Week5 2D

GROUP EXERCISE – Part 1: Challenge assumptions

10 min QUIZ & open discussion
Q1. Relatives - A doctor in London had a brother in Manchester, who was a lawyer - but the lawyer in Manchester did not have a brother in London who was a doctor. Why?
Q2. Bottled Money - If you put a small coin piece in an empty bottle and replaced the cork, how would you get the coin out of the bottle without taking out the cork or breaking the bottle?
Q3. The Restaurant Meal - Three women each have two daughters, and they all go into a restaurant for a meal. There are only seven vacant seats in the restaurant, but each has a seat for herself. How do they manage it?

ROUP EXERCISE – Part 2: Challenge assumptions

10 mins
MIKE’S AUDITION (see handout)

1. What would be on your list of assumptions - if you were Mike?
- Traffic very busy in the morning
- He could take the bus and it might be faster
- He has to leave home around 2 or 3 in the morning
- He need to take a shower and time for dress up

2. Challenge each item in the list and find a solution to Mike’s problem 
- He can get up around 1 in the morning and pack his stuff in the bag. Drive to the work place or somewhere around there. Sleep there till the morning and take a shower at work.
- Take other transport like train, helicopter and sub way.

3. Share the results and enter them in your BLOG

PRACTICAL – Design challenge / reflect & refine

40 mins – Choose your most recent 2D design concept from all your current works

• •  In your blog make a list of 2 assumptions about your design
  
• •  Challenge both of these assumptions (100 words minimum)
  
• •  Suggest 2 refinements to solve these challenges (100 words minimum)
  
• •  Illustrate your thoughts with sketches / diagrams 
  

 

My image for background

Assumptions
- I need a background in a brown colour.
- The back ground must be this small size.
Challenge
- The background is going to be brown and it is not only one brown but also have a lot of line and design. It might be hard to make the text and text can see clearly.
- This picture is a small size but need to put it for full background. 
Solution
- If the background has too many line and design, it might be hard to put the text and make it can see clearly. The solution is put other sub background in a brown color. So, all the background is still or brown colour and the text also can read easy. More over, if you put sub background, you can choose whatever colour for the text without worry about can read it or not.  
- The picture is a small size, if you put it as a background in full size, it might broke. The solution is make like many images in one background.

Research

This video shows how to make a background in photoshop. It's quite a lot of technical thing for me and I don't really understand it.  But I think it might be good video for someone who already have basic skill in photoshop and want to learn more about it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsDK1x4PTdM