Liz McLennan
SHOWCASE 22T2
STUDIO 3 - DDX213
1023941@STUDENT.SAE.EDU.AU | @liren_ipsum | PORTFOLIO
ABOUT THE DESIGNER
Hi!
My name is Liz and I am a design student in Studio 3.
My specialties include illustration, asset design, and User Experience and User Interface (UX/UI).
I like using warm colours and strange concepts to drive my creative process. I take a lot of inspiration from various subcultures that I find interesting and unique.
Follow me on Instagram! @liren_ipsum
PROJECT 1
PAINTING WITH PERI
For this project, we were tasked with the creation of a campaign for one of the three products: Oatly's ice cream, Nudie's fruit juice, or Nando's Peri-Peri sauce. I chose Nando's because I really liked their visual identity and I immediately had some cool ideas as to what to do for a campaign.
The campaign was to consist of 2 A3 posters, a media plan, and 2 ambient advertisements.
For this campaign, my objective was to maintain Nando's position as market leader in the hot sauce segment, and to reach a new sub-group target audience who are into flavour, not just heat.
My target audience were people who love flavour and/or a hit of spice in their food. They hate bland, plain foods and reach out for sauces to add more depth to their meals. Aiming for new home-makers with a viable income, 20-35 who are open to trying new things and who are culturally open to different types of flavours and cuisines.
I went through a ton of different ideas playing off of concepts like marrying or dating the sauce to find your flavour match, swiping through Tinder to find your perfect sauce, repainting famous artwork with the sauce as the subject matter, but nothing was really sticking.
While looking at an old photo of Carmen Miranda, the idea to have sauce dripping through a pair of hands came to mind, and so I made a little sketch to show what that might look like. I got a tonne of positive feedback on that concept, and so I decided to go down that route.
I went through many iterations of my posters, and edited as needed based off of feedback from my facilitator and classmates.
I also devised a campaign to go along with my posters - I created #PeriPainting, where customers can submit their finger-paintings (preferably done using the actual sauce itself) to Instagram, and the winner, determined by likes, will get the opportunity to create their own custom Peri-Peri flavour.
Imagine you're walking down the street and see a smeared handprint made of sauce on the wall, urging you to follow the trail. Let's say that out of pure curiosity, you follow the trail and find that it's lead you to your local Nando's, where you see posters advertising the newest PeriPainting competition.
If you weren't curious before, you sure are now.
Finger-painting with Peri Peri sauce can be rather messy, which is what Transperth is about to discover for themselves.
This particular ads will focus on buses who travel en route to universities and grocery shops and shopping centers, in order to best reach the audience specified in the brief.
PROJECT 2
URSULA'S FABULOUS FISH
For this project, we each got a random popular character and a service, and were tasked with creating an Instagram page for our character promoting our chosen service. We had to create 12 posts for Instagram, including 4 short animated posts.
The character I got was Ursula, and because I thought it would be really funny, I decided that she should run a fish market. And so, Ursula's Fabulous Fish was born.
I wanted to add a bit of local familiarity to my project, and so I conceptualized a fish market based at the Fremantle Markets.
The Fremantle Markets runs from 9am - 6pm Friday to Sunday, which is perfect for my campaign.
For my target audience, I decided I wanted to focus on wholesalers (people who would be purchasing the fish for restaurants and such) - but at the same time I did not want to completely forget about the average customer. The Fremantle Market gets tons of foot traffic each day, and it would be foolish to ignore them entirely.
For the logo for Ursula's Fabulous Fish, I wanted to capture a good old-school fishery look.
I am definitely not the greatest logo maker, and so I found this part of the project particularly challenging, but I got there in the end thanks to the help of my facilitator and classmates.
My overarching plan for my Instagram campaign was to create a series of 12 posts that focus on advertising the freshness of Ursula's produce through the catchphrase "fresh fish daily."
The campaign was to take place starting 1st November, right when the weather starts to get warmer. Based off of research into the best times to post, I concluded that I would be posting 3 times a week on weekdays, all at around 11:30am.
Throughout the time where I was developing and posting my posts, I was lucky enough to have the official Fremantle Markets Instagram page follow me and like some of my posts.
INTERDICIPLINARY PROJECT
JIMMY GREEN EYES
For this project, I teamed up with James Martin, also known as Jimmy Green Eyes. He requested that a series of pixel-art characters of his persona be made, along with a wordmark and a combined word-character logo.
Jimmy provided the mood board below to give me some ideas of what he was looking for.
This would be my first time creating pixel-art, so I decided to follow a simple tutorial for Adobe Illustrator to help me with this project.
I asked James which character designs he liked the most out of these 5, and he chose numbers 3, 4, and 5.
I asked James which style he liked the most out of these, and he went with number 5.
I asked James again which one he liked best, and he chose number 3.