Interesting News..

A couple of weeks ago I found out some rather interesting news.
Stereohype were running their annual badge design competition that I found through the Grafik Magazine Facebook page and one friday night when I wasn't seeing Dan I decided to give it a go. After creating my designs and entering them I got a strange feeling of doubt. I now instantly hated what I designed and wrote in my more personal blog that I was getting depressed about competitions and not feeling good enough to enter.

Until, I got an email a couple of weeks ago to inform me that I was one of the winners! I actually couldn't believe it. I mean I had been following the news feeds about the competition just to see who actually won but I never expected to win anything!

It's really boosted my confidence, especially just before going back to uni. I've had so many exciting opportunities

Above is some artwork I created for an A5 leaflet, the first draft of this didn't include the title at the top which made it seem like it didn't have a focus and was all word!

Your invitation

For this project, I was asked to create an A5 leaflet, landscape for a holiday company to send out to people inviting them to an event.


Originally, I had a photograph of a boy with the mountains in the background as one image, but when I placed this on the page Warren said that there was no focus to the leaflet and suggested I cut the boy out and make him bigger on the leaflet. Here I got to use my new skill that I had learned and I could really see a difference when I added it in.


I was given an image and their website layout as a guide and a source of inspiration for the leaflet. This is the first design I came up with:

I then received some feedback that the corners of the photograph was too harsh so I made them round using another skill I learned :).

Here is the final result: