New Brief

Today we looked at every ones GIFs which were so ace! and then we got given the second part of this visual narratives brief, which is to design a sticker to encourage one change we'd like to see people make. I've already got a few ideas about this but I need to write them all down to organise them, but for now we did this exercise to simplify shapes and information as this sticker design will be made entirely on Adobe Illustrator (HELP).

At first you can see that I was really struggling with the idea of simplifying and if I'm honest, usually if I was just making this image for myself I'd probably have stopped at the fourth image (on the right) as this to me says everything it needs to say without too much embellishment. But we had to reduce it even further them make it out of paper cut shapes. Overall it was a stressful experience but I can see what this has achieved, sometimes I do need to just sit back and see if theres any way I can boil my work down into fewer shapes and have it still communicate what I'm trying to say. I know I have the tendency to over-complicate things but sometimes I need to slow down and take a step back, relying more on the idea of the image rather than the detail and flourishes.