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My Design Process

When I was on my gap year I decided to go on the BTEC First in Art and Design to acquire more skills in the Art field. The Bauhaus, a school of Art and Design which was based in Germany and the Bauhaus Archive/ Museum of Design and this was one of the topics that was running through all subject areas within the course. The assignment I am going to talk about is the subject areas of graphics and how it came about. 

 In a studio session I produced an A2 sheet of cartridge paper that had six different designs for logos that were presented as thumbnail sketches that included the words Bauhaus Archive incorporated in the design. Mediums that were used in the thumbnail sketches were Gouache paint, crayons and watercolours.  Once these six logos were complete that then meant I could get on with producing the specific outcome to the specific subject area in art.  Screenshots that shows my design process:

     

Some of the tools that I used to create my logo:

• Move tool
• Shape tool
• Copy a shape: CTRL + Click - Duplicate layer.
• Command and T = Flipping a shape around.
• Screen Grab = Shift, CMD and 3. I create screen grabs of all my layers so that I could look back and see how I created different parts of the logo in each of the layers.  
•  Type tool: I used a Bauhaus font so that the writing would fit in with my Bauhaus theme for my logo.

Final version of logo

I did have development pictures of different design but at this current time it will not let me upload these two pictures.

For Graphics I was required to design a logo on the Apple Macs that could be used on a number of items in the Bauhaus Archive shop. I used the logo design that I had chosen to do in print and simplified it so that there were less triangles on the logo and the composition of these and other shapes were not conflicting or causing confusion on the logo. This was so that it could be reproduced more easily in Adobe Photoshop. The artist that I took inspiration from was Wassily Kandinsky for this logo and the print logo mentioned previously as his bold sense of colour and shape was inspiring and his designs were the best to mould and interpret into my own piece of work. The creation of my logo was to retain the feel and aspects of Kandinsky but get a simpler and professional look. The logo was first printed out as an A4 final logo and then it was adapted into a repeat pattern so that it could be used as a wrapping paper in the Bauhaus gift shop in the Bauhaus Archive. The wrapping paper was printed out on A3 size paper.