Final Leaflet Design

With the design of my leaflet, I thought carefully about how to to connect it to the logo and the architectural design of the school. I wanted to make it friendly and appealing to young people as well as older people whilst still containing information about the school. 

Final Logo Design

These are more ranges of an idea I had for the logo. After receiving feedback from my other designs, I wanted to make it visually interesting but also have a meaning behind it too. I feel that this logo is a good representation of the school, it is very positive and nice to look at. The 'Heco' being incorporated with the flower shows the rooting the school has on the students, the journey it takes and the blossoming finish. I think this is a really nice way to look at the journey we take at school and growing up.

Logo designs

These are a couple of logo designs i made and changed little things about each design to make it different, to be able to visualise a range of different styles gives me more choice in choosing what logo is right for the school. I feel that the top one is not suitable for the school and it gives off the wrong impression and the bottom logo may be a bit too straight forward and boring for the aims we have as a school. I still however experimented about with these to logo ideas.

Final Leaflet

This is the final leaflet for the project. I covered everything we wanted to put across and explain. I chose to use rope type font as i feel it enhances the natural eco theme we were going for.

final presentation

This was the final presentation for Heco School. In our presentation we covered the issues of modern schooling, and what makes Heco School different from that.

Leaflet

I decided to create a leaflet for the school, so we can fully show what the school has to offer and what makes it so unique.

With the design ideas, I wanted it to connect to the logo and also the arhitectual design of the school so it all connects together. With this i thought to make it an actual green leaf shape which i think will work well.

Floating school

we researched into the Makoko floating school, which is a new design of a floating school in Lagos. It is a new innovative design that is sustainable and adapted to their specific surroundings.

New logo

I feel the flower is a good representation of the school. It shows the grounding of the students and the journey it takes through school, to the beautiful positive outcome at the end. It also emphasises the natural take we have on learning. From general feedback, this logo gained very positive feedback.

redesigning of the logo

taking into consideration the feedback i was given i brainstormed a new idea.

Logo

After having some difficulties in finding a logo that suited the school, I went back to the original Hemp Housing logo and used the H shaped leaf as the simple icon in the school logo. From my previous desgins I feel this one is best and most comfortable, but after getting feedback on the idea that maybe an image would be more powerful in representing the idea and to also make it less formal and predictable.

Digital logo ideas

I played around on the computer with more logo ideas from the school. I do not feel any of these came out very succesfully and look too boring to represent the one of a kind school.

More logo ideas

I wanted to try more illustrative ways to present my logo, to make the school seem more inviting to have a direct correlation of meaning between the logo and the school.

Logo ideas

I decided to take the Graphics route on this project, in which I would design a logo for the school and posters and advertisment.
Here are a few logo ideas i had for the Hemp Housing company, and for H.C.C - Heco Community College a potential name idea for the school.

New Idea

after taking into consideration the feedback we reinvented our idea in creating an eco hemp school that is completely self sufficient and is constructed from hemp.

Derby Feedback

1- What positive feedback did you recieve?
- good, original idea - not many people have heard of hemp and its uses.
-Had alot of statisticd to back up our ideas.
-Had sense of direction in our progress, on the right track.

2- Where there any issues raised about your idea?
- How we are going to develop it into a completely original idea and how we are going to visualise and interpret our ideas to incorporate visual design

3- Which questions were you asked?
- Why hemp? explore other ideas e.g sawdust.
- look at transportation, manufacturing and building.

4- Did the idea change?
Our idea did not change, we just thought deeper and narrowed our idea into an Eco Hemp School.

Hemp Housing logo

we also created a logo for our company 'Hemp Housing'. We played around with colours and shapes and came to the conclusion of simply creating the H in the shape of green leaves. Simple and Natural, like the aim of our project.

Derby Presentation

this was the final presentation we created for derby. We covered facts and statistics, images and the aim of our project.

why we should use hempcrete

after more research on hempcrete we found even more benefits to using this product.

further research

We also needed to look at the actual amount of hemp fibres that would be needed to construct a home.

1 Acre of hemp produces 3-7 tonnes of fibres in a 12 week growing cycle.

roughly 5 tonnes of hemp fibres would be needed per house.

Growing hemp takes in 4 times more carbon dioxide than trees, and while trees take 20+ years to mature, a hemp plant is mature within 4 months.

Where is hemp housing in use

we looked at hemp housing and the current housing projects around the world that are using hemp in the construction of houses, and the beautiful creations they have made.

Thermafleece research

Thermafleece hemp is a plant fibre based insulation that is ideal for easy safe and green installation. It consists of 60% uk grown hemp, 30% recycled polyester and 10% polyester binder.
Thermafleece is long lasting and contributes to healthier indoor living.

Hempcrete research

Hempcrete is made of the inner woody core of the hemp plant mixed with a lime based binder.
Hempcrete is 3 times more resistant than regular concrete, it's easier to work with as it doesn't require the use of any power tools. It lacks the brittleness of concrete and doesn't need expansion.
Hemp fibre is a biodegradable non toxic fibre.

notes

this was the starting point of research for our finalised idea of hemp constuction.

Derby- final idea

The idea we decided on taking to present at Derby was a hemp housing construction company, after the research we did we wanted to look further into the use of hemp in construction.

WHAT WE NEED TO LOOK AT
- All materials used
- How it is made
- How we will do it
pictures,facts and statistics
   and why it should be used.

Idea

HEMP CAR

After researching about hemp and what it can be used for, we thought about creating a hemp car made entirely of hemp products that runs on hemp bio-fuel.

HEMP CAFE

We also thought about a hemp cafe that is built from hemp - serves hemp produce and naturally grows all the produce they cook.

The Uses of Hemp

We looked further into more uses of hemp as I was interested to find out as much as I can about this product.

• In the 1990's, hemp was tested at the site of the Chernobyl to help heal the soil.
• Proven to reduce Cancer cells in the body. 
• Hemp Fibres can create plastic
• Can be used to produce food and drink and oils (Hemp is also a superfood)
• Building Supplies (Hempcrete, Insulation, Fiberboard)
• Fuel (Biodiesel) liquid fuels chemically identical to petroleum based gasoline and Diesel. 
• Clothes

    

  

        

Hemp and high fashion

hemp silk by Calvin Klein

Hemp fabric is not just used as a fabric for everyday casual wear, it can also be worked into fine couture pieces in high fashion. In New York City 2008, there was an Earth Pledge fashion show - a  runway show of one of a kind designs made entirely of recycled eco-friendly materials including hemp and hemp silk.

hemp and eco clothing walking the runway

Designers like Donatella Versace, Calvin Klein, Donna Karan, Yves Saint Laurent , Stella McCartney and many more all took part in this show, using materials selected to reduce harmful chemicals energy use and to protect land resources for future generations.

Hemp and Fashion

Hemp is also a great textile to make clothes with. Hemp has been used to make clothes for hundreds of years, and unlike cotton and other materials hemp becomes more durable the more you wear it. It is heavily waterproof, an efficient insulator keeping you warm in winter and cool in the summer. It is also hypo-allergenic and its a non irritant to the skin, in addition to this it is also UV protective which is ideal for holidays in the sun or for people who live in the warmer climate.

hemp hood-lamb. 100% eco friendly

100% hemp t-shirt