Swing Tag Analysis

Here is a swing tag from a garment I brought online. The store is called Evita. 

I feel that this swing tag is very effective as there is minor detailing and is not to busy to the eye. Although using contrast colours this allows the attention of the target audience to see it. The font used on this swing tag suits the theme that it is trying to portray and I like the effect of adding detail in the background in a gloss finish to make a contrast with the matt tag.

This BIBA tag I feel is very successful. This is because of the gloss finish of the gold detailing (making a contrast to the black background) and the font of the text (as I feel that this adds to the theme that they are trying to portray). However I feel that it may be a bit busy to the eye and to change it I would change the finishing from gloss to matt, as this adds shine to the swing tag to add detailing when the contrast in colour already does this effectively. 

Overall both tags are beautiful and very strong. They share similar qualities such as the shape and the gloss finishing in some details and personally have used some of the ideas used above to inspire my own swing tag.

Swing Tag 2

Here are three different variations of swing tags. The reason I have done this is so that I can change the tag depending on the garment, so it is a contrast and the label stands out. By playing around with the colours, I was able to create three successful variations enabling the swing tags to be consistent to the brand and still be appealing to serve different purposes. From my first attempt at  making a swing tag you can see I have added text and a deer with decorative antlers on. I have changed the appearance of the deer using photoshop and have written out my text to fit the theme of my blog. I also changed the colour of my swing tags to fit my theme of pastel and natural colours. 

I took inspiration from other swing tags that I have researched so that I was able to produce my own swing tag, for my own brand.

First Swing Tag

Here is my attempt at creating my own swing tag. I achieved this by drawing a rectangle, then pressing cmd c, cmd f which pastes the object in front of the old one. I then used the arrow keys to move one of the rectangles exactly above it. I then used the pen tool, clicked the middle of the top rectangle, then pressed '-' and clicked on the two corners. This created a triangle.
Then using the white arrow, you select the two corners which need to be joined up, press the scissors button, and then, using the black arrow, click on the lines leading up to the corners, and the corners themselves and this will join them up to make one line.
This is how I made my swing ticket.

Illustrator Pen Tool Experiment

This is my first experiment with a pen tool on illustrator. Using a range of techniques I was able to create a range of patterns.

In order to create the first pattern I made guides to follow using the ruler. Once I had made those, I clicked on corners in order to make a zigzag pattern.

The second one was made using a similar process. But in order to make a separate pattern I had to press the pen tool so I could stop the line I was doing and start a new one.

The third pattern was made using handles on the pen tool. Which means that I could make a curve.
This method was also used when making the forth, but in order to stop the curve and deselect the handle, I had to hold down alt and click on the last point in order to cancel that handle.

The fifth ones were made using the same technique as above but to add detail to the outside I used a different brush. 

Fabric Manipulation Moodboard

Lauren Dear
Fabric Manipulation
Moodboard

Here I have created a mood board in which I made for my project I was doing at college. The project was focused around fabric manipulation. On this mood board I have illustrated what has inspired me throughout the whole process and also have edited images accordingly to suit this. I changed all the colours to match the colour scheme that I was using. This was a midnight blue colour and the fabric was taffeta. I made this on photoshop because it allowed me to edit images that inspired me and make them relevant. By using photoshop I was able to edit images so that there was no background and only edit certain parts of the image. This has allowed the mood board to create more interest, as there are not only square images on the page. However, to improve this mood board I could have added more text describing the moods that inspired me, also adding in swatches of the fabric by scanning them in to the computer.

Overall I feel that this mood board was successful du to the lack of imagery making it look less busy and using a consistent font.

Moodboard Anaylsis

http://www.pinterest.com/barkerbillet/

   Jessica Barker-Billet

I feel that this moodboard overall is very good. It allows the viewer to feel the mood that their project and moodboard is trying to portray. It is all well linked in and contains a variety of medias. Also the layout is very interesting, and makes you want to take a more detailed look as although it looks good on the first glance, you can tell that you would miss a lot of little details, therefore taking a longer look you would see things that you may not necessarily notice straight away, and in my opinion I feel that this creates a more interesting and more enjoyable moodboard to look at. On the other hand I feel that maybe there should be a little less on the moodboard, although it is very interesting to look at, it is very busy and others may not like it as much as they may want a moodboard which clearly illustrates the mood that the board is trying to portray.
Overall my opinion on this moodboard is that it is a very successful moodboard and is very interesting to look at.

http://www.pinterest.com/saggiloo/

Sadie

I feel that this moodboard contains very nice elements such as nice pictures and minimal text. The text says 'Bare minimum', and this is portrayed throughout the moodboard. However, this also may be translated as too little as there is a lack of different medias used and is more of a paper collage. I like this moodboard because I feel that it has complimentary colours in it which makes the moodboard very calming and peaceful to look at. Also the layering and placement of the images is very good and personally I feel that it is a perfect amount of images to use in a moodboard. I feel this because it gets the ideas across without cluttering the moodboard up too much.
Overall I feel that this moodboard is a very strong moodboard but if I had to give an improvement it would be using more of a wider range of medias to create the moodboard.