Papercut designs created over Xmas
The following papercut designs were created by my over Xmas, some have been (or will be) featured on certain blogs and websites and some are for sale in my shop.
Evaluation
Throughout this module I feel I have made a lot of progress as a designer and developed my working practice to a higher standard than previous years. I took on a lot of briefs which I feel at times was a benefit to me, but at other times I feel I should have been more selective with my brief choices due to timing issues. This would have let me focus more on finishing certain briefs to a higher standard, such as my fairytale book. If I would have had more time (either allocated more time for the brief, or had less briefs) I feel I would have created a more refined end product. I would have also like to have more time to develop my zine as I feel it needed more detail and would have liked to create a more substantial publication. With timing in mind, I feel with some briefs I created quite good final products, such as the lampshade brief and the tea towel brief. With the tea towel brief, I knew there was a short deadline, which motivated me to generate imagery quickly and efficiently, while planning every part of the brief before starting it so I knew to plan certain things to be finished at certain times. With the lampshade brief, I allowed a longer time period as I wanted to experiment more and I feel this allowed me to explore the subject, materials and processes further. I would like to carry on and develop the lampshade brief more as I really enjoyed creating designs for a useful product, knowing my designs would be on something practical. I feel I have also had some briefs that have just allowed me to experiment with methods of generating imagery, such as hand drawn typography, that I would not really use as a method of communication. When working on the headline and anorak briefs, I enjoyed the experimentation, but when it came to creating designs to those certain audiences, I feel I lacked focus and this is something I know I need to develop in my design process. Audience and subject are what I feel I need to work on most, as I know I can experiment and I know I like to focus on method, process, materials and techniques, I just need to develop these weaker areas to create a more rounded design practice. I think that I have experimented with a range of methods within my chosen briefs, and have found what I prefer to use to communicate, now it is just a case of using these to fit certain audiences appropriate to a chosen subject.
Tea Towel Brief - Start to Finish
This post is the whole brief as I did it in a day, so I thought it was fitting to have it all in one post! (you can see my previous work for this brief here and here,which was used as a starting point for ideas and concepts for what is in this post. The previous posts about my tea brief and the work in this post are the same brief, I just changed the time restrictions and deliverables - all images can be clicked to see them larger)
Research -
As my design was to be appropriate for the website ToDryFor.com and their audience, I looked at the existing designs available on their website, and chose what I thought, were the most interesting designs or designs that were similar to what I had in mind of creating.
Experimentation -
I wanted to create a more hand rendered image for my final design and I felt that the only way to do this would be to actually create my imagery by hand, not computer. I wanted to focus on the phrase "Honey & Lemon" from my previous ideas for this brief and adapt this phrase to fit this design. I used an actual lemon dipped in ink to create the shapes and patterns below as i thought this would give a great textured, hand made effect to my design which would appeal to my audience. I used a black ink on white paper so when I scanned the prints in, I could edit and utilise them easier, by live tracing and changing the colour in illustrator.
I then wanted to create a dripping, runny typeface for the word honey, to represent its qualities and I thought the best and most interesting way to do this would be to use real honey. I had a squeezy tub and used it as a fat pen to write the word honey. Below are the photographs I took to use. Again I used a white background as it would make things easier when it came to digitising the typography.
Below is the digitised typography. To digitise the typography I opened the files in Photoshop and deleted the white background, then copied the type into Illustrator to live trace and play with the colour.
Development
Below you can see my development playing around with typefaces, colour ways and textures (scanned wrinkled paper in the first image)
Final Design
For my final design I decided to mock up my towel design in the format used by the ToDryFor website. I did this by taking screen shots of the website homepage and adding my designs where other design were. I also added a description to fit my tea towel's theme of honey and lemon that is to the right of the image (click image for a better look)
Research -
As my design was to be appropriate for the website ToDryFor.com and their audience, I looked at the existing designs available on their website, and chose what I thought, were the most interesting designs or designs that were similar to what I had in mind of creating.
Experimentation -
I wanted to create a more hand rendered image for my final design and I felt that the only way to do this would be to actually create my imagery by hand, not computer. I wanted to focus on the phrase "Honey & Lemon" from my previous ideas for this brief and adapt this phrase to fit this design. I used an actual lemon dipped in ink to create the shapes and patterns below as i thought this would give a great textured, hand made effect to my design which would appeal to my audience. I used a black ink on white paper so when I scanned the prints in, I could edit and utilise them easier, by live tracing and changing the colour in illustrator.
I then wanted to create a dripping, runny typeface for the word honey, to represent its qualities and I thought the best and most interesting way to do this would be to use real honey. I had a squeezy tub and used it as a fat pen to write the word honey. Below are the photographs I took to use. Again I used a white background as it would make things easier when it came to digitising the typography.
Below is the digitised typography. To digitise the typography I opened the files in Photoshop and deleted the white background, then copied the type into Illustrator to live trace and play with the colour.
DevelopmentBelow you can see my development playing around with typefaces, colour ways and textures (scanned wrinkled paper in the first image)
Final Design
For my final design I decided to mock up my towel design in the format used by the ToDryFor website. I did this by taking screen shots of the website homepage and adding my designs where other design were. I also added a description to fit my tea towel's theme of honey and lemon that is to the right of the image (click image for a better look)
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