You made it to week 5 and everyone's doing a great job!
In week 5, we continue along the web design process and discover how brand and mood boards all play an important role in establishing the right brand voice and tone for your newly proposed site redesigns. Feel free to develop one mood board for the current site and one for the one you're redesigning OR one board for one audience and one for another OR one to represent one end of the brand spectrum and one for the other end - many ways to do this so have fun with it.
These should be designed and printed out to 20" x 30" using the template (not much of a template...just an Illustrator Doc that's 20 x 30). Don't forget to mount them on foam core. These also take hours to print so get going sooner than later...
Questions?
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Assignment:
Use stock photography/illustration, objects, colors, icons, type and/or anything else it takes to get your mood across and develop 2-mood boards (see different combinations of mood boards above) using pictures, brand attributes, color blocks, icons, etc. You can also use www.tonystone.com or www.gettyimages.com for other photo choices.
Guidelines:
- 20 x 30 format in illustrator
- don’t forget to mount them on foam core board (you'll need two sheets of 20 x 30 and a can of spray mount adhesive)
- you may also tile multiple pages and past them together to a 20 x 30 print (make sure it looks good)
- ask lab assistant for directions and advice on printing to large format printer before time gets too tight.
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Class Lecture DeckExample Mood Board-----------------------------
Some Resources:
Marks of Excellence:
Finding the roots of trademarks in heraldry, potter's marks, monograms, and other such ancient devices, this book traces the history of the corporate visual lexicon and produces a taxonomy of the commercial age. An alphabetical section covers motifs from animals to waves, with short definitions and analyses beautifully complemented by daringly cropped and crisply photographed images. Pictures of this quality and interest would steal the show in most volumes, but the text stands up well to the challenge of images that gain force because of the familiarity of their subjects (corporate trademarks), and the unusual sense that the book's context lends to them. Marks of Excellence is a worthwhile exploration at the modern language of ownership.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Designing Brand Identity:
From an interactive website to a business card, a brand must be recognizable, differentiated and help build customer loyalty. This indispensable resource presents brand identity fundamentals and a comprehensive dynamic process that help brands succeed. From researching the competition to translating the vision of the CEO to designing and implementing an integrated brand identity program, the meticulous development process is presented through a highly visible step by step approach in five phases: research and analysis, brand and identity strategy, brand identity design, brand identity applications and managing brand assets.