Final Products

These are the final products I have produced for the Don't Panic poster brief.



I think I've exhausted the contents and brief. For a poster brief, I've tried to extend it by producing two sets of five posters. Each poster comes with two sticker strips in the pack I've designed and 5 post cards. In total I have produced, One pack, 50 postcards, 10 posters and printed two mock up sticker sheets.
I've quite enjoyed this brief as it has allowed me to illustrate completely. And develop my line drawings slightly. Some are much stronger than others and some I really hate to look at already. Every time I feel I can produce better and learn something new when I try to put my designs in to print. I would definitely improve this though now looking back which I would like to do at a later stage. I might possibly keep this going as a personal illustration brief to produce packs of my illustration and make sets of posters.

Post Cards

Building Pack

Putting the final pack together was relatively straight forward and quick. It was just a case of cutting out the net and sticking the tabs together. A breath of fresh air in comparison to the amount of time the design and illustration aspect and has taken!

Pack Developmet

I feel like I could have done endless layout alternatives for the pack. I wanted to extend the brief to include the pack as well, but I wanted to keep the design to the illustrations featured in each of the posters. It also gives me the opportunity to show them all together rather than patterns in their catagories, or as one large illustration on their own.

This is the overall shape of the net. It was pretty easy to wrk out. I simply took an existing pack, opened it all up at every seal and measured it. I then took the measurements to the computer and produced the basic shape in illustrator and began to drop in the content. 

Building the design...

As you can see this is what the compilation of all the illustrations would look like. This is probably the design I'd like to run with because I feel the two catagories of illustrations compliment each other well when put together. 

Back details...

Front, lower details...

Logo and contact details...

Every Don't Panic pack features the 'FREE' logo in the bottom right hand corner on the front. I replicated this by producing it with bold Helvetica type. 

Alternative design. One large illustration on the front of the pack...

I actually do quite like this. I know that Don't Panic do sometimes use two designs per issue for the front cover. Had I not liked the compilation of all the illustrations so much, I would probably run with a design like the large Gramophone above. 

The possibilities are endless...! Pattern also looks cool. I think after this project I would like to apply this pattern to a range of mediums, I think this could look really cool on tees. 

NOTE:

All my designs must be just kept to black line drawings or block, black colour because Don't Panic only ever print onto the packs in black. 

Final Poster Prints

These are the final A2 posters printed on a matt stock which I selected downstairs in digital print. It was easier to keep the stock the same down there than faff about with newsprint. Each newsprint sheet absorbed the ink slightly differently and because I have a block colour on the back, I was finding that each one was coming out at a different intensity of colour absorption. I also had to cut the newsprint down to size which wasted a fair bit of time getting them all the same and then to make matters worse, because it was so thin, the printer downstairs wasn't feeding it through very well and each print was off edge. These are the final prints...

Poster Stock Tests

Here I have experimented with newsprint and acetate. I really wanted to produce my posters on newsprint, but I discovered when I printed onto it, the quality wasn't what I was looking for. I really liked the acetate experiment, but it just didn't really work for the Don't Panic packs. I tried regular printer paper at 90gsm, but that too was just not the result I was after. I want to keep a matt and reasonably light stock but felt that the ones I tried just weren't right.
These are some of the experiments.

Change of Typeface

I was using the typeface Futura before in my designs and felt that it just wasn't working. So I have decided to go with the nearest typeface I could find to the one Don't Panic use which is Rockwell. I have also added my name, copyright and contact detail.