Week Nine, Ten and Eleven: Design Classes

Coming up with how i wanted to set up my portfolio was difficult.  I wanted to run with the Art Deco theme so I looked at
Art deco Motifs:

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 Art Deco Colour Schemes:

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and Art Deco Fonts:

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I decided on a font called Ritzy for the headings and Quicksand for the body.  I would use circles in Art deco colours for decoration and the same purple background I used on the cards.  Using the Ritzy font as a guide I took to Illustrator and created a new colourful font for titles:

The layout and what to include was also hard.  I could fit more with A4 horizontal presentation- design it like a flip book with binding on the longest edge.  I looked for inspiration online for layout.  Smashing magazine had a number of great layouts but it was mainly for web.

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I really liked the landscape layout and the fact that there is a brief explaination and big bright pictures.  I will work with this as a guide.

For what to include I looked at what other fashion students were including:

 

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Instead of including lots of bits-and-pieces outfits i would rather show an employer my design process using one garment range.  This will better showcase my skills and where my ideas came from.  I also want to include my styling, illustration and feature articles.