Week 28 Work Review
As this was the final week of the project there was not a lot of work left to do. I spent all my time arranging my files and making sure...
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Aug 20, 20201 min read
Week 27 Work Review
Luckily at the beginning of the week, the book arrived. I was delighted that the book arrived, but unfortunately, there were a few...
Aug 18, 20201 min read
Final Book Design
For the final book design, I wanted to tie both graphics and illustration together. The cover simply has the logo in the center. For the...
Aug 17, 20201 min read
Final Tattoo Designs
Here is the final tattoo designs for each participant. Participant A Participant B Participant C Participant D Participant E Participant F
Aug 13, 20201 min read
Week 26 Work Review
This week I spent a lot of time tidying up the loose ends of my project. I want to make sure I have all the essential design work done. I...
Aug 10, 20201 min read
Tattooing the design
For the purpose of demonstration, I decided to tattoo one of the designs onto fake skin to see if it worked well on the "skin". The fake...
Aug 6, 20202 min read
Week 25 Work Review
This week I focused on designing posters for the backing of my exhibition piece. I wanted to create posters that were inviting and helped...
Aug 4, 20202 min read
Poster Design
The posters were initially for the backdrop of the exhibition as seen in the exhibition plan. I had planned to have 3 posters backing the...
Aug 3, 20201 min read
Poster Design
I wanted to have a look at posters for breast cancer campaigns but also campaigns about empowering women. Here are some of the posters I...
Jul 30, 20202 min read
Week 24 Work Review
With the business cards complete, the first thing that needed to be done was to send the book to print. The book needed to be sent off as...
Jul 25, 20201 min read
Tattoos on the body
Using photoshop I applied the tattoos to the skin to show what they could potentially look like.
Jul 23, 20202 min read
Week 23 Work Review
As the book was finalised last week, it was time to focus on the extra elements to the project, for example, the business cards. Although...
Jul 21, 20201 min read
Business Card Prototyping
Beginning prototyping business cards. As the concept for the design of the book is going to be square I decided to experiment with the...
Jul 16, 20202 min read
Week 22 Work Review
After completing the tattoo designs last week, I moved onto creating the layout of the book. I began doing this by researching book...
Jul 15, 20201 min read
Fully Populated book
After finalising the layout I then populated the book with all the relevant images and information.
Jul 13, 20202 min read
Book Layout
Initially, I had a layout concept for the book where the tattoo designs would illustrate the pages. For example. Although I did quite...
Jul 9, 20202 min read
Week 21 Work Review
This week I had worked on the final set of revisions for the tattoo designs. Looking back from the first week of designs I hadn’t...
Jul 8, 20201 min read
Talking to a Tattoo Artist
Through researching, I came across a tattoo artist from England who focuses on scar covering tattoos especially breast cancer scar...
Jul 3, 20203 min read
Week 20 Work Review
At the beginning of the week, I decided to take a break from designing tattoos. I wanted to create some motion graphics for the landing...
Jul 3, 20201 min read
Motion Graphics
I decided I wanted to experiment with some motion graphics for my landing page. This is a simple animation of the title appearing on...
Jul 2, 20201 min read
Participant F Third Design
For participant F, I had redrawn the moth design with ornate beaded lacework included also the design included some jewels and more...
Jul 1, 20201 min read
Participant E Third Design
For participant E I had initially completely redrawn the design. I changed from the buddha head to the full body. I decided to go with...
Jun 30, 20201 min read
Participant D Third Design
Participant D’s feedback was that she really liked the design but she just wanted to see a bit more of the lioness she had asked him...
Jun 29, 20201 min read
Participant C Third Design
Participant C had asked for some simple revisions she wanted the Tigers head to look less aggressive and emphasize more on the beauty of...
Jun 28, 20201 min read
Participant B Third Design
After the initial changes participant B had asked for I had redesigned the tattoo with emphasis on the snake looking more like a snake I...
Jun 27, 20201 min read
Participant A Third Design
For participant A I had simplified the design as she requested the design now consists of two roses and a lot more foliage the design...
Jun 25, 20202 min read
Week 19 Work Review
Last week I sent off the first designs to the participants to get their feedback on them. This was very important to me as I wanted to...
Jun 24, 20201 min read
Participant F Second Design
Participant F simply requested a more ornate and decorative moth design to show off her feminine side. She had asked if I could include...
Jun 23, 20201 min read
Participant E Second Design
Participant E had requested a lot of changes to her design. She had asked for a completely new design as she did not like the initial...
Jun 22, 20201 min read
Participant D Second Design
Participant D’s feedback was very helpful, she had simply asked that I changed the design from a lion to a lioness to embrace her...
Jun 21, 20201 min read
Participant C Second Design
Participant C’s design needs a good bit of work she was not too keen on it being the full body of the Tiger. she felt that this was too...
Jun 21, 20201 min read
Timescale
As I am resubmitting my project in August this is my new timescale for the project. June 22nd Start Date June 22nd - July 5th Rework all...
Jun 20, 20201 min read
Participant B Second Design
Participants B generally liked the design, but she was not too keen on the snake, she felt it was too worm-like. From her feedback, I was...
Jun 19, 20201 min read
Participant A Second Design
Participant A had some simple requests for revisions. The initial design had six roses in various sizes following a curve. She had...
May 21, 20201 min read
Business Card Design & Merchandise
I created simple business cards and apparel to go alongside the project. This would serve marketing purposes and get the project's name...
May 17, 20202 min read
Logo Design
I had originally designed thing logo for my major project. Although I do like the minimalism of the design I feel as it is too distant...
May 15, 20202 min read
Week 18 Work Review
This week majority of my time was spent drawing up designs for each participant based on the mood board I had created last week. I feel...
May 14, 20201 min read
Participant F Initial Design
Participant F, I began by looking over her responses to the questionnaire followed by looking at the mind maps and mood board created for...
May 13, 20201 min read
Participant E Initial Design
Participant D, I began by looking over her responses to the questionnaire followed by looking at the mind maps and mood board created for...
May 12, 20201 min read
Participant D Initial Design
Participant D, I began by looking over her responses to the questionnaire followed by looking at the mind maps and mood board created for...
May 11, 20201 min read
Participant C Initial Design
Participant C, I began by looking over her responses to the questionnaire followed by looking at the mind maps and mood board created for...
May 10, 20201 min read
Participant B Initial Design
Participant B, I began by looking over her responses to the questionnaire followed by looking at the mind maps and mood board created for...
May 9, 20201 min read
Participant A Initial Design
Participant A, I began by looking over her responses to the questionnaire followed by looking at the mind maps and mood board created for...
May 9, 20202 min read
Week 17 Work Review
Last week I focused on making mind maps for each participant. This was done using their responses to the questions asked in the...
May 8, 20201 min read
Participant F Moodboard
From asking Participant F If you were to have a tattoo designed for you based on your journey what would be important elements to be...
May 7, 20201 min read
Participant E Moodboard
From asking Participant E If you were to have a tattoo designed for you based on your journey what would be important elements to be...
May 6, 20201 min read
Participant D Moodboard
From asking Participant D If you were to have a tattoo designed for you based on your journey what would be important elements to be...
May 5, 20201 min read
Participant C Moodboard
From asking Participant C If you were to have a tattoo designed for you based on your journey what would be important elements to be...
May 4, 20201 min read
Participant B Moodboard
From asking Participant B If you were to have a tattoo designed for you based on your journey what would be important elements to be...
May 3, 20201 min read
Participant A Moodboard
From asking Participant A If you were to have a tattoo designed for you based on your journey what would be important elements to be...
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