Week Four

This week on Monday we had interim presentation where we looked at everyone's work. It was nice to see how other people have reacted to the brief. We also got into pairs and gave feedback on our work and what we can do to improve it. 

What I got from this was that I needed to make it more obvious that my locations are for a picnic. Also to add more colour to one of my location spreads. I have continued to develop my location spreads and fine tune the look and feel of my brochure.

Week Three

This week we began to brainstorm how we want to layout the spreads for and did this by using the thumbnail handouts provided by the tutors. We were tasked with showing on these thumbnails what we would do with the text using the columns on the thumbnails and how they work with the imagery we intended to use for our spread. Jason gave me a starting point of how I could layout my text and imagery and I continued on from there. I am still looking at design artist models. 
I am working towards creating 2 destination spreads and the topic overview for the interim presentation, following the artist model styles I have been looking at. 
I am interested in including illustrations in my design. Not so much hand drawn illustration but tracing over images on a computer.

Week Two

This week we were tasked with doing a series of quick sketches of the look of our site, and also aspects and feelings of our site. We were required to use different materials such as pencil, pen and charcoal. We had a limited amount of time to do each sketch which forced me to think and work quickly. 
I then continued to research my sites, and then changed one of my sites, which was Central Park, to the Botanic Garden. 
This week we were required to put together collages of our sites and look at visual styles we liked. 
We were then tasked with looking at design books and finding layouts that show certain adjectives that the tutors provided. This helped me seeing how some designers went about expressing different feelings and looks in their works. 
I will continue to play with collage and finding the right style for my brochure.

Week One

This week began work on our first assignment. This assignment required us to create a 12 page brochure that promotes 3 activities or destinations in Wellington. In class on Monday after the lecture we got in groups and brainstormed possible activity destinations in Wellington. These destinations had to relate to one of three categories which were Sports and Recreation, Food and Drink and Arts and Culture. I was initially interested in picking good swimming locations within Wellington, but then I decided to look at locations to have a picnic. 

I then started work on my matrix which i did on tourist attractions, good swimming spots and best picnic spots, the later of which i have chosen to do my brochure on. I also started to research possible locations for picnic sites, which are Waitangi Park, Central Park and Mount Victoria.