the main information on the front with the t-shirt colour being the colour of the background of all of my designs.

To create the range of 4 stickers, I used the main logo to create 4 different designs for the event in Photoshop. As stickers would be given out at the event, they did not need the location or website so I included the relevant information: the title, logo and host company. They are all different but are aesthetically similar. I then used these designs and that of the poster to create a lanyard as this would be needed for the event.

To create the Twitter header I initially sketched layouts on paper to see which one had the most balance (starred image) and I then created this in Photoshop. 

Positives of Web 2.0: Services such as YouTube, WordPress, and Flickr provide users with easy-to-use platforms which enable them to place their creative work online These services are typically free Being part of a big, popular platform makes it easier for your work to be found by others The commenting and community facilities enable others to engage with and respond to the content, and help to build relationships, and possibly collaborations, between creators Web 2. 0 sites provide no content themselves, but instead become highly valued and (in some cases) profitable businesses off the back of the creativity of their users. They 'exploit' the 'labour' of all site visitors, who generate valuable data about their interests and activities as they click around a site. Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation. 

A person should be enabled to 'express their meaning in action'. Link between joy and creativity. The iPad was a step backwards in the evolution of personal computing devices, towards media consumption rather than media production. 'Generativity'. World wide web. 

Social capital. Bordieu.  Coleman. Putnam. Increasing nationalisation and globalisation of shops, banks and businesses. Generational change, television, suburbanization & commuting, everyday pressures. Majority of people regular internet users by 2010. 

For create the iPad templates, I used my poster as a starting point and took the main logo and used the soft light blending option to decrease the saturation and use it for the background. I created a quick sketch on paper before starting the designs in Photoshop for a basic outline.

Big 7 factors affecting happiness: Family relationships Financial situation Community & friends Work Health Personal freedom Personal values Social factor in life. 

I created a first draft of the poster design to match my initial theme as shown below: To create the text I used Illustrator and then used the eraser tool in Photoshop with multiple layers of the same text in different colours to get the effect. I then put the main text in InDesign to create the layout of the poster with the information and then transferred the layout design to the document in Photoshop. However, I was not happy with the balance of the design, and the 'form & function' part looked out of place. I adjusted the placement of the text multiple times to try and find a better balance. I used the previous hierarchy task to adjust the layout of the text and created a grid to help with the placement. I added an image of the location and used the Image Trace tool in Illustrator to make it simple and fit with the modernist style but it did not add anything to the poster and made it too crowded so I then removed it. I then adjusted the 'form &...