Overall these two projects have forced me to learn and stretched me as a designer and it has been great. Arguing with the software till I figured out what I had done wrong, helping fellow designers and in turn them helping me. Completely changing my ideas last minute and still managing to pull it off, with two sleepless nights but still, really enjoyed these projects.

Typography

Obviously the one I changed most from initial concepts however i’m happy to have kept the basic idea there, there are still runic elements if you look closely throughout. I have spent man hours tweaking tiny individual parts of each letter form and I had to draw a line as I was becoming obsessive and spent a full afternoon just making the tiniest adjustments which it was worth it but I think it was getting to a point where it was just me that was noticing. Chris helped during session as a fresh set of eyes and from a teaching perspective to show me what he could see and adjustments were made accordingly. I’m really happy with the final design of my typeface and I honestly could see it applied to several more medium than just perfume and art poster that I chose. It would work well as advertisement, business font or even on an album cover. The only thing I’d change is giving myself more time to refine to a point that its perfect to me however I started it late and i’m proud of what I managed to do within the two weeks the idea came to be.

Info-graphic

Initially causing me bother for weeks just from not having an idea that made me want to work, I felt stagnant with this but once my idea was locked in it was fine.  I feel my strength was keeping the style consistent however my weakness was layout, I had it in my head but couldn’t quite translate to paper/screen. I feel this is a time sensitive matter though, structure and layout and with multiple deadlines looming, priorities got re arranged. Not an excuse just reality and a fault on my part. Time management will be a major focus for me next semester.