Jaypee Mural Day 5 - End Result

Finally after a hard weeks work we had finished the murals. They look absolutely awesome and have completely transofrmed the room. I have really enjoyed the whole experience. It has been great collaborating with Jaypee and the others in the class and it was nice to be able to bounce ideas off of each other and produce a mural which has a huge impact. I have also really enjoyed actually painting something so big. There is something special about seeing something on a computer screen turn into a huge piece bigger than myself. It has been hard work but it has taught me how much you can get done if you are dedicated and commited to the task in hand. Also it is always good to have a team of people to encourage and motivaste one another. This would of taken several weeks to do on your own but our team managed to smash it in a week and the results are amazing.

Final Results

Jaypee Mural Day 4

Adding the Yellow and White

Unfortunately I couldn't be here for today's painting, but the girls did an awesome job. Also Martin took care of the Windows sticking up their vinyl illustrations. The room was really starting to take shape by this point.

Window Vinyls

 

Jaypee Mural Day 3

The following day was taken up finishing the rest of black outlines and then the girls worked on adding some of the white sections and also concentrating on getting the type up there in the middle of the mural. It was really nice seeing the whole project come together each day. Its surprising just how much you can get done when you have a team of people working together.

Natalie painting in the type

White touch ups 

Type outline

Jaypee Mural Day 2

Today we spent the day drawing onto the wall with pencil ready to paint. This was allot quicker than I had originally of anticipated. We spent a good 30 mins trying to get the projector working but once we had it up and running we set up the designs and started penciling away. We managed to get the mural sketched up in the afternoon and then got straight onto painting in the dark grey outlines. We got as much done as we could by 8pm and then left to go home for some relaxation.

Progress

Jaypee Mural Day 1

The first day I went to Seagulls with Jaypee to collect the paint for the mural. We walked down and collected a 5kg of Grey 5kg of white and 2.5kg of yellow and 2.5kg of dark grey. On our return we spent the rest of the day painting the walls white. Once this had dried off we applied a couple of grey coats until we had a nice clean blank canvas to work with. This was exhausting and the following day I found that I had used muscles I didn't even know I had.

Jaypee Design Feedback

After sending my design over to Jaypee, he recommended that would work better as a window vinyl display as he had produced his some artwork to fill the wall using our concept. After seeing what he had done I was not bothered at all as it looked amazing. I was just happy to have our idea come together. I sent this over to jaypee who turned the icons into something which would work on vinyl. This meant making the illustrations one colour.

Pattern design for window

Jaypee's Plans

Davids Type

Andy & Martins Icons

Hannah , Tanni and Natalies

 

Jaypee Mural - Design Ideas / Development

 Scales Design Development

 After speaking to Jaypee about the design direction me and David went away and produced imagery to go with the theme of 'The balance between graphic design and the real world'. David went away and worked on some type for above the door and I produced an illustration which visually represented the concept. I was instructed to work with 2 colours to keep paint down to a minimum.

I decided to illustrate 'objects' which we all associate with our real lives and our time at uni. I to literally balance the 2 using a pair of scales. This would fit nicely on the large wall filling the space and creating something for future years to gaze upon during those morning briefings.

It took me several attempts before I could balance the right hand side as evenly as the left.

Final Choice

I was finally happy with how the scales were balanced and felt the imagery used summed up the concept nicely. I then sent this off to Jaypee to get his verdict on the possible mural.

Jaypee Mural Brief

Brief

Collabortively produce a mural to transform the briefing room. Initial design stage will be pitching your initial ideas. Jaypee will then analyze the results and move forward from here.

Pitch 

After the briefing with Jaypee I was pretty excited to come up with a pitch for the wall space, as it would give me the chance to get off of the computer and try something hands on and on a large scale. Me and David decided to pair up for this one and try come up with something that we both could get involved with. We had various little ideas but decided to try and create a concept based mural involving mainly type. We wanted to create some kind of dialogue between the students and spark different discussions and debates whilst also being helpful, informative and humorous when possible. We came up with the concept of Real life vs Graphic Design as the basis for our mural. We wanted to explore both roots simultaneously to show the balance between the 2 aspects of designers lives, as sometimes it seems a bit too graphic design heavy so we wanted to show that there is another side to your life as a graphic designer. We thought that the best way to do this would be to use speech/type to raise questions and talking points for people on our course. The majority of ideas we came up with stem from questions and experiences that have cropped up in our lives over the past 3 years on BAGD.

Design Ideas

We started off brainstorming topics and routes to take further and started to arrange them into some kind of flow chart. Once we had gotten our ideas down we started drawing it up.

The wall would be split into 2 sections the real life questions would be towards the door and the graphic design side towards the board. This way when your in the briefing you will be faced with all the GD questions as your sitting forward, and then you will be greeted by real life on the way out. We chose to do it in a flow chart style. We would do it all by hand drawing the type. This way it will be fun to do for everyone and the people involved will be able to lend different styles/personalities to the work. A mural made by the course for the course.

We experimented drawing it out several times to find an arrangement which was balanced and also looked visually interesting. this was harder than we thought. We added many different questions and avenues trying to inject some humour and fun where possible. The mural starts with an opening statement..'Hello' to spark the dialogue.

After pitching our ideas to Jaypee he came back to us and told us that he was going to run with mine and David's concept of the balance between real life and graphic design. He explained that the flow chart text idea might be a bit too distracting whilst in briefings as people might spend more time reading that than listening. It also didn't allow much room for collaborating with other class members. So from this we were to go away and produce imagery around this concept and steer away from type. This news technically bumped me and David up to art directors! woop! So everyone went away and ran with our theme to produce more image based work.

This was a bit of a shame as it would of been sweet to draw up our flow chart mural, and would of given everyone the opportunity to kind of do their own thing with in the boxes. But all was not lost as the main reason I wanted to do the brief was to be able to produce some work on a large scale and also mural painting is something I have always wanted to do.