INTERCULTURAL DESIGN - FINAL PROJECT

04.01.2022 - 18.01.2022 (Week 1 - Week 7)
Christie Angelica Bakhary (0350655)
Bachelor of Design (Hons) in Creative Media / Intercultural Design
Final Project

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After a long discussion and brainstorming, our group decided to do a mini fashion book with some requirements that we've discussed :

- 148x210 mm size (A5)

- One person make 2 to max 4 pages

- Title Font: Crabs Slab Extra Bold

- Body Font: Basically A Sans Serif

- Main Colour: BE1E2D

Then we choose and distribute on which part each of us are going to work on. Here's the distribution :

1. Yamato and Nara period (300 -794 CE) : Henry 

2. Heian period to Azuchi-moyama period (794 -1600) : Fengyie

3. Edo period (1603 -1867) : Catherine 

4. Meiji period (1868 - 1912 ): Jolean

5. Taisho period and showa period (1912-1989) : Christie

6. Modern Kimono (present) : Jeong

Individual Visual Research

Sketches

After I went through some layout designs on Pinterest and Behance, I started sketching some design inspired by the group moodboard and my own research. Finally, I decided to choose first and third layout as it seems more interesting and have a better flow/composition.

Fig.2.1 : Layout sketches

Before starting digitize and finalize the sketches, I searched for information that I wanted to include to the book and summarize it, with a note of focusing with our group's research questions and objectives. I as well looked for some kimono images and patterns to insert and for illustration reference.

Digitization

For digitization, I went to Adobe Illustrator as I am more convenient to design there. I started with adding title, headlines and body texts. Then I inserted the pictures as well as illustrate the kimonos and other accessory to vector style using pen tool. 

Fig.2.2 : Kimono vector illustrations

Lastly, I added some graphic elements to spice it up so that it become more interesting and not too plain.

Fig.2.3 : Graphical elements created and used 

Final Individual Design

Fig.2.x : Final Outcome Taisho Period's Page (JPEG)

Fig.2.x : Final Outcome Showa Period's Page (JPEG)

Fig.2.x : Final Outcome  Taisho and Showa Period's Page (PDF)

FINAL OUTCOME

Below is our final slide which include data collections as well as our final outcome :