Studio Practice: So close (yet so far)

Friday, 3 March 2017

So close (yet so far)

Spent the day trying to put final touches to my sticker

Tried pushing other ideas in the last week and nothing has really stood out. Tried rendering some on illustrator and it didn't work out so well.

The type was very hard for the 'talk to strangers' sticker. I knew what I had wasn't what I wanted but wasn't quite able to visualise what I wanted.

Communicating vibes is hard

The closest I could get to the vibe I wanted was jasperware pottery and roman coins. Its quite hard to translate the general vibe of a roman coin.

Type is hard

Played with line width extensively and nothing seemed to work. Played with placement of type. Was originally going to go with top and bottom looked wrong, talked with Jamie and in the end went with only in the top left quarter. Still not totally happy, doesn't look quite right but I think I've tried everything I can. I wanted the type to have a fairly wide spread but it always ended up looking like it was super stretched. Generally felt like I had massive graphic design angst. As usual though I'll make do with what I have. Lots of white space on the border? Maybe could have tried filling areas black?

In the end I abandoned it for a while and gave another design a half hearted go before coming back to it but didn't really get any further.