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Hey I'm a fInal year student @University of Ulster, Belfast (UUB) studying Design for Visual Communication. Keen Photographer, illustration, Branding, storyboard animations & Handmade typography! Check out some of my recent work/ creative fun here and hit me up on any comments, likes/ dislikes and job offers!! ;) Website: http://philipmeehan.com

23 September 2010

TRANSLINK.....re-brand?!!

The next project was to design a new identity for Translink (which is the main public transport company in Belfast). From the get go I researched any existing Translink booklet/ leaflet/website image/ bus pass I could find to establish what has been done before and what has failed in my opinion. I didn't want to go for something too obvious either. Even though I'm not very happy with my overall design due to my lack of adventure, I quite like my ideas behind the colour schemes. If the project had ran longer than 2-days I'd hope to come up with something better. However, working as a graphic designer hugely requires working to short deadlines .....so, ultimately this was a rather helpful project. 




I was experimenting with type/ plus failing to make up my own letter with the pen tool in Illustrator. In the second design of the 't' I wanted to try and introduce the length of journey each form of transport took, e.g Pink metro bus has a slim block of colour because of its shorter distances etc. 




I liked the simple structure I introduced in the top left-hand design. The soft colour code seemed friendly,  and would have attracted all audiences. Even though there is a lot of different forms throughout this image, I still wanted to maintain some similarity- yet still offer choices.


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