VCD Group A

Final Design Assignment 2 and Movie online

2011-04-04T11:18:00.002+02:00

The final design for assignment 2 and the movie are uploaded on our blog, as you can see in the navigation tabs. Feel free to review them and add comments. We're looking forward to see your opinions and comments! We wish all the other VCD groups good luck with the final tasks!

Route K

Kind regards,

Dave, Jerome, Maarten and Ralf

User testing preparations

2011-03-30T21:34:00.001+02:00

The final deliverable includes testing the two versions of the Delft Circle. Today VCD Group A prepared the testing phase. We printed out 22 A5-sized questionnaires which can be filled in very easily on the streets. Since the test should be performed somewhere outside Delft, we decided to travel to the convivial city of Eindhoven. The questionnaires will gives us insight which route visitors will chose and some additional background information. We're all looking forward to test our final results. To be continued.

Movie progression

2011-03-29T13:52:00.000+02:00

Beside the two A3 posters for the final assignment we have to make a 'self running presentation (movie) of the project'. With the experienced gathered from the ITD Video Lecture - Steven Fokkinga and the Guestlecture about Movie Making by Bob Aardewerk we give it a start. Preparation is from crucial importance while making movies. The picture below gives an indication of the scenario we're going to use for the movie. In addition we're all looking for suited background music in order to stimulate the emotion we would like to communicatie: 'feeling lost'

VCD meeting though Skype

2011-03-29T13:16:00.000+02:00

Assignment 2 is progress, the final preparations are being discussed through Skype, as you can see below

Interesting visual animation company

2011-03-29T00:47:00.000+02:00

The web-surfers from VCD Group A encountered this interesting company "Grote Brokken", creating masterpieces of visual communications. You can view their website over here: http://www.grotebrokken.nl/

Assignment 2, take 2 in progress

2011-03-29T00:02:00.004+02:00

Now we're combining the new iteration with the previous one in order to get the best out of it. Below you can see a new update concerning our second assignment of VCD.

Here we have taken the same visual icons from our first concept but placed them around a circle of rectangles. The rectangles create a visual illusion by rotating in a specific direction when moving toward it. When we mirror the bevels of the rectangle, the circles rotates in the opposite direction. This will urge visitors to walk in a specific way around the Delft circle.

Besides offering the visual illusion as a guide around the circle, we will also use the placement angle of the icons to represent a difference in direction.

Assignment 2, take 2 in progress

2011-03-22T13:16:00.002+01:00

We decided to focus on a new principle: optical illusion in order to stimulate visitors of Delft to follow a certain direction:

This design focuses on adding a visual illusion to the concept. The rectangles which build up the circle create a motion effect when walking towards it. When the bevels are pointing in one direction, the circle appears to rotating one way. If you mirror the bezels of the rectangles, the circles rotates in the opposite way. This way the viewer will actually see the circle moving when moving towards it, hopefully guiding him/her in the right direction.

Assignment 2, take 2 in progress

2011-03-22T09:29:00.000+01:00

Based upon the feedback we've got from the concept presentation we're now discussing which direction we've to go. Should be improve the concept in order to fit the requirements or should we (re)start from scratch? Until now we got two directions:

Interesting Visual Design Article

2011-03-17T11:48:00.000+01:00

Group A found an interesting design article concerning visual perception and memory. View the article over here:

What Designers Should Know About Visual Perception and Memory

Assignment 2 proposal 1

2011-03-10T15:39:00.000+01:00

This is the first idea of assignment 2

Assignment 2 still in progress

2011-03-10T14:41:00.003+01:00

Route through Delft

Assignment 2 in progress

2011-03-10T13:10:00.001+01:00

The boys of group A are working hard to complete assignment 2

Assignment 2 in progress

2011-03-10T10:44:00.002+01:00

Route through Delft

Assignment 1

2011-02-28T20:42:00.000+01:00

Below you can find the first assignment of the course Visual Communication Design.

Assignment 1 Group A VCD

Kind regards,

Group A

Test blog

2011-02-14T15:22:00.001+01:00

Hi there,

this is a test-blog for the VCD course