i need help from any product design students!
i’ve just finished year 11 and about to go into 6th form next year. i’ve been set holiday work to produce a sketch book and portfolio of things. the portfolio is about Novelty Cards, and the sketch book is just for observation skills. it suggests i can do
-interesting items – annotated sketches
-effective use of materials, colour, fonts
-sketches of interesting detail – patterns, shapes, decoration
-photographs
-interesting magazine cuttings
-new innovative idead
-ideas of your own
-collected materials/ samples
-examples of effective graphic products
can anyone help me and suggest maybe what i could do for each of them because im soooooo confused, although i was going to try and incorporate something to do with fashion in there (from magazies)
any help will be appreciated!!!
Choose one subject matter (you said fashion) and explore that in as much detail as you can. The point of the assignment is to get you drawing and thinking creatively. One assignment that I have given my students is to do 50 versions of the same, simple subject (such an orange). The first few pieces are usually quite cliche, but after that they are forced to think about different solutions to a single challenge. Just be loose, be open and don’t beat yourself up about it.
Collage is a great way to loosen you up and get your creative juices flowing. Visit some websites such as Flckr, deviant art, etc. and just look at what other people are doing. Go to a cafe and draw…just draw people’s shoes under the tables…in other words, just have fun.
Find out what cards there are for different audiences, make notes of it and explain why, then create your own and explain what audience they would be for and why and what you could do to improve it etc. Sounds like Media Studies + product design as your product has to relate to the audience you’re aiming for, like you wouldn’t have a bright colorful card for a 40 year old because it would be better for someone younger.
Hope i helped, have fun on your course in September
I make cards myself and have found all sorts of odd bits of material and metals. Friends send me cards with lentils and other dried pulses, net, shells, pressed flowers, collage of all kinds. One has just sent me a ‘fashion’ card, a simple blouse and skirt cut out of cotton prints, with bent wire for a hanger. I’m into patchwork and quilting, and I’ve done very tiny American patchwork blocks and mounted them onto card, and also torn hand-made papers are gorgeous.