Brief 8 - Design Board Submission

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

Geek Table - Brief 3 - Alter Ego Brief Update

I made a couple of minor adjustments to the final Alter Ego 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.

Geek Table - Brief 3 - Alter Ego Prints

Following on from my experiments using the lino, the only brief that I can really get down for now with the lino that I have is my alter ego one as the 'na's will work out to be pretty small. I have decided also that due to the expense of the lino and what not that I will reduce the size of the finished prints to A4. This is me being more realistic with what I can achieve with this additional brief with the time ticking on.

Here's some photos of the process of these prints...

I used a scalpel to guide me with where on the lino I needed to carve away, as well as to help me achieve a lot straighter edged for the type.

In total, I made 5 prints for this brief. I began with using just the silver ink, and then started experimenting a bit with adding white and black to the mix. Each one is slightly different to each other. Here are the 5 that I made.

I particularly like the ones where the 'na's look layered up over each other. As I did more with the 'na' pieces of lino (I did two), they became less and less crisp prints. The last one looks naff - definitely lesson learnt. Although considering the amount of times they were inked up and used it's not really surprising. Out of all of these 5, I like the second print the best and will use this one to represent and be the outcome for this brief (it will also be what goes into the GT publication to represent me).

In preparation for submissing the print to be used in the publication, I scanned it in and slightly played around with the levels on the image - this finished off the print nicely and I really like how it has turned out.

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 3 - Alter Ego Idea/Mock Up

As I explained in the brief post for the Alter Ego Geek Table brief, I already have a great idea that I would like to do. Anyone who knows me knows how much I love Batman, so to have that as my alter ego (I think) would be perfect.

Keeping it type related, the two most obvious things to use would either be the saying 'I'm Batman' which is usually in the Batman voice, or to do the whole 'na na na na na na na na Batman' thing. Thinking about it now though, I don't want to just completely be too obvious with it so I reckon just using the na na's without Batman on the end would work quite nicely. The colour scheme I could go for with this would work nice as being black/grey, and maybe yellow? Not too sure on yellow actually.

Looking at this from the lino printing point of view, I think having two sized 'na's would work well (and use less amount of lino). A bit like this...

I like what I did with the previous brief though where I had the elements overlap each other to create a third colour, which I think may work quite nicely with this brief too. I have decided that I am definitely going to be using shades of grey and not just black, and definitely not going to use yellow.

Here's a couple of examples of how this could be - I guess how it turns out will be determined how I actually do the logo but do think that having them all overlapping each other will work quite nice. I'm excited to do this one.

Geek Table - Brief 3 - Alter Ego

For the next few weeks, we have decided to set two briefs for us to answer rather than one as there is longer to do them due to us being off Uni. The first of the briefs is Alter Ego. So what we would be doing instead of designing, or along those sort of lines. I think this will be an interesting thing to do as I already have the perfect idea of what to do for it! Also, there hasn't been any restrictions set for this brief.

The title of this Geek Table brief will be Alter Ego, and using the briefs that I have already done for the previous ones I modified this to suit this weeks theme.

The same theme of labelling for this will be used like previous.