Week 2 2D

Today,

We went over the first weeks class, discussing the email links we all found and collated. I contributed 3 links and a brief description of the ones that i felt would be the most useful to all of the members of the class. After we had Emailed our lecturer our blog links, we were given a practical that took 40mins. We were to create a background for our blogs. We were to incorporate 3 elements into our designs: Shape, Media and style.

I got my idea from this image that I found on the Web, I really liked how the letters that are usually neat and tidy are now havoc; this was the basis of my idea for the practical.

Reference: http://www.designwagen.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/Interior-Decorating-Furniture-Letter-Bookshelf.jpg

My Design

Design

Process:

Above, is my completed design that I made using adobe illustrator. I did this by typing the entire alphabet in Helvetica and then creating outlines in order to make them directly editable. Then I double clicked on each letter to put the program in isolation mode in order to rotate and move them freely around the page. From here I grouped the letters and then mirrored them to each corner of the page. I then grabbed the anchor points on the T's and joined them together. Lastly I coloured the text grey and selected the letters to spell out D.E.S.I.G.N in red to grab attention.

Description:
This image, I feel incorporates all of the 3 elements that was required to successfully complete this task.

Shape: Letters are shapes not words, letters create words but in this case, letters are scrambled and a word is found.

Media: This design portrays the idea of design through visual communication, I feel that I communicated the idea very well.

Style: This image is very stylish, grey, red and white go extremely well together and I feel that this stylish feel will be the first element that people see on my blog.

My Design #2

Exhibition

The same Design however I changed the red letters from D.E.S.I.G.N to E.X.H.I.B.I.T.I.O.N for my other blog to make my blogs have a consistent theme.

Over And Out!