Week 3.1

Week 3.1

14^th March

Grids and composition

I thought that the lecture on grids and compositions was very helpful, as I have never really had to create my own grids and guides before.  It gave me a good understanding of a starting point for my brochure and the knowledge and ability to develop it further.

We were given a thumbnail grid to start exploring compositions that included the text provided, our collages and our own text. I thought the physical drawing of compositions was a helpful way to start thinking about the overall design of our brochures.

Over the week I had started to move from physical collage to creating my collages and imagery on Photoshop and illustrator. I felt this gave me a lot more freedom to create collages that started to work together, by altering the same ones over and over again rather than starting new. It also gave me the ability to look back at past collages I had created, and see what was working and what needed to be developed further. 

We also had a chance to walk around the studio to look at other peoples work and have a group discussion about what was working and what was not. After the group discussions I could see that my collages were still lacking the connection between the three destinations, overall the collage style was working but the individual visual material was not linking them together.