Assignment 1 - 'My name is ......'

The assignment given was to identify what two things that we liked and build ideas around them while incorporating our names (or part of it).

Here is what I came up with.

#1 - "My name is Can, and I like sweet-treats"

Thinking up designs for the alphabet 'C' was easy as there are many round-shaped desserts and sweet things around. I wanted to make it more interesting by making the opening of the 'C' look like someone chewed it away (hence, i added up liking #1 and #4 the most).

Thinking up ideas for 'a' was tough as i wanted one that actually showed a clear distinct 'a' shape and it was not possible without making a combination of two items.Also i realised there are two ways to writing a lower-case 'a' which made me come up with the #4 design, which i like the most.

Lastly, the 'n'. What i pictured was two long poles at the side and something curvy to join the two to look like an 'n'. So i worked around this idea. I wanted some variation though, hence the modification of the pretzel to look like an 'n'. While i like #4 the most, looking for the 'n' in the pretzel was not as clear as #3 or #2. #1 barely looks like an N at all.

#2 - "My name is Can, and I love the sea"

 

My initial choice was 'i like mermaids', and using the bodies of the mermaids to form alphabets. However, i realised that it was too narrow a range to come up with 4 interesting designs. So i broadened the category to 'i love the sea' and had a much easier job designing my thumbnails as there are so many things to draw inspiration from!

I still wanted to have a mermaid in one of my designs so i kept it in the first row! Thinking up designs for 'C' was not tough as there are many things in the sea that form the 'C' shape.

As for the 'A/a', i did variations of upper-cases and lower-cases. I wanted to use a different method of what i did in the sweet-treats version (combining two items to make a shape), hence i came up with seaweed, an opened oyster and the hermit crab.

Once again, the toughest part was the 'n'. I followed a similar method as i did for the sweet-treats set (visualising two long sides and a curved centre) as it was difficult thinking of just one item for the 'n', though i managed to do one with the jellyfish in #2. Thankfully, there are many long-shaped things in the sea to draw inspiration from. Following this concept, i think #1 and #4 showed 'n' the clearest.

EDIT// 

So after going through my designs with the class and lecturer, the designs picked for the sweet-treats were the donut, sugar roll-candy cane and the strawberry sitck-wafer (though i personally liked the pretzel!). As for the sea set, the squid, hermit crab and dolphin were picked. I really liked the whole of my sea set so it's *sniff* a little emotional throwing the rest of the designs aside!

My class also raised the point about mixing the upper-cases and lower-cases together, which can get quite confusing. So it was suggested that i increase the proportions of the first letters to differentiate bettween the different cases.

Thank you to the class for your positive feedback! :)