Badge designs...
Well... with the deadline drawing nearer I thought I'd canvas some opinions on a few designs.
My areas to research were Kirkstall and Burley and I made a couple of research visits last week. I lived in various areas of Leeds during my student life, including Burley, and it's been great to get back there and wander the streets as part of this project - as with lots of areas of Leeds the already dense student population has increased dramatically in Burley and Kirkstall.
The stand-out aspect of my research was Kirkstall Abbey - a fantastic historical site which I, like many Leeds students, largely overlooked when living in the area. The Abbey has undergone some major renovations and has a new visitors centre in a restored original outbuilding (in actual fact is was the toilet block for the monks) containing artefacts from the Abbey throughout the ages. On the day I visited the Abbey, during the school Easter holidays, it was great to see families, students and couples using the grounds for picnics, sunbathing and games in the unseasonally warm April sunshine.
For anyone visiting Kirkstall and Burley the Abbey is undoubtedly the central attraction and as such I have based my designs on symbols, shapes and patterns found within the grounds. I often feature simple graphic elements in my work and these were in no short supply at the Abbey with leaded glass, iron gates, recovered floor tiles and decorative iron handles and locks. I've created a number of badges and have ended up with 3 I'd like to show here for feedback. Each is an amalgamation of various elements with colours inspired from the past and present of the Abbey.
Let me know what you all think.
Mike
4 Comments:
Hi Mike
I think all three look very good. Do you have to choose, how about submitting three designs?
Helen
It's getting hard to have one design for each area. Which had been the idea but a lot of the artists are all wanting to expand and use more than one, which of course we understand. I do like them all but I think C really stands out for me as it speaks strongly to me from my visits to the Abbey. I agree with the fact that local people don't appreciate it in general - I never have but it is a fantastic place and as I've got older I've realised how lucky we are to have that history so close. Amelia will know more about the practical costs of producing more than one design.
Hi Mike,
I like all 3. I keep changing my mind - thinking I like one best and then changing my mind for another one!
At the moment I think 3 is my favourite. If I try to imagine one badge on its own, or a box of them as people come to pick one out, 3 seems strongest. However I think 1 is most Abbeyish! Not quite sure why, maybe because it seems a bit like a historical insignia (at least to my uninformed eyes)!
There is scope for you to produce all 3 if you like. It won't be too much more expensive for us. However one would be fine too. Do you have any feelings about this?
I couldn't decide between either and that's why I posted all 3 for feedback on the blog. I like the idea of producing all 3 as I thin k they make a great set - decission made. I'll send all the files over today.
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