Creative Character Design for Products
Researching Themes
A course by Rob Flowers , Illustrator
About the video: Researching Themes
Overview
“How and where do we look for inspiration for our designs? In this lesson, I will discuss how to collect inspiration for your work. ”
In this video lesson Rob Flowers addresses the topic: Researching Themes, which is part of the Domestika online course: Creative Character Design for Products. Develop a cohesive set of characters to apply to any kind of object using Adobe Illustrator.
Partial transcription of the video
“Researching Themes Based on our research and image collection, we'll now start to identify a number of themes to base our characters on. I'll take you through a completed character-based project from initial research documents, identifying a theme, and creating the characters based on that theme. Let me show you. The starting point of this project was the brief to come up with character designs for Burgershack to represent its values. And as we've got with our own brief, there were key words or key aspects that my designs had to hit upon and that I had in mind while designing. Those were fu...”
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Course summary for: Creative Character Design for Products
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Category
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Software
Adobe Illustrator -
Areas
Character Design, Digital Illustration, Traditional illustration
Rob Flowers
A course by Rob Flowers
Rob Flowers is a London-based illustrator who specializes in character design. He’s been a freelance illustrator for over fifteen years, a period in which he has created illustrations for TV commercials, music videos, fashion collections, newspapers, magazines, and even edible posters.
Throughout his career, his illustrations have been published in The New York Times, Time Out, Hollywood Reporter, and Creative Review; in advertising campaigns for Converse, Maynard Bassetts, ASOS, Heely’s, Red Bull, and Pull&Bear; and through collaborations with brands like Nike, Mambo, and Wolf & Badger. He has also designed and directed music videos for Kaiser Chiefs and Tinie Tempah.
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