Final Setting

 My final "Bob Geldof" place setting.

 Our studio all set up with our work from the last eight weeks.

Breaking Records

To give my place setting the finished look, I decided to bbuy a real record to break. It took a while for it to snap at first, but then I got into it giving a definite cracked look.

As an altenative placemat to a scruffy Geldof style fabric, I came up with the idea of using a calender. This way I could easily incorporate two big sections of Bob's life, his bands most famous song, "I Don't like Mondays" and the Live Aid concert. I did this by printing out the month of July from 1985 and circling the date of the concert, the 13th, and by scribbling out all the Mondays with a black permanent marker.

Another update I made to the design of my original prototype was with the cutlery. Instead of just cover the handles in "band aids", I decided to use the pinstripe material that I got my hands on, as a napkin to wrap around my cutlery. I then incorporated the band aid idea by using it to hold the napkin closed.

Cardboard Prototype

Glass- Charity Tin for Africa

Cutlery- Covered in Band Aids

Plate- Broken Record

Thumbnails

 To start my design process I drew out another mind map to do with objects I could use and then did thumbnail drawings from it.

Celebrity Come Dine With Me

 For this project we were each given a different celebrity and we were aked to design a place setting for them portraying their personality. We were allowed to use anything except for the name of our celebrity. So I started off with doing a lot of research into my celebrity, Bob Geldof. I must I really enjoyed this part of the process. I found the life of Geldof really interesting and it gave me alot of material to work with.

Letterheads

So I took my final logo and started to apply it to letterheads in different ways to see what I could come up with.

 I also look at two alternative design for the back of my stationary.

Oriental Texture

Before moving on from the circles idea, I experimented with adding some texture to the circles to give it an extra oriental feel. But I felt this kind of design was too decorative and took from my typeface. This is why I decided to go with one of my designs reversed out of the squares.

Squares

 Like the circles that I experimented with, I reversed the type out of squares of the same flat colours.

Circles

 Using the same shapes as I had before, but this time I tried reversing the type out of circles with plain flat colour.

Shapes

After choosing my Korean concept as my final idea, I decided to try and make the logo more colourful and less serious-more like Jen. So, I experimented with reversing my typeface out of different bright shapes. Even though this logo seemed a bit too fussy, I liked the idea of reversing out my my type to make it stand out on a shape.

Two Concepts

 My first concept for the crit was my idea focusing on The fact that Jen is half Korean.

 My second concept was the fact that Jen is quite a shy person before you get to know her.

Trying Out Korean Style

From the research I had done on Korean Graphic Design, I used the symbols that I came across to make a typeface that would communicate Jen's Korean roots.

Designing a Logo