Crit: The Penney drops

Michael Evamy: Creative Review Dec 2013

Struggling retailer JC Penney has abandoned its logo again, this time in favour of its classic 1969 version

 

 

 

 

 

Four logos in three years. No, we’re not talking about a student magazine or village shop. This is JC Penney, a retail chain with more than 1,000 department stores in suburban shopping malls all over the US. A formidable force in American retailing for over a century, it’s a US institution: the site of its first outlet, in Kemmerer, Wyoming, is a National Historic Landmark.

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Paper Engineering Brief

Nice to throw a ‘curve ball’ into the course mix. In this case asking the students to design spreads for a paper engineered celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the US Wilderness Act. Not only did they have to consider the 2D elements, including the text/typography playing a major part of the composition rather than merely a supporting role, but they also had to build in some form of appropriate paper engineering such as pop up, flaps or pull tabs etc.

Just to make it a little harder – the target audience was adults looking for that elusive Christmas gift 🙂

 

 

Tsunami Wallchart

The Brief:
To produce a predominantly visual piece of info graphics to support National Geographic’s tenth anniversary special feature on the great Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004 which was estimated to have released the energy of 23,000 Hiroshima-type atomic bombs, according to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).

A mix of ‘layers’ presenting statistical, mapping and timeline information, while trying to retain a visual ‘tone of voice’ appropriate for such a humanitarian disaster:

 

Tsunami

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Celebration of Puppets in Cinematography

P1010630Art 206: Five day film festival promotion plus a Private screening invitation ‘keepsake’. Based on movies that include puppets in some form or another. The objective was to be able to create multiple coherent components for the promotion, from a logotype to assorted print materials and consideration for a webpage/micro-site, as well as an exclusive Private Screening invitation package for a limited number of guests.

Just a very small selection:

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