Tuesday, 12 October 2010

Four Desktop designs

 

These are my four designs for the desktops. I used five genres (with two in one) for the four ideas. They lack colour, but however in the planning notes I have added notes on specific colours or ideas for colour on certain parts as I am unsure what the final colours are at the moment. Each design will contain the 'Shipley College' Logo and the 'Media Suite' Logo. I can change the colours of the logo and the font but the arch on the Shipley College logo must stay the same.

For my first design it is Horror themed. I drew a tomb stone with the Shipley College logo "embedded" onto the stone with a RIP sign on it including several crosses in the background. I added a hand coming out from the ground (which is meant to represent a zombie) to give it the feel of horror because after all, zombies aren't a pretty sight if you see them walking about. I added a scroll which is supposedly a will, on this "will" I will have one of the College's rules written on the scroll. I added another tombstone not far from the main tombstone which contains another rule. For the colours I would use dark colours such as Dark green for the grassy hill and a navy blue for the sky and maybe some clouds around the sky as well. A possible idea for completing this design is just colouring it in, or I will make it a similar style to David Hockney's Polaroids styles.

My second design is is a Sci-Fi space themed design. It is fairly simple with a planet, the sun and a moon in front of the planet, I chose this idea because I love Space and it was the first thing that came to my mind when I was thinking of sci fi. Again I include the two logo's on the either side on the bottom with just a basic note for the rules I added. The colours I chose would be dark blue since that is the colour of space of course, I will use a Flare from PhotoShop to make the sun and the Star brush tool for the stars around, with probably a black for both the planet and the moon because we're seeing the dark side. How I will do this is probably with PhotoShop since its more about colours and brushes to complete this design. For the fonts I will either do a Terminator style font or another sci-fi style.

My Third design is a Fantasy and War themed design. I placed a shield on the wall with two swords placed at the back of the shield making a cross. The swords represent War as they are weapons of battle, but also the swords represents Fantasy. I placed the Shipley College logo onto the shield like a coat of arms, I will add like a banner to the logo similar to other coat of arms are when it comes to text. I will add several notice boards around the sheild (supposedly wanted posters are achievments) and have the rules on these notes. I will add something like picture frames or something which could be awards or just pictures and this is where the Desktop Icons will be placed. As for colours I was thinking a golden colour for the rim of the shield and the shield itself could be red and the swords will have a golden like handle so it could be the owner is of these swords is wealthy.

My final design is a Retro Arcade style. It is a cross over between the two arcade games: Pacman and Astroids. Pacman will be wanting to eat the food which is the Desktop icons while the astroid will be shooting the icons and dodging the astroids (which will have an icon on them) I will add the two logos in the bottom corners like the second design and then add a "high score" at the top corner which will have the rules on them. for colours Pacman will obviously be yellow and I'll proberbly have a red ghost, a black background, the rocket ship for astroids will be silver with a firey colour and the astroids will be browns. For the fonts on this one I will proberbly have a font named Dotty from 1001fonts.com

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