Brief 8 - Design Board Submission

Here is my design board that I am submitting for Brief 8 - Geek Table Collective.

Geek Table - Brief 2 - Zone Brief Update

I made a couple of minor adjustments to the final Zone brief ready for the submission.

Brief 8 - Final Crit Design Boards

Although I haven't had the chance to do anymore of the prints for the geek table briefs yet except the alter ego one, I have decided to put together the design boards for them anyway ready to take along to the final crit. In the brief the requirement for them is to have a design board each, so that is what I did. I used the mocked up artwork for the print on one side and then put a box where the print will go on the other side, explaining inside it what will be there. I'm gutted that I haven't had the chance to actually have them printed for the crit, but at least I have one to take along.

Brief 8 - Materials/Equipment

I had a good search online looking for the materials and equipment that I need in order to actually do the lino printing for my geek table briefs. The prices are pretty varied, but I have an aim of spending as little as possible on things  like this for now as it would be a lot of money to get wasted if I don't decide to do anything with them beyond these briefs. I found that Ebay was my best bet.

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Here's all of the stuff that I ordered... although I did order a bigger sized larger lino than what they have actually send so I need to message them to see what they will do about it.

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Geek Table - Brief 2 - Zone Idea/Mock Up

For this brief, I'm going to do the same as I did for the last one where I mock up the idea for how it would ideally look when I actually produce it as I still need to look into buying the stuff I need in order to actually do the prints.

In terms of the idea though, I have no idea. Oh dear.

The obvious choice is music as I've always got music on, especially in the studios. But what could I do with that that still relates to type?

• band/artists names
• song names for lots of songs
• song lyrics from specific song
• lines from lots of different songs
• hmm

Not really feeling this though, and the fact it's to be orange isn't too thrilling either. 

Usually, when I have stuff I have to have done for what ever reason (crit, deadline, print slot, etc), after I've done procrastinating for way longer than I should I usually then make a cup of coffee and get my headphones on and have music turned up really loud.

That's it! - what gets me in the zone is music and coffee. Could do something with this.

I want to have a print that is a little more adventurous/experimental than the last one so I could maybe have the words overlap?

Idea

I like the idea to have the words overlap, and then I could use two different shades of orange then the areas that do overlap could potentially mix a third? HMM.

With this whole brief being about being 'in the zone' though, I could print both words coffee and music over the top of the word zone, that way they would be... yes, 'in' the 'zone'. Clever. I'll have zone printed in one colour first, then print over the top both the words coffee and music that fill the same sort of area that the word zone does in a different colour.

If this works out how I am imagining it to, then it could look pretty cool. Here's the mock up developments of the idea that I made.

Geek Table - Brief 2 - Zone

Due to the changes regarding the exhibition that we are planning, the crit for brief 1 has been altered to being a week early and I didn't find out about this until an hour before so unfortunately I missed the actual crit happening, but did manage to catch the end of it where we discussed the theme for brief 2. It has been decided that the briefs will now be 1 week briefs rather than 2 week ones in order to get enough outcomes in time for the exhibition which is now proposed to be held in april rather than may.

This weeks theme is for us to look into what it is that gets us 'in the zone' when designing, and what sort of stuff gets us inspired. There has been a restriction set on this weeks brief, where we can only use the colour orange. This can include any shades of orange and not just one specific shade. This is to be done by next Monday 4th March.

I've decided to title this brie Zone, and typed it up using the one from last week and editing it as needed.

The blog posts will be labelled with the overarching brief label Brief 8, as well as the mini brief label which will be Brief 8 Zone. Any design context posts I do for this will use the main blog DC label Brief 8 DC.