Designing my plane

to finish up i then made sure everything was aligned and then played with different colours and ordered things in folders. in conclusion i felt this project went well and a really enjoyed it. the only real probably i had was finding some sort of design to put on the actual plane itself. i think this is because its such an odd canvas to work with where the picture changes with perspective alot.

after finishing my plane i then started to work on the typography for the poster to start i just got all the text on the and then started to arrange and play with different fonts and weights. the two fonts i went for is NEOU and Helvetica i choose these font because one is very bold and one is very light so it gives me some varying font sizes that i can use to emphasize certain bits of text.

to start on my plane i looked at possible things i could have on it such as woods, wolves wolf features and things like that. in the end i decided on a fur texture over the plane so as to keep things simple but then to add a wolfs mask coluring to it on the wings. this gives it a wilt of personality while keeping things reletively simple and clean looking

I have then decided to work on my poster design and with my plane being a wolf design i need to keep with the theme and use some sort of wolf imagery on the poster to. i created a 3 headed kind of wolf image but need to find the best place and size for it to sit. I also need to add the information to the poster to advertise the product properly. As for the plane itself i have just thrown a wolf fur texture over it for now but will add maybe some wolf eyes or something later on.

I have taken an image from the internet of the plane i will be using and then built up vectors on top of it to create an un rasterised shape of the plane that i can scale without it pixelating. i then added shadows to the design to make it believable ready for imagery to be applied.

Ive now finished making my design and adding shadows and highlights to give the whole thing a more 3d feel and look, ive also put them on separate layers so that i can change the colour easily without having to redo highlights and shadows every colour change. I am now designing my poster and seeing which wolf imagery i want to use and trying to come up with a name in the process.

RE-Planning

so i need to re plan my designs and plane range because of my change in theme.

Plane Variations: different wolf habitats, distinctive wolf features, wolf breeds, wolf colours, wolf ranks

i think i will use a mixture of wolf ranks and breeds which will allow me to make a few designs with different names and give me different colour pallets to work with.

Change in Design

After rereading the brief i have decided to change my design theme as the knife throwing theme will not be appropriate for a 12+ kids product so i will now be changing my design to a wolf theme. i have decided this because it is a theme i enjoy and am used o using so it should be easy for me to put something that looks good in a short space of time.

i have decided on this plane design: http://www.origami-make.com/kids-paper-airplane-basic.php

i have decided on this design because it has a big wing span and lots of surface space so this allows me a bigger canvas to showcase my wolf design.

PLANNING

I decided to cooose the Knife throwing idea as i have some insight into the subject

BRAINSTORMING

To start generating ideas i started to think of other items that are typically thrown in maybe the same way as a paper plane or sports in which and object in thrown.

I came up with: Darts, various balls such as tennis balls, baseballs, throwing knives, throwing axes, javelin, and hammer throw. I found the Knife and Axe throwing on the most interesting since i have some insight in the sport as i throw knives as a hobby in my spare time. I began to research different types of knives shapes forms and throwing styles that can effect the shape and style of the plane i make.

INTRODUCING THE PROJECT

For this project we was tasked with researching and creating a paper plane for KLUTZ paper flight that flys well or for at least 7 seconds. We was also tasked with creating a theme and branding for the plane we will create. We was tasked with creating a name, logo/name style and design for the surface graphic and poster. We must keep the KLUTZ specifications, this will affect our designs and themes for the designs.