Website Creation: Final Reflection

I changed some parts of my website to make it simpler and easier to navigate. Then I concentrate on drawing new final pieces for my major project. After I created a flip book for these final design pieces, I found they do not related as shared the same topic.

A link to Yumpu Book: https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/read/62943152/a-flip-book-colour-emotions.

Therefore, I spent some time and started to sketch out a new collection. Due to limited time, I decided to keep it as simple as possible. I chose Black & White as the starting point. Black & White look like the simplest colours, however, they represent various emotions. As the pattern I have used in the deigns, the element of zebra shows a feeling of calming. Besides, the hand-drawing circles shows anxiety. I found this inspiration, then used different size of black fine liners to provide several textures. My previous designs give the viewers some confusing and inconsistent, in order to let them understand mt idea and narrative of my designs, I changed the whole colour tone and made the style of these drawings more related.

I found the Yumpu Book does not flip, so I created another software to create a new flip book, the Flipsnack. A GIF version of my design shows above.

I felt more satisfied with the new designs, especially when it shows on the flip book. A slightly improvement can be seem, I used similar patterns or the exact same marks in all the pieces, therefore it became more easier for the viewers to get into my ideas. One of the reasons is that I reduced the number of words. It is important to just show main ideas in this mini portfolio. I found if I include too many information, it might confuses the readers. It is not an academic book or an article in a newspaper, therefore the large number of explanation is unnecessary, just need to highlight techniques of the garments.

Inclusion, I am satisfied with the beginning about the processes of artists and designers' research and how I used the inspirations I found to my works. Also the way to keep looking and testing the website that I made so many improvements. However, I should remind myself that think about the outcome of the works what will be presented to the public. Not only need to concentrate and spend too much time on only one of them, think about the whole section and if they will work together. Unless I might waste time on repeating myself from failures.

Here is the link to my final version of the flip book: https://www.flipsnack.com/elin75zero/yumpu-final-version.html. Also, it is showed on my website: https://elin75zero.wixsite.com/mysite.