2D-Principles-and-Squares

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DRAFT

Draft 2D

Listed above is my first draft that I presented to the class in our critiques. Going into the critiques, I knew that there was a lot for me to correct and make better. One thing that I knew I needed to fix was the text, and the others being some of my elements/principles that didn’t make a lot of sense. For order, my table told me that it would make more sense for the squares to be touching at the top and bottom, so I made that change there. For tension, the only thing they would change was to make the “falling square” less tilted, so I decided to play with that. Next was playful, they didn’t say that they would change anything so I decided to keep that idea. Then increase, which they said to make the bottom square touch the bottom left corner. For congested, the only thing they recommended was to play around with the tiny squares, so I adjusted them a little bit to make them more “squished”. Lastly for bold, I told them how my idea was to use the word bold with size rather than color, which they understood but they agreed that it didn’t come off as bold.

Draft2Increase

Listed above is showing how I fixed both the order section and the increase section. For order, I put the bottom square touching the bottom, and for increase I put the bottom square also touching the bottom left corner. This was still my draft.

BoldOptionDraft

Listed above is what I was playing around with for bold. I decided to redo Bold completely and figure out a new design. This is what I was playing around with a while before I came to what I wanted to use in the end.

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FINAL

Final1Bold

Attached above is the first part of my final work, for some reason there was a bug whenever I used the mask tool that would make one of the squares all black, so I have to post 2 separate PDFs. This one is showing my final including what I did with Bold. I arranged 4 squares in a way that made a shape that was not a square to stand out while being white.

Final2Increase

This link shows the final piece including increase, where the top right biggest square goes off the page, and the bottom left smallest square is right on the corner.

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ANALYZE

ReworkedCongested

Reworked 1

Reworked 2

Attached above I have PDF’s of my reworked elements. I narrowed down each category from fifteen to the two that worked the best for that word. In the photos, the word that describes each image is shown on the side with arrows. (Congested was left out somehow and had to be put in the moleskin). From here I picked my favorite out of each six and reworked them even more for my final draft. I really enjoyed working with Vectornator. It was a lot easier to play with the placement, sizes and arrangements than it is drawing each one separately.

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NOTES

Notes Part 1 Notes Part 2

The links above titled “Notes Part 1” and “Notes Part 2” are notes that I took for my iterations and also notes I took in class while we were working on our 72 drawings. I have included a few rough sketches of some ideas I had before I put my ideas onto the tracing paper, and these have arrows indicating which element that I thought they incorporated. I was stumped at first trying to think of ideas for these drawings, but the notes in class helped me a lot. Another thing that helped me was doing the research on the different elements prior to this class. Things such as the synonyms helped me think in a different way. Once I got started with the drawings, it felt much easier to go off of what I thought in the previous drawing. This definitely challenged me at first, but I ended up loving this part of the assignment!

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ITERATIONS

Bold

Congested

Increase

Order

Playful

Tension

All of the links shown above will take you to PDF’s of each element with all of the ideas that I came up with before reworking them. In each PDF, there are stars on a few of the squares, and these are the ones that I reworked eventually.

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REWORKED

PlayfulTensionOrderReworked

BoldIncreasePlayfulReworked

The links above show each of the six elements that I reworked and made more understanding. These were just rough drafts of what I thought could make them better in the end.

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EXERCISE

These are my sketches for each of the element combinations that we covered in class. I have two of each listed, right next to each other on each page. I really enjoyed this exercise, I liked the challenge of not only finding one example of the combinations, but two of each. While trying to think of examples, I found myself trying to think of all of the graphic designs I’ve seen that incorporate all of the elements we were given. I never realized how many of them use the same type of elements to convey their message. The two links titled “drawing 1” and “drawing 2” will take you to the images of my examples of the combinations of the elements.

drawing 1  drawing 2

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