Week Five

This week I began work on making the map for my 3 locations. what I wanted to do trace over roads, public parks and water to show the city. I played with the idea of using an icon of a picnic basket to point out my three picnic locations, but ultimately I decided to use different coloured circles to represent different locations. 
I have decided that the illustration I was going for is not working in my brochure and have begun removing those elements from my work and working more with image and icons in my brochure, almost completely changing the look of my brochure yet keeping the soft and subtle look my previous work had.

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.