Week 7
This week our lecturer was Fiona Kelly. She has her own business called Glimmer Digital Design, she is also a part of FLK Studio.
Fiona came in to talk to us about where she gets her ideas for the work she does, a lot came from intelligent stealing and knowing what goes well with what. She told us to look around on sites like Twitter, Digg, istockphoto, Fffound and other sites, she also recommended buying piece we like because they will be used at some stage.
Scooter Island
This was a project for advertising for scooters, Fiona decided to use the Vespa/MOD/Ska design for the advert. Fiona did a lot of research and looked ta lots of different sites, such as retro websites and different bikes and different style elements. In the end she came down to 3 different ideas which she took down to just the one idea.
Fat Kitty Films
This was a project where Fiona was asked to create a logo, first she looked at different font types to try find one that would suit her idea and go well with the images and the colours.
Since the company had cat in it she found different pictures of cats that would go well with her idea, in the lecture Fiona had lots of different versions of the logo. She told us that we should be saving our ideas constantly because we might end up going back to one.
Dublin Gay Theater Festival
The original website was very dull and boring and didn’t give a lot of space to the adverts on the site, Fiona looked to other gay websites to develop a new design for the website and also a new brochure because the old one was boring.
My Home
This was a flash banner ad Fiona made. She had to make a story board with her idea for the client to see if they liked and wanted her idea.
Puca
This was a project Fiona didn’t really like working on because of awkward clients. The client wanted Fiona to redesign their website but using things the client wanted and not much else.
Fiona told us how she had to keep putting little characters(PUCA’S) into the website because she really liked them and thought they looked good with the site but the client didn’t like them.
I liked this lecture because it showed how well intelligent stealing can be and how the end product is nothing like that which was started out with making something much better with bits of other pieces.
