What was sent to the printer.

 

What it will look like.

This was a part of the service learning for the Media Arts and Technology department for Mount Wachusett Community College. Ultimately, the audience was the department and persons therein.

 

I gave them three ideas and they chose the one shown here. I'll say that the most important part of Service learning is staying in contact with your client, make sure they want you in the direction you're going and notify them of changes. The original draft had the panels on the light as white and the bulb was a solid circle. In my research I'd learned that this fixture was made for a certain type of bulb with "ripples. I made the change and showed it to him and he thought it appropriate. In turn, he asked me if the panels would be dark as they are in real life, I'd also seen this in my research, and I made the change for him, and it was more successful.  This Tshirt had to be ready to go in probably about a week, thus communication was important. In any case, this level of communication is useful because you do not want to be dumping time into things without their consent in what you're doing. It is completely true that one remain in the drawing/sketching phase before going to the computer. You'll want to be showing your client digital works, which I made the mistake of not doing as I had shown him drawings. I didn't have the time to be doing multiple digital files aside from the final one, but you should definitely make the effort to do so.

The project itself was a bit strange, because it was the one color, whatever was going to be printed was in black on a white background. That meant designing with that in mind, take a look at what that entailed with the images above, it was quite strange. The bulb was made with stacked black circles with a white varying stroke. 99% of the lines here are simply strokes with tapering ends, bumped up to large weights.