opinions please

[VTaaRon]

as part of my uni course as i have written in past posts i have to enter two competitions for my final year this is about the second comp i am entering it is called formica design a laminate basically anything that can be on a piece of paper can go on laminate there are 4 catagories retro, organic, contemporary and street culture i have decided to do one design for each cat this is my first design for street culture ( baring in mind im on a product design course so the tutor specified mine has to have a 3d feel to it!)

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b267/VTaaRon/bandslaminate2.jpg

[Dan]

Very colourful, how have you done that?

[SNewham]

wow. I'm really loving that mate.

[VTaaRon]

i have to confess i was a bit sad and as i dont normally donate to charity i found myself buying every band i saw i basically got them all together and took a pic then shuffled them took another pic a couple of times put the pics on photoshop deleted the white bacground and created layers and layers to get what you see i think its fairly relevent to the catagory what do you think?

[Ibiza_Rik]

awesome result you got there mate, good job smileys/smiley20.gif

[stuartQPR1]

From one product designer to another that is really cool. Particulairly like the fact that there is not a block background colour, it looks like its ongoing and gives a brill 3d effect

[woodsy]

mint mint mint mint

top stuff

[SNewham]

I think it embodies the "street culture" theme perfectly and expresses the influence of companies on the working class people of modern society. smileys/smiley2.gif

[VTaaRon]

yeah makes the photoshop file massive tho think i have around 70 layers! jpeg is massive to think ill take it into uni to print rather then waste my own ink on that!nowhere on the pic is there an area not covered by a band that was my aim!

[VTaaRon]

I think it embodies the "street culture" theme perfectly and expresses the influence of companies on the working class people of modern society. smileys/smiley2.gif if you dont mind i may put that in my research as a quote from a viewer cheers guys

[SaxoAL]

I love that mate, thats brilliant!
Well done, top job fella'.. smileys/smiley20.gif

[SNewham]

hehe np smileys/smiley2.gif

you have just given me the idea to put some of my work up smileys/smiley2.gif

[VTaaRon]

cool yeah lets seem some always good to see others work. i have a design for the retro catagory but not sure if i like it that much ill put it up in a sec...

[luisax]

Looks good mate! Nice work!!

[Arioch]

Splendidly splendid! And a good current theme too :0 Hope the judges think so too!

[VTaaRon]

me to hehehe ok this is the retro design took me a while to do it and a few different design programs!!....

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b267/VTaaRon/retrolaminateroll.jpg

[SNewham]

it's nice mate and is very retro but..

I can't see any kind of deeper meaning behind it that summarises that category unlike the street culture design that you already showed us.

[VTaaRon]

yeah thats why i dont like it as much but if you look at previous winners on the web site www.designalaminate.com very few of them seem to have deeper meanings pardon the pun but whats on the surface is it!

[VTaaRon]

maybe i could do the same as i did with the bands but with pure style dab retro radios!

[SNewham]

This is an acryllic that I did last year.
http://www.4sightracing.com/images/abstract_amster.jpg

I've got loads of stuff to put up but i'll do that tmw

[b0t13]

ye you could, but make sure that your different styles are fresh and new for each cat.

[addictedtosax]

cool man i like the street culture pic alot!

hows the watch thing coming along bud? smileys/smiley16.gif

[VTaaRon]

that acrylic is cool lookforward to seeing more. the watch has taken a little back seat for the mo but constantly thinking of stuff for it should all be wraped up end of the month might do a little director work to show the time scrolling on it and some still shots heres one of the model dont know if i showed it before

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b267/VTaaRon/DSC00583_edited.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b267/VTaaRon/DSC00584_edited.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b267/VTaaRon/DSC00585_edited.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b267/VTaaRon/DSC00587_edited.jpg

[pug_boe]

the first pic is well cool - it looks 'young and vibrant' but you can see theres a reason for it
its like the funky stuff in ikea

[VTaaRon]

ok i just did my organic design and this is what i finished on it took ages! firstly took a picture of a leaf close up cut out everything to just leave the veins then i copied and pasted a few times to get what i was looking for i wanted... which was the leaf veins to look and appear human and also for the centre of the pic where they cross to look like a helix... opinions please

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b267/VTaaRon/leafveinscopy.jpg

[Jimbo]

WOW that looks really cool! smileys/smiley3.gif

[VTaaRon]

cheers took nearly all day! i have a better finished pic but havent time to upload it have to do it later

[Jimbo]

still looks top!

must have taken ages to strip the leaf! smileys/smiley5.gif