This semester we started a collaborative project. The collaborative project required us to design and produce the project with students from other majors. We need to combine our respective majors’ skills and explore the project. Through the school website and my friends’ recommendations that I choose to join the collaborative group.
Membership:
3D Computer Animation: Lucy and Yu
Game Design: Zhuo zhu and Zhijian Jiang
VR: Jianxin Wu
After formed the group, we started to discuss the design theme of the project. We decided to combine 3D Computer Animation major, Game Design major and VR major to create a VR version of the art gallery. We would also consider designing posters in 3D modeling that could be interactive. Finally, we discussed to chose some posters that pay homage to the artist Tom Eckersley.
[Tom Eckersley]’s Introduction:
Tom Eckersley (1914-1995) was one of the foremost graphic designers of the twentieth century working in the UK. His works employ minimal text, instead of transmitting their message by pared-down graphic elements and bold blocks of colour. Eckersley’s career spanned from the 1930s until the 1990s, during which time he worked for a huge range of employees from London Transport, Gillette and Guinness to Crisis, World Wide Fund for Nature and the Inner London Education Authority.
Eckersley was also a teacher and established the first graphic design course in the UK at what was then called the London College of Printing (now London College of Communication).
The charm in many of Eckersley’s works is their ability to convey a strong message through a simple design. The Collection shows how he developed his designs, as it includes artworks and preparatory designs as well as finished pieces. The Collection came from Eckersley’s own workshop and as such reflects what he kept, partly to be used as teaching aids. The Collection has been fully digitised and is being posted in batches on the Visual Arts Data Service website.
Reference：
https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/features/nov08.shtml
Some of Tom Eckersley’s Posters:
Next week we will discuss the choice of posters and the interactive design of the 3D animation and game combination. We will also discuss the specific division of labour for the group next week. This collaborative project is my first time working with Game and VR major. I am sure I will learn something new in this collaborative project.