Project Finished!

After an intense few days I've completed my project with a day left to spare! I've been working really hard with my ironed environment idea trying to illustrate a surfer that looks good and also get a good contrast between digital and manual work. I've spent a lot of time tweaking and experimenting with this outcome which I'm really happy with. I've tried a lot of things that haven't worked such as hazard tape (an attempt to tie in the poster with a trophy) on the poster. However, people felt it didn't fit in with the poster and looked out of place. I have really enjoyed this project, especially the making of it, and I feel its down to better time management. I set my own personal deadline of the day before the official hand in so that I could use this day to relax before the presentation. I also made myself be prepared to design about 2 weeks to a week and a half before hand in so that the last week was spent actually making the poster and not doing sketchbook work. My trophy is also complete and after a tweak with the wiring looks really good even though it is a simple design. However, it is the concept which makes the trophy witty but also effective, I would of liked to have put a little metal plate on it for engraving names, however!

This is the finished poster! I found that this poster would only be effective if people would understand the concept. Fortunately, living with a bunch of housemates meant I could check that both designers and non-designers would understand what was happening. Without even asking I had one housemate work it out which I'm really pleased as I was concerned I wouldn't be able to pull it off.

The idea behind this piece was to show a surfer ironing the waves in the sea flat. This is a different approach to extreme ironing and isn't just a dramatic photo of someone ironing mid air. It is witty, humorous and whilst doesn't directly explain extreme ironing, people would work it out.

The colour scheme is quite unusual and was a result of illustrators fantastic colour tool which can work out what colours would work well together. Initially the sky was blue, however, this did not work with the green sea no matter what shade.

This is the final trophy. It is very basic but only because it needs to be. I considered painting it a metallic cover, however, I was running the risk of it looking tacky. I also think there's something a little different about keeping the iron how it was. It was already battered and bruised which gave it an extreme feel so painting would only remove the damage.

This has been a very interesting project and also a huge learning curve. It has pushed me out of my comfort zone and also made me work in a different style to what I'm used to.