Posted on March 8, 2011 by Peter ‘Misery’ Collins
So at the moment I am doing a course in Music Technology at Leicester College. Part of the criteria of one particular assignment requires the entire group to work together to conduct a launch event for CD we are doing for a recording unit.
For the event there will be all kinds of things going on, with the main focus on it being a live event but there are ideas floating around of all kinds of things such potential cake sale, raffle etc Its still all being discussed currently
As part of the launch event, we are planning all kinds of roles, from management to promotion to art and logo design. Its a lot of work between us but will be very satisfying if all goes to plan (If… IF!!) and is currently very exciting.
So you may be wondering why are you talking about this? Whats this got to do with anything? Why are you pretending people read this when its pretty much your first post?
Well, this is also a part of the assignment where I’ll be talking about my role of logo and poster design, a shared role with class mate Jake Brennan (Pronounced ya-hee bree-nan). A creative role and there is a lot of pressure what with our designs not only have to satisfy ourselves but everyone on the team and will eventually be used to promote the event on walls, flyers, social networking websites and possibly even magazines depending on how far promotion goes (Dave and Eleni).
At the moment, we currently don’t have a name and thus the logo can’t really be designed as of yet. However I have done a rough design for the poster. Me and another class mate thought the old Communist propaganda posters may look cool and found a tutorial on how to create one which I have followed/took inspiration on. I’m not the best at photoshop so this helped quite a bit in terms of learning new techniques which will help down the line.
Here is a rough, first design of the poster which is currently unfinished. I came up with it in about an hour in the early hours of the morning and was too tired to continue.
The only problems I have had so far is that I am doing the poster in such a high resolution that any pictures I find to import are simply not big enough. As you can see the woman above the Loros sign I hoped to be a lot bigger and to the side looking up and above would be guitars and keyboards and other instruments as if to look like some sort of invasion flying over the top of people.
Also, you may notice “EQbacca Presents” this is not and never will be the name (unfortunately) as the majority disliked it. I only put that on the poster as we didn’t have a name and it would give the class an idea of what it would look like. The font will not be the same either on the finished piece.
As you can also see (And neglected to mention earlier) is that there is a a logo of a charity on the poster. For this event we have collectively decided that any profits shall go to charity. We toyed with the idea of many different charities such as Music Youth and Love, Hope, Strength. But in the end we went with Loros due to it being a local charity and since decided have been contacted and up for supporting us and helping promote the event.
All in all, I’m currently enjoying this position and have high hopes for the event and the designs that me and Jake come out with. While the stress is yet to set in, if at all, I’m sure it will be rewarding in the end.
