Develop and Finalize

After choosing my color schemes, I ended up doing the switching of the patterns, and I felt a lot less confident about the whole project. Both of my designs felt very plain and spaced out. For awhile I just played around with my designs to try and figure out where I wanted things to go, and how I wanted it to look.

I ended up deciding my tail should be repeating, one under the other, four times down and my snowflake go in kind of a checker board patter, with three rows. I liked the way the both looked but I still thought the looked really plain. In class, we did peer reviews, and it helped a little bit, but I didn’t really get useful input back.

I’m not trying to be rude, but all my comments were just fats about my iterations, and didn’t say whether they were good things or bad things. But even one thing was clear to the others, my designs were too plain. I knew I needed something else so I ended up deciding to add things in the middle of them.

For my lizard tail I thought for awhile what to do. I knew I wanted to give it more of a jungle feeling, as well as cut off the abrupt ending of the tail. I tested out different leaves that I wanted to do, and ended up choosing the most jungle feeling. I wish I would’ve kept the leaf progress, but I ended up deleting all of the other leaves I tested. I just enlarged the leaves, put them in the middle of all the tails, and made them the two greens of the dots on the tail. I made the darker green the border and middle of the leaf while the lighter green became the filling.

For the snowflake, I spent two hours trying to figure out what to do. I tried putting wavy white lines between the flakes, I tries putting ribbons with diamonds. I tried putting banners with circles, and even tried putting my own circle chain across in between each row. I ended up deciding to just space out evenly sized circles between the rows, and alternating the two least used colors of the snowflake, which were both darker, muted blue. I really enjoyed the outcome of this, and it gave the whole thing a chevron look.

I ended up transferring these to vectr on my iPad, and did the whole final layout on there since you can’t save as a pdf on the laptop software. After I put it together I really fell in love with both of my final outcomes and still think that this is my favorite project for BOTH design labs so far all year. I hope you love my designs as much as I ended up loving them.

 

 

Learn & Research

I knew from the beginning of this project that this one would be my favorite so far. As soon as we listened to the project about color, it brought me back to a TedTalk I watched about why certain colors make you feel certain feelings, the TedTalk that made me know I wanted to do some kind of design.

When we started researching our patterns in nature, I was surprised at how many of them I thought of right off the bat, and how unique they were. My favorite ones were the lava and the pool water, but I didn’t end up choosing them because of the simplistic models that I thought of for them.

I ended up choosing the snowflake for my symmetric and the chameleon tail for my asymmetric patterns. Both of the options I chose were my individual components analyses. The snow flake ended up being my more static option and the tail was more dynamic, because your eyes followed the leading lines which created a lot of movement.

Iterate

This part of the project was my personal favorite. I ended up downloading vectr onto my Ipad (which actually helped a lot and was easier to use) and pretty much tested out color schemes there. I looked up color schemes with words including “cold” or “jungle” and pretty much tried to use colors that created a nice feeling.

To start off, I just layers all the colors I found on top of each other and then lines them up to see what would look good together. Then I chose 4-5 of those colors to be the ending color scheme that I would test out in my design selections.

For the snowflake, I used one color options that were very muted blue colors with a harsh yellow as the background. The blues reminded me of snow and cold and I wanted a contrasting background for them. I chose very cold blues and purples as another with a sharp, cold pink as the background. I did this for the same reason, that the blues and purples felt very snowy and I wanted the background to be opposite. Lastly, I chose all blues and greens to go with a very winter theme. I ended up choosing the first one.

For the tail, I chose a very funky bunch of colors, because Chameleons can turn into all kinds of funky colors. This included some magenta, pink, orange, blue and green. I ended up feeling very mediocre about this one, but a lot better about the other ones. For one of them, I did a a pink background, a tail made of of two greens, with different colored pink dots. I did this because I feel like greens, pinks, and reds are easy colors to find in a jungle. I then did one with a light blue background with a light pink and purple tail with green dots. I did this because it was kind of like the previous one, but the colors were more pastel and muted, and let off more of a warm and wondrous feeling, which was what I was going for. That is the one I ended up choosing. I was very happy with both of my outcomes.