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,

Third Year Briefs-Surface Pattern

I have always been interested in pattern marling and surface
 pattern but I have never applied my pattern designs to any
 product, this is something I want to do in my third year.

I thought about the different types of products out there
that I could apply surface pattern too, but the idea I was most
drawn to was applying my designs to greetings cards, wrapping 
papers, tags etc, I could create a broad range of items in this
category.

The types of places that would sell this sort of product would be
places like Paperchase, art gallery gift shops, independent boutiques,
etc.

Products like this is the type of products I want to focus on,

Third Year Briefs-Precious

As well as being part of InPress I am also part of another
 multi discipline design collective, Precious, we put on 
exhibitions and events within Leeds. I designed most of 
the identity and promotion for our last exhibition in collaboration
 with the other members of Precious.

We have a logo and identity but it needs work and needs
 to be done properly, for this brief I want to work in collaboration
 with the other members of Precious and want to create our entire identity.
That will include, logo, typefaces, colour, business cards,
 letter heads, website, promotional posters, signage for
 exhibitions, stationary etc.

Third Year Briefs-InPress

In third year we plan to continue our work with InPress, 
working on collaborative briefs throughout the year, I know some 
briefs we have planned to go for are the Year Book and Prospectus 
briefs. We are also thinking of hosting the shop again at the end of 
year shows but possibly getting other students in to run it as we will 
be busy with degree shows.

They are both briefs we will have to pitch for and they will help
 us get our name out there as a design studio and not just events
 which is something we want to develop within the third year. 

Third Year Briefs- Collaboration With Sadie

Sadie and I have decided to work in collaboration for one of our third year briefs, we have learnt form working together on previous briefs that we work well in collaboration and have similar interests within design and also outside of design.
We brainstormed some ideas and we figured as we are both doing similar dissertations which both have some sort of focus on sustainability we should do a brief that centers around that. Complimenting both our dissertations and interests within design.
Here are some of our brainstormed ideas,

We came to too ideas, one which we wrote ourselves which was looking at sustainable print and promoting the idea to graphic designers and encourage them to be more sustainable in their work and the other came from a Yorkshire Water brief on RSA, 

We decided to focus on the Yorkshire water brief but still incorporate the importance of sustainability within our work, monitoring all the resources we use whilst working on this brief.

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