Brief 9: DR ME Design Boards and Evaluation

This brief gave me an awareness of just how much I can get done with limited time. On top of this, designing for the music sector is something I have been interested in in my time at LCA. I was also pleased to be working with Grace, who I have worked with before and has always been a good partner.

The vinyl cover design was drawn up based on the nature of the song we were assigned, and it accurately depicts the varied elements of the track that all come together. The nature of the overlapping shapes also lend themselves to some of the technical elements to the music. However, some more variation in terms of visuals could have been beneficial, as the same idea was repeated in different ways to land on one that worked.

The promotional poster design for Odonis Odonis is based upon what we thought fans of the artist would want to see, or what would make them inclined to go. One of the design uses a mechanical structure which embodies the nature of their music, while the other gives more obvious impact. More time could have been spent developing the layout and type choices, but time was limited anyway.

The final personal design was meant to be a reflection of our own graphic design interests, which is why it features a typeface I went on to design. It is strictly a header typeface and would not work on a smaller scale, but it as a bold poster design it works well in context with the word 'melting'.

Overall, I thoroughly enjoyed this day, as this is a manner in which I would love to work in the future, with strict time constraints. Although it means that research is limited, I also found that given there was no wiggle room to make mistakes with it, I was actually making much fewer mistakes than I ordinarily would, and I found that my work benefitted greatly from being under large time pressure.