Unit 18 Evaluation

At the start of the project we were given the task of finding and researching different types of icons/symbols, the icons I found and wrote about were, Internet browser icons and Game icons, the symbols that I found and wrote about were, playing card symbols (hearts, diamonds, spades, clover), the Recycling symbol and Tarot card symbols/meanings.

We were also told to explain the different usage of colours, how red can represent blood, love and murder or how yellow can represent happiness, sunshine or warmth. After the research of icons and symbols we were given the task of exploring the company Apple and their products, I wrote about how the company got started (its history) and what products it’s in competition with.

The next project was to identify 5 different themes. Horror, Humour, Sci-Fi, Fantasy and War, with these 5 themes we were asked to create a collage using images we associated with each of them. After the collage work we went back to our Apple research and researched their product the Apple iPhone, I explained all the iPhone’s features and what good and bad points the iPhone has; I also compared it with a different touch screen phone and described the difference in their features.

Then next task was a short one, we researched and explained what the BAF 08 was about and what event were taking place and what we was going to see there. We later went to the BAF 08 in Bradford. Going back to the icon work, we had to create and draw our own icons that represent the 5 themes we were given, I drew about 4 or 5 icons for each theme and drew 5 final icons for each theme on a final piece of paper, I explained why I drew that icon and why I chose the colours used to colour each icon in.

I then created the 5 final designs in Photoshop, scanning in images I needed or just drawing the icons myself using the toolbar option. The scanning setting that I used was, output resolution: 72 dpi. Here are my 5 final designs I created in Photoshop after tracing a few of them with a drawing pad using the scanned in images.

Horror:



Fantasy:



Humour:



War:



Sci-Fi:

The Icons I created in photoshop were saved as a .gif file format and were placed on an iPhone image. Here is one of my hand drawn icons and its scanning settings:

iPhone Image:




Scanned Icon:

The next task was about ethical considerations, I had to find at least 5 images that seemed offensive and commented why they may have been found offensive, I also explained why my icons that I created were not offensive and what I did not to offend anyone. An example would be my war icon, I could have used many images to make the icon offensive, however I just drew a gun and a piece of land to show no offensiveness.