Competition Brief - Visual Sound Waves - Panic sounds

http://www.behance.net/gallery/Panic-sounds/444074

I came across these brilliant illustrations which were designed for CD covers. I think they're a brilliant way of representing sound, and the variety of sounds and pitches from the subject illustrations also on the CD cover designs.

Competition - Sound into words

http://butdoesitfloat.com/I-take-sounds-and-change-them-into-words

I came across a really interesting project called 'I take sounds and change them into words' which is similar to what I'm trying to achieve - Sound into a visual. Since products based on audio, I wanted to look at CD covers, and see how they communicate sound.

Using literally written music, alongside shapes and blocks of colour. 

Using a renowned song and sound title related to music alongside musical instrument names. The coloured shapes too could almost represent a piano in the way they've been laid out.

Competition Brief - Ways to represent sound

http://www.oniondesign.com.tw/detail.php?id=209

I came across the design material for an event called Archi-rock, its aimed at creatives. Their event promotional posters remind me of sound, and movement. Almost looking light stones being dropped into water at different heights and strengths, thus the differentiating waves surrounding the circles. I want to create something which creates this immediate link.

Competition Brief - Visual Sound waves

http://designspiration.net/image/755169000832/

Again, I wanted to visually explore the methods of which sound can be visually presented. I really like the way line has represented the sound of light, and the speed of which it travels. The use of colours too, the vibrant light colours on black, representing light as it were.

http://butdoesitfloat.com/

Another area I thought I could potentially look into was crafting, making 3D objects to reflect sound. Although a good visual communicator I'm unsure of whether at this point I'd have the time to spend.

Competition Brief - Sound Waves

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxzMzSZF_b4

I wanted to explore different methods of visually showing sound, this being just one I came across on a video, a fluorescent light bounces and moves in accordance to music played, this was then recorded.

Competition Brief - Collecting content

http://sounds.bl.uk/Accents-and-dialects/BBC-Voices

I've looked into the website to try and depict phrases  from the range of locations but I've found the people who have been interviewed lack a strong accent, and actually come from a range of locations, some in the location, some as far as 100 miles away. I don't feel this would be appropriate or factual to my posters, so I Intend on looking into the content collected for my publications and depicting regional phrases to instead use, and design to become onomatopoeic.

Regional phrases used within my publications:

Birmingham - 'Our Wench'
Liverpool - That's when Jesus Christ was playing full back for Israel
Newcastle - Ye knaa what ah mean leik
Yorkshire - See-a-man abart-a-dog
Ireland - Do you think I came up the Lagan in a bubble?

To begin with I want to start with the 5 phrases, to create a larger range for each location once I've achieved the initial 5 poster designs.

Accessorzie - Looking for nets

So I went through the packaging nets books at Uni to try and find some appropriate formats for my patterns to be applied to. From these I have created and adapted nets and hopefully will be printing and constructing them this week.

Typographe Poster inspiration

I came across this screen printed poster set, of white and black ink on a range of brightly coloured stock. I discussed with Sarah previously the idea of using an array of stock, but the white ink I thought too would look brill.

http://thedsgnblog.tumblr.com/post/36686267689/paul-leichtfried?ref=nf

Type Factory - Web design

The idea of icons representing peoples submissions:

http://designspiration.net/image/2302413024027/

An example of how to uses a spot colour on web, through images, shapes and text.

http://designspiration.net/image/2532205566293/

Type Factory - Timeline format

So we needed to start making the timeline poster so we looked at a few different ways we could lay out the information. I came across this double page spread which displays information in a similar way which I feel would suit our content.

http://www.paulfoxdesign.co.uk/index.php?/projects/dubai-properties-group/

Type Factory - Using spot colour

So we decided that we are going to screen print all the event promotional material. I came across this poster design by Maggie Chok and absolutly love her use of vibrant spot colour and the way shes layered text, with colour and folds, its something I want to potentially put across into our own designs.

http://www.maggiechok.com/Silent-Invasion

Type Factory - Poster Inspiration

For the poster design we wanted to keep things as simple as possible is terms of layout and content. The information provided is simple, to the point, and necessary. We came across the below image of a series of posters and wanted to produce something of a similar layout and similar simplciity. The range of stock too is something we want to consider as we are screen printing white onto stock.

http://designspiration.net/image/1798883038703/

Casa Mia - Website Inspiration

I did find while looking at websites of the same content of my own is that the layout is very similar, I think this is down to the ease of use, they each use a very easy to read and navigate layout, a top bar showing pages, a right or left hand bar showing further optional pages, and a right aligned centre image of an advert or recent promotion. The starbucks website especially caught my eye, I liked its simplicity to layout and colour, it stayed true to the brand.

Starbucks.co.uk

Bellaitalia.co.uk

Olivegarden.co.uk

Carrabbas.co.uk

Doing my nut in: Typefaces appropriate to spoken language

http://www.eddhopkinson.co.uk/other-things/shred/

For shaken, loud, twang like spoken language

http://www.dafont.com/brain-flower.font

Friendly, light banter

http://www.dafont.com/castro-script.font

For long, spaced out, flowing spoken language

Menu Inspiration

http://irvingandco.com/2011/10/carluccios-summer-menus-2011/

http://www.underconsideration.com/artofthemenu/archives/cafe_belong.php

http://www.septemberindustry.co.uk/established-nyc/

Product, range, distribution. Chosen menu craft decision inspiration

Casa Mia - Parisi Bakery Menu design

http://www.underconsideration.com/artofthemenu/archives/parisi_bakery.php

I really like the simplicity of this menu, the format of it being attached to a clipboard, and the one colour used across the entire identity. I feel only one or two colours may work with my hand rendered type, this is a way I could approach it.

Casa Mia - Art of the menu website

http://www.underconsideration.com/artofthemenu/

So i came across a really useful resource which is a website dedicated to menu design. Its something I'll be able to gain ideas and inspiration from.

Casa Mia - Zitos identity, product, range and distribution

http://www.underconsideration.com/artofthemenu/archives/zitos.php

The range of products Zitos put their stamp on is very vast, similar to the scale I want to achieve. Items such as loyalty cards, wraps, stickers and t-shirts weren't things I'd come across until now and would be something I'd like to do (if I have enough time). Their menus are typographically driven, are clean and simple, are easy to hold, read and work with.