Wk 10.1 How we got to now

Animatic

To animate the feather I used scale, position and rotation for this, as well as one easy ease to make the flow of the feather look more like it's being affected by gravity and wind currents, rather than a robotic float downwards.

My next steps are to finish up the background illustration that Ellie drew, by adding textures from brush tools, and also a few more details, such as clouds and leaves on the tree.

Poster - Artist Precedents

Lauren 

Nick Barclay

https://www.cubagallery.co.nz/blogs/news/minimal-typography-swiss?utm_medium=social&utm_source=pinterest&utm_campaign=tailwind_smartloop&utm_content=smartloop&utm_term=52499348

Barclay works with expressive geometric shapes, and typography to create these minimalist posters. I particularly like the treatment of the type, as I think it makes for a clear, readable poster that gives the information over to the viewer easily and without hesitation. I think it is important for our posters to have legible and well designed type, as we are hoping that from the poster they will go to our website, and to do this they need to be able to read the information.

Leo Porto

https://www.behance.net/gallery/12139169/New-York-Museum-of-Glass

Porto uses a duotone to create the red and blue effect on the first poster which I think is really effective, alongside the typography which interacts with the photo. I chose these posters because they are simple yet they grabbed my attention with the colours, scale and positioning on the page. I really enjoy the large amount of blank space left over in the top half of the first poster. The images in the posters are more representative, rather than showing exactly what the exhibition is about, which creates interest and curiosity.

Ellie - Rokas Aleliunas - https://dribbble.com/rokasaleliunas

Aleliunas designs combine bright floral arrangements into a simple, readable, not too overwhelming poster design - pushing the type to the side, allowing the illustration to take centre stage through scale. He uses pathos in his works, for the viewer to focus on the simple things, he creates a beautiful and complex design placed in a minimal composition.

Feedback of Poster

Andre suggested that we add in the texture that the font has, which is like a sponge brush tool.

Website

I've added this basic design style to the site but am having trouble remembering and figuring out the finer prototyping details of the site. I thought that it would be easy to get going and adding our illustrations into this but I am getting tripped up by small prototyping errors with layers which is becoming frustrating!

One problem I am having is that I want a fixed position background with a scroll text, however Figma wants to place the fixed position object in front. I've looked at a handful of tutorials but can't figure it out.

A second problem I am having is with the overlays for the purchase menu. I think a YouTube tutorial or two to refresh my familiarity with the program should help me figure this one out.