Architectural Design Board: Concept Board & Process

 In digital workshops today we were working on architectural design boards and trying to create a consistent set of boards for the final portfolio.  Here is the process of the concept board. I began by opening Photoshop and then clicking on 'File' and then 'New', this opened the dialog box and I chose 'Print' in the top menu and then I clicked on 'View all presets' and clicked on A3.  I then went to the right-hand side column and chose landscape orientation, 300ppi for high resolution and I chose a white background.  I then clicked on 'Create'.  I now had my blank canvas. I had chosen some abstract pieces from Unsplash that I could use as a background design for my boards, I chose green as this represents health and wellbeing and this curved pattern I thought would suit the stroke rehabilitation centre concept that I was creating.  I opened this image in Photoshop, I then went to 'Select' in the top menu and then in the drop-down box 'Select All'   I went to 'Edit' and then 'Copy' then clicked back into my canvas and clicked on 'Edit' and then 'paste'.  i used the transform controls to ensure that my canvas was completely covered by this image.  I then went to my layers panel in the bottom right-hand corner and clicked on the opacity slider so that it was around 50% so that the background was not distracting.  I then returned to the 'Move' tool in the top left-hand tools menu.

I wanted to then add the title of my project so I clicked into the 'Text' tool in the left-hand menu and then clicked onto the page.  I then wrote my Title into the text box and then selected this to change the font to at pts.  I also made a logo on Adobe Express 'De Velde Architecture' with an appropriate image that I thought would match the project's overall design.  I opened this in Photoshop and again just selected all and then copied and pasted it into my canvas. 

I then just wanted to add an image - this is just a stand-in image until I have created the real concept image myself.  I chose something suitable just from the internet for this and then again just opened in Photoshop and then selected and copied and pasted this into the canvas. 

My final step was to add the main body of text and this was just under the 'concept' title' so I clicked into the Text tool and then onto the canvas and just wrote this using the same font at  pts.

I then saved the piece as a PSD file so that it could edited and a jpeg so that I could easily view and use this image here. This is the final piece below.  

Reflection 

Overall I was fairly happy with the design except for the pattern makes it look like the text is bending even though it is perfectly straight.  Therefore for my final designs, I would definitely choose a different background to ensure this optical illusion is removed!  I do like the concept that I have written here and do think with a real drawing this would work quite well (on a different background).