The Final Piece.

Wine Glasses : Perfume.

My next idea was to incorporate her perfumes into the place setting somehow. Her No.5 fragrance was the most iconic and the first of all of her perfumes. Also the perfume Chance is my favorite Chanel fragrance so I used the wine glasses to show this because they hole liquid like the perfume bottle do.

Plate.

I wanted to incorporate some of her personal style into the setting, so I looked up images of her. Obviously she was  famous for black and the little black dress, but I already have the tea cup as the little black number of my piece. After looking through the images of her, she was always wearing 2 long necklaces, made up of pearls or beads, around her neck. So I decided to make a plate out of beads.

Tea Cup and Spoon.

One of my first ideas was to try and incorporate her skills as a Modiste into the place setting. I turned a tea cup upside down to give it the shape of a hat and used the spoon as a hair pin. I painted the cup and saucer black and also the spoon, but then decorated the spoon with beads and feathers.

Celebrity Come Dine With Me : Coco Chanel

Our final project of the year is to design a place setting for a famous person which we chose at random and my celebrity was Coco Chanel. In researching about her, I learned a lot and found a few key points that I knew I wanted to include in my place setting. For instance, she was a Modiste (a hat maker) before she worked in fashion. She also injected herself with Morphine on a daily basis, a thing many people did not know about her. As usual I started with a mindmap after doing research, and then proceeded then to do Thumbnails.

Final picks.

I ended up with two designs in the end. I wanted to compliment the logo by sticking with pink and black, so I tried it with this one:

But after talking it over with my tutor, I went for a more simple design, adopting that less is more. I also put a slight gradient effect on the Sidorova to give the logo a bit of depth because I felt it was a bit flat. Considering everything, I am happy with the end result of my logo; I think it's clear, has the right balance of colour and encompasses two traits of Anna's Personality. 

Sizes and different design options for Letter heads.

I did out the different sizes for the compliments slip and business card. I also rotated the logo to show the second name on the horizontal inside the first name, which is on the vertical. This also  shows the A at the end of Sidorova falling off at a good angle.

I also tried different designs down the right side of the page ad across the bottom of the page to compliment the  logo.

Size and Scale.

We have to apply this logo to a Letter head, Compliments slip, and Business card. A letterhead measures to A4 size, a Compliments slip to 9x18.5cm and a Business card to 5.5x9cm. The letterhead also has to fold into thirds and the logo has to fit in the top third of the page. I now have to take the positioning and size of my logo into account.

Picking a design logo.

I have three designs that I have come up with and I need to pick one out of the three to use as my logo. I used red in the design because its Anna's favourite colour but it looks a bit intimidating and harsh.

I talked it over with Anna and she prefers the last one. Also we are going to try pink instead to make it more feminine.

Characteristic: Clumsy.

I talked it over with Anna and we decided that the clumsy trait was one that we both liked so after talking to my tutor I picked one typeface and worked with that.

It was suggested to me that I could combine the clumsy trait with a Russian typeface. This way we have two traits that are part of Anna. I also changed her first name to how its written in Russian to make it more authentic .

Colourful trait.

Colour is a big part of Anna's personality . She loves to wear colourful things and use colour in her projects. That is why I decided to try it out and see if I could use it as part of my logo design. 

I also decided that I would pick other traits of hers such as sweet:

And Clumsy :

First attemps.

My original thoughts were to try out the typefaces with Her name and see which ones suited the best.
I really liked the Russian fonts, but I think that I'll explore different chracteristics before I settle on one thing.

Mindmap and Type.

I started of with a mindmap as usual to get everything out of my head down on paper. In my mindmap I just tried to get all of Anna's physical and personal characteristics and traits written down, so they were easy to choose from. After this, I then went in search of different styles of type to portray these different traits.

Logo.

We've gotten our new brief and are in pairs at the moment. We are designing a logo for the other person using their name/s. My partner Anna is Russian, neat and tidy, likes Red, is a sweet person who likes sweets, likes kids and likes jewellery and jewels. I'm going to get some typeface examples of each of these things and test out what's best or if I can mix and match them. Time to experiment.

Typography.

The purpose of this project was to play around with scale, repetition, composition, angles, and negative and positive space. I was given the letter 'X' in Goudy old style Uppercase. We had to have 12 9x9cm boxes and 6 A4 sheets completed by the Friday. The A4 sheets were different to the 12 small boxes. The A4 sheets were experiments of us working with the letter, basically distorting it and messing it up. Here they are.

My Stamps 3.0

So We had a final crit before the Easter holidays, and it was suggested to me by my tutors to maybe simplify the wording in my stamp. The earlier versions were legible but thinking about it, the consumer is only going to be looking at it for a split second before opening it so I thought that 2 words instead of 5 was better.

My Stamps 2.0

I decided to change the colour of the stamps from white to green. I wanted to see if it would have a greater impact and I believe that these colours do. The darker green will stand out more against a white envelope and catch the consumers eye more easily. I also had to change the colour of the type from black to white seeing as the background colour is a dark green. The white is also very legible against the dark background.