OUGD603 - Extended Practice: Briony Machin (Post Submission Jobs)

Briony has asked if I would be able to do a couple of things after the submission. She has asked whether I could do the following:

- Post all of the printed work to her in time for a week on Monday
- Send all of the files that have been printed to include in her development sketchbook

I am more than happy to do this. The printing of all of my work has fortunately been free, which she is extremely happy with. We have therefore made a decision that she will reimburse me for the cost of posting the work to her, and she we are going to celebrate together when we graduate and she is going to let me choose a bowl to say thank you.

I know a lot of people advice never to do work for free, and I never normally would do, but for friends who are also in the same year at university about to graduate, I understand how hard it is to afford everything, so I am more than happy to do it as a favour, especially as I have gained so many amazing portfolio pieces from it all. 

OUGD603 - Extended Practice: Briony Machin (Final Photographs)

A couple of these photographs were edited further for the design boards. But I was really pleased with the outcome of them all. 

OUGD603 - Extended Practice: Briony Machin (Stock Choice and Printing)

Briony has asked me to organise for all of her materials to be printed. I have decided to use LGP Print in Leeds for all of my extended practice submission so this is where it will be printed. The list of stock choices has been illustrated on the blog post with all of the files that were sent to print. I tried to be as organised as possible and had a lot of work printed at the same time. 

OUGD603 - Extended Practice: Briony Machin (Development)

Briony had asked me a while ago whether I would be able to design her business cards for her degree show at De Montfort University. I of course said that I would be more than happy to do her business cards for her, and also asked whether she would like me to design packaging for the bowls which are going to be exhibited. She said that would be wonderful if I had the time. I decided that I was definitely going to design some packaging as well as some additional materials if I have the time. 

Briony sent some photographs of her pottery via email and asked whether I could apply them in some way to the work I am producing for her. I absolutely love the colours on her work and it was a refreshing change to be supplied with images to work with and in some ways produce an outcome which has certain restrictions. 

Briony also sent me some photographs of some ink drawings she had done. She also asked whether I could experiment with these because they are going to be up on the wall behind all of her work and may help to tie everything together. 

When discussing logo ideas with Briony, I asked whether she would mind sending me a photograph of her name written in her hand writing. This is to add a personal touch to the final design, as I was already aware that she had lovely handwriting which would only compliment her work. 

I applied one of the photographs to a miniature box mock up. Although I absolutely loved it I was slightly concerned that when it is blown up, it may not be clear enough and may be a bit pixelated. This is when I asked her to send me some images at a higher resolution. These photographs are also within the photographs posted above, and were much more successful when applied to the business card and box. 

Unfortunately when the ink drawings were applied, they too were a bit too blurry. I was too worried about the final outcome not being crisp enough and had to explain this to Briony. She really didn't mind and said that I should go ahead and experiment further with the photographs and said she trusted my judgement.

This is what the insert of the box looks like. It has been designed like this so that it can slot in and sit in the box for the bowl to be protected. This added extra feature just makes the whole outcome more realistic. 

This is an example of application to a business cards using one of the patterns. It wasn't very successful though, because when I edited the photo in Photoshop, the edges blurred too much and it didn't look very realistic.

Step by step example

This step by step set of photographs was sent to Briony so that she could see how it works and how people would interact with it. She was really pleased and happy to send it to be printed.

Final Production

This is what the final production of the boxes looks like. I am really pleased with the print quality and can't wait to show Briony the final result. 

Once the box had been finalised as well as the business cards. I decided to design an artist card to give a bit more information about Briony. Applying the same pattern to the front, these cards were first of all designed using two different sizes of typography, and one had a heading on it. The heading portrays what her collection is about and where the concept came from. 

Final Files

Below are images of the final outcomes for the box, business card and artist card. I have also asked LGP whether they will be able to print out some stickers for me so that I can wrap the bowls up and seal them with a sticker before placing them inside the box.