Mark Jope

Old Magic – Daily Prophet Press

1 May 2012

I recently visited the Warner Brothers Harry Potter tour. I was amazed to find an old printing press in the merchandise shop. this gave me an idea of replicating an old style look for a magazine, article or publication for a future project. This could be made in a nice piece of printing matter. I [...]

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Designing for Kids Summer Camps

6 March 2012

Designing for Kids Summer Camps To capture the senses of a child, you need to think like a child. When designing a leaflet, website or brochure for children, you must engage them first.Children are mentally stimulated by a number of factors, bright vivid colours, a happy element, elements from nature and larger-than-life design. I started [...]

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Effective Brand Packaging

10 January 2012

When choosing one product over another, the design of the packaging probably influences your decision far more than you realize.Effective packaging design breaks away from the standard rules and conventions that we are accustomed to, giving the product a unique edge to stand out from the rest. The packaging should appeal to your target market. [...]

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If Black is Black? I want my Image back!!

8 November 2011

Work with Black backgrounds from Photoshop and Indesign. Image Background NOT black but dark grey? In the world of web where you’re designing for the screen black is black, zero amounts of Red Green and Blue (RGB). No problem. In the world of Print however, the four colour CMYK process is used, where K (key) [...]

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Shiny Black Photocopy Effect

13 September 2011

One of my most recent projects i did was to make a shiny multi-layered photocopied effect for a publishing directory. the client had the letters and pages of the alphabet photocopied as spreads again, again and again to create a velvet, shiny effect. From our point of view this was very challenging as we had [...]

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The right font for web

17 May 2011

Legibility is key on any website, so make sure your font is asthetically pleasing as possible When we’re communicating via a website, we have to use text, and how we portray that text is a central choice we face every time we create or update a site. Our choice of font can make the difference [...]

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No flash needed, jquery has always been here!

18 January 2011

Web design is changing every day and there are more and more new ways of creating user friendly websites. If you still have old operating systems you might get problems opening or simply waiting a long time for a flash website. Then have no fear JQUERY is here! It’s easy to use, the code is [...]

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