Part Five - The end

I have really enjoyed this part. Mostly the play with grids. It is amazing how a simple grid can turn the design in ordered world with rules. Also I liked the information graphics but my works were a little bit angular and I realized here that I should play more with curves in design. It took me a long time for all exercises because I sometimes lost in my ideas generation step. For example with the poster announcing the sing coarse. I produced several ideas about it. I spent long time to judge them and at the end I decided to throw them all in basket and one idea pushed my mind: illustration of figure with microphone. I was so captivated with black version that I forgot that there is request for low-budget printed version. After a few weeks I made an inverse version.

Also with the logo exercise for The French Hen restaurant. I struggled with the name HEN. I could not imagine nothing more than Hen :-). I had problems to bring down an idea which does not represent it. At this exercise I notices how long time I needed for a cultivation of the final idea. It was really hard not to be hurry in doing design.

Final work is something where I realized how the brief can influence on my creativity. I had feeling that my hands are banded. I was worry about the design because it should be for children and young people. It was not clear for what age level it is even after research step.

I felt great when my friend looked at my board (where I have displayed the covers) and he said "hey it is nice covers for children books". Still I am not sure if I am right in design for the young people. Finally I finished the excellent course which opened my eyes and gave me the basics of wonderful world of communication, typography, colour and layout which we have around us everyday.

I made a separate blog for exercises and assignments to have them on one place: http://kf-graphic-design1.blogspot.com/

I hope that OCA will have next level of the graphic design.