Final 'New' Poster

I made some adjustments to the poster to make it look more presentable. I used Photoshop to cut the main image out and placed it on a clean, white background in Illustrator. Here I reapplied the music stave to the image and added text that was neater and placed in a more balanced position to the rest of the design.

The process of using Adobe definitely aided the final presentation of my poster, plus it completed tasks fast, helping time keeping. I was glad that I was still able to use my hand drawn design too, as it personalises something that could otherwise look quite cold. Because I photographed the original design instead of scanning it there is some discolouration to the "E", which does bring the quality of the image down. However, I do believe that the message trying to be communicated is still graspable.

3DD: Final Bridge

This is the final bridge that we made as a group, taking inspiration from our design ideas we done in our sketchbooks. Overall, the bridge was not very successful as it collapsed underneath the weight of a remote control car, travelling across it. We used cardboard and sticks to make the bridge.

If I were to build the bridge again I would have compact the sticks together more to toughen the frame of the bridge.

3DD: Bridge Project

These are 5 ideas for bridges that I made in my sketchbook, not necessarily practical/functional, but encouraging innovative ideas and different styles. Each bridge is supposed to fold up easily in my book, which most do, apart from idea 3 and 5.  

3DD: Protection Results

This is a before (birds eye view) and after of my Spaghetti structure. The second photo demonstrates the destructive results of the basketball's impact.

You can see that from the outside the structure seemed to have held it's shape rather well. However, the protection mainly held the spaghetti in place, but did not manage to prevent the pieces braking. In order to improve the design I would have to create a stronger shield that surrounds the entire structure.

3DD: Protection

Adding to the Spaghetti project, I used paper in an effort to protect the fragile structure from the impact of a basketball bouncing upon it. I rapped it around the structure and stuffed it within the frame.

3DD: Spaghetti Structure Sketch

This is a quick sketch of the Spaghetti structure I made, featured in the previous post.

3DD: Spaghetti Structure

This project involved using the idea generation exercise to produce a number of designs for a structure made from 20 pieces of spaghetti and a glue gun, which could hold 3 plastic balls. The sketches seen here are my initial ideas of which the 5th one I base my final structure on. The structure managed to hold each ball, however, would not stay upright for long without blue tac. I also wish I used more spaghetti to strengthen it's aesthetic value.

3DD: Cardboard Chair

The task was to make a structure that could support all of your weight from at least 30cm off the ground and can fold flat, using 4 pieces of cardboard. Apart from looking slightly like a toilet my "chair" effectively held my weight and folded flat. However, any extra weight would cause it to buckle.

3DD: Bottle Holder

The task was to build an 'interesting' structure, taking note of not just practicality but aesthetics too, using a piece of A1 paper and and an allocated about of selotape. I went for a triangular shape as it is classified as a strong structural shape. However, the design didn't work because the paper was too flexible and the structure was crushed under the weight of the water bottle. If I were to redesign this I would work on trying to make the paper stronger.

3DD: Idea Generation Exercise

This quick exercise proved to be a handy way of producing innovative ideas, fast. It required making random marks/drawings, then changing then into something e.g. draw your favourite fruit, then turn it into a rabbit hutch. These images are the outcome of this exercise.
It proved to be great preparation for the task I were to do in the 3DD pathway, allowing me to think more about idea rather than practicality.

Time Line (Final idea)

Final composition: I felt this was the most visually pleasing image out of all of them. However, it would have been more affective if I used a different surface - other than carpet - such as, a larger sheet of white paper. This would direct the viewers attention more to the pieces rather than their surroundings. Overall, I wasn't too happy with the outcome of my final timeline. I believe the concept of it was good, but it didn't translate as well visually. Perhaps this is because of the way I chose to present it (in individual comic frames).

Time Line: Composition development

Comic composition: Here I have ordered each emotion chronologically, creating a clearer sense of change over time, with a slightly better aesthetic.