So,. after many months of hard work, I am finally ready to hand in. I feel on the whole I have worked hard and deserve a break, and I have also learned a lot, and gained confidence as a designer. However, I can always work a little harder, and that is one aim for next year. 

I am quite excited for hand in, and looking forward to handing my work in, but at the moment I am not yet anxious about what grades I might get, although I expect that to change fairly soon. 

My next tasks are to get my room and all my files in order, have a little break, and get a great head start on my independent project. 

Bring on second Semester.

Here are my final designs for my Compulsive Hoarding Poster Campaign. I have improved my two bus-stop posters quite a bit, but mainly it was a case of just tweaking. As well as that, I have altered my billboard poster and switched it into a bus-stop poster, as this way I feel they operate better as a set. On top of this, I have produced a fourth erroneous outcome, which is specific to the subject of Hoarding. I have then photographed this, and it had been printed out to go into my portfolio. Although I feel that the matchbox design is an interesting concept, it perhaps hasn’t got a solid rationale for why it would be created. 

Here is an idea for a billboard as part of my Compulsive Hoarding campaign, I like the idea of using the image of a brain to show mental health problems. This idea is derived from an earlier idea of mine as well taking the same colour scheme and texture styles from my publication. I think this has some potential, but it may work better as a bus-stop poster in order to create a set of three. 

This is another idea for a bus-stop poster, it also draws on the styles I have used throughout the publication. I’m not as satisfied with this poster however, but I have modified the poster a number of times from feedback given to me by my tutor. 

This is a new idea for a bus-stop poster for my compulsive-hoarding campaign. It draws upon similar things done in my publication, and it uses dozens of words to show clutter and hoarding, most of these words are useless or random items, which helps to emphasise what it is like to be a hoarder. Some of the words are shown in bold, and they help to spell out the anxiety that hoarders experience. Overall I really like the poster, but it could communicate better. 

On the inside of my six french pleats I have created a design to show the inner chaos of hoarding, which hoarders strive to hide from outside eyes. In order to save time however, I simply edited the same PSD document, and saved it as different spreads as the chaos evolved. I have also made the spread darker as it goes along, aside from just adding further images, as I feel this communicates effectively. Despite initially being a time saving measure, I feel that it looks really effective as it generates a strong sequence on the inside of the publication. 

Here is a new spread for publication, which replaces some older, out-dated spreads. It is printed on the reverse of the back cover and the last french-fold, and serves to illustrate an end to hoarding, yet there are some subtle images which show that it has not completely gone away. I think spread is nice, as it exploits the same colour and layout used throughout the publication, but visually it fits closest with the contents and first spread, and aims to show through this that the crisis has receded. I’m very pleased with the publication, but feel that it could be a little too sudden after the really chaotic spread before it. 

This is the most improved part of my publication, before it was tepid and weak and completely interrupted the already sporadic sequence of the publication. Whereas now, it is a mighty spread that sits nicely towards the end of the publication and acts as a lodestone for the rest of the publication. I have altered the colours and layout to suit the rest of the publication, and then added a plethora of visual objects in order to create a feel of organised chaos throughout the spread which effectively brings the publication to a climax. 

This is the spread that has probably been edited the least, but it still has the same colour and layout improvements of the other spreads, with the aim to help contribute to the sequence within the publication. I have added some new visual material to enhance the communication of hoarding from the previous spread, I am very pleased with the improvements. I feel it communicates well and looks good. 

Here it can be seen that I have altered this spread quite dramatically, I have altered the colour of the text, added text, added new visual objects and recycled the old image in a subtle manner. This makes this spread communicate much more effectively than it previously did, and this is helpful as it fits in with the sequence running throughout the rest of the spreads.