Brunel Product Design Day 1

Today marked the official start of the product design course here at Brunel. It had a leisurely start at 1pm with a quick lecture on what to expect in one of the modules, Design Communication, which we would be taking for the whole first year. The module is based around learning to use Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign to create and present realistic and professional design solutions.

 Once the lecture was over the class began work on a series of tutorials for each program. Each tutorial gave a simple do it yourself example to follow, allowing individuality in the work. For Photoshop, a car was to be cut out of its background, Illustrator traced a profile and InDesign created a small booklet.

 

 This is the logo I made, tracing around a wolf's head, and then changing the brush strokes.

And below are the front, spreads and back page of the booklet I made. The text is some Latin that is often used as sample text called 'Lorem Ipsum'. You can try and translate if you want.

But there we go, my first day of the course and not too bad a start. And only one short lecture tomorrow, WIN!