No sooner have we helped inspire one future creative, than we get no fewer than 2 more! Lizzie and Grace have come to experience how we turn ideas into reality. Graham, creative northerner on floor 4 is a Scout leader in some of his precious spare time for a local Scout group (mad fool). So we set a brief to produce t-shirt designs for their up-and-coming Summer camp. Being target market AND creative, we’re expecting great things. And we’ve not been disappointed so far. Here’s what they’ve got to say at the end of their first week:

Our First Week:

On our first week of work experience, we were given a brief. This was to design a t-shirt print for a Scout summer camp. It had to include the date, the place, the scout association and activities that were carried out. The t-shirt was to be used as a souvenir for after the camp. We had 2 weeks to do this.

The first day included us carrying out research about Scout camps as well as styles of t-shirts. While doing this, we also jotted down random thoughts that came into our head, which we would later develop into a t-shirt design.

Once we had done this, we could then move on to our design ideas. We worked on and developed these until we were happy with them, and then from here, we chose one of our designs to draw up in neat on big paper. We then copied this onto Adobe Illustrator. We were taught how to use basic functions on the program and explored different ways to interpret our designs onto the computer. We found this really interesting, as we had never done it before.

The designs we did on the computer were more graphically stable and had the chance to be more geometrical and detailed. After we had finished our original design onto the computer, we had the option to add and remove certain parts of the design and to see the best way that it fitted onto the t-shirt, all while not affecting the original design. If we didn’t like what we had changed, we could just undo it, which makes it far easier than it would have been on paper.

Overall, in our first week, we have been introduced to the programs used in the design process at BMB, investigate the possibilities of what we could create on the computer, but most importantly, having fun ?

We look forward to seeing the final design!