Restarting Group Work

Original Concept 

Characters is about the real life people that were written in Dickens novels reflecting from his own life. Every character has their own story and reflects an aspect of Dickens life.

After meeting back as a group, we decided to look over our previous notes, and we were able to think of more ideas about how we could develop our concept further:

Revised Concept 

The characters are tributes to the qualities or characteristics of the rooms. A different character will represent artefacts in each room. They are connected with the house, and become a guide for the museum.

Concept Board:

Concept Generation

After brainstorming key information, we then needed to start generating some concepts. We split off individually to think of ideas. These were my three ideas:

Reviewing Concepts

After presenting and submitting our initial work for the project, all the groups were told that they needed to go back and think about the development of concepts more carefully.

Presentation

Here is my presentation for the critique:

Creative Web Design Presentation

I have included ideas, research, initial ideas, technical considerations, and where I want to take the project. I think it has allowed me to collect all my work together, so far, in which I was able to reflect on  how all my research and ideas have progressed. While also thinking about how I can move on with the project.

Typeface Research – Gill Sans

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Thinking of a Concept

In order to think about ideas for my self initiated project I began by considering the following:

What are my strengths?

Illustration – painting, drawing (mix media – digital and hand-drawn together)

What are my weaknesses?

Video and Motion graphics, photography

What did I enjoy producing last year?

Typography (emotional typography and expressive typography quotes), Illustration ( D and AD Brief ) Book (Dream book)

What possible areas do I want to explore in this project?

Illustration, digital painting, typography

What career path am I interested in pursuing?

Book illustrator

Design Agency Roles and Organisation

We initially began by creating job roles and describing the specialist areas, which each team member would be responsible for:

Design Agency – Forming Groups

In the first lecture of Design Practice 1 we thought about what type of person and designer we are. We also thought about the role which we would play within a group, in which we looked at the Belbin Team Roles model:

Initial Ideas – Dreams

I decided to think about the type of areas which I could explore in my own work. I produced this brainstorm, in which I looked at how I could represent dreams. I was particularly interested in the structure and layout, in which I wanted to focus on the idea of how in our dreams our real desires are hidden from us, behind certain imagery, as they are too disturbing for us to confront (from Freud’s theory on dreams). I wanted to think about the ways I could show this idea in my own work: