Week 4 & 5: Class Overview

Week 4

1. Recap of conceptual elements

2. Visual elements

a. Shape

- outline outward appearance of form / design

- antagonist vs protagonist

b. Size

- influence focal points of pictures

- create movements, depth

c. Colour

- hues and neutrals

- tonal and chromatic variations

- grey is a type of neutral colour

- give a sense or feeling by using different colour palettes

d. Texture

- create feeling

- silky, rough, bumpy, metallic, sandy

e. Direction

- using line or shape

- suggest a way to look at things

f. Space

- create depth

- create layer, ground floor, middle, background

- tone create depth

g. Gravity

- psychological illusion

- heaviness to lightness, stability and instability of shapes

h. Form

- important in 2D

- can be 2D & 3D but appears in 2D

- 2 groups of form:

   Natural form / Representational form: exist by nature, exp: animal, plants

   Abstract form / Artificial form: Human-made, exp: camera, book

3. Exercise: Natural & man-made illustration

- Find objects needed in the study space i want to create

- 5 natural, 5 man-made

- draw it as simple as it can, like an icon, easy to understand

- can have various elements but only focus on one element

- point, line, shape, volume

4. Study space concept

Week 5 (25/10/23)

Exercise progress:

Adobe Illustrator tutorial:

Objective: Learn to use Illustrator

Task: Create several patterns in class

Problem: Do not have a laptop

Solution: My classmate Sze Ching lend me her laptop and we share it together in class. 

Final outcome:

Online class - Assignment briefing (26/10/3023):

- Can join as a group or individual

- Can have several room / floors

- Participants might have different age, different cultures, target your user

- Research about target user

- Create an experience that is inclusive, memorable and engaging

- What type of experience you want to create?

- physical environment, social interaction, emotional response, cultural context

- experience that is meaningful and purposeful

- how to create an impactful environment for the user

- profession, race, age

- what category - science

- project schedule: who responsible for certain parts, complete at what time

- Budget and resources: what software needed - blender, illustrator, laptop, etc.

- Objective: exp, I want the user to spend time here and bring more people in.

- create a metaverse using a platform

- every platform has weakness and strength, have to explore it yourself

- signage included

- concept

- digital touchpoints

5. Assignment brief: 

- Application design 1, Spatial design 1, 3D modelling combined together

Assignment progress: