Interface Design - Field Research

We started Interface Design project, and today we had to go out and do some research in the area. We took pictures of kiosks for: mobile phone credit, Supervalue self-checkout, AnPost, Dart and car park ticket. 

Information Design - Symbols

I enjoyed designing the symbols, though I had a bit of a hard time with some. It's hard to believe but I had a  hard time drawing the fish! It's the middle of the night and I'm very sleepy. I did the first half when we were first given the design brief in Februaray, and now I realized that the second half hasn't been done, so here I am designing the rest of the symbols. The fish looks very funny, but as much as I tried to fix it, I kept dozing off and I messed it up more with my drawing tablet, making it look funnier. So I thought to leave it as it is because I have to submit my blog now and maybe one day come back to it and fix it.

Draft of the symbols design.

Information Design - Map

That would be the project that I least enjoyed. It's not easy to draw maps and I don't think I'll be doing it again. 

My draft of the map design.

Information Design - Instructional

This brief was exciting to do. I love Illustrator and enjoy working with it. That's what I used to draw both instructional designs. The egg instructions was easy to draw, but the tie one wasn't. I don't even know how to tie a tie. I tried tying my kids' school ties but was never successful so I got them an elastic tie. But now since I have to draw the instructions, I had to find out and learn how to tie a tie. Finally, now I know how and I was able to draw it (but I had to look at other pictures, couldn't draw it from my mind). Filling it with color was tricky because I had open paths, so I had to go over the open paths and join whatever can be joined and redraw those that can't. If anyone is wondering about the tie color, I was trying out gradients and I actually liked how this gradient looked on the tie :)

This is my draft. I started with the chopsticks and wrote all the instructions. But when I tried to draw the hands in Illustrator, it wasn't easy, it took me a long time to draw one hand, so I just switched to the tying a tie info.

Advertising & Campaigns: Olympics Poster

We had to do a London Olympics Poster and after a few ideas and a few posters, I finally decided that this is the one.
I used Illustrator to do this poster. For the word London, I used a clipping mask to show a picture of London attractions through the word.
Drawing the torch took a bit of time, especially when trying to find the right gradient.
As for the running silhouettes, I added these at the end when I saw that something is missing from the poster, so I drew the running silhouettes and put the opacity down to 25%.