Greg Ball
Brief, Concept and Deliverables
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Dr.Me Flags
Brief
Concept
Deliverables
Collaboration with Nathan Bolton
In collaboration with one of your peers design a flag for an exhibition of flags by Dr.Me Salt Mills, Salford.
The concept for our flag was illusion and creating something that messed with the viewers eyes and mind.
- Flag
Greg Ball
Research
Research & Context
For the research we looked into optical illusions and how they are already applied and also just into some mind bending designs that we could use for inspiration for our flag.
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The designs we found were quite garish and has a very 60’s hippy vibe, we were not too concerned with the flag being garish but we didn’t want to carry this Austin Powers vibe into our flag.
Greg Ball
Development
Development
For the development of this brief we experimented with created some optically obscure designs by using different shapes and line structures.
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By then adding colour into these they became more vibrant and had a much more headache like effect on the designs. We decided that vibrant cyan, magenta and yellow worked best and this gave the best mind bending effect we where after.
Greg Ball
Printed Flag
Outcomes
We then printed our design onto a flag using the digital fabric printers within college. I am happy with the result of the brief i think it is something different and not what you would normally see on a flag.
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The flag achieves are concept of designing something that is somewhat an optical illusion and poses a bit of a struggle for the audience to actually look at it and focus on it, but up close you can see that it is quite an intricate set of lines.