12 paper designs
For our second Graphic design class with Pauline we were asked to make 12 digital and 12 paper designs.
I decided to play with the idea of layering the material I used, with loads of different colours, based of the sketches I previously had from the first class.
It’s hard to describe what I did for every single one of these images, but I wanted to experiment and do something different for each one.
I decided to play with different vibrant colours to get a positive and playful feeling to them. I used two different materials, 10cmx10cm paper and plastic I found in my partners house from folders in different colours.
When I did the digital ones I had a lot of fun playing with the opacity between layers and I wanted to do it again but with the paper ones, so in three of the 12 I decided to use plastic to mimic the opacity layers digitally. I’m extremely happy with how they turned out. Esp the one with two squares connecting with a grey background. In that one I had one pink plastic layer and one blue plastic layer on top of each other. They were both cut identically with measurements. and then I cut the pink layer individually to make a blue square blue, and not purple or pink. Then I glued the two plastic layers together forming this colour changing layer. I also painted a few white lines to show where the edges were supposed to be.
I used a lot of different techniques doing this.
Layering, as I said, but I also used folding, folding & cutting, and weaving. The weaving was probably the most entertaining one. Since I’ve never previously weaved with such a delicate material.
Most of these ideas were spontaneous, I wish I could indeed sketch them down before I would create them. But because of my eager personality with an exploding creativity I always end up using my head as a sketchbook alone.
I’m more than happy with what I contributed with here. I love the colours and I had a lot of fun using different techniques, new and old ones. The experimenting parts were the best, since I love to figure out how to use new materials with techniques.