Game Logos

Richard Fairhead

The way Rich creates his images is the similar way I will be working for this brief. It gives me an opportunity to illustrate with type/image juxtaposition working with vivid colours and gives me an idea of how to compose my images. It also gives me a good starting point considering how my statements/phrases will work with characters from the games in context.

Yorkshirisms

According to statemaster.com, these are some Yorkshire/lancasterisms.



I will finish sifting through these at some point, still have to go through southern lingo yet!

• A bit-a´snap (A snack)
• A bunch a´fives (A fist, as in, "I´ll gi-thee a bunch a´fives!" A punch)
• Ah-cud eet-an´ors (I could eat a horse; I´m very hungry)
• Ah-cud eet a´scabby-donkey tween tu Brea´t-Vans (I could eat a diseased donkey between two Bread Vans as a sandwich)
• A piece a´cake (Very easy to do)
• A puddin´ in´ t´oven (Pregnant)
• A rate gu-ard so-art (A good sort of person)
• Allus at´t last push up (Always at the last moment)
• A reet gud do (A good party/celebration/wedding reception)
• As daft as a brush (A stupid/silly person)
• As thick as two short planks (Really stupid)
• A´streak a-yellow reet darn ´is back (A coward)
• Black-as´ ace-a-spades (Very dirty)
• Bold-as-brass (Very confident)
• Box in´t corner (Television)
• Brass-necked (Very confident)
• By ecky-thump (An exclamation of surprise)
• Cleck-udders-fax (A fictional town comprised of Cleckheaton, Huddersfield & Halifax)
• Clobber-thee (I will hit you)
• Can´t fathom it (Too deep/complicated to work out/understand)
• Don´t be daft (Don´t be silly)
• Dun´t make a´ a-perth a-diff-rence (It doesn´t change it even by one half-penny)
• Eee an´t got-a-clue (He has no idea)
• Ee´s not-reet-in´ ed (He´s not right in the the head; he´s probably insane)
• Eee wor 'ard on (He was fast asleep)
• ´Er bladder´s too near ´er-eyes (Her bladder is too near her eyes = she cries too easily)
• Fair to middel-in (Situation is normal, but not good)
• Feather in ´is cap (Proud because a person has an advantage, or gained a promotion)
• Furtha a-field (Further away)
• Get thee-sen off (Leave now, or you will be late)
• Get thee-sen on (Go away)
• Get-thee skates on (Be a bit quicker)
• Gi´ over (give up/stop it)
• Goin´ dahn´t nick (Ill/bad and maybe not going to get better)
• Got-it back-uds (Got it backwards - the wrong way round - misunderstood the point)
• Got out-ta wrong side a´bed (In a bad mood)
• Got up at crack o´dawn (Got up very early)
• Head-in´t clouds (Scatter-brained - a dreamer)
• He knows which side his bread´s buttered (He´s not stupid)
• Have five minutes (A short nap)
• I can´t face it (I can´t look at it - I don´t want it)
• I don´t give two monkeys (I don´t care)
• I don´t mind if I do (I would like that)
• If tha´ dances wi´ devil, thal´ ge´t pricked wi´-is ´orns (If you dance with the devil you´ll get pricked by his horns; you will suffer if you do evil things)
• In a fix (Someone has a serious problem)
• I´ll go t´foot of our stairs! (Very surprised but not shocked)
• I´ll slap thee-daft (I will slap you until you are senseless)
• I´ll tell thee summat fer-nowt (I´ll tell you something for nothing; it´s good advice and it will cost nothing)
• It-caps owt (It beats everything)
• It´s class, that is (It´s of a high quality)
• It´s not worth a ligh´t (It´s not worth anything at all)
• It´s way out-a my league (It´s too expensive - I can´t afford it)
• It´s way out-a my league (It´s too expensive - I can´t afford it)´
• I´ve niver seen the like (I have never seen anything like it)
• I´ve seen better-legs on a-table (A woman who has ugly/thin legs)
• It´ll do thee the world a´good (It will make you better)
• I´ll have him (I will get my revenge)
• I wouldn´t a-reckoned it (I wouldn´t have believed it)
• It's nut jannock (It's not fair)
• It´s nowt but spit an´ glue (It was not very well-made)
• It´s nowt like (It´s not aynthing like the thing that you mean)
• It´s on t´other foot now (The situation has completely changed)
• Let´s be havin´ ya (C´mon, let´s go)
• Let´ sleepin´ dogs-lie (Don´t talk about it)
• Livin' tally/ower´t brush (Not married but living together as man and wife)
• Nay-er cast-a-clout, ´till May is art (Do not cast away any clothing before May is over)
• Nobbut a mention (Not enough to be talked about; not worth mentioning)
• Not a-full-shilling (A person who is not quite normal)
• Not mah cuppa-tea (It´s not something I would like)
• Not worth tuppence (An object that has no value)
• Off ´is ed (Off his head; crazy)
• One a´t lads (A good friend)
• Put´t wood in-t´oil (Put the wood in the hole = shut the door)
• Pig in a poke (A confusing mess)
• Pull t´other leg, it´s got bells on (I don´t believe you)
• Pushin´ up´t daisys (Someone is dead)
• Put a sock in-it (Stop it, or shut up)
• Put thy/thee foot darn (Go faster in a car)
• See-a-man-abart-a-dog (See a man about a dog = I have to go to the toilet)
• Sent darn fer 5 (Sent to prison for five years)
• She´s got a pod-on (She´s angry)
• Six a-one an ´arf-a-dozen a´ t´other (Equal)
• Smallest room in´ t´house (Toilet)
• Swingin´led (Swinging the lead - pretending to be ill)
• Tek a-good likeness (Is very photogenic)
• Tekkin´t mick (Making fun of someone)
• Ten-a-penny (Very cheap)
• Thar´s done-it nar! (You have ruined everything now)
• Tha´s nowt so-queer as folk (People can be strange)
• Thy´ll catch thee death a´co-ed (You will get pneumonia and die)
• Thick in´t head (Not very intelligent)
• Think on (Think about it - be careful)
• Too right (That´s absolutely correct; I agree)
• Took a likng to-it (I liked it, after a time)
• Two-pennorth (Two pence; an opinion)
• Up the golden rockers (The stairs - go to bed)
• Up yours! (Go away because I don´t care about anything you say)
• Wet me whistle (Have a drink; usually beer)
• Where´s thee/tha bin? (Where have you been?)
• Would thee/tha credi´t it? (Would you believe it?)

• Barns-lay´ (Barnsley)
• Bra´t-fud (Bradford)
• Bradistan (Bradford slang - owing to it's large Asian population)
• Brid (Bridlington)
• Cass (Castleford)
• Cunnys-brer (Conisborough)
• Donny (Doncaster)
• Doncatraz (Doncaster Prisons)
• Flam-brer (Flamborough)
• Al-i-fax (Halifax)
• Arrow-gu´t (Harrogate)
• Udders-feeld (Huddersfield)
• Ull (Hull)
• Nares-brer´ (Knarsborough)
• Lee-ads (Leeds)
• Meccy (Mexborough)
• Mecs-brer (Mexborough)
• Ro-mish (Rawmarsh)
• Scar-brer (Scarborough)
• Sheff (Sheffield)
• Silverdale (A charity holiday camp near Morecambe for slum/poor children from Leeds)
• Ta´t caster (Tadcaster)
• Tod (Todmorden)
• Wayk´feeld´ (Wakefield)
• Wi´t-be´ (Whitby)
• Yo-ark (York)

• Ar´t West (to the West)
• Back oo-erm (Back Home)
• Darn-in´t smoke (London)
• Darn-Sarth (Down south)
• Darn-tarn (Down to the centre of the town/city - also "Up-tarn")
• See-sard (Seaside)
• Up´ No-arth (Up north = home)
• Yok-sha (Yorkshire)
• Yok-sha Day-ells (The Yorkshire Dales)

• Because of the harsh conditions that many Yorkshire people were forced to live in, their only recourse was, and still is, to make fun of the situation.

• Yorkshire humour is philosophical, gently sarcastic, self-effacing and dry. It follows the rule that all good comedy is directed firstly at yourself, and then at others, or a combination of both; meaning that as much as others make mistakes, or say/do silly things, it is also possible for yourself to do the same things. The laughter generated is a combination of relief that you are not the reason for the joke, but is also heart-felt sympathy for the person that the joke is directed aginst.

• "If tha´ can laff... t´ole world laffs wi´-thee, bu´t if tha´-crys, tha´ll cry alone."

Translation: (Laugh, and the whole world will laugh with you, but if you cry, you will cry alone).

Jokes:

A deputy (a foreman) in the pit, had to order 50 corrugated roofing sheets.

"Ar-dus thee spell corrugated?", he asked. "Err... jus´ write riggly-tin", his mate replied - and the only reason he could spell that was because he had a packet of chewing gum in his pocket.

("Wrigley´s Chewing Gum", for the uninitiated)

Note to the Milkman: "Please don´t leave any milk today - all they do is drink it!"

"Please leave an extra pint of paralysed milk."

"Please leave no milk today. When I say today, I mean tomorrow, because I wrote this note yesterday."

"When you leave the milk please put coal on´t fire, let´t dog out and put´ newspaper inside´t door. P.S. Don't leave any milk."

Hear all, see all, say nowt.

Eat all, drink all, pay nowt,

and if thy ever does owt for nowt,

Allus do it for thee-sen.

Translated: Hear everything, see everything, but say nothing.

Eat everything, drink everything, but pay nothing,

and if you ever do anything for nothing,

always do it for yourself.

• There`s niver nowt, but-what there`s summat.

And when-there`s summat, it`s-offen nowt.

And them-that allus´ thinks they`re-summat,

´as-nearly allus-risen fray-nowt.

It`s no-use sittin-an-waitin´ for summat,

´Cos more-offen, it´ nobbut´ ends-wi´nowt.

An´ come to-think on-it´, these lines I`ve penned,

Are-myst-lee summat´ abart-nowt

Translated:

There is never nothing, but there is always something.

And when there is something, it is often nothing.

And those that think they are something special,

have nearly always come from nothing.

It´s of no use waiting for something,

because more often than not, it ends with nothing.

And if I think about it, these lines I have penned/written

are mostly something about nothing.

• "It´s not´t cough tha´t carries-thee-off, its´... coffin they carry thee off-in".

(It is not the cough that carries you off, it is the coffin they carry you off in)

• "All I can leave thee, is what tha´ makes a´thee-sen".

(All I can leave you, after I am dead, is what you make of yourself, in life.)

• "If tha knows nowt, say nowt an-appen nob'dee 'll notice."

(If you know nothing, then say nothing, and maybe no-one will notice that you don´t know anything)

Donut?

I put this in just because the layout, branding, shop, website is everything an online store should be. really worth checking out, they have products from alot of cool designers here.

Straight off a found phone and a forgotten packaging idea from HMV for christmas.

 

 This is the basis for the packaging I will be using, since the idents are for promotional use, and will be a present/tation for the channel 5 board, what better way than to present them with a gift wrapped, sealed pro case?

Digital Production

So starts the new module. Starting off with words distributed from the magical device known as the 'Randomizer' we each had 3 words to communicate using whatever means necessary. The new brief involves using one of the words we selected to produce 4 five second animated sequences using only letterforms, and to explore the possibilities of After Effects to maximize the animations potential.


We had a seminar on animations to start our minds tick-tocking over with what we could do. Instead of using the ones used in the presentations, I have a few of my own I found on youtube. This is also due to the submission requirements include a post on youtube.

OUGD201 Evaluation

First module hand in of the 2nd year, and I can honestly say that it has been rather fun to do. With a brief that I am reasonably happy with in terms of visuals and staying true to my concept, and not running away with my own fairies. I let myself get sucked into the good brief entirely, and did alot of research, as I usually do,  this aside,  I didnt settle on one diea straight away. This was due to a few factors, mainly my lack of decisiveness considering the statement, but also I could not foresee its potential, which I cannot really do unless I can see an idea worth taking further.

The print booklet I thought could have done with a more experimental layout, especially with the amount of time I had to do it, despite me not getting on well with type, grid and formal choices considering book layout, I thought I did a good job of it.

First part of the brief was excellent, finding out many things I never knew about Puma, the sports industry and how trainers were made, the company's importance on the culture of footwear, and also the extent of the trainer subculture online. Sometimes I spent far too much time engrossed on forums, discussing what line was the best, particularly interesting marketing campaigns, and anything to do with Puma, but this was due to my over-enthusiasm of the subject. I have always and continue to love Puma, not just from a geriatric (dad,uncle) who told me sly rumours of the company's greatness, but it sort of closes a chapter that was left open when I was younger.

Anyway, when the presentation was due to be delivered, I really struggled to fit all the information I had gathered into a 2 minute slot. However, due to excessive refinement and an over-exhaustion of timing procedures, I managed to deliver it with a calm demeanour. Even after I found out that people could go over the two minute limit, my presentation was well received and commented on that I seemed to know a hell of a lot about Puma.

Despite much deliberation on settling on a concept that suited my statement, deciding on if I should design for company execs, or if I should deign for the public domain was something that could not be resolved in my head. So using what visuals I had made, along with some of the information I had regarding sole construction, I just pored out some concept designs to get ot out of my head and onto paper, then into a mock. the crit and some informed decisions led me to select what I had wanted to do - public domain.

I then looked at some shoebox designs, and menu layouts, but finding many cliche and overdone. Apart from the odd concept shoebox that never seemed as relevant. What I think limited my use of different print processes was the way I justified my work and the final product. Even though I did use 3 print processes and 1 folding process for the final product, I think if I had nailed the concept earlier on I would have been able to maximize the potential of my ideas, and learnt alot more about print and finishing processes rather than just reading about them and googling the images.

In response to this being a design for print module, I think that the product and the print book suffered slightly, despite the condensing of information in the booklet. My product staying within my rationale and reasoning for the choice of processes used may have dented this progression of absolute understanding of the print and finish applications available, not only on an international scale, but a local one too. Since I have accumulated this knowledge now however, I will be making use of the methods to make my future projects something to be really proud of.

Not having heard ANYTHING from the local printers I contacted in Harrogate, despite 3 emails sent to a particular company, it left me a bit peeved. To be fair I should of contacted them much earlier on to avoid such problems, especially with the print booklet tucked into a neat folded piece of origami in my mind needed to be re-addressed, since I had only looked at 7 books, then left it to sit there, with no major reference from printers. Ignorance certainly is not bliss, as this will now lose me serious marks.

The final prototypes, boards, and visual identity were sealed by the first installment of established, informed final designs. Using corporate guidelines that I had made myself, but laid down by the designers at Puma, I felt that I had definatley got somewhere, esepcially after a redeisgn of what I perceived to be a good logo, but not within the parameters of the identity I was aiming for. The design of the products were imposing, yet unintrusive, and had a sense of power - on a visual level as well as the space it took up, cluttered somewhat with icons and images, as the boards were, but without losing the important edge that they all shared.

I dont think enough stock was considered and blinded myself in the rationale of the promotion, and seemed completley fixed on what I wanted and how it fit into context for the project, which overall limited my outcome somewhat. This comes to link back into the publication, which could of been printed on different stock to make it seem like it was a book that knew what it was on about, and looking more professional.

To to be fair, I beleive that I have vastly improved myself , and ready for the next challenge, since I have produced 2 pieces of work that I am not entirely dissapointed with the outcomes of, but rather this module has aided me to see the potential of future projects with a new gloss, especially with so much variations on the product, not just from screen to ink, but also the format, substrate and finish. I now am confident in my decision making abilities and tendencies to get misled, now its just a matter of piecing it all together! Round 2 commences....