Project 6: Graphic Design

This project will definitely be a challenge for me since my background knowledge in design and drawing is bar none. The development process looks to be the biggest impact for the project and will need to be worked on extensively from initial designs being expanded into different variations, to the documentation being able to support my final product. I first looked at creative examples of packaging and designs for CD covers as well as current popular versions for basic use. This led me onto this flower design which helped me understand that I would like to think of the design and packaging as a single piece of work instead of separately, so that the way the package is made will also compliment and be apart of the design and that they work within each other.

One of the images I based a design on, not completely representing what my concept was.           http://hughstimson.org/2009/09/15/electricity-and-water-flow/

Since this project relates back to the aural terrains work, I have thought it would be good for me to just use my installation as the only piece of sound as it will give me a specific concept I can work with rather than using previous sounds that did not have as much meaning and effort put into them. The first few drawings I had created for possible package designs I began to realise were too fixated on the installation itself of using electricity and water and not the concept that I needed to look at as a bigger picture. Going back to what the initial concept was, I could then dissect it into multiple possibilities that can now be developed further.