OUGD406 - Design Is Doing

Here is the final design that I submitted:

Here is the email I received from Talenthouse after I uploaded the design as evidence that I submitted the design on time:

Here is what I wrote about my design:

OUGD406 - Design Is Doing

Here are the designs that I made for the Secret 7" brief, focusing on the song Better Off by Haim.

OUGD406 - Design Is Doing

I posted these to gain feedback of people to see what they're opinions were, as I couldn't decide between two designs, and how to improve them. As I wasn't too keen on the design that the people in my crit preferred, I decided to include another design that I liked for further feedback.

I asked Abi what she thought of these two designs:

I like the first one. I would say that one compared to other one. But I think if you simple the second one down a bit like getting rid of the boxes and stuff that would be better. I agree with the feedback you got from the crit.

I edited it according the feeback from the crit and she Abi then said: 

I think if you move it up it may look more in proprtion.

She then said: What about getting rid of the poles? They're a bit overpowering.

I changed it again so that the blue and green bar weren't as high, but I still wasn't happy with it, so I decided to look at the other design.

I also asked Sarah what she thought, and she said that she loves the eye design, and the reasoning behind it.

I asked what Sarah thought of these two designs, and she said that she prefers the pattern on the yellow/grey eye, but prefers the three shades of blue in the first design because it is easier to see that it is waves.

So I tried the same design with the shades of blue.

As I liked the yellow in the design better, I tried more vibrant shades. I preferred the yellow in the design because I think it fits better with the song.

I then tried more subdued grey tones to see how that worked, but I think it looks too bland.

I then tried red tones as it is quite a powerful song, but I don't think it worked at all.

OUGD406 - Design Is Doing

I had a feedback critique on the designs that I made for Haim - Better Off, and decided from this which one I am going to submit. 

This was the favourite design, but as I had printed it on antique white stock it had quite a faded a background, so one of the suggestions was to print it out once I had made amendments to it, then scan it back in and submit that version.

Other suggestions were:
Let the three blue paths on the right hand side go all the way to the end.

Get rid of the squares in the top right corner.

Extend the guitar to the edge of the page.

Change the platform the door is on.

Add a handle to the door so it is more recognisable.

Extend the platform with the heart on to the top of the page.

Change the heart from an anatomical heart to a pictogram heart.