I looked online for some ideas regarding barbers and brochures and this is what I found….

I really love the last brochure that I found it looks very modern and fun which would catch the eye of the target audience. This helped me with an idea to make mine a little interactive but keep it professional and modern.

I wanted to look at some creative type of brochures and came across these….

this gave me the idea of the stages of growing a beard, how much it costs, treatment for that type of beard.

I really like this purely for the fact its small and handle to deal with and how it is so different to any other type of brochure.

After reading the brief for the barber shop, I noticed that I was to research all things french.

Firstly looked at the fashion of french men….

I find that french males seem to dress rather smart but still casual, a lot of famous designers are french. French males are often seen in dull colours such as black, white, blue, grey and brown.

http://bullettmedia.com/article/7-french-designers-you-need-to-know/

Famous French Designers

Louis Vitton

Saint Laurent

Chanel

I feel like I would need to include the obvious barber equipment like scissors and comb in to the logo. But I may try and add a french twist to it some how,

I have a brief idea of the font for the logo, I was thinking as people tend to stereotype beards and moustache’s as an indie look of today’s society.

After looking at the fashion with mend today on pinterest and fashion for men with beards is a very “indie” look. Men seem to be rocking the double denim look and most of the colours are; blue, white and black. Which helps me think of an idea for the colour palette, firstly black and white are not allowed to count towards the palette, so looking at browns, blues and maybe a grey type of colour will refer to the logo and brand.

Business Cards

Cool Beards / Moustaches

Before this project came along I was following this rather cool instagram, because I’m a fan of guys with beards anyway. These two men post creative ways to use there beards and here is a link too there instagram and a few pictures of what they do.

The Gay Beards

Beard Products

Mens Fashion

Now that I have complete both my typography and the Albert Einstein projects, I can now look back and see the progression with my work. I found that the typography sounded fun when I first heard about it but after panicking part way through the work. I felt that my first piece of typography was not as strong as it could be, after seeing my workshop groups work it made me worry.

After changing my first idea part way through I still kept working on the first idea as well as the new one. My second idea was a long the same path as the first one, trying to help people learning the alphabet as well as someone who has a disability. Taking the idea of font helping someone who could be deaf and blind will be learning the alphabet and how to use it in other areas.

After finishing both typography projects I feel that even though I changed my idea part way through and now have two pieces for my final project. I felt that I learnt from my work through the process of it all, I learnt that I should not just panic when I first think of an idea but spend more time brain storming to make the my final idea really strong.

For my second project which is to create a website and mobile device app for a specific target audience, which will need to explain “The Theory Of Relativity” and about Albert Einstein. I found this one more interesting and the project had more directions for ideas, not only did I have to think about a website for my certain target audience, but creating an idea for an app. After reading the brief ideas were instantly flowing towards children being the target audience, knowing that children like colour and simplistic things. I wanted to create a simple app and website with loads of colour and images.

After putting my ideas together I made more work for my self by not only creating the app on a mobile but for a iPad or tablet, I found that children currently seem to be using tablets and iPads for the educational and entertainment base. Bearing in mind that children are attracted by images I looked online at a website which Chris recommend in a workshop called https://thenounproject.com so most of the images on my work have been from this website but I can admit I could make them myself but just found that I wanted to spend more time on other areas that seem important. I know that I struggled with trying to make the website and app look very similar to each other but then in my last week in the workshop with Chris, I emailed him previously wanting to have some feedback but he gave me some in the workshop which made sense. I’m rather happy with my app and website final piece of work and my infographic I feel is my strongest piece of work because its simple but very effective.

After my second project I feel that I have come a long way with my progression with the softwares and ideas in general, but my project 1 and 2 are completely different and I can see how my idea and work has drastically improved.