UNIT 18 EVALUATION

• •For unit 18 we have had to research, design and create some icons for the apple iphone.
• •To start with I had to do some research on the apple company throughout this I had to look at apples many products including the iMac personal home computer, and the Ipod mp3 player. As well as this I had to gather information on apples history, about its founders, and all the products apple had made in the past.

  •To go with the apple research I had to research Icons and symbols, in order to understand what certain symbols mean, and how these can be implemented into my final design.
• In order to fully understand the iPhone I had to research some of its main competitors, including the t-mobile HTC G1 (Google phone), and the blackberry
• •As for the actual design I had to create a collage showing my 5 themes which were fantasy, humour, sci fi, war, and horror, the college (image 1), consists of many images related to their themes. produce some images based on 5 simple themes, fantasy, humour, sci fi, war, and horror, I presented each theme on a A3 sheet of paper, and then made an additional A3 piece which contains a final draft of each individual theme.

  •The purpose of these were so that I could understand and show roughly what my icons will look like.
• •I then had to create a final icon for each individual theme on Adobe Photoshop I drew my images out on paper and scanned them into Photoshop, and then edited them.
• •As well as the apple Iphone I had to do various amounts of research on other smart phones such as the blackberry, and the t-mobile Google phone.
• •Throughout the making of my icons I did not learn anything in the way of Photoshop skills, however it was good to put the skills that I already had acquired into practise in a practical fashion.

  •If I was to create these icons again I would take more care when drawing my icons, because one of my original intentions was to make the icons extremely smooth and shiny, however this was impossible to do with my current Photoshop skills, and the state of the original drawings.