Classroom Activity for Assignment 1

Classroom Activity for Assignment 1: Me, Myself and I

Brief Synopsis on Assignment 1:

For this assignment, we need to convey what we love and/or hate through the design of our name itself.

• Select 2 words which best describes your character
• Plug them in following sentence…
  l(My name is name and I love word1) and/(or)
  l(My name is name and I hate word2

Classroom Activity:

We were asked to brainstorm for sketches on Assignment 1.

• Select two words:
• Concept development: Thumbnail sketches of your concepts (4 concepts for each sentence) in sketch book (8 sketches).
• Present concepts to your friends for discussion and pick 2 (one for each word ) for final development.

Before I start to develop my thumbnail sketches, I think it will be more appropriate to list down the things I like and what are the possible ways to illustrate it.

Above are the things i have listed out and i felt that certain things have more variety of ways to illustrate as compared to the rest. Through elimination, I have selected music and bubbles as the ideas which i will work on for my sketches.

Left hand side column:

This column is used for developing sketches on the idea, music.

1st row:
When i think of music, the first thing which comes onto my mind was musical notes. Hence i have used various notes being incoporated together.

2nd row:
Personally, i am a music lover so my mp3 player is always with me. Without earphone acting as a medium i will not be able to hear my favorite mp3. Moreover, earphone can be flexible and transformed into cursive shapes which suits my name alot.

3rd row:
As inspired by sony advertisement, people can listen to music at any places and situations. Hence i have explore on stick figures listening to mp3 player doing various activities.

4th row:
Of all the four sketches, this will be the least innovative design. This design is just mainly usage of the word "music" to make up my name.

Chosen design:
During the lecture, we were told that it is essential for novice designers to explore on various ideas before we settled on the final design and not to fall in love with early/first concept. However among the four designs, i felt that the first concept using musical notes was a nice idea. My name, Sophia, gives me a classy feeling and i think by using musical notes it will further enhance this classy feeling. In addition to that, using musical notes is a strong way to communicate with the rest of my liking towards music.

Reason for not choosing the rest of the designs:
In my opinion, the majority of people who chose to do music will incorporate earpiece into part of their design. Hence,i prefer to work on some alternatives which will not clash with them. For stick figures listening to music, since the idea i got it from sony advertisement perhaps it is not as innovative and new as compared to the first concept. As for the last sketch, as mentioned earlier on, it is not innovative at all.

Right hand side column:

This column is used to work on the sketches on bubbles.

1st row:
This design is supposed to be my name formed as bubbles in 3D view.

2nd row:
Small individuals bubbles forming up my name

3rd row:
Another form of individuals bubbles forming up my name

4th row:
with many bubbles at the background and hightlighted bubbles at the foreground to form my name.

Chosen design:
I love bubbles as i think it makes me feel relaxed and reminds me of the innocent childhood memories playing with the bubbles. Among the four designs, i felt that 3rd design portrays the most relaxed feeling hence i decided to work on it.

Reason for not choosing the rest of the designs:
For the first design perhaps is due to the harsh line being used, it seems to portray a cold and isolated feelings hence it was eliminated. For 2nd design, it does not portray the characteristic of the bubbles. The last design seems to be complicated for innocent feel.