Learning a language
Page Design
- Development for activity 1.
I felt it would be a good idea to place this in the centre of the page, I found a good size and began editing the font style
I continued exploring font and adding content
I spent lots of time organsing my text and deciding what needed a place, positioning font and titles to complete the design, I then began cutting around the illustration using the magic wand tool.
After cutting around the image, I copied and pasted it filling it with a pattern I had made with my landscape photography and placed it behind, editing the opacity of the forelayer design, I really liked this as it adds to the pop plane of my theme. I then felt the background was a little too bare and unfinished so I thought about adding a boarder.
After experimenting with this idea, I decided to create the boarder by tinting the centre of the design and leaving a white boarder, I liked this and felt it worked well, finishing it nicely but I wanted to make sure the tones were still vibrant.
I then reselected the centre and changed the tone, inverting my selection to edit the boarder to a light blue. I feel this was successful in terms of design and aesthetic, it orientates ideas of nature, minimalism and pop without being to bright.
I started by referencing my design speficiation and began experimenting with my chosen fonts and compositions. Once I had a stable composition, I began playing with the design to push experimentation and provide me with extra options to fulfil aesthetics.
Design Experimentation
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Discovering tools: eraser tool, this helped me clean up my designs, especially my drawn illustrations. I used this around the wave in my previous design as well as below to ensure the page is crisp and proffesional.
I found this a fun process and enjoyed discovering new helpful tools.
Mindful Expression
- Below is the process of development for activity 2.
I began by composing my page and experimenting with gradients and font
I then kept pushing this by applying effects on the wave and increasing vibrancy
Here I changed the font colour and removed the background to achieve minimalism though I felt it needed something behind the font as I have remove the gradient background layer.
I tried out using one of my results from the activity, i then thought about filling the wave but to do this I had to make it into a pattern which fit the wave well, I experimented more with other patterns before decided this worked very well.
After finalising the waves, I altered the background and addedd in my instructional text to complete the activity page. I am happy with the result and didn’t expect the waves to look as interesting and fun, I really like that they are from my exercise as it furthers the theme.
I kept with the layout from my drawn exploration, structuring my ideas around space and inviting colours. I began in the same way as before inserted my visuals on an A4 page and began experimenting with tools, font, text, colour and composition. Once I had my desired composition I was able to further explore its aesthetic through experimentation which can be seen below.
Design Experimentation
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Landscape Drawing
- Below is the process of development for activity 3
I then tried out adding in my instructional text, after adding just one box of text it became apparent that this wouldnt work out, there is not enough space for the writing making me think about other options.
I then re-arranged the image, I felt this looked good but wasnt practical. I thought about re-thinking the design and approach.
This was an enjoyable process as I had the idea of producing a website for my magazine, I felt the development of this piece was interesting as unlike my other designs, this has turned out nothing like I had invisioned so I am pleased with the final effect. I feel this designs balances the use of white in my other pieces.
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