At the start of our class today we all picked the best design from our three designs for our exhibition on last week’s blog. We then put everyone’s design on the whiteboard and voted for the best two designs. This can be seen on the right-hand side of the white-board on the image below:
Reference (Image above): Classroom Whiteboard
So the two winning designs voted by the class group were the T-Shirt Design
and the Screen Print Lamp design from Mini Art, Music Cd, Magazine Cover & Typography font
T-Shirt Design
Exploring –
big or small? Big
Front or back? Both
Sleeve? Yes
What is it for? Sale
Age? Young
Selling What? Creative Designs
Image? Big
Shape? Many
Text? Sporadic
Colour? Light Grey/White/Black
Gender? Female
Culturally appropriate? Yes
Challenging –
Colour – The colours must work well in print/on shirt
Market Appeal – We need to appeal to a specific market
Screen Print Lamp design
For the lamp design we ran out of time to discuss the same exploration and challenges of the design process so I have made my own theory.
Exploring –
big or small? Small
Design the lamp or shade? Shade
Shade Design? Custom
What is it for? Brightening up a dull room/ feature
Age? All
Selling What? Creative Lamp Designs
Image? Illustration
Shape? abstract
Text? No
Colour? Rainbow
Gender? Both
Culturally appropriate? Yes
Challenging –
Colour – The colours must work well in print/on lamp
Practical
Design Exploration
40 mins – Choose your favourite design concept from all your current works
• Use any tools you wish
• Put the results and a paragraph of description in your Blog
• Through a combo of research and creative thinking explore the possibilities of
concept experimentation, variation and evaluation
• List these items clearly, draft examples and explain your thinking
o Two Experiments
o Pros & Cons
o Choosing & Refusing
Reference (Image Above): WB CDU iSecure iPhone app.jpg
This is my favourite design for 2011. It is the Icon cover for a theoretical iPhone app that protects your iPhone data by encryption. I like it because it is simple and has high contrast that creates a big visual impact.
Experiment 1 - I would like to see whether a notification can be placed over the icon once it is on the iPhone menu screen to inform the user that there are a number of updates or new personal data to synchronise and encrypt.
Experiment 2 – I am wondering if a thumb-print can be utilised as opposed to a password protection to prevent unauthorized access.
Pros – Excellent way to protect vital personal information such as pin numbers, passwords, bank details, etc
Cons – Someone will always develop a way to crack the system or if the program malfunctions, the data could be lost
Choosing & Refusing – I choose to keep the drastic black and yellow colour scheme as it is bold and striking. I would like to keep a Serif font to keep the traditional strength and integrity.
YouTube Clip
Corel Draw Logo Layout Design for T-shirt Printing Process By Richie
Commentary
I have never used Corel Draw before but this was a reasonably good insight into how the T-Shirt design process starts. They use part of a logo of a bird from a food service design and basically trace over it with the Corel program so it can be recognised by the software. He then transfers the image along with his name onto a specific T-Shirt Art board. There are a couple of songs used and an audio over that is music only. I found that you could see what he was doing but trying to follow the small steps was very challenging. If you just want the overall gist of the process this is good however if you want step-by-step how-to’s, then you will be disappointed as there is no verbal communication and a lot of it is sped up.
Reflection:
This week we had a lot of group tasks. I find that they can get out of hand and off on tangents. We kept going over the time allocated for the different practicals. I really wanted to write my blog during class yet I found this to be too hard today. It was good that everyone had some great ideas but we need to make sure we stay on track .
Working like a dog it seems - and I'm sure it will all pay off. Top effort old boy - fancy a Pimms?
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