Final

Camouflage Layout and sizing experiments

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Prefer the layout on the left. This is because it truns into the pattern the more the items are copyed and used. and achieves the style and look of a camouflage.

Items Colour test

For these images i have Experimanted with the use of different colours based upon each type on camouflage.

Overall i prefer the colour scheme of the Woodland and Snow camouflage. this is because i feel that it will produce the best outcome and make it obviouse what it represents. i did not chose the other colour schemes because i felt that too many of the colours did not go well with the designs or were be to bland and not as interesting to work with.

Colour Mind map

First Designs

For these designs i have used the items i have chosen and have created a sybol version of the item and a simple illustration of each one. this is so i can chose from either to see which best suites the style camouflage.

Camouflage Origins

The History of Camouflage The term camouflage comes from the French word camoufler meaning "to blind or veil." Camouflage, which is also called protective concealment. This means to disguise an object, in plain sight, in order to conceal it from something or someone.

In the late 1800’s, an American artist named Abbott Thayer made an important observation about animals in nature that became a useful tool in developing modern camouflage. After studying wildlife, Thayer noticed the coloring of many animals graduated from dark, on the backs, to almost white on their bellies. This is an important property that is very useful in modern camouflage. This graduation from dark to light breaks up the surface of an object and makes it harder to see the object as one thing. The object loses its 3D qualities and appears flat.

Camouflage, as we know it today, was born in 1915 when the French army created a new unit called the camouflage division. Artists were among the first people the French army called in to help develop camouflage for the use during W.W.I.