Category: DESIGN [2D Digital Design]

Illustration work

Initial sketches for the illustration task. I’m very happy with how these turned out.
Further planning my original ideas into how they can be composed for my digital piece. These were the final four designs!
My finished work – although I am happy with the general concept. I feel that if I had spent longer working on this piece I would have been able to achieve a much better version of the concept I had created! I struggled with finding a colour scheme for this piece as I wanted it to feel stark but not too muted. 

Animation work

Find below video attachments to the work I completed during our animation workshop! I thoroughly enjoyed this class. If I was to do it again I would love to spend more time learning how to perefect my animations. Although I’m happy with my outcomes, I would love to better my technique to make them more fluid and clean!

ANIMATION RESEARCH

^my research for my animation class!

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^final product of my 3D animation work

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^work in progress of 3D animation – no distortion to the shape added yet

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^ quick work on creating a 2D animation of a bouncy ball

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^ 2D animation – learning how to increase/decrease speed via changing how far the object moves frame by frame

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^final product of the 2D animation with distortion of the circle to add character, movement and fluidity

Illustration – Protest work class 1

PROTEST AND GRAPHIC DESIGN

^my initial research into how protest and graphic design have interacted historically and into the modern age

Our initial rough planning of ideas for our Protest themed piece. We definitely could have improved upon delving deeper in various concepts and drawing up more detailed plans before deciding. However, we had a pretty strong idea before starting planning so we didn’t feel the need to do a large amount of deliberation.
We then discussed some concepts for our work. We quickly drew up a few base ideas. We settled on the idea of it being displayed on a protest poster – similar to that used at a march.
Our finished work! We were very happy with the outcome. We didn’t want it to feel super neat or organised as we wanted to convey the effect of a protester has handmade this for a street march.
Close up. I’m very happy with how it turned out. I’m also pleased with the design elements we chose, i.e., the use of almost Graffiti-like fonts and imagery.

Interaction Design – the finalised concept

Our paper prototype for a single process on Medella – completing a route. I really liked the general idea I came up with for our prototype. I feel like with some more time to work on it we would have been able to have a super strong design concept.
Some justification of our choices and the devices we designed our app for.
The profile I created to show the standard target audience for Medella.
I was super happy with the design idea for our logo. Although the one presented here is not a perfect example, it allowed for the basic premise to be shown. Pictured at the top was the customisable charcter design we came up with. We wanted to include something to increaser the chances of the user returning back to the app – therefore, we wanted to include an app mascot that you have the oppotunity to look after by completing the daily route!
Above ^ the details of our app and its premise
Overall, i was pleased with our effort. I feel if we didnt expand upon our original idea we could have had more time to develop our design ideas, however, I’m very glad we made the design to improve our concept as it definetley worked in our favour.

Interaction Design – planning stage work

The initial idea generation we did once we knew our 4 base words
Drawing up process flows of our apps functions. Planning out how we wanted our interfaces to look on the app.
Planning out our original ideas for the apps purpose – this later changed and developed into something we felt would be more interactive and better suited to our target audience.
Initial planning of our apps purpose which later changed
Our first real look at what our first idea looked like as an app. We decided we wanted to make it more specialised, increase the interactivity to ensure a good user experience, and also make better design choices that were specific to our app.
Initial design idea for the 50K milestone screen
Planning of our logo – we played around with colour and line until we were set on our final design- as pictured!
Planning of logo – we decided against this version as we wanted to simplify if down to a easy to use and recognisable symbol.
Our initial plan for the app layout. We quickly decided against multiple elements of our design choices and started again on creating a more aesthetically pleasing, cohesive design.

Digital work – 14 Figma creations!

Based on the word ‘fold’
Based on the word ‘ratio’
Based on the words ‘Rhythm’ and ‘Repetition’
Based on the word ‘Glyph’
Based on the word ‘Hierarchy’ – This is by far my favourite piece I created. I think it has a great sense of balance and is an interesting concept!
Based on the words ‘repetition’ and ‘modular’
Based on the words ‘process’, ‘contrast’, and ‘unit’ – I also really like this outcome. I think it’s one of my most interesting creations!
Based on the words ‘Align’ and ‘repetition’
Based on the words ‘tension’ and ‘scale’ – another favourite of mine. I really like the addition of slight depth. I feel it takes a basic concept and gives it more interest for the viewer
Based on the word ‘Proximity’ – I played around with this piece changing colours, changing the sizes of the circles and also playing with shadows and highlights. However, I couldn’t settle on an idea. Therefore I stripped it back to the basic concept and kept it with a monochromatic colourway. It is definitely not a favourite of mine but I do think the concept of Proximity is something I should explore again.
Based on the words ‘Random’ and ‘Process’ – I really love this piece. I love the colour graduation I decided to do!
Based on the word ‘Ratio’
Based on the word ‘Process’ and ‘Unit’
Based on the words ‘Tension’ and ‘Layer’

Digital Work – initial sketches!

Page one of digital planning work. I’m happy with the concepts I began to come up with. This was a very interesting way of thinking that I had not done before. I will definitely use this way of thinking when completing future projects as I feel it can help my work feel more dynamic!
Page 2. I started to play around with more interesting ideas here as I started to become more comfortable with this new concept. I really enjoyed playing around with how different shapes can create entirely different pieces when they are arranged in alternative ways.
Page 3. Here I started to play around more with lines instead of just shapes. I really enjoyed conceptualising these types of ideas.
Final page. Overall I really enjoyed this exercise. I would love to continue to explore this way of thinking and create more work like this! I feel like it provides a new one of thinking to create really interesting work!