Evaluation

Submission Form

Final Boards

These are my final 6 boards ready for submission, my 4 main briefs have been printed out and the Neon Cactus and Tigerprint brief are just going to be submitted in PDF format.

Day of the Dead

This is my poster up at Neon Cactus at their Day of the Dead night,
having the brighter colours worked well as they have UV lights so the
they showed up under that.

Day of the Dead-Social Networks

My poster has been used on Neon Cactus' Facebook and Twitter to promote
their upcoming event, nice to see my work out there in the real world.

Final Neon Cactus Poster

This is the final poster I sent off to Neon Cactus for them to print,
they wanted more vibrant colours so I changed some of the original
colours to make them stand out more, I wasn't so keen on this but 
it was what the client wanted. They also wanted the skull to look a bit
crazier so I also made changes to that as well.
I didn't want the black box around the Neon logo but I couldn't get then
to send me one without a box so it had to stay like that.

I think this brief has taught me a lot about dealing with clients on live
briefs, you sometimes have to do work you don't always like but 
its what the client wants.

Meeting With Dan at Neon Cactus

I took down the poster to Neon Cactus today to show them what I had done
so far and what they wanted to add and change.
Dan the manager really liked the whole concept but wanted the colours
to be more vibrant to reflect Neon Cactus more and also gave me details to add on .
The changes they wanted were...

-Change the date to Thursday the 1st of November
-Twitter and Facebook links added
-UV drinks changed to "Eerie Glowing Cocktails'
-DJs changed to 'Scarily Good DJs'
 Also for the Neon Logo and El Jimador logo to be added on.

Poster Devlopment

I have made some developments to the poster, making the spilled bottle

of tequila clear as the would be nothing in it if it has spilled, also adding more

of the details in, I am going for a meeting with Neon Cactus this week so 

I can update any details after I have seen them.

I have also added some more texture onto the table.

After the meeting I will make the final changes.

Poster-First Draft

This is the first initial draft of the poster, putting the images together

and starting to look at layout and colour.

I think the background is something I like and I am going to keep,

as well as the skull. The Tequila bottles need some work but I am going

to arrange with the manager of Neon Cactus so I can go down and 

show them what I have so far and what they want to change/keep.

Textures

I don't just want to have a solid colour background to the posters
so I am going to use a texture.
I thought an orange background would be most appropriate for two reasons,
one being that Neon Cactus' logo and branding is orange and also orange
is the prominent colour of flowers that people use to decorate their shrines on Day of the
Dead. These are two background that I found that I am going to try working with
on my poster...

Sugar Skulls

As it a Day of the Dead poster I thought there had to be some sugar

skulls on there somewhere, they are the iconic symbol of Day of the Dead.

I started by drawing this one at the top just straight on, but then did consider the 

layout of the poster and thought as I will be having the bottles and other

items about it would be good to have a side on, more 3D drawing.

This drawing might be more useful because I am considering having the poster set out with 
a table and having the tequila bottles on the table along with the skull so this
skull would fit better with the layout of the poster.

Day of The Dead Poster Imagery

 Neon Cactus is a Tequila bar so I wanted to reflect that in the poster
and use Tequila bottles in the poster, also using the label of the bottles
to display some of the information on the poster.
I also tried to find a type face that matched that of the Tequila
bottles I was looking at.
I looked at Jose Cuervo Tequila and found a type face that matched
theres quite closely called Iglesia which I based my type on.

I have tried to draw a few different Tequila bottles and also 
one lay down with the liquid spilling out which I thought could work
some where on the poster.
I am going to put these images into Illustrator and work on them there.

Day of the Dead Posters-Type

These are the initial design ideas for the type for the day of the dead
poster for Neon Cactus. I have looked at Mexican imagery and iconic
images from the Day of the Dead festivals. Orange flowers are
a major part of the decoration of the festival so I have included them 
in the text. I need to see how it works with the rest of the content 
of the poster, that will depend of if the flowers will stay or go.

Neon Cactus-Poster Brainstorm

I am concentrating on the poster design first for this brief as this is the live
part of the brief so needs to be done soon.
I stated off by doing an initial idea brainstorm, looking at
what could feature on the poster and some key themes
and research points.

Neon Cactus Brief-Initial To Do List

Initial things I need to get done or made actions for 
towards the Neon Cactus Brief.
The poster design part of the brief is live so needs
to be done first and the rest of the brief will follow
on, contextual research can be found here.

Third Year Briefs-Neon Cactus

Neon Cactus is a Mexican themed bar on Call Lane in Leeds,
 they host events every so often and this Halloween they are 
having a Mexican Day of the Dead Party and have asked me to
 design the posters for it.
Along side this to make the brief more worth while and give myself
 a range to work with I am also going to do their re-branding, this isn't 
something they have asked for but I am going to do it as a hypothetical
 brief for myself.
This is their current website,

They use a lot of bright colours and Mexican imagery,

 I am going to keep to this theme but make it a bit more 

sophisticated and when designing the posters add a more

 dark side to the design as it is a Halloween party but still

 colourful as Day of the Dead is a colourful celebration. 

These are some of the old posters they have had for events,