Monday, 1 December 2014

OUGD405 | Studio Brief 01 - Experimentation


I began to develop the designs I had made including font, colour and composition. One of the made changes I made was adjusting the original space texture to blue/green tones. I feel that these colours work just as well as the pinks/purples but would appeal more to men. 
I felt that with this design it was easiest to delete a row of triangles to place the text. The text was too difficult to read otherwise. I experimented with the placement of both text items in and around this free row. I generally stuck to sans-serif fonts as this appeals more to teenagers and young people- I also feel these fonts are more legible so customers can spot them across a shop floor. In terms on composition I played around with adding new triangles of block colour - a style I had seen on Pinterest. I also began to take triangles away so the design appeared more patchy. I feel that this worked well but since my triangles are slightly irregular it was difficult for me to cover the colours without leaving a small line- although this did make the design more interesting. I finally experimented with whether there should be one, or more, or none of the larger triangles within the pattern. I feel that I works well with either on or two. 


Because a lot of the work I was inspired by consisted of line drawing I began to bring this into my designs as an experiment. I layered a variety of colour triangle outlines randomly over the top of the design. I felt this worked really well and made the overall design a bit more interesting. I chose to use the design with a few triangles removed as there was now space for more detail. 


Since I had previously been inspired by the shapes within gems and precious stones - I began to very roughly sketch these using the pencil tool on illustrator.  I do not feel this was successful as the time and effort the design took me is visible in the quality of the work. 

I then began to develop the drawings from my photographs of 3D triangles. To do this - I opened the traced version of the triangles on photoshop and deleted the space within the triangles. I then transferred this back to illustrator where I added white lines similar to the artwork I was inspired by. 



I liked the result of this experiment however when I placed it into the frame I was unhappy with the shape and size of the design within the correct frame size. 


To see if this technique could be successful, I tried it with the other image using the alternative blue space texture. This worked well but I did not feel this style was as good as the triangular patterns. 




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