Final designs:

Here are my final submissions for the Royal Mint brief.

I have chosen to involve the design with and without the "One pound" writing on the design due to the fact I'm not sure how necessary this is as the 12 sides of the coin all say 'one pound' so it's clear how much currency this is. But saying that, I have submitted both designs to royal mint so they can decide if it fits the requirements of the brief.

Here shows my design as a vector format which the Brief requested.

This design involves the writing stating that this is a one pound coin.

This design does not involve the writing stating that this is a one pound coin because I am not happy with the design and placement of this piece of type so I have chosen to leave it out in certain places.

 Here is where i've mocked up the design onto an actual photograph of the coin, again this is where is says that the coin is 'one pound' but I do not like how that looks at this stage, so below I have chosen to remove it.

Here is my email submitting my design to Royal mint, I have involved my user number and my name and given a brief description explaining the design on my coin:

I related my design piece on the new 12 sided pound coin to typical Britishness and how other nations stereotype as very polite and friendly, I consider this a happy association and for this reason I have researched different words used to greet someone in the UK and using a typically British typeface, I have created this coin design.

http://issuu.com/ryan_daley/docs/royal_mint_ones

 

Limited edition coin research

Here is the proposed look for the queens side of the new 12 sided one pound coin. 

The design of the actual coin its self has obviously changed from how they usually look, now implementing a silver inside (similar to the existing £2) and obviously the 12 sides.

Here is a previous limited edition coin from royal mint, guessing this has been commissioned for a designer to create. It appears as if it is celebrating the anniversary for the London Undergrounds opening. 

Here is another beautiful coin design which pays homage to the famous British Novelist, Charles Dickens. This typography based piece is very attractive to look at and very well designed. Makes excellent use of typography.

Royal mint coin research:

Royal mint coin research:

I have chosen to photograph high quality images of current coins which were inside my wallet. I am doing this to get a grasp of the designs on the current coins and also to see the angles and how they look once the design has been embossed/raised onto the coin using hot metal.

Current circulating pound coin. 

Look like quite an old from the damage on the coin and the scratches but this is most likely the pound coin that everyone thinks of when they are asked to imagine a coin.

I think these photographs will give me an insight into how coins actually look and how they age over time, I should consider how they age and their legibility once they have circulated for a few years and become worn.

Researching into Competition briefs:

So far having visited just one website, I have found 4 different design briefs which I fit the criteria for and also after Danny's email, I have found the competition for the Royal mint coin.

After less than 2 minutes of searching on http://www.graphiccompetitions.com/ I had found 4 projects which related to me, so I have book marked these for future reference.

Royal mint
The Royal mint project is something which appeals to me, specifically after hearing of Matt Dent's success; His design has inspired me.

 "In 2017 the United Kingdom will introduce a brand new £1 coin – and The Royal Mint invites the nation to create the design it will carry. A fantastic opportunity for members of the public, professional artists and designers alike.

Designing a United Kingdom coin is something that most people would never have thought possible. This is a chance to put your art onto the reverse (the ‘tails’ side) of what will be the United Kingdom’s newest coin, one of the most eagerly awaited coins in circulation.

The winner will receive a £10,000 design fee. More importantly, they will have the pleasure and pride of seeing their design replicated on millions of coins that will be used by the people of the United Kingdom for years to come. The winner will also be invited to The Royal Mint to see their design transformed into actual United Kingdom coins."

"Show what Britain, or ‘Britishness’ means, drawing on all of the 

qualities and quirks that make our nation unique."

"designs must not include a recognisable likeness of a known person, whether living or dead"

"The new £1 coin will have the same shape as the 12-sided three pence piece or ‘threepenny bit’."

Matt Dent Royal Mint

After being briefed into our most recent project, OUGD503, Responsive and introduced to competition briefs, we were shown the work of Matt Dent, a winner of Royal Mint's competition to re design the British currency of coins.

"It’s estimated that almost 28 billion United Kingdom coins are in circulation, and if all those circulating coins were laid out side to side they would form a line 397,289 miles long - nearly 16 times around the world."

Matt Dent created a stunning selection of coins despite that the competition brief instructed a designer to attempt to re design a single coin out of 7 options, this designer decided to re design all 7 as a collection, winning him an impressive £35,000 and to be a close partner to Royal mint as a company.

Here show the 7 coins designed by Matt Dent, seamlessly working together in collaboration with each other. It is clear that he initially designed a shield divided into 4 quadrants in each he did a separate design which in my opinion have a 'typically British' feel. The pound coin design featured this shield and a smaller scale version of the whole design which he implemented onto the other 6 coins.

Considering how simple his approach appears to be, it is evident that Matt's design is really eye catching and successful. I love how the design works over the 6 coins in the manner which it does, very inventive and skilful.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Dent_(designer)

http://www.mattdent.com/work_uk-coins.asp

http://blog.royalmint.com/tag/matt-dent/

OUGD503 Briefing - Studio brief 1, Individual practise

Being briefed into this project we have been instructed to source 5 competition briefs independently and consider our approach to them and then finally to design for these briefs and submit the outcomes before the deadlines.

This is a very professional and mature project and something which I usually have a feeling of apprehensiveness (concerning live briefs and working for professionals), but I'm glad in this instance that the brief requires we jump in both feet first and source our own work.

Supporting Resources/Information

 www.dandad.org/
www.istd.org.uk/
www.ycn.org/
www.graphiccompetitions.com/