Tuesday, 19 March 2013

The Kaleidoscope Effect in Design

The Kaleidoscope Effect in Design


Design Development;

Lately I have been experimenting with scale, colour and motion in my work. I was inspired by a designer that came into uni to talk to us about using CAD effectively, specifically Ned Graphics and Adobe Illustrator. Whilst developing work with these programs I noticed I was losing the drawing style quality to my work, and therefore needed to bring a sense of texture and line back into my designs.
I have researched and developed my own work in relation to artists that use distortion, from the beginning of the project I have found this has worked well in my sketchbook and wanted to find a way to translate it into a digital design.
The Kaleidoscope effect can be created in a number of ways; these images are simply made in photoshop by cutting out a square, halving it into a triangle, then repeated 8 times round to make a square again.
All designs are developed from my own hand or cad drawings, two are made from light painting. An easy effect to create by setting a camera on a long shutter speed and drawing in the with a source of light.