As part of the communications officer role in the Student Union Executive, I create a lot of graphic design and illustration work for various Student Union events that go on. This was technically a collaborative brief, being one of the last few briefs I worked on with Becky Firth when we shared the role.
The collaboration was not the best, not out of any malice in any manner - Becky had a lot of external commitments which made getting together to work on things difficult. Eventually these commitments became too much to juggle, which led to her stepping down around March-time.
This was a brief for the Student Elections. The SU wanted me to create a set of vector-based illustrations to represent each role of the committee - that could then be put on the posters so people could see what roles would be available for next years executive.
Over a number of our executive board meetings, everyone decided that they wanted a social media theme for the elections, as it would be something people would be familiar with, and would represent the roles well - which is how the idea to recreate the emojis came about. They also wanted a heading, that could be used on banners and on the top of posters that looked like the GUI of the current iphones. These are the rough initial plans we sent them:
The SU liked the Impact font choice, but thought it needed to be more like the iphone interface, so here was the end product
I was really happy with how these all turned out, because I don't usually work in vectors very often and I think the emojis especially look really nice. I felt the Graphic Design that was eventually done for it let it down a little bit, though this was because of time constraints on the SU's part, and was out of my hands.
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