Design Practice - studio brief 3 - initial ideas 1

As part of our collaborative practice brief, we decided as a group that assigning one another to certain roles will help to build up a body of research and design work for this project. To start off the project, as a group we brainstormed some ideas that could potentially be our core theme. This included, making a colourful patterned layout for the exhibition, creating a halftone theme which would show limited colour, or to create a project that uses the printing techniques throughout.

In the end, we decided that the halftone idea was the best to use as it had the most potential. Therefore, to start off the research we each looked at the roles that could be best suited to each person. We would collectively need to have logos, posters, stickers, research, photographs and a signage system that works within the exhibition space.

My role within this project would be to look at the designs that could be made into stickers as well as researching the use of halftone within the graphic design world. My starting point for this project was to use the existing designs made by another member of the group and vary them into different potential stickers.

The use of the stickers for this project would be either as decoration for the exhibition space or as an interaction for the audience to engage with. By providing stickers the audience can place them on a scale of 1-5, rating their experience at the exhibition and whether they enjoyed it or not. These could also be used as part of the provided leaflet advertising the event as a way to inform the audience of their purpose before they visit. By providing a scale of 1-5 the stickers will group together on the wall, creating a halftone pattern, and therefore reinforce the ideas of the exhibition space.