design developments and feedback (sb1)

After deciding on the medium to illustrate the imagery with, i produced a design sheet with all of the imagery to be used throughout the 3 tie designs, although all of the items appear to be mixed within one another from top to bottom there's the imagery for the duran duran song, the culture club song and then finally the spandau ballet song.
Girls On Film provided me with the most imagery inspiration, both from the music video and the lyrics from the song, whereas the lyrics and video from Do You Really Want To Hurt Me and Gold didn't provide as much inspiration, however i still managed to find things to illustrate.












I then began to consider what positioning the illustrations would look best in, i quickly sketched out a template of a tie and a few positioning ideas and asked some peers which they thought would be most appropriate and visually interesting.

I thought of the illustrations being positioned in 3 different ways, the first being a kind of repeating line of illustrations, one after another in the same scale and position. The next idea was to cluster all of the illustrations together, reducing the amount of negative space and seeing the illustrations fit in to the gaps created by other illustrations, featuring different sizes. And the final idea was to position the illustrations one after another vertically going down the tie.

After asking the opinion of peers they all agreed that using a clustered layout would be the most visually interesting, they also noted that if the imagery was to be placed in a repeating line style then it may look quite odd to have imagery which perhaps has more detail to be as big or as small as quite a small illustration. I agree that the clustered positioning will be the most visually interesting, i also think it will work quite well with the concept that the ties are meant to be worn in a corporate setting and so if the illustrations are clustered together they might look more like a pattern of colours rather than seeing each piece of imagery separate, making it more appropriate for office wear.