DBCYP Design session 2

The aim of this session is to develop an understanding of design in Adobe Illustrator. It is hoped that the skills will then be applied to designing posters, signs and signage for events in Deception Bay.

In the Fab Lab:

1. Continue with design for laser cutter

2. Laser cutter induction

3. Cut designs

There were 16 people that attended today's session. The group had done some prep work in that they had come with ideas of what they wanted to work on and towards cutting out. The objects they had chosen are for the mural for the shopping center activities next week. They designed birds, crabs, shells, buckets and kids playing in the sand using Illustrator.

It was great to see the group leave with the objects they had made. It all began to click for a number of the group today as well although there were a few that had given up on the process as they found last week's workshop in Illustrator very challenging and overwhelming.

After the session Mick and I chatted about seeing if a smaller group would like to come back in and work on the CNC router to see the possibilities of that as well. We also chatted about taking a design from today and cutting it on the CNC as well as a stand for it. This idea could then potentially feed into the larger OLA project happening out in Dbay as well.