OUGD 503 - Collaborative - YCN Fedrigoni - Final design and submission

For the collaborative Fedrigoni brief we submitted out design on the day of the deadline with plenty of time to spare. We went through the design boards on the projector in studio three to see if everything was legible and worked when blown up on a large screen. For the design boards we gave each other some boards to work on and a bit of text to accompany the images we took.

As we didn't have enough time to get into the photography studio to take pictures of our final calendar design we created a miniature set up in the studio. I felt the pictures jordan took came out really well after we played around with the levels in photoshop. We already had the design boards with text on so it was just a matter of dropping the images into the boxes we had created on the pages. 

These were the final net designs that would be sent to the laser cutters, we managed to fit them onto a single sheet of A4 which played into the enviromently friendly aspect of the brief.

The final design boards that we submitted are below. 

OUGD 503 - Individual practice - Boardpusher competition #2

The second board pusher competition was based on the theme of Vikings, this could be anything to do with vikings, from the culture or the weapons to they're boats or settlements. I started by making some sketches but I felt I wanted to have a more digital take on this project because the first boardpusher skateboard I designed was illustrative. 

I decided I wanted to base my designs around the old viking ships because I feel this is one of the most recognisable features of the vikings. 

The shape is very recognisable and also the sails, classically they were red checkered but through history this has been distorted for one reason or another and now they can been seen as being striped.

I came across some viking based design which was something that I wanted to use as inspiration for my design, alongside this I looked at viking tapestries that tell stories of the time through pictures. I tried to combine the two quite contrasting styles to come up with something I felt unique.

I used the illustrator pen tool to create my designs, this was a good method because it meant I could move objects about and change the colour with ease to achieve the result I was looking for.

I did several variations of the board I eventually went with the square image in the middle because I felt it fitted with the board design the best using the circular images to fit with the ends of the board.

I finished of the design on the website by adding a dark maroon background to reflect the colour of wood used on the original viking ships.