The symbols designing

Finally, we have had the list of symbols for each of the four areas from Bath Uni and so now we can get on with designing them.

We thought that the best way to approach designing these symbols is to each take the large task of designing a symbol for each of the ideas. We would try and make the symbols as consistant as possible in style. Outlined specifications were that we would make the symbols as simple as possible. Naturally, they would also have to be designed to be able to be used as stencils. We decided that then, we would print all of the symbols out and compare them, deciding upon a final set of symbols which would inevitably include a mixture of everybody's symbols attempt. 

These are my initial stencil ideas. They have taken rather a long time to produce. It has been a crash course in illustrator and I have had to research tutorials to get the best out of the programme. The symbols have to be created as outlines and so I have had to learn how to do this, this means fully understanding the pathfinder tool and how illustrator renders shapes and objects. Some of these symbols are stronger than others, but that was inevitable. 

Each of us produced a set like this and they were laid out across a table. We then went through the list of symbols that we needed and circled the strongest attempt from the four of us. We now have a complete set of symbols ready to show Bath Uni on Monday.