Interaction Designer Craig Dennis » Exhibition

A Re-Brand

Craig — Sat, 30 May 2009 23:30:40 +0000

Thinking about the exhibition and while working on content for it, it was easy to see that some projects by their very nature will clash colours with the branding. Most notably the RSA stamp project which has many colours in the presentation as well as the concept itself. After much fudging around in Illustrator there is a tweaked brand that will unfortunately still clash but looks awesome as a whole. Read more and take a look.

On the left are the RSA and collaborative project boards, in the middle are the individual project boards and on the right are the corresponding briefs, logs / reports and sketchbooks. They will still be on the table on front. The only problem is that there will be very little in the RSA sketchbook. Maybe when compiled in one place it will show more.

Also you might notice that it uses the same colours as my website. A coincidence that I have just noticed myself!

Exhibition Branding

Craig — Fri, 29 May 2009 22:47:35 +0000

This evening has seen the purchasing of display folders, bluetack and a table cloth for the exhibition. Given the recent ‘branding’ of myself it seemed only prudent to incorporate this into the exhibition space concepts. The A4 pages at the sides of the boards are in fact display folders and will be on the table in front rather than on the wall.

They are just to give an idea about branding.

Exhibition Space

Craig — Thu, 21 May 2009 23:55:22 +0000

The exhibition space is an important part of presenting the work. A bad idea can be perceived as a ‘fair’ idea if it is presented with very good graphics and layout. So by that logic a pretty good idea could be perceived as a great idea.

Last year each student was given two large boards about 3m x 1m each on which to display their work.

As such there has been some illustration and concepts about what the exhibition space will be like for the three projects there are to exhibit.

RSA – 4 x A3 boards, 1 x A4 board
Collaborative – 4 x A3 boards, 1 x A4 board
Final Major Project – 6 x A3 boards, 4 x A4 boards

Read on for a concept for the presentation of the exhibition area. It consists of the two large boards, papered in white with the project boards stuck to them.

On the left is the RSA project and the collaborative project. On the right is the final major project. In front is a table (probably one from iLab) with a white table cloth on it.

On the left side will be the sketch books and logs for the RSA and collaborative projects. On the right will be the sketch books and project report for the final major project.

In the center will be a laptop with a flash application running. The app will show the screen split in two to depict the two sides to the large boards. Click on the left side and you will see the video of the collaborative project in action. Click on the right and you will watch the screen recording of the final majpr project demonstrating how the toolbar would function. When the videos finish, they will fade back to the selection screen.