Harley Davidson

Having being a member of a family of bike enthusiasts i find my look at magazines and newspapers for specifically motorcycles and motorcycle orientated advertisements. I found this nice advert from Harley Davidson produced by Carmichael Lynch. I like the advert as i like how he has created the image out of motorcycle parts and tire marks.

Final Book

This is my final book. Firstly I'm glad i finished because i was beginning to get bored of this brief as i kinda went on for too long. One thing i should mention is that the book actually smells of oil which it is supposed have on it any way.

I like how its actually turned out but I'm not quite sure what i could do with it if i had more time so I'm possibly gonna just leave the final as it is and cos I'm bored of it now. But i do want to go back and try to be more informative of where i was going with the project as the presentation revealed that their was a lack of annotation and primary research.

Book Poster

Back to the one week briefs and producing poster designs for my book. With a limited amount of time as the cover of the book still had to be produced on bucket i feel that the final posters i produced were only satisfactory as more info could have been added as they very clear as there was no call to action.

Adidas Poster

Whilst producing my poster i had a look at some existing posters and came across this Adidas poster from 2003 which was produced by 180 Amsterdam and thought it could inspire my poster as it had a similar ink effect. The layout and choice of font i feel works well. I think the sprayed ink gives it a more dynamic look suggesting movement and as its rugby impact of a tackle

Final book

After feedback from the crit i made the the appropriate changes and i feel that it has improved the look of the book.

Final Crit

Much of what the work produced for my final book quite hadn't worked the frame idea although looked good didn't really convey the fact that it was upper class and didn't work with the overall oily rag style look. I was also given the advice to look at alternatives for the cover the book as the idea i had preciously used for the crit wasn't as good as it could have been.

I should also try to look at different cloths for the expensiveness of the car and hopefully get the expensiveness of the cloth to work with that of the cars. For the cloth basically just use the oily background and reduce it to correspond to the expensiveness. I will also include the price of the cars on the cloth so that the organization of the logos is more clear. The covers i could possibly use with that of the cloths is possibly a bucket or overalls.

100- Ideas

One of my ideas was for a sliding puzzle game but one for each logo. I had a go at producing it in card, i actually wanted to produce it in plastic but i just wanted to mock up the idea . I felt it was quite time consuming so i don't feel its an idea i'm going to continue with as i don't feel i wold be able to produce the book before the deadline.

One of my other ideas was to produce the book without binding it so it would be made up of various cloths which like in a garage would be covered in "oil" or look like there covered in oil. I've looked at various ways of making the logo look oily/worn/stamped from making stencils to producing the stamps out of cardboard. I also looked how it would look using pastels and a photocopier. But at present I'm not sure which way I'm going to take the idea yet.