Graphic Design at UCK

Eira created a Fantasy Moods CD by Dark Angel for her CD cover design project. She first explored many different options before making a final decision which is seen in her development work. The final project was submitted in a CD case and displayed on a large board.
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For this project, Ewan had to design a CD cover for a band or his own music. He chose to work with a band called I Am a Monster Kill Me. He presented his work posted on a board and also in a CD case.
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In this second assignment for unit 1, Shannon had to design a CD cover. This CD cover was to reflect her personality and taste in music. She had to include photography/illustration, a list of tracks and a biography of herself as the recording artist. And, as always, development work.
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Here’s another example of one of the older briefs. Those of you on this module now probably have the new briefs so these might not be of too much use as far as being able to see what has been submitted in the past, but they are still interesting! This one is Laura’s. After each section, she had a page where she explained the method she used but there are too many to post so I’m sure if you leave her a comment, Laura will tell you what she did!
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First things first: the table of contents!
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In section 1, Laura had to produce three vector objects based on her own sketches and then a concert poster using a bitmap image in FreeHand/Illustrator to produce a photo real image.
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The objects:
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And the concert poster of the infamous AW:
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(This has some fun stars in the background that didn’t show up in the scan…)
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In part 2, Laura had to manipulate, enhance and montage three scanned images using Photoshop than produce an advert about digital communication combining the use of Illustrator and Photoshop.
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The manipulated images (middle step on each not posted):
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(Again, these images scanned quite dark, but you get the idea)
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And the digital communication advert:
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In part 3, Laura had to design some typography for a commercial brief. The project was an album cover with emphasis on type as an element of design. After that, she had to design a custom typeface for an image consultancy based on her own sketches and the blending of two traditional typefaces.
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The album cover:
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And the image consultancy:
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Sue had one of the older briefs for unit 1. Her first task was to work with painting and drawing software to produce the drawing of three objects of her choice pased on her own sketches. These should be vector-based objects. Sue chose a fruit bowl with apples, a clock and a multicoloured umbrella. Here’s a few sketches followed by the final submissions:
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In part 2 of this assignment, Sue had to manipulate, enhance and montage scanned images using Photoshop. She created a concert poster, a montage of faces, and a dgital communications advert.
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And the last part of this assignment was to design typography for a specific commercial brief. This involved Sue designing an album cover and a custom typeface for the logo of an image consultancy using illustrator and based on her own sketches:
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Image Consultancy Logo:
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Again, this is an old version of the unit 1 assignments so those of you coming into it now will be doing something a bit different.