Saturday, 8 October 2016

Graphics Day 1

Finally coming towards the end of the foundation rotation and this week we have graphics. Today w each table was given a word and we as a group had to come up with a slogan and a logo for the issue we chose our outcomes. My table was given the world health, it wasn't the most interesting out of all the other words that the other tables received but we worked with it and made it work.

So the word we got was health and we had to brainstorm what we want our camping to be about, it went from pet insurance to free health care and more but we just kept it simple, something us teenagers can relate to and must be informed about, so it ended up being sexual health.

Our slogan wasn't the best because we couldn't think of anything that hasn't already been used, eventually we were forced to come up with one on the spot when our tutor was asking for feedback from each group. "Put a sock on it"...yup that was the slogan we went for and surprisingly  everybody was feeling it so we went along with it.

So the main task was to create a logo for our campaign using typography, to begin with it was quite difficult, not to make a logo but to make it unique and not just plain old text so we all took time to create our own individual logos and when we were done we'd pick the best one and use it as our outcome. Because we are focusing on sexual health I decided to use a condom as inspiration and made a condom packaging with our slogan "put a sock on it"

By the end of it all we ended up going for Nicole's design because we all liked hers out of all of ours so we got to work on it. We made it all out of cardboard, when we were done we had to find interesting places in the university to put up our work and this was the outcome.

I guess it was insightful to know more about typography and the different ways it can be used to promote things. One thing that i would change is to flip the 'P' the right way around, I don't know why it was upside down. Other than that it was great working together as a group to make this campaign logo.

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