Summer Postcards Brief

These are the results from my postcard brief, and my first real work of year 2. This was a quick brief to experiment with using, and understanding different commercial colour print processes.


This is a two colour logo. the 'black' is actually very dark purple ink that is also used as a tone to make the lighter purple colour. The original image was a pub stained-glass window that I traced and edited in illustrartor to create a vector graphic. I really like the lettering I can see this making a really interesting font if I designed all the letters in the same style, I might try to re-visit this sometime. Printed here on cream colour textured paper stock.




This is a full colour CMYK image, I am least happy with this one, but i wanted an image that would show a fill spectrum of colour that could only be printed full colour. This is an edit of a photograph of the view from my kitchen window, cheezy.




This one is a three colour image (plus tints). This is taken from a design on a graffiti wall near my house, again traced and edited in illustrator, This moved further from the origional image during development, the texture on the letters is the paperstock, I chose this to add a bit of 'grittyness'.




One colour pictogram, this I spent the longest developing, as making these look simple and easy takes time! I think it does the job quite well as it was recognised for what it is by everyone I spoke to and can be compressed quite small and still be usable. I chose a red stock for this but it worked equaly well on white paper.