Brief 1 Boards + Evaluation

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This brief allowed me to investigate a wide range of different graphics areas, but still concentrating on promotion, part of my rationale. The Bloc+Blur brief wasn't the most exciting brief I had worked on, as I really wanted to put my creative stamp on it, but due to the large restrictions it was more about layout, which is still part of my rationale, so in this respect I had fun experimenting with different layouts. The Fatboy Slim brief was fun, I am really pleased with the outcome, and the concept, I think its quite powerful, it has had some good feedback from peers too which is always good to hear. This saw me working in a CD cover size, and again I experimented with layouts. The Manchester Book Fair Brief got very confusing, originally the brief was supposed to be a hotdog fold book with the rejected Mexican Museum of Design briefs ideas, then it became a book of patterns, before finally being a set of affordable notebooks. Due to all the changes the books didn't end up going to Manchester. The D&AD brief was a quick turnaround brief for the North Lecture, this was a brief that really appealed to me as it was about experimenting with layout, and I am really pleased with the final poster, I think it is portfolio worthy.

Fatboy Slim Ideas

These are my first set of ideas:

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The iPhone ideas were the very first thing that came into my head, thinking of the idea of technology and how far it's come, although it doesn't look great. Then I thought of how far the Internet has come and created a Fatboy Slim 'search engine' - again, not very striking, and something didn't feel right...
The train ticket idea was me thinking about travel. I'd love a train ticket that looked like this!
However, not very strong ideas, on to the next ideas...

This idea came to me when I used a bar code font on Brief 2, I suddenly thought how cool would it be to have the album cover as a QR code and when you scanned it, it took you to the website, which by the way...it does! Until I edited it, and it became temperamental, but the first few do, try it!!

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Fatboy Slim Font

I thought to start with the font for the album title should be a sans serif so the type isn't too over complicated, has an informal tone  and the focus can be on the logo and the image (if any).

After looking at the above fonts, I realised they were still quite formal and text book looking, it wasn't until the last two that I decided to look for a Fatboy Slim style font, that way it keeps the design more consistent.

Jackpot!

Fatboy Slim Layout Variations

'You've Come A Long Way, Baby'

This made me think of two things: travel and technology.

I decided to use these two subjects as a starting point for ideas...

Here are some layout variations, based on existing album covers from Fatboy Slim and other artists, and some purely made up:

Fatboy Slim - 12 Initial Ideas

I first thought of travel and technology - they have come a long way, then I thought of a few funny scenarios of it being about the man on the original cover and how far he's come, one where he is on a 2p coin, and one where he is the president:

I would like to focus on the technological aspect, it will update the cover design, and hey! we are in the twenty first century where technology is moving just as fast as this module is going!!