Feedback from crit on 22-10-09

I came away feeling quite positive about where I am going with my work...a few things that became apparent i my crit where the fact that I need to make sure I am doing sufficient amounts of design work by hand on paper and not just going straight on to the mac which I found I have been doing for my Alice in wonderland brief! I really need to work with working the type into my illustrations that I have used so that is what I am going to crack on with in the next few days!
As for my t shirt brief that I am working on I need to make sure that I am considering the composition and layout of where I am placing my designs onto my t shirts to make sure I am working with the t shirt beneficially!

Leeds Shopping Bag competition...the results!

It was the results of the Leeds Festive shopping bag competition yesterday and I went down to the light where all the competition winners work was displayed for the public to view. Overall there were 4 people who got shortlisted and then Mary Portas decided the winner. I was very pleased to get shortlisted to the final 4 but unfortunately I didn't win....but I was happy with my designs and I'm glad I went for it and entered. For being shortlisted to the final 4 we got the opportunity to go to a retail business forum at the corn exchange which was really beneficial as we were mixing with potential people who could help us...on the contact list there were people from big design companies such as elmwood!

Feedback from show and tell 14-10-09

I felt quite positive coming away from the show and tell crit on wednesday, I had positive and critical feedback and I am going to take in to consideration the comments made about the briefs that I am working on.
My 'Happy Shop' burlesque style logo didn't recieve very positive feedback and although it was only a short brief and the entry on crowdspring has expired I still feel I would like to work on it for myself so that I can then place it in my portfolio and be happy with it.
As far as my Leeds Goody Bag design goes I have submitted my designs now so it is too late to change them but the feedback from the crits was that the hand rendered type was favoured although it would need changing slightly so that it was more legible so I am going to change that before i put it in my portfolio.
Finally the feedback from the Penguin Design Awards brief, it is early days but the illustrations I have done everyone seemed to like and find very appropriate for the genre of the story.

Festive Leeds Bag competition brief...

When I recieved the email for the brief I instantly thought this would be a great opportunity for me, I have emailed for more information and I am now going to work on this now untill the deadline which is Wednesday 14th October.

Not only will it be a great opportunity for me to get my work out there into the general public for thousands of people to see but I will also be able to work with image and type, so it is going to be an image and type driven design for the process of design for print that will be printed onto the product being a bag for the context of advertising and promotion.