Assignment 5- HP Notebook Design
Saturday, October 20, 2007
This Notebook Design assignment is so far the one where I had the most freedom deciding what to do. We were given a choice as to what kind of theme we wanted to follow. During the lecture, we were to tell Julian what we wanted to based our designs on. I chose 'Japanese' and ' Music'.
The designing of the item is definitely more interesting then the others ,but I still have to consider that this is a Notebook design, so the specifications of the notebook have to be considered carefully when creating the design. I took very long staring at my own Notebook before I had an epiphany of an idea.
The basic structure of the notebook is very similar to that of a Japanese Bento. The Bento is a lacquered traditional Japanese lunch box. I was in fact very inspired by the interior of the laptop, because the huge keypad reminds me of the 'rice' section of the bento and the touch pad reminds me a lot of a dish compartment in the bento.
As for my 'music' themed design, I based it on a keyboard DJ machine, with a volume dial on the side and pitch tuning knobs. I took the touch pad into consideration and changed it into the black keys of a keyboard.
After looking at the two drafts of the design, I decided to develope the Japanese bento one as it is very much more unique and I am quite sure that most people would not have thought of it the way I did.
I chose to colour the given template in Photoshop, creating swirls for Sakura flowers stalks and had Japan's name written in traditional Japanese Kanji script at the right lower corner above the Hewlett-Packard logo.
The final design looked like this:
Posted bymadguitarist at 4:17 AM
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