Responsive - final week

As a group, we had decided that we would each take an illustration and create a quick mock up of a card design, we would later meet up and discuss what we all wanted to be included on the card. I decided to chose the angler fish.

In my design, I decided to use a blue watercolour background with yellow, hand- drawn typography. 

I decided to add a yellow, textured boarder around the edge of the back of the card where the facts would be. I did this because on the already existing bear card designs, their texts have boarders around them. Because the Bear cards are extremely hard to read because of the amount of text and how small the writing is, I decided just to keep a decent sized paragraph on the card that would be easier to read.

Here was my brief design for the front of the card. I added some little stars in the corner to fill in some of the negative space. I uploaded this brief template to the drive after meeting with my group to discuss everyone's designs.

Bronte came up with this quick mock up of the poster. 

I decided to leave the compositions and the layout process to my group as I started to colour the Illustrations made by Bronte.

For the colours, I referenced real images of the sea creatures in order to keep them realistic. I was told to use block colours as we would add a grainy texture to the images later.

In order to fill the gaps on the mock-up poster, I decided to create different coloured variations of the star fishes. I decided to use these colours as they are exaggerated hues of what star fish actually are, so they would fit in with the other, brightly coloured illustrations.

Here is what Bronte had come up with. Unfortunately, she had decided to not use a watercolour background, yellow text or my Illustration of the octopus. I put forward how there shouldn't really be a main focus on the poster, as from the start we had agreed that we wanted the poster to be full of illustrations. I decided to move the Diver further down the page and fill in the gaps with the fishes.

Sophie took over and added rectangles around the illustrations so we would know if they would overlap, as they are supposed to be stickers that come off the cards, and we don't want them to overlap.

At this point, I took over in order to have an input in the final design as I felt like my inputs so far have become obsolete. Because we needed to include the Bear logo somewhere on the poster, Sophie decided to give him a little snorkel. However, I felt that this kind of bear logo stood out too much against the poster, so I suggested that we use a wider logo.

We decided to go with the written Bear logo instead, and I placed it at the bottom of the page.

These are the final card designs.

These are the final designs for the backs of the cards. I feel as though these designs aren't the best that they could be as my group seemed to lose communication towards the end.

I decided to take it upon myself to put together the final art board for the submission.

I experimented and played around with how the composition should be in the art board. To make it interesting, I decided to add a couple of illustrations in the bottom right hand corner.

This was the first draft of the art board design. I could clearly see that the poster needed to be bigger, so in turn the illustrations at the bottom needed to be made smaller.

Here is our final art board. 

The submission.

As a group we sat down to put together our submission. We coherently explained our concepts as well as how we would successfully execute our concepts if we were to win.

Overall I feel as though this project has been a learning curve in the sense that it was my first time working with people that I didn't know. For the majority of the process, we communicated successfully, and felt as though we were on the same page a lot of the time. However, even though our individual roles were changed throughout as we saw fit, it was difficult at times to understand what each individual wanted as we were all quite shy and reserved people. It was difficult at times for us to know what direction to go in as we didn't really give anyone the role of directing us as we felt that it needed to be a collaborative process. At the beginning I had done a decent amount of illustrations in the style that we wanted, however we didn't pursue these. At one point, I was in charge of creating colour schemes and composition, however none of this was referenced in the final response due to differences. I enjoyed collaborating with my group  as we all got a long and had similar ideas and tastes.