After the completion of our projects dealing with pictographs, our visual communication class needed to move on. We spent a day or so learning the basic ins and outs of In Design. It seems like a really neat program. I can definitely see how handy it would be for multiple page layouts. We have the option for using it in our next project, but I'm going to see how far I can go in AI first.
Our assignment is to develop a 8.5" x 11" poster for one of the events at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. We need to include some of the game's history, the rules, and the times of broadcast for here in the United States.
Naturally, the first step of the design process is to come up with a batch of thumbnail sketches as a method of brainstorming. I chose three different sports with which to come up with 20 different poster designs. First, I chose soccer because of my love for the sport. My other choices were archery and table tennis. Archery because I've always thought it was pretty cool, and ping pong because I think it's under appreciated.
I like my thumbnails on the whole. On the whole, I think these are stronger than my last bunch. I particularly liked most of the soccer ones. The only problem is that I felt that they would be more successful if they were designs for the FIFA World Cup (ex. the one where it is the world fading into a soccer ball). After talking with Adrienne, I decided to work with the design that placed an image of China in place one of the panels on a soccer ball ( It would be even better if we were working with France, but you can't have everything).
As for the archery and ping pong designs, I think that the designs chosen were definitely the best available (the quiver and the math problem). All that remains to do now is to develop these into some rough designs for Friday 29th.
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