Téide Nolan

At the beginning of this project *Story* I chose the quote *Life Happens, Coffee Helps* by Frank and Honest. I chose this because I have such a love for coffee.

With *life happens* I decided to look at my life, during the lockdown not much is going on. But thankfully I have skateboarding to do because it is covid safe.

I then went on and put together mind maps of my life and came up with many words. I stuck with skateboarding as it was my main activity during these times. I brought my camera to the skatepark for a few days and captured many photos of my friends doing tricks. With that I made a sculpture of Kieran doing a trick out of wire.

I then began to make thumbnails for *life happens, Coffee Helps* and came up with a few poster ideas. I also captured many photos of different fonts and looked at them closely. I made a moodbaord from my images, using gold to show how much I treasure coffee.

I researched a few artist and found designs that I liked and used them to influence my ideas and poster. I also collected many takeaway coffee cups and napkins to look at the different fonts and designs.

Here are some cups that I designed to add to my poster. I don't like how it looks. I will edit the white background out, and see from there.

Here are two poster ideas that I created in photoshop. I am going to edit the coffee cups and the fonts more. I am still going to emphasise on the red to resemble the love I have for coffee and skateboarding. I am happy with the faded(opaque) background of coffee beans, I think it goes well with the black font.

Hugo Ceneviva is a visual artist and a creative retoucher. He is based in San Francisco does freelance work. The word *skate* immediately caught my attention because I want to base my poster on skating and how life happens. I like how he put skaters on top of the word, they are all doing tricks aswell.

I was also influenced by the 2 posters for coffee. The drinks pop out and caught my attention. I like the bright background colour aswell as it really pops out.

I went on Dafont.ie, searched for retro fonts and found two typographers that I really liked. They had a large variety of different fonts. I chose my favourite 5 from each. The first one is by Risman Ginarwan, I chose the 3rd one for *Life Happens* because I thought that the skateboarder could balance on the top of the words because they're flat.(I will try this in Photoshop) The second one is from Darwinoo for *Coffee Helps*. I chose the 4th one because it is easy flowing.

I've decided to use the photos of my friend falling because it is a strong image and gets my point across, I'm glad that I captured that moment. Before this I didn't use any red in my designs so I decided to put red in and I loved it, I felt as though it made it more formal as red is a powerful colour. When someone sees red it immediately catches their attention. I also feel like it shows my love and passion for coffee.

Ideas Development book.

So far I have looked into coffee and skateboarding, I am trying to come up with new ideas for a Poster. Here are some thumbnails and mind maps to help me move on with my project.