Create designs for contemporary frameworks - 05

31186 - Progress Challenge 5

By Colleen Sedgwick

Critique and feedback

This progress challenge requires you to describe the feedback and evaluation process you experienced in your storybook advertisement designs. Submit the following:

      A report on what you feel can be improved on your final designs and how.

      Show and share your designs with at least two peers or friends and in a report.

      Summarise the feedback and critique you got and explain how these can be useful in refining your designs.

TIP: Navigate to the student forum to engage in the discussion with your peers.

Answer

Part 1

The result can be seen in Part 2 – which shows both greyscale and colour versions of both book covers.  I loved experimenting with the image trace tool and the use of gradients, and the end result can be quite dramatic.  What kinds of images I use would depend upon the age of the target market – picture books for younger readers would look better with a coloured illustration; though if it were a chapter book (for older readers) I could probably get away with the greyscale ones.

Part 2

I have experimented with grey scale images as well as colour and here are the results.

Grey scale

Colour