Woodfordia Induction
Posted: Wednesday,31st March, 2010 Filed under: MiSC, recycling | Tags: design, festival, graphic design, group, heirarchy, network, organising, party, print, project, recycling, typography, vector illustration, Woodford Folk Festival, Workshop 1 CommentI spent the weekend 26th of March through to the 28th of March at the ____________ ___________ _______ Woodfordia site. There are way to many words to describe Woodfordia and I simply say experience it for yourself and you tell me how to describe it.
At the Woodford Organisers Group conference referred to as “The Big Chat” I got to:
Day 1
- camp wherever I wanted to on the Woodfordia site (Woodford Folk Festival grounds)
- meet my supervisor in my next role:
I will be making signs for the Dreaming Festival in June 11-13th. The role also involves placing the signs around the festival. The department head of Signology was happy to have me on board as I am a graphic designer and have typography, map making, computer based design (printing and laminating) and painting skills. As a true leader eager to induct an enthusastic new team member I was told about the new printer and laminator, Bubbles and Bobo respectfully; shown where the signs are stored; how to brave the cold Woodfordia climate during winter and a basic overview of operations before the festival (set up).
- Welcomed to the Woodford Organisers Conference by the Queensland Folk Federation President, with whom I just met through my department head not 1 hour before he took the stage.
- Alan Glover and S Sorrensen made the whole room vibrate with laughter the whole time they were on stage. I don’t remember laughing so loudly for so long in a long time.
- I was oustide and “this bloke” comes over and says:
“Hey you lot, get inside now the band is about to start.
Come on get inside the band starts in five minutes.
Come on you lot, stop smoking and get inside you don’t want to miss the band”. . . .
*Chuckles to himself*
“How often does the lead singer of the band usher in the crowd?”
– John Schumann
- John Schumann, Hugh McDonald and Alex Black performed some amazing music acoustically.
- The group stayed up late catching up over some drinks in a relaxed setting surrounded with trees and amazing down to earth loving friendly people.
DAY 2
Day Three
- Most people were a little worse for wear today but we perservered.
- We kickstarted the day with breakfast and a talk about the aspiration campaign.
- There was a brief update about department heads.
- There was a discussion about new software developed to facilitate all the issues arised during events.
- We were told about the large storm approaching the site and were instructed to do the group photo and go home early if you wanted to. The group photo becomes history as it is archieved as proof that a group of people organised and ran all the festivals that QFF does – The Dreaming, The Planting and Woodford Folk Festival.
- I went home after spending 20 minutes with my department head learning about the department.
It was great I can’t wait until I get to see my family at Woodfordia again soon.
puppies for sale poster
Posted: Friday,20th November, 2009 Filed under: graphic design, photography, typography | Tags: dog, finishing techniques, graphic design, heirarchy, illustrator, layout, Mad1, photography, poster, typography Leave a commentI was recently asked to design a poster to sell Mad1’s puppies. These are adorable mini-foxies. After taking around 200 photographs and getting about 10 useful photographs the old saying that photographers should not work with animals has been proven once again! I was designing with the idea that I wanted a “standard” community message board poster but with a more appropriate visual heirarchy. I am tired of seeing for sale posters with the largest element being the words “for sale”! So here is the poster:
The other final touches were the names the family have been calling the puppies and the words mini foxies were included in with the phone number. (I have grabbed a phone number off a poster like this but when I got home I totally forgot why I grabbed the number). I also finished off the poster by trimming along the vertical lines between the phone numbers and also perforating the horizonal line making it super easy to tear away the phone number. So far (one week later) one puppy has been sold!
remake of funky… poster
Posted: Wednesday,1st July, 2009 Filed under: graphic design | Tags: graphic design, heirarchy, logo, party, pen-to-paper, poster, remake, scan, typography, vector illustration, water marked 1 Comment21st July 2009
The original poster annoyed me so very much as it is very poorly designed. There was no heirarchy and it appears it was more about the bands than the night itself. Some strategic repacing of the items (and using the bands actual logos not just the same type as the rest of the poster) some useful typography – balance, line spacing, size, colour for heirarchy. The word funky was vectorised from a pen-to-paper drawing. The logo for TAME was created by me on this poster it is an abbreviation of “The Art of Mother Earth”.
The original poster was folded when I recieved it so there was some careful photoshop use to disguise this and due to the scan the images are not as vibrant as the origninal but still passable. I will try to get a photo of one of the original posters from the event.