Don't Panic... Vogue

Today we were given a new brief which is a week long it also happens to be a competition brief for the Don't Panic site. The idea is to create a poster which must be able to be printed in A2.
The uploaded version should be 72 DPI, a maximum of 2mb and either in the JPG or PNG format.
The theme is Vogue and can be interpretted in any disciplines such as, fine art, graphic design, photography etc. My focus will obviously be Graphic Design, possibly with a combination of Photography if appropriate.
For the final crit, I must select 3 of my 30 possible designs, and submit the final one on to the website on the Friday afternoon.


To help kick start our creative thinking, we did a concept building workshop. Using the chosen theme, 'Vogue' we had to come up with 30 words we associate with the word. Mine were:


- Magazine




- Red Carpet




- Fashion




- Celebrities




- Models




- Designers




- Gloss




- Chanel




- Glamour




- Paris




- New York




- London




- Teen




- The Hills




- Sophisticated




- Catwalk




- Typeface




- One-off




- Exclusive




- Cigarettes




- Lipstick




- Anorexia




- Elegant




- Alexander McQueen




- Size Zero




- Rankin




- Photography




- Famous




- Footwear




- Clothing


We then had to make a simple drawing to visually represent each one... Here are a selection of mine: (Red Carpet, Lipstick, Photography, Chanel, Exclusive, Cigarettes, Magazine, Rankin, Footwear)

I began looking at Vogue magazines and covers to get an overall feel for the style, which lead me on to the book 'Pictures' by Tim Walker, he photographed Lily Cole and Hannelore Knuts (on separate occasions) lying down on human sized copies of Vogue.








My Final Piece...

Collection 100...DVD Packaging Final

This is how my net looks, after folding the sides of the bottom section with 'What a Joke' will be glued to part of the tabs which will be folded to hold in the DVD. Due to issues in print, it is not printed on the correct stock, however a version with a slight error has been included to show how it could look.

I have moved the warning as this was one of the main points of feedback in my crit with Amber and Fred. The joke definition, is to show how it is quite a general topic, not just a knock knock joke, and again to subtly give the audience a clue of what the product is about. I am desperate to not make a cover like a joke book, sometimes they are too obvious and flamboyant.

I think the black and white vs colour on different sides works well visually. It also symbolises some of the way the jokes are told.

Photoshop Brief...

All Final Resolutions... Only 10 to be used

Fronts of the postcards:

I am really quite pleased how these have turned out digitally, although I am very disappointed with the colours on my print outs. I worked in CMYK and used a 12 mega pixel camera to photograph and the resolution in Photoshop was 300, plus I used a high quality printer, so I am unsureof how this low quality has happened.

The original photos were taken in the Photography studio when completing a workshop on Basic Studio Photography and Lighting. The colour I was investigating was yellow, and it has shocked me how some colours appear different yet when I was pantone matching, I would find they would be the same, as the blue appears to make the yellow pop, and the dark purples appear to make the yellow look darker.

Collection 100...Final Image

These are the photos taken after each person had done their joke, after looking at the comedian DVD's and posters, they all feature their photos, so it should only be right that some of the participating people's images are featured, to really get the point across, especially as some are laughing or smiling, so it gives a hint that the content is to do with humour and comedy. This will be used for all of the front cover, although I have not done a lot of variations for a front cover, I feel this is entirely approprite.

Collection 100...Naming My Film

I needed to come up with a name for my film, I decided this would be a phrase that would refer to jokes in the title, as I was a couple of days into filming, I noticed I had said a few phrases that featured this reference...


- The joke's on you...


- You must be joking...


- Are you having a giraffe?

- What a joke...

- You're having a laugh, ain't ya?


In the end I felt, What a Joke was quite appropriate, I now needed a font to suit this phrase, I want something bold, as the phrase 'What a Joke' tends to be said in a forceful, sarcastic manner, I don't think a font like Arial Narrow would suit. Something like Impact, Rockwell or Urban Sketch could be ideal.

Here are some examples of fonts I looked at, they include, Impact, Cooper, Stencil, Broadway, Tekton... I am using black and white for the type to be ironic, as some jokes are pure black and white and obvious however, I know for a fact there will be some that aren't... Colour will be used on the front cover, and for the Warning which will need to be displayed.

Rockwell seemed to suit the best, especially in capitals as you really feel the emphasis of the phrase.

From this point I can start thinking about the design of my DVD cover. Imagery is something that needs to be considered, I will be looking into comedian DVD covers and/or posters, as I feel the designs of these will be appropriate research.