Disneyworld 50th Anniversary Pin Designs
For this mini brief, I was tasked with designing a 50th Anniversary pin for Disney World. I began the brief by creating moodboards to gain ideas and understand the park so that I could come up with designs for the pin.
Research
Disney World is an entertainment resort in Florida, United States. First opening in 1971 this is the largest Disney Park in the world compared to the other 11 Disney Parks such as the Paris and Tokyo resorts. This year (2021) Florida Disney World is celebrating its 50th Anniversary of opening.
Disney has become a massive company that provides entertainment to many children and adults throughout the world from films, shows, cartoons, merchandise, toys and resorts.
Many of Disney's characters are well known such as Mickey Mouse, Ariel, Donald Duck and Goofy just to list a few. They are very distinct and can be recognized by many people across the world.
Specific to the Disney resorts - the castle is a staple of each resort. Each park has its own castle and style however, all are built to be a massive structure to 'wow' the people who have come to visit the park.
Disney World is an entertainment resort in Florida, United States. First opening in 1971 this is the largest Disney Park in the world compared to the other 11 Disney Parks such as the Paris and Tokyo resorts. This year (2021) Florida Disney World is celebrating its 50th Anniversary of opening.
Disney has become a massive company that provides entertainment to many children and adults throughout the world from films, shows, cartoons, merchandise, toys and resorts.
Many of Disney's characters are well known such as Mickey Mouse, Ariel, Donald Duck and Goofy just to list a few. They are very distinct and can be recognized by many people across the world.
Specific to the Disney resorts - the castle is a staple of each resort. Each park has its own castle and style however, all are built to be a massive structure to 'wow' the people who have come to visit the park.
My first moodboard was about the infamous Disney World 'Cinderella Castle' which is a very famous castle that is used through out Disney's branding and theme (from the introduction to a film to merchandise)
My second moodboard is about Mickey Mouse which is the main character used and created by Disney. The use of Mickey is very recognisable and jumpstarted the infamous look of cartoons. The character is seen in many mechandise, many cartoons and throughout the park itself.
I also researched different anniversary pins to understand what designers have created before to use that as inspiration for my own.
I also collected the typographic font that is used for the word "Disney" which I could possibly use for the pin.
I then drew sketches of ideas of what to make the pin into as seen below.
I then moved onto the digital part of my work. I began by tracing one of my sketches using my tablet and Illustrator.
Following one of my ideas in my sketches, I began drawing the castle ontop of Mickey's head.
I then made the pin round by adding a circle around the original design. I decided to make part of the castle and Mickey Mouses head stick out from the pin as I thought that would make the design more interesting.
I then added typography for the name and the anniversary text to the design.
This is what the final design came out to be.
I then moved the pin design into Photoshop where I created a metallic/gold effect to show off the pin in more realistic perspective rather than the previous pin where it was just a flat design I had made in Illustrator. I attempted multiple methods and using different textures on each.