Finalised homepage.

Experimenting with different homepage layouts.

The last one is my favourite, although I like the coloured ones too, I just prefer to keep it plain and simple.

Web Design.

I want to keep the Popular Peace website as simple as possible.

The homepage will contain the following links:
-HOME
-ABOUT
-RESEARCH
-COUNTRIES
-CONTACT

Layout:

I decided to use lyrics from John Lennon's song 'Imagine' as I thought it would make a good motto for the company and what they are about.

Finalised logo.

Designing a Logo.

I decided to use the font 'Helvetica' for my logo, and grayscale colours.

Experimentation.

I would like to incorporate one of the above images into my finalised logo.

Experimentation.

Experimentation.

I took a photograph of myself giving the 'Peace' sign and then edited it and experimented with it using PhotoShop.

   

Magazine editorial spread designs.

NB

Note: The full sized files of the display templates were too large to be uploaded to my blog so I have had to upload smaller condensed files. I still have the original large template files on disc!

Creating a Logo.

I started by brainstorming, what do associate with 'peace'?
-the peace symbol
-doing 'v' peace sign (2 fingers)
-doves
-olive branches
-john lennon
-hippies. etc.

Basic Logo designs:

 

pro:four. Popular Peace.

The Brief: 

Create a brand identity solution for a platform website that accumulates and disseminates research data to be gathered from post-conflict countries specifically concerned with what the population would prioritise for peace if it were given the choice.

The website will act as a research source for peace building scholars and policy makers. The idea involves the ‘civilizing’ of peace building around genuinely democratic processes – rather than just holding elections and then leaving it to chance and charity. Elections are just a technical processes. approach assumes a deeper approach to the social reality of millions of extremely vulnerable people. It presumes that the people in post conflict spaces have to be heard in order for them to participate meaningfully. The website communicates their priorities to the outside world so they might provide what people want, rather than what we believe they should have.

display board 2.

display board 1.

polaroids?

I want to use polaroids to display the photography in my display board. I drew out a template and then added it to my layout:

layout design for display boards...

My interview...

hello my name is catherine. my earliest memory is when i was two years old and my baby sister gina had been brought home from hospital...

i was sitting on the sofa in my living room, facing the window, and she was on my knee... i was afraid i was going to break her. my mum and dad were taking photographs of us. i remember being happy that i had a new sister and i loved her, but i can’t remember what she looked like, it’s all just a blur in my memory. i do remember i was wearing blue dungarees and wee black patent shoes. there are many photographs of this particular memory and sometimes i’m not sure if i can actually remember it or if i have just seen the photos so many times that i imagine i remember it.

researching interesting magazine layout designs

I'm really liking the simple black & white theme, with maybe just one other colour, as I think it is classic and clean and looks professional. I also want to incorporate photography into my editorial design, in both my display board, and my actual magazine spread.

pro: three- A Visual Narrative

Real or fictitious early memory...

Basically this brief involves recording someones early memory and turn this into either a video or an editorial design piece.

My idea:
I wanted to do something different for my interview and had lined up a friend who was fluent in sign language to tell me about her earliest memory. This original plan fell through and so, running with the sign language theme, I have decided to interview myself and record my interview using the sign-language alphabet...