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Spark Your Imagination: collab
_____________________________ First collaboration with =xyphid, consider this just a warm-up piece. Since there's a lot more to come. We started from this: [link] And you can see the progress here: [link] I had a lot of fun making this. I hope you enjoy the outcome Stock used from sxc.hu and various brushed from deviantART. Comments
Really cool, and nice dynamics
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February 2
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There is an abundance of air-related imagery. There are feathers, wings, arrows pointing up, cloud illustrations, and then your typical generic 45-degree angles and squiggly lines. Ignoring the generic ingredients, those "flight" symbols don't make sense to me. I can see that you and your collaborator are trying to imply flight or maybe freedom through the symbols, but in my mind I question where those symbols are coming from. This is an iPhone, not a jetpack.
Please don't take me to be harsh, of course. Just understand that in design, clever symbolism only works if it's easily understood. Design is about communicating ideas in an easy-to-grasp fashion, and in my opinion the feather motif is a bit hard to understand. If you wanted to communicate the idea of "freedom," you could use a combination of symbolism: birds and flight are good for a start, but what about open fields, people walking, travel symbols, opened cages, etc. Using a combination of seemingly unrelated symbols, united by a common theme, helps to get a point across easier. If you just use a bunch of bird references, people think you're talking about birds.
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