Category: Project 2_Design Research and Development

Design Explorations

As concept 3 was the weakest concept I have, I chose to further work and digitalize on concept 1 & 2, and came up with these.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For Concept 1 (Left), I used slides, to show the fluid movement of design and creativity and to show that it is fun and playful. I also tried to put the title “SDW” inside, by having the slide as S, pool as D and the deck chairs as W.

For Concept 2 (Right), I wanted to use the architecture of Singapore to talk about the advancement of design in Singapore, and to use the neon effect to show futurism.

feedback:

The humans in concept 1 looks pretty weird as they are all the same and very robotic (hahaha) but it was just a mini draft I did up to show that there will be humans in there!

I should play out more, make it more playful and interesting, and add more colours. As there’s only one slide now, it seems finite instead of endless. If I want to use letters, maybe I should make them into floats.

Concept 2 is definitely a no go and I should just focus on concept 1.

From these feedback, I went back and started drafting a few more layouts for Concept 1.

I decided to focus and digitalize the left sketch as my final as I think that there it shows more creative elements and “fun” due to it being seen as a water playground.

I did it up with stroke on Illustrator first, without adding in colours for the elements.

Next up, I added colours into the elements and started playing around with the fonts.

draft 1

draft 2

draft 3

draft 4

Amongst all, I preferred Draft 1 and showed it to the class.

Feedback (for draft 1):

Slogan and Singapore Design Week seems to be fighting with each other as they are of same size. Body text can be smaller for breathing space. Can shrink down to lock the space. Can have a greater affinity with creativity, add more creative elements as now there’s too much summer parts. – maybe diving / water splashing / paint.

Can emerge colourful after sliding?

Can have a common pool, as a gathering point where people converge? Pool can be colourful? Shift location of slogan to form it in the pool, can have some humans holding the words. Bring in some of the play.

Design Refinement

From the feedback, I tried to incorporate and add in the comments mentioned by everyone.

I came up with a rough draft.

I think the humans holding the boards showing the dates and Singapore design week worked really well, but the pool seems abit weird and messy due to the colours.

I tweaked it around and changed it having a blue pool, and when the humans jump in, there’s extra colours (to show them bringing creativity into the pool)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Initially, I was thinking if I should go ahead with a pale blue background or yellow background, but I think that the yellow background shows more contrast!

I presented the following to the class:

feedback:

Many preferred the one with the purple slide sliding the words Singapore Design Week. Watch out for the body text, can afford to be smaller, and it’s not as readable now, can be cleaner. There’s too many humans, can cut down for breathing space. Currently very cluttered. As I had orange slides for some and yellow slides, many agreed that yellow slide is better. Can shrink down to 80% of the current artwork, focus more on the main areas. There’s perspective issues for the purple slide, need to work on that. Can shift the placement of the slogan in the pool to make it more fun.

With all the feedback I’ve got, I edited it and am done with my final artwork!

Stay tuned for the next post to see my final work!

Till then,
Flazéda!
jamz
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The Brief: Singapore’s design landscape is evolving. Over the past decades, the types of design practices have expanded and contributed to Singapore’s economy and nation development. The DesignSingapore Council and was set up in 2003 to support and grow the bubbling design sectors. To further celebrate the imagination of design practices, the Singapore Design Week was launched in 2013.

Task: To conceptualize and create a poster that’s appropriate for the Singapore Design Week 2019.

Your poster should include the following:

• Singapore Design Week 2019;
• A Slogan (of no more than five words) that captures and reflects the aims of the event.
• 04-17 March 2019
• Singapore Design Week champions design thought leadership by bringing the design, business, and public policy worlds together to answer how they can intersect better to bring about needed innovation and solutions to build businesses, engage communities and enrich people’s lives. Save the date!

Preliminary Design

I first drafted out a mind-map and some ideas upon receiving the project brief.

However, I felt that it was too simple and too little information, and I went to work more in-depth on it! I then came up with more detailed ones.

While doing the mind map, I kept my mind and thoughts games, penning down everything I thought of and researched on regarding Singapore Design Week.

But, there was a thought that kept popping up in my mind

does creativity ends? is there a limit to creativity?

And I decided to target on that question I asked myself, as I’m sure that many people ask / think that way too.

From my mind map, I came up with three concepts

I started working more on each individual concept to see what ideas / thoughts I want to direct each concept to.

concept 1 : design playground

This concept is mostly targeted to question of having an end on creativity, and if creative boundaries can be pushed. I feel that this is very relevant to Singapore Design Week as every year, designers try to innovate and come up with fresh and creative concepts. But the audience does not really know the tough times behind the design they see.
Coming up with concepts and executing is not as easy as it seems. We need to constantly update and inspire ourselves to ensure that our creative minds are always working!!

Therefore, having the Singapore Design Week is a way for designers to work to push their creative boundaries to greater height – for their personal value, and also to help Singapore move up the ladder of being a design hub.

I wanted this to be more of an illustrative style and incorporating “SDW” the text if possible, but not in a direct manner.

concept 1 – moodboard

concept 2: design community’s future

This concept is targeted towards the design community and working together for Singapore’s future. It’s a lot on evolving, technological advancement, development and planning.

As it’s related to future, I wanted to work on a theme that is more futuristic – neons / cyberpunk / sci-fi kind of look.

concept 2 – moodboard

concept 3: loveable city

This concept focuses more on societal benefits and the public community of Singapore. Design is used as a movement to express thoughts freely and help with social issues. I want to focus on how design can help enrich people’s lives and gives them an emotional connection.

HOWEVER, I’m having a creative block with execution on this concept and what I have is pretty bad now, but I’m working on it!!!

CONCEPT 3 – MOODBOARD

All these are just a basic summary of my ideas / thoughts and I will proceed to talk about my final concept soon!

Till then,
Flazéda!
jamz
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