REGGAE WEBSITE RESEARCH

After searching the internet for reggae sites I realised that pretty much all of them were really poorly designed and said nothing about reggae. The sites were very dull and boring and I feel personally were letting reggae music down. I am hoping to come up with something a bit more eye catching.

reggae.com - boring, colour scheme says nothing about reggae

http://www.rastaites.com/events/natreg.htm

Awfully designed website - garish and ugly

http://www.rastaites.com/events/natreg.htm

Little bit better but still does not represent reggae at all

http://www.bobmarley.com/ - this is allot better, much more natural

and relevant to reggae music. Nice colour scheme.

http://reggaetopsite.com/ - Not too bad, easy to navigate round. Could be better.

http://www.reggae-reggae.co.uk/ - I like the style of this, The colour scheme

is much more relevant, not half as tacky as the rest.

http://www.ukreggaeguide.co.uk/index.php?id=22

Tacky design with too much use of the rasta colours

Mutton Quad Visual Research

As I wanted to stay with the design studio feel I tried to find smart examples of branding
that uses Type well. I looked at letter press drawers too in order to get an idea of how
I can design mine for my range of products.

I also thought it would be nice to have large aspects of type on the exterior

of the building to entice people in as this definitely works to draw people in.

I thought this was a playful way to show the menu. Relevant to the Quad aspect of
mutton quad too.

 I particularly like this branding for the restaurant RUAA.
It looks vintage yet modern which I really like.
I like the rustic aspect of it. Its simple and stylish.
I really like the match box idea.

 I came across this branding for the Five & Dime restaurant. I liked the extent 
the designer went to in order to brand the restaurant. They have thought about
everything here, this helps to build a strong brand image.

I really like the laser cut beer mats this could be something to look at

they are easy to produce and also look really profesional.

ISTD - Mutton Quad - Past Responses

I came across some previous responses to the Mutton Quad brief that I found quite interesting. This has given me a better idea of the possible outcomes. I think I have bigger plans for my brief, Although we need to have some kind of printed response I have a fair few ideas that I would like to propose as I don't think I will be able to produce the products.

Full Stop

This guy chose to use punctuation as the basis for the theme and named the cafe/bistro 'Full Stop'. He applied punctuation to every aspect of the brand; from the posters to business cards and even using it as part of the way finding. 

mike-davey.co.uk/

This guy was the previous years winner. Its simple and smart.

I think he could of taken it allot further though.

cargocollective.com/lynnferrari

Samantha Hartill

I really like Samanthas concept for the brief. She served a different

style of food relavent to the eras of typography. Gothic roman etc...