2D Design Week 2

Creating a Background

Tuesday July 26 2011

Today we are choosing a background for our Blog.  They must fit the criteria for Shape, Media and Style.

Warwick Brown Design 2011 Blog:

SHAPE - Star

MEDIA – Adobe Illustrator CS5

STYLE – Custom Brush with distorted curves & colours

I chose to use the star symbol and duplicate it making different stars in different colours and sizes then I made it into a custom brush that distorted the stars and spread them across the screen.

Warwick Brown Exhibition 2011 Blog:

SHAPE – Rectangular Background with Circular/spherical Science Symbol

MEDIA – Adobe Illustrator CS5

STYLE – Funky Colourful New Age Fun

I chose to use two symbols from the symbols palette. One Colourful rectangular gradient of colour to fill the page then stretched over a scientific symbol that represents electrons flying around the outside of an atom. This makes it look fun and colourful.

3D Design Week 2

3D Design Week 2 – Design Student Shoulder Bag

Tuesday July 26 2011

Today we are beginning to design a CDU Student Shoulder Bag.  They must fit the criteria for Shape, Media and Style.

SHAPE – Rectangular Prism with flat strap

MEDIA – Waterproof Nylon outer

STYLE – Slimline, Traditional

SHOULDER BAG DRAFT DESIGN

We also watched a couple of YouTube videos on Theo Jansen and his 3D Beach wind sculptures. He is part of the worldwide community called Technology, Entertainment & Design (TED), which brings together worldwide groups, and individuals that share interest/ideas in these three disciplines.

I found Theo Jansen’s inventions to be very intricate yet simple in design execution. He really uses the elements of wind and water into his sculptures. He is very passionate about his work and believes the sculptures are real animals roaming the beach. He hopes one day they will become self-sufficient. I think he would make really good human bionic legs based on those used in his work.

Theo Jansen's Strandbeests Monster Wind Machine • TED Talks #MysteryHunter

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49BtLFd9ItY

Theo Jansen at TED, 2007

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38iyEttxc44&feature=related

2D Design Week1

2D Design Week1 Blog

Tuesday July 19, 2011

Information sources:

Web:

2D Design

http://www.intellecta.net/2d_design.html

http://library.thinkquest.org/17131/multimedia/2d/index.html

Books:

Amazon.com:

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=2D+Design&x=0&y=0

Library

CDU, Darwin Public Library, Nightcliff, Casuarina, Palmerston

Bookshops

Dymocks

Borders

Amazon.com

People in the Industry:

2D Industrial Designers:

http://www.alibaba.com/showroom/3d-industrial-design.html

Other Students:

Design Students in Orange 11, CDU

Events:

The West End Craft, Art and Design Fair

http://www.3d2d.co.uk/festival.html

Exhibitions:

CDU 2D Design Exhibition
http://cdude2010.blogspot.com/2010/08/week-03-2d-design.html

Galleries

Quinnipiac University

http://www.quinnipiac.edu/x594.xml

Lead Art Studio

http://lead-art.com/photo/2d_design/6