Xmas Card brief (Now with missing apostrophe, oops!)

I have worked up the flash file a bit more and changed the colours, size and font but kept the same basic idea. I have already spent far longer than I wanted to on this so hopefully this idea will be ok. I talked to the technicians about a animated gif version and it is possible but the file size will be quite a bit bigger, around 1MB rather than 150k that the flash file came to.

'Still' version

Edit: GIF version now complete (above). This came in at 2.3MB which is just about acceptable for emailing people. It loops nicely but is jerkier that I would ideally like. Making this work in various formats has been a headache, but I have learnt a lot about the successful delivery of this sort of graphic.


Animated flash version link: http://megaswf.com/simple_serve/78897/

College xmas card mini brief

Another nice little live brief I'm working on to design an animated xmss card that will be mailed out from the college. Quiet sophistication is the idea, think Harvey Nicks, not Wilkinsons.

So far I have two possible design directions,

I think they were looking for a animated Gif file but i'm not sure how this will work in practice as they can be a bit clunky, movements are jerky and anything too complex results in a massive file size, but while i'm struggling with gifs I made a flash tester using after effects. Anyway the idea is very simple just falling snowflakes behind some text. 

Click here to see, try to ignore the adverts and white background, on the crapy hosting page. 

http://megaswf.com/simple_serve/75878/

My Second idea is not animated yet, and the design needs more work but its potentially far more interesting if I can nail it. An image made up from bits of a font, and no this isnt looking sophisticated yet but it could with  more work I think.

Student Union mini brief

Lana our SU president passed on a quick brief to me that needed to be done the same morning for the protest march tomorrow. These will be A5 flyers to be handed out to students on their way into college. I also made an A3 poster but this probably wont be used.

The finished version chosen by Lana with union logo (to be printed B&W not colour)

Alternative versions

Back in year 3 with a new identity

My first little design task of the year has been designing a logo identity for my design practise to run across print and web promotional material. I guess this sort of thing will always be work in progress because its hard to be happy with design for yourself but i'm fairly happy with this at the moment. It has the right 'feel' to it but the details could still use tweaking. The logo will probably be refined further but the font and colours I am happy with for the moment, the only issue is with a dark car there would be no way I could scribble details for people on it. I have kept it as minimal as possible, I have used my email as my name and not labelled myself as a designer, but this could change depending on feedback I get.

This version is made from two different paper stocks sandwiched together, a mid grey and a pearl finished stock on the back, but for mass printing I would just use a thicker grey stock with black print