Gift Shops

I really had fun visitng a few gift shops in Bristol and collecting samples of their shop bags, business cards, stickers and asking a few main questions about their logos and store names.

The questions I asked were:

1. How did you come up with your store name? and is there a particular reason for choosing it?

2. Why have you chosen the Font you have for your Store Name/Sign?

3. What is the official logo?

4. How did you come up with the logo? and why have you chosen this particular design and its colours? 

5. Do you provide a gift wrap service and what is special about it?


The shops I visited were:

♥ Kondi
♥ One Hundred 
♥ Iota Bristol www.iotabristol.com
♥ Vinegar Hill www.vinegarhill.co.uk
♥ Cath Kidson www.cathkidston.co.uk
♥ Evolution www.evolutiongifts.co.uk
♥ Artemis www.artemisbristol.co.uk

I definitely recommend a visit even just to their websites! :D

New Brief

So, my new, main and final brief for graphic design is to Design a Logo for a Retail Establishment. 

One of my favourite type of shop apart from clothing stores of course, are GIFT SHOPS! I loveeee all the quirky and cute things they sell and so thought that this is a perfect opportunity for me to research and visit more gift shops in order to develop a logo for my chosen retail establishment - gift shop.

Packaging!

Now as part of my graphic design project, I have looked up different types of packaging online and printed some templates (NOT DESIGNED BY ME!) however I altered some. I had a go at making some bags and boxes in order to explore what type of packaging I could make. 

Heart Box

Heart Box - Lid Closed

Heart Box - Lid Open.

Mini Brief

I have been given a Brief to design the Logo and come up with a Name for a ...

Perfume Shop

What I need to do:

• The 1st step I'll take is looking up Perfume Bottles and their Logos.
• I will then go and photograph and collect business cards from perfume shops in Town.
• Create a Name.
• Design a Logo based on the name.

New Unit!

So the new unit is Graphic Design.
This is some of the work I have completed so far:

• Composition of 3 Shapes within a Square.
• Abstract Compositions from Magazines.

Original

Grey Scale of Original.

Inverse of Original.

Greyscale of Inverse.



Painting Unit - FINAL PIECE

I have finished my final piece... woo :D 

Hope you like...

I was really inspired by artist Laurie Pace, especially how creative she is with the colours she uses! You should definitely check her out!

Finally have an idea for my final piece!

So I have finally come up with an idea for my final piece and here it goes :D

It's completely different to my dream catcher idea. I initially wanted to make a dream catcher and incorporated the painting theme by making a batik painting and sewing it in instead of the web. BUT... I was stuck on... what to paint!!

Sooo I did a little google search on 'Artwork based on Dreams' and came across a painting called ...

'Pieces of a Dream'

This made me think of puzzles!! How do puzzles link to dreams? Well for me personally, I can only remember parts of my dreams and they only make sense when I put those parts together... like a puzzle!
So the plan is to cut out small puzzle shapes from MDF and paint them in an abstract way with oils! I'M EXCITED... so off I go!