Vienna Smith

To select a brand for the degree show, we was asked to split ourselves into groups and come up with our own brand. My group went with my idea called REWIND. What is REWIND? REWIND is about going back to the beginning of our graphic design journey starting from the 1st day of University. Due to us going back in time, I want to execute this idea using the style of VHS & Cassette types based in the era of the 90's. This is also a good place to rewind to because, we are born in the last few years of the 90's which means, we are the last 90's babies. The design of the show would be playful, bold and energetic. This will be reflected & represented using the glitch style and RGB colours of VHS and TV's from the time. Here is some images of development: Here are the final designs:

Photography shoot I decided to purchase a piggy bank and brake it so that the design o the cover of the book would be complete produced by myself. Here are some of the photographs I took.

February 6th 2019 Today we had guest  talk and presentation from Andrew Cotton from Pressision of Leeds. He allowed us to see s ome  creative prints along with  a mazing examples of what is possible with beautiful stock and care. I learnt the importance to  detail  and attention - and how the finish has an impact. He showed us examples of work including printing with brick dust, coal dust, creativity and passion! Below are images of the talk.

308AAD Typography: 72% 309ADD Visual communication: Bee Campaign 80% & Book design 62%=   72% overall  310AAD Design Contexts: 62% Adobe Dreamweaver Add-vantage: 74.5%

23rd January 2018 Today Anthony Burrill came to visit Coventry University to do a talk and Q&A.  The talk he did was just as inspirational as the one he did in the Manchester Disrupt trip. Before Anthony started his talk, I had a little chat with him and also managed to get my book signed. After his talk, I got a picture with him! This is something I will treasure for along time. Later on that day, it was time for a Q&A, I decide that I wanted to show him the typeface I have be creating. It is the typeface I am most likely going to use for my personal branding. He gave lovely positive feedback, and also said 'it is a strong design'. This was honestly an amazing feeling. I have attached images from the day. Signing my copy of his book  Looking and talking about my typeface I posted an image of myself and Anthony Burrill together onto instagram design account to my story. This was his response to it.

This project really pushed me being my comfort zone, I ended up changing my short cut story 3 times until I final found the one I felt I could reflect the most. The BBC shortcuts I decided to select (for the third time lucky) was called Role Models. The particular part I wanted to reflect was short. The quote was: "You know, vampires have no reflections in a mirror? There's this idea that monsters don't have reflections in a mirror. And what I've always thought isn't that monsters don't have reflections in a mirror. It's that if you want to make a human being into a monster, deny them, at the cultural level, any reflection of themselves... Part of what inspired me, was this deep desire that before I died, I would make a couple of mirrors. That I would make some mirrors so that kids like me might see themselves reflected back and might not feel so monstrous for it." - Junot Diaz I made this section into a visual representation using glue, a mirror...

The benefits of Design strategy (Strategic Designer) if it was implicated into Political campaigns. Vienna Smith Student number: 7173224 310AAD Design Contexts 3 A Dissertation for the Degree BA (Hons) Graphic Design School of Art and Design, Faculty of Arts & Humanities, Coventry University, 2018-19 The benefits of Design strategy (Strategic Designer) if it was implicated into Political campaigns.  (Abstract) This study will discuss how tacticians carry out the brief and a strategist decides the nature of the brief, using secondary resources such as books, online journals and websites, which will include Marty Neumeier, Michael McNamara, Darian Rosebrook along with others to explore subjects entitled; Design strategy, the structure of Political Campaigns, Challenges Design are up against in Political Campaigns, Perception of Design in Politics, Implementing Design Strategy into Politics and Design Strategy put into practice. ...