Laura Mallaghan Illustration

On the day i took it day, here's some more photos.

This is a really busy, tiring project, i have been given the live project brief before christmas break. A long list of competitions and short information of independent project. I have written down some thoughts for this project, it was three weeks worth of ideas.  I have thought of craft selling in public stall, window installation, only focus on nature or animal charity shop, Interflora competition, Cheltenham Illustration Awards competition, Deaffest competition, also some suggestion idea from my lecturer that i thought it was useful, which was having illustration of birds display in cafe, or having bird sculptures in band stand and tree, all in Abbey Park, as they have bird sanctuary. I ended up went for window installation, and found the charity shop in Northampton, which is Northampton. I did get a permission to have my sculptures display in their window shop. I took some photos to get some ideas for installation.  I did some sketch concepts of m...

I've finished my animation! I thought it was alright of what i've made, it was a hard, tiring work. Here's my animation. I have been told that my animation needed to add more, such as using the Tresham logo sign at the end and slowing down on sign. So i've  changed animation, I have added some and it’s longer than my first tried. Overall, I am pleased with my animation skills on this project.

This live project, we have to design the leaflet for our local hospital, KGH (Kettering General Hospital), a leaflet full of information of Asthma. So, I started doing development to design the layouts and design the illustrating for the covers of leaflet. I chose to use Indesign rather than using OuarkXPress because I thought Indesign is easy to work on and also I don’t have Quark on the desktop I currently use, so I have to use Indesign. This background goes on both side. The front cover image is separate but is linked to the background, and also the field to link with. I used the gradient mesh tool to create the shadows and highlight on their clothes and hair, to make them look quite realistic. First thing I started to design the leaflet is the layout on every page, then added the NHS logo and then write up from the copy leaflet sheet. Then I used illustrator for the background, I planned to use a field with pale blue sky and clouds and at the front of t...

This live project seem a big thing to me, a lot going on, busy, busy, busy project. So I have used what I learnt about designing a logo when I did ALEM. Logo should always be simple, clean, colours, with images that people would recognise as the name of the company. Firstly I created a mind map about Corby and Centara, I had some ideas from this when I used it for images bank like tree that represent environment, Raven that represent Corby’s emblem, people that represent the community, etc. Even i grew up in Corby, my family lives there and i still have a friend who lives in Corby and i grew up with. Then I developed some sketches and ideas for the new logo. I designed some simple and colourful. I used mixed media on the logo designs that will bring some idea before I designed it on illustrator. I designed 13 logos but chose 6 to improve and present to the client. My first design I focused on the C, I used the C to underline the ‘entara’, then I placed the strapline ins...