Webpage Design

The brief: To design a quick webpage, using only a colour as the company name, black and white.

Me, being as unfamiliar with webdesign that I am, mistakenly designed the webpage in a portrait format, as opposed to the proper landscape format. Considering the limited resources allowed in this project, I think I did an alright job, and definitely found this to be a useful learning exercise in webdesign.

New Translink Logo

We were asked to create a new logo for Translink. After about 8 a4 pages of sketching ideas, I settled on a simplistic (although admittedly generic) logo. I simply used the existing Translink writing, then overlapped two twisting arrows around the writing. I used the two colours that correspond with the bus colours( a pinkish colour and a dark blue colour). I left the logo as solid blocks of colour, with no outlines, thereby giving a 'softer' feel. I another idea for an alternate logo, playing off the word 'link' in 'Translink,' I decided to design a logo resembling the 'links' in a chain. Many of my original concepts were overly complicated looking, distracting from the link idea, so I chose to simplify it. The two 'rings' are again using the same colours of the bus routes, but are linked with the word 'Trans.' Thereby the logo literally meaning a 'Trans-link.' I made the logo look scrbbled, with the black outlines left in, and experimented with them being taken away. After I designed these logos, I experimented with different colours.

Final Two Belfast Pen Designs

Here are two slightly different concepts for my 'Obel Tower' inspired pen design. The top design, for a flat top pen, has the window pattern found on the Obel Tower done in a silver and metallic blue colour, with the lines all being parallel and evenly matched. The lower design, for a bullet pen, shows the window pattern done in a more stylised, mismatched pattern instead. I like both designs, but I think I prefer the lower design, although I would probably use different colours, should I actually be making the pen. I decided to try incorporating a slogan, 'Looking To The Future,' as I see the Obel Tower as a new defining building in the Belfast Skyline, and think that my pen design could be used in promotion of the tower.

Pen Design Further Concept

Here is my idea for The Obel Tower pen design applied to the outlay for the Belfast Pen Project. I decided to go for a more 'cartoony' look to the patter of the tower, rather than drawing them as parallel lines, instead opting for an irregular, unmatched pattern.