Design Principles / Exercise 3

Henry Lim Chin Xin
0349490
Bachelor of Design in Creative Media
Class 01 Sec 01

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RECAP:

Week 5:

We are required to choose TWO principles from Harmony / Unity / Symbol / Word and Image. Produce 1 design for each chosen principle. Previuosly from the lecture, I asked what's the differences between Harmony and Unity, Mr. Charles explained it clearly and also do some sketches about them. I clearly get the explanation and I decided to create Unity and Symbol deisgn.

Unity: A goup of things go to the same way

Symbol: A sign, shape, or object that is used to represent something else

can provide or convey information, equivalent to one or more sentences of text, or even a whole story 

Week 6:

Continue doing.

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*No visual research, all is imagination

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[ Exercise 3 - Unity & Symbol ]

Unity

First, my idea is a prince of sea is going to born in the icean and all sea creatures swimming around him, waiting him to wake up.

Fig 1.1 Price's Structure

Fig 1.2 Fish Sketch

Fig 1.3 Jelly Fish Sketch

Fig 1.4 Shark Sketch

Fig 1.5 Prince Sketch

After I done the sketches, I found out the prince is too ugly and it doesn't make sense of born in the ocean. So, I decided to change it to egg, sea dragon king's egg.

Fig 1.6 Egg Sketch

After done the sketching, I start do it with pen tool and start colouring.

Fig 1.7 Egg First Edition

Fig 1.8 Egg First Edition with Shadow

For the first edition, I found out the core is not too outstanding. So, I change its color.

Fig 1.9 Egg Second Edition

Fig 1.10 Egg Second Edition with Shadow

After the egg, now is the fishy~

Fig 1.11 Fish

For the fish, I changed its gradient every single fish according the light source of my background.

Next, is jelly fish.

Fig 1.12 Jelly Fish

I change the opacity of its body for jelly fish's transparency. ( Body: 50%, Tentacle: 75% )

Final creature, shark.

Fig 1.13 Shark

I use gradient for shark's body for showing out the real shark's blue and white body colour but I use light blue instead of white becuase of adding some aesthetic sense.

Fig 1.14 Final Outcome JPG

Fig 1.15 Final Outcome PDF

Symbol

For symbol, the first thing I think is the [No Smoking] symbol. So, I change it with my style.

Fig 2.1 My Idea

Fig 2.2 Symbol 1 Final Outcome JPG

The red thing is simulate when smoking,  the tobacco will turning red.

Fig 2.3 Symbol 1 Final Outcome PDF

However, nowadays, even though some people still smoking cigaratte, but e-cigaratte/vape is rising in teens' life. Therefore, i create a modern version of [No Smoking] symbol.

Fig 2.4 Symbol 2 Final Outcome JPG

I use the shape of the most famous vape brand, flow as the picture below.

Fig 2.5 Reference Picture

( link: FLOW vape - Bing images )

Fig 2.6 Symbol 2 Final Outcome PDF