From the beginning till the end, I changed a lot of my design, but the only thing I didn’t move out is the yellow umbrella. Here are some steps I took to reach my design destination.
First, the reason why I chose this quote: “Character is how you treat those people who can do nothing for you.” is because I’ve remembered this sentence since 3 years ago, it leads my thought through these years, so no matter how long it is, I will use it anyway, I told my self two weeks ago. Then the question is what kind of image should I use, I was looking for some helping hands, but accidentally, I saw a beautiful umbrella with some love hearts under it, so I draw some sketches to imagine how it will work. However, turns out those hearts will take too much space and I have to use enough space to put that long quote inside of 10 by 10 square.
So I tried a single umbrella, I chose yellow color because it enlighten the whole picture, just like how that quote enlighten me. But problem is I didn’t know where to put my quote, so I just gave a try. After I heard some classmates and professor’s suggestions, I started to rethink, maybe I should add or cut something. So I did some changes: I used black as background color instead of green; I added a little girl looks like she is giving out her umbrella to someone else, so it will more related to the meaning of that quote; I put those words along the umbrella, small but neat. I tried to combine words with picture into a very quite and clean environment. Silent kindness is what I want to express through this project, and I like my second design.