view from the front door of the shop
front of the shop. door & window vinyls
window vinyl & shadows with a flat white
close up of window vinyls from the outside with my instagram name
menu vinyl on the back wall
re-deisgned chalk board & logo/opening times vinyl
EVALUATION
Strengths:
For this project I collaborated with a third year graphic designer, Beth Ewens. The brief started off with re-designed Pump N Grinds coffee bags, and ended up with a re-design of their coffee shop, which is based in Hyde Park, Leeds. For me this has probably been my favourite project I have worked on to date, and being able to work alongside Beth has been such a pleasure. She is driven, organised & hard-working and together we were extremely efficient trying to complete this project while we had other deadlines going on. Communication with Beth throughout the entire project was easy, and we talked through everything to make sure we were on the same page about things. Making decisions between the two of us was also something that seemed to come quite naturally, for example we spoke briefly about the possibility of drawing my illustration onto the front window with a paint pen, but after a quick chat we realised how much more efficient it would be to use vinyls. Overall we are both super happy with how the cafe looks, and personally I feel really proud. It's so nice to see my work in the real world and I think I have gained some valuable skills from working on this, especially my confidence in my work after getting some positives feedback from Pump N Grind. Also, after the Pump N Grind instagram account posted a picture of my work in the window and tagged me, I received an email from a similar cafe asking about a commission, which is really positive. Time management wise it took us about 2 weeks to complete everything; we originally thought the installation process would only take a day, but it ended up taking 3 so I think from this we've both got a better understanding of how long these type of things take. I'm really glad Beth was happy to help me paint the mural as I can imagine it would have taken much longer without her. This project has completely changed my opinion on collaborative working, I am definitely a lot more open to it in future projects after such a positive experience.
Weaknesses:
Although I am completely happy with the interior of the cafe and the view from the outside when the shutters are up, it's a shame we weren't able to re-paint the shutter to tie everything in. We did decide together that this would have been far too much work for both of us to take on before deadlines, which is a shame because I think it spoils it a bit when the shutter is down. We have said though that this is something we could potentially do after we have handed in and have more free time. I also would have liked to have a bit more time to think more about the stickers; we did make a couple of stickers but it would have been nice to be able to make some that differed from the logo and an illustration already seen in the cafe. The quality of the paint we used for the mural was also something I thought was a bit of a struggle, as it was quite thin and the colours came out a bit darker than expected; this can be take into consideration for future projects though where there will hopefully be a bigger budget for resources.
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