FINAL JOURNAL 2013

So can't belive time has caught up once again these where totally enjoyable projects, with lots of taught and of course not forgetting the well needed feed back from collegues and teacher, I really liked the live projects, ie spar bag, and mobile phone. One of my favourite was the type art I never realized that one could make great art from type and I will try some new stuff in the future.
Looking back at the spar bag project, kiosk, map, and mobile app was quite hard to manage alignment this takes a bit of practice and I have corrected some issues and updated the artwork recently.
Other projects such as boil an egg, and the shoe lace (instructional design) required use of good photography, each project has enhanced the skills of adobe illustrator and photoshop a like and what once seemed a daunting task using this software for any of these projects, it is now is an exciting challenge to use all the great tools adobe software has to offer. I will carry on with a portfolio of my best work using adobe software and am glad to have been part of this grafic design course.

Thank You
                     P.keegan

BRIEF 16

Hello Folks!!!

Its all about  the IPAD, in this excercise I decided to design an app for a fitness studio, first of all its  a pretty good start to put pencil to paper and get our ideas flowing.
The app shows the different classes that the fitness studio has to offer with a demonstration picture on each page, it also has dropdown menus and a  button that can be clicked to enter the daily schedule page. It also has a contact form for the user to get in intouch with the studio.

All ideas go first to paper and then to photoshop or illustrator to make the design.
This design was made with adobe photoshop cs6.

 stage1
pencil to paper

 

screen logo page1 (photoshop work)

 

 

 

                            page2              Here we have our welcome screen to linked pages

 

 

                          page 3               With designed back,home and schedule button

 

                         page 4               

 

                       page 5

 

                       page six

 

                       page 7                 

 

                       page 8                  Page with schedule

 

                      page 9                   Our contacts page

 

BRIEF 15 KIOSK DESIGN

Here are some of the example photos taken of diffrent kiosk around the area which were used to give some ideas of the project

 

 Sketch first your ideas as mock up, in steps in buying a ticket

As always sketching out the interface ideas are most important when working on a project

Here I start by adding some persona information, thinking of the everyday people that might use the Metro North line I've a few to fuel my ideas.

I took some researching on the route that the Metro North was taking, and added my Digital image of the routes and what each station had to offer to  everyday passengers, here we can see the length time distance from each station staring from Stephens Green and ending at last stop Estuary. The route map was constructed in photoshop along with the logo for Metro North.

Now the fun begins, I need to go back from where I started and construct a real live navigational chart for the steps of buying a ticket from our brand new kiosk,  So out of photoshop I go and straight into microsoft word.

Now lets move on to our last step, I spent quite a bit of time choosing the colour scheme for our shiny new kiosk I needed harmony, nothing to heavy on the user I have all screen shots including logo here on this page which will be used as our final project

SCREEN 1example: welcome choose language

SCREEN2 example Keypad

  The typeface used for this project had to be legible I used Myriad pro bold with  a bevel and  emboss with a  drop shadows to give it a more modern and stand out look and feel using Adobe software.

                                                            SCREEN 3

                                                              SCREEN 4

                                                            SCREEN 5

                                                         

Its Feburary, every time I write these posts, I mention the month of year I can't belive how quick time is flying by, soon my study time at S.C.D will be another mark on life experiance card, and will come to a close in May.

Anyhow its spring, and the time for creativity and inspiration fills the mind, I have keen interest in photography, and wanted to practice my illustrator skills before the rust started to settle.

Here using adobe illustrator is a composition using the tools provided and here we go!

BRIEF 14 SYMBOL DESIGN

Hello again

For this week we are going to practice some symbol design using adobe illustratror, making these designs from scratch, first the ideas thenn the paper of course and away we go with the pen tool and the shape tools and colour swatches.....

BRIEF 13 MAP DESIGN

Hello we knew it was coming the designers nightmare the dreaded map, SCD is moving to blackrock next year, sadly I won't be tagging along I shall be battling it out among the frontline, trying to better my career.

I decided to design a map to locate the new address of the collage.
This was tougher than I thought (Adobe Illustrator).

BRIEF 12 INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGN

In this weeks class we were asked to define how to cook an egg or how one would tie a shoelace using illustration software or photography,

I decided to take out my digital camera and take snap shots at the different stages of both,
its not as easy as one would think, its takes a while to get the right shot.to get the job just righ....ttttt

 

 

 

So here how you would tie a lace this is a slight bit more difficult as you need someone willing to help you out while you take the photos. TIP. (be patient it takes time but you can manage)

 

 

 

 

 

BRIEF 11 POSTER DESIGN

 

      Hi again,
We are half way trough January, its freezing cold and almost attempting to snow here in Ireland
I'm here sipping a nice cup of warm vegi soup, thinking back to last summer when everybody was all talk,about the London Olympics.  I have just created a post on them thoughts,using Adobe Cs6, with some new and old methods, and quite a lot of layers, and layer styles...........       

 

London Olympics 2012

BRIEF 10 POSTCARD CAMPAIGN

       Hi all,

 So Christmas is not long gone from us all the hype, is quickly over, and its time to get back on track with some new fresh ideas and projects to get the  year off to a good start.

   
 For the first two weeks in January we are going to have a look at creating some postcard design for the blog page, I have taken on on, one idea and will try to implement that idea into three different postcards, these type of postcards would be generally seen in pubs, restaurants, and cafe areas.
 

The postcards will for drinkaware.ie, which is a company in Ireland, showing facts and statistics of alcohol consumption.

 

Drink aware Postcard 1

Drink aware postcard2

Drink aware poster3