Week 11 - 2D

Tuesday October 4, 2011

Today we reported back to our group on our progress and ideas since last week.

GROUP EXERCISE – Concept Feedback

Giving feedback on the effectiveness of your design process and concept communication

PART 1 – 20 mins

Students present 2D exhibition designs and explain progress in the last week

The GROUP gives verbal feedback on:

1. Effectiveness of design process

2. Effectiveness of concept communication

3. Progress in the last week

PART 2 - 10 mins Blog

Each student post feedback on all other students in your blog

Warwick:

I lost my Ai file for my MB Logo for 2D Design but I re-created it and added a couple of different types of grass. One using typical grass modified from google images and the second one was with Josie helping me to create a custom grass brush tool in Photoshop before dropping it into my new Ai file logo. It still looks a bit busy so I may have to simplify it to a few blades of grass so it can print. 

Warwick Brown Week 11 2D

Sunita:

"In the past week I have made touch ups and modifications to my images. They have been put into appropriate format and have been handed over to Damien to print on the beast printer with semi gloss paper. Also I have researched framing companies that I can call to get quotes on having the prints applied to MDF and framed."

Reference: Sunita Murphy Week 11 2D

Josie

"My progress hasn’t moved so much as my design is final therefore all I have been doing is scrounging up materials for my 3D components and refining my logo lettering. I cant complete my logo as I want the materials I use for the 3D aspect to look the same as my 2D logo. Once I complete the 3D component then I shall finish the logo."

Reference Josie Trayte Week 11 2D

Billie

Progress on my 2D design hasn’t been that great this week. I’m still at the stage of cleaning up design for print. I want to create very smooth lines before I do anymore stencils of my design and screen print it as its starting to get a bit costly buying more printing paper each week. So after this week I should be right to start doing up some final prints.

 Reference: Billie Mackie 

Week 11 – 2D

PRACTICAL – Design Realisation

30 mins – Develop 2D Exhibition Designs / 10 mins Blog

3 weeks to go!

Homework

• Post your lecture notes, ideas & observations with the title Week 11 - 2D

• Upload your images and text for this week's PRACTICAL and GROUP WORK

MB Logo 4 with basic grass added

Reference (image above): WB MB Logo 4 Draft.jpg

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MB Logo 4 with Photoshop Custom Brush Grass

Reference (image above):WB MB Logo 5 Draft.jpg

Youtube Clip

Commentary

I wanted to look at how someone in another country would tackle the problem of designing a logo from start to finish. This is a clip from a design class in America and the Lecturer/teacher presents the brief to the class and then goes about brainstorming with shapes using pen on paper. The video drags on over a ten minute period but judging from what I have seen, we have a far more developed design process in our class at CDU.

Reflection

I lost the Illustrator file for my 2D design so I had to start again on the logo incorporating the grass, water, pipe and text. I usually save everything religiously but for some reason i must have overwritten the Ai file. It was good to see everyone's designs coming along nicely. Everyone has a basic concept that they are now tweaking to make it a success.