Today in the morning I produced some extra pages within my sketch-book and was given a brief to produce a 350 word essay based on my most influential artists/designer for this project. I'm not 100% sure who I will base this on yet but I will keep you up to date with progress in later blog posts.
Also today I decided to speak to Kathryn about my design/tracing. I wanted to incorporate larger hexagons with a 'Queen Bee' in the middle, surrounded by smaller 'Worker Bees' with a tiled hexagon backdrop. After giving Kathryn this information she said she would come up with the appropriate and accurate measurements for my design, as we had some minor issues trying to work out how big the hexagons where going to have to be to fit onto a screen and how it was to be repeated.
30/04/2014
During today I decided to design my creative business cards. So far I have come up with the idea of hexagon shaped business cards; however that is as far as my ideas have come but I will keep you up to date with later posts, as next I am wanting to begin producing my corporate business cards.
After looking into business cards I went and spoke to Kathryn to see what she had come up with for my design; below is an image of what she had created for me. However after the time Kathryn spent creating this for me which I really appreciate, Graphics paid her a visit and said how using a MAC computer and the software Adobe Illustrator, we could make my design sharper, neater and more accurate for repeating. So after Kathryn experimented on Illustrator she gave me to go ahead for creating my design this way. Which takes us tooooooo......
02/05/2014
So then, today was the day I produced too prints design on Adobe Illustrator and if I'm honest I was a bit apprehensive as I have never ever used Adobe Illustrator; however I had the best help form Kathryn and Paul. Once we got started we created the easiest layer, which was the larger hexagons and as Kathryn had already produced the measurements all we had to do was apply 3 Hexagons with them measurements into Adobe Illustrator. We then produced what will be printed as my first layer the tiled backdrop of Hexagons. However this was a little harder as we couldn't at first tile them into what will be a repeated pattern as the sizes were not accurate to the square diameter of my design, therefore after trying a few different smaller hexagon sizes we decided to enlarge by a few millimeter the size of my whole designs diameter, which was a success! We successfully repeated my design both vertically and horizontally! All that was now left to do on Adobe Illustrator was to scan in my Honey Bee template (as seen in the image below slightly) and dissect them into layers and jigsaw them into my larger hexagons. The layers I want my Bee's in is the outline of body and legs, the inside of these sections and the wings as another layer. Once everything that was to be done on Adobe Illustrator was done, each layer (apart from bees) was to be printed onto a roll of film, this was so my design was already repeated vertically ready to be exposed onto a screen. However another problem occurred the roll of film was only available in the size of A3, which was not larger enough for my design therefore we had 4 parts of each layer printed on separate pieces of A2 film (acetate) (seen in images below). Once this had been done Kathryn hand cut and re-attached segments back together to create the vertically repeated design ready to be exposed onto a screen. I know how much time this took Kathryn and I am extremely thankful for her time and dedication to it.
Hand drawn design.
The layers being cut apart for re-attachment into repeat.
Cut segments being put together for repeat.
First layer cut a put back together to be exposed onto a screen as a ready done vertical repeat.
The second layer cut and put back together to be exposed onto a screen as a ready done vertical repeat.
Both completed layers ready to be exposed onto separate screens. This is how my design will look when printed (but in colour)
Excess pieces I will take and use through samples of mixed media.
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