Thursday, 5 December 2013
Tuesday, 3 December 2013
OUGD503 - Responsive - Disney CEP Cast Members Hoodie Design research
Research into chosen design style
**disclaimer** by posting this to my blog for my university work, I state that all copyrighted work featured is for educational purposes only. I am not associated with Disney and state that I do not wish to falsely represent them***
Because I will be designing hoodies for all of the soon to be cast members of Walt Disney World, I immediately knew that I want to work in the original design style of Disneyland California when it opened in 1955. This is classic quirky 1950's illustration in the hope that it will be nostalgic, but this look is also trending among genuine Disney parks merchandise, and so will be a nice piece for everyone to wear!
The quirky shapes in this style are distinctive to the era.
I really love the effects of mono printing and the overlapping effect given to this type of illustration. The use of two-tones of colour are often used also.
Again, the effects of hand rendering are strong and add fun to the design.
The limited use of colours tie in the whole of the design together. What I noticed in particular about this design was the use of a 'grid' to help frame all of the illustrations.
As you can see, this style is used in modern day Walt Disney World advertising.
I really love this typeface as it is quirky and fun, yet serif and so bold.
This is my favourite colour scheme that I have seen so far. Although it's like a previous design in it's use of a 'grid' I also love the way that sometimes the illustrations overlap out of their frames and into other ones. The hand rendered effects are also present again in this design.
The 'screenprint' overlapping style is accustom to this era of illustration.
Teal, off white, pinky-red and mustards are accustom to this style, and barely any primary colours are used.
The misshapen perspectives and shadows are a distinct detail to this style, which I will be sure to use in my work.
This piece by Disney Legend Mary Blair uses the off-primary colour palette, the misshapen grid and the overlapping illustrations.
I want to include some of the famous foods of the Disney parks and I think that this image is the perfect reference for this style in terms of flat ellipse at the bottom and the top of the 3d designs. The hand rendered effect is present again!
Research into Walt Disney World
Rides/ attractions
Big Thunder Mountain Railroad
Country Bear Jamboree
Dumbo the Flying Elephant
The Haunted Mansion
It's a small world
The Jungle Cruise
Food
My favourite of all these foods are the Dole Whip (ice cream) because it's distinctive to the Disney Parks, and can only be found in Epcot.
Featured job roles
- Quick service food and beverage
- Merchandise
- Full service food and beverage
- Lifeguarding
- Character attendant
- Character performer
- Resort Bell services
- Housekeeping
- Costuming
- Operations & attractions
- Recreation
- Custodial
Maybe I could draw an illustration to represent each of the different roles as opposed to making separate designs?
Thursday, 28 November 2013
Thursday, 21 November 2013
Monday, 18 November 2013
OUGD501 - CoP Concept & Progress tutorial
Context of Practice Concept tutorial
Essay:
I proposed my idea for my final essay: The idea that if consumerism surrounds us and manipulates our lives to compulsively by stuff we didn't know we wanted/ needed, but yet we are aware of this, know the effects of consumerism, and don't care - is it still a threat to our sanity/ lifestyle? A few arguments for and against this will be discussed.
Practical:
In store/ shopping centre campaign questioning people as to why they are buying the products they are buying - a juxtaposition of literal consumerist culture taking place and thoughts around it.
Essay:
I proposed my idea for my final essay: The idea that if consumerism surrounds us and manipulates our lives to compulsively by stuff we didn't know we wanted/ needed, but yet we are aware of this, know the effects of consumerism, and don't care - is it still a threat to our sanity/ lifestyle? A few arguments for and against this will be discussed.
Practical:
In store/ shopping centre campaign questioning people as to why they are buying the products they are buying - a juxtaposition of literal consumerist culture taking place and thoughts around it.
Thursday, 14 November 2013
Monday, 11 November 2013
OUGD504 - Laser cutter induction
Laser cutter induction
For future reference and to utilise the facilities around the college for Design for Print, I booked myself into a laser cutter induction.
We received a booklet on how to use the laser cutter, and then had a go ourselves.
It was fairly straight forward, although there were a few things I thought were worth noting down:
While we were down in the wood workshop, we decided to ask Jake and Matthew about some of the facilities available to us. They told us that we would need to find out which machines would be of use to us and they would be happy to demonstrate and teach us how to use them.
Some of the machines available:
Radial Armsaw
A radial arm saw is a cutting machine consisting of a circular saw mounted on a sliding horizontal arm.
Surface / Thickness planer
A thickness planer (also known in the UK and Australia as a thicknesser or in North America as a planer) is a woodworking machine which is used to create boards that are of an even thickness throughout their length and flat on both surfaces.
Spindle Moulder
spindle moulder in the UK, is a stationary woodworking machine in which a vertically orientated spindle protrudes from the machine table and can be spun at speeds typically between 3000 and 10,000 rpm. Cutter heads may be mounted on the spindle. As the workpiece is fed into the machine, the cutters mould a profile into it. On some shapers, router bits can also be used using a special mounting adapter. The machine normally features a vertical fence, against which the workpiece is guided to control the horizontal depth of cut.
Router
A router is a tool used to rout out (hollow out) an area in the face of a relatively hard workpiece, typically of wood or plastic.
Vaccum Former
Vacuum forming is a simplified version of thermoforming, whereby a sheet of plastic is heated to a forming temperature, stretched onto a convex, or into a concave, single-surface mold, and forced against the mold by a vacuum (suction of air).
My favourite machine out of all of these are the laser cutter and the vacuum former, as I think that it will be a useful tool when creating packaging, such as blister packaging.
For future reference and to utilise the facilities around the college for Design for Print, I booked myself into a laser cutter induction.
We received a booklet on how to use the laser cutter, and then had a go ourselves.
It was fairly straight forward, although there were a few things I thought were worth noting down:
- File format other than the Ethos Software is Adobe Illustrator files and vector images. NOT PDFs because they will not save it in vector format, this is only good for raster images.
- When opening an illustrator file, it's best to copy the design from that file once opened to a blank Ethos file to ensure that all the options are available (default settings available on a blank doc)
- Fonts are not saved on illustrator files, so be sure to create outlines on all text with consideration of stuff that may fall away within the letterforms.
- Be sure to pick the 'laser effects' preset when creating a new doc.
- For images, lower the raster stripe size for more intricate detail.
- Inverse the raster effect when working with acrylic as it goes lighter when engraved.
- The laser cutter is NOT drop in, but booking only.
- To pause the laser cutter at anytime, press the hand symbol button at any time during the job.
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While we were down in the wood workshop, we decided to ask Jake and Matthew about some of the facilities available to us. They told us that we would need to find out which machines would be of use to us and they would be happy to demonstrate and teach us how to use them.
Some of the machines available:
Radial Armsaw
A radial arm saw is a cutting machine consisting of a circular saw mounted on a sliding horizontal arm.
Surface / Thickness planer
A thickness planer (also known in the UK and Australia as a thicknesser or in North America as a planer) is a woodworking machine which is used to create boards that are of an even thickness throughout their length and flat on both surfaces.
Spindle Moulder
spindle moulder in the UK, is a stationary woodworking machine in which a vertically orientated spindle protrudes from the machine table and can be spun at speeds typically between 3000 and 10,000 rpm. Cutter heads may be mounted on the spindle. As the workpiece is fed into the machine, the cutters mould a profile into it. On some shapers, router bits can also be used using a special mounting adapter. The machine normally features a vertical fence, against which the workpiece is guided to control the horizontal depth of cut.
Router
A router is a tool used to rout out (hollow out) an area in the face of a relatively hard workpiece, typically of wood or plastic.
Vaccum Former
Vacuum forming is a simplified version of thermoforming, whereby a sheet of plastic is heated to a forming temperature, stretched onto a convex, or into a concave, single-surface mold, and forced against the mold by a vacuum (suction of air).
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My favourite machine out of all of these are the laser cutter and the vacuum former, as I think that it will be a useful tool when creating packaging, such as blister packaging.
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