End of Year Show 2009...

This is the promotional material from last year's end of year show. It was designed by a 3rd Year college student,Merlin Mason. His design has a theme - The End of the Beginning, which sums up the idea of the students ending their time at college, but moving forward into their careers.

His design is very illustration based, and uses a limited colour palette, which is quite striking.

He has designed a leaflet that folds out into an A2 poster, an invitation to the private view, signage for the outside of the college building, an exhibition guide and a web button for the college website.

The promotional material is well designed, but I think that it doesn't represent the overall college. The use of the paint brush is very limiting, and does not represent the majority of the courses that will be exhibiting at the show, which I don't think that the students were particularly happy about. I want to produce a design that is more general and represents the theme I chose, rather than representing an 'art college'.

Graduation Show Pro-mo...

I have found these examples of promotional material for degree shows. They are all quite diverse and different from each other, which is great to see because it will encourage me to do

something quite interesting and quirky.

Type seems to be the main focus of these designs, which is important because all of the information is included, and integrated as part of the design. Some of the shows have a theme or title around which the show and therefore promotional work is planned and designed. I like the idea of giving the show a theme or title to carry across all of the promotional material, and represent the essence of what the show is about.

The use of imagery seems to be limited in the sense of actual art work. The main idea seems to be to represent the show and all of the participants, rather than choosing an individual and putting their work on to pro-mo material. Obviously this is really important because the idea is that the show provides diversity.

Looking at these pieces here, I can see the importance of including certain aspects of information, and also the hierarchy of the information.