Year 1 BA Illustration and Visual Media Student
To decide what product to create for my consumer I need to research what issues new parents face and what can fix that. I have decided to focus on parents of human babies, although I did briefly consider think about exploring pet or plant parents. I also spoke to a parent who experienced postnatal depression…
Art direction intro – Kalina Pulit Art direction is about communication, its about building a particular aesthetic for a purpose. You present content to a group of people by creating a communication-based experience. Illustrators often work with art directors even if I don’t pursue it as a discipline. I should consider: how does my illustration…
A Prop is any item or object that is used to help create a scene, support a visual concept or message, or add to the overall mood of a photograph. Props add visual depth to a photograph and will be essential for photographing my packaging. It will add context to my photograph and strengthen the…
This is how I developed my design/illustrations for the packaging. These are the initial ideas as seen in earlier sections of my blog I attempted to trace a photo I took of my cardboard net but it didn’t work so I used templatemaker.nl to make one with the correct measurements and it worked much better…
I started to decide on the measurements of my packaging after creating the basis for design. Initially I created a paper test without thinking of measurements. I then decided what I could use as a pretend product I used those measurements to form the final sizing. I took pictures of this and made mock ups…
This is another lesson I did at home. I chose to focus on the connection of water and new parents housing little creatures/ nurturing and growth. I chose to depict imagery of an adult creature with a little creature/ human to display family and home. In this one, the water houses several creatures but the…
I did this class at home because I was still doing the Layered Worlds project so this is my catch up work. Semiotics is a new word to me, despite doing product and packaging design before. But in essence, it is about how meaning is created and shared through imagery. Communicating ideas is big with…
I wasn’t in for the briefing of the new project because I was working on submitting the VPEP project. Anyways, I suddenly felt a bit neurotic so at 2am Ive decided to watch the briefing and make notes. I then wrote that up into a checklist. So i can keep track if I am meeting…
A utopia has perfect technological advancements and in order to research how technology could’ve supposedly advanced i need to look at the most recent discoveries and advancements. The one I first think of is AI, it has really blown up recently being used in Photoshop, ChatGPT and other platforms. There are lots of ethical concerns…
In order to hit the knowledge criteria for my project, I wanted to get a deeper understanding of the tools I will be using to create my final images. I know that I will be using procreate, so I looked at the brushes I use primarily. I did some lines of these to compare the…
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