Design brief
Students are to produce a graphic design for a skateboard which will demonstrate a range of knowledge and key skills. Students will research the graphic design industry, explore social and cultural trends and develop a graphic style which will influence their design. Students will refine their design through prototyping and testing before producing their final end-product using Computer aided design and Vinyl Cutting. A portfolio will be produced which documents development throughout the project.
Inspiration gallery
From these ideas i decided that i was going to have a man in a suit, being x-rayed on one half of his body. I wanted this design to take up the majority of the board, whilst still being able to see the timber.
DEsign development and sketching
Production progress
EVALUATION
On my skate board i wanted to have the design covering most of the board, but i still wanted to see the timber. I started off with a mind map of ideas for the board. I wanted to incorporate something Japanese, a samurai, but it was too hard. So i decided on the X-ray Suit dude design. To start off we painted the board with a coat of sealer and gloss, we then copied our sketches to the computer onto a program called Adobe Illustrator, where we learnt about vector lines and the tedious tracing of the image if auto-trace didn't work. We then put our digital copies of our designs through Illustrator and into a machine called a Vinyl Cutter, which cuts Vinyl (a harder type of plastic sheet), and cut out our designs onto vinyl. We then would carefully put the sticker (layer) on your board, cover up the areas your not spraying with newspaper, and spray. We would repeat this process until the board was done. It was a fun unit and I was pleased with how my board turned out.