Hi Nfinlay

As renderings I think they look good, a bit more contrast might help them to jump off the page more though.

I would have chosen a higher viewing angle, as It stands the luggage looks quite monolithic, almost architectural. I find It's a good Idea to pick a viewing angle that serves to represent the product as It would normally be seen In reality. Of course you can play around with this in order to best describe a particular design and It's key features, just don't go too far.

By definition luggage is about movement so It would have been nice to see the products arranged in a more interesting and dynamic way.

Here's an ultra quick sketch to show what I mean, even this arrangement is a bit static but you get the idea.



Cheers,

Pete

I think the renderings struggled in the contrast department because i was having a hard time keeping the black fabric black but still adding gradients/depth to the panels. (more practice) I'll play with your suggestions on the final piece and then ill post it.

Thanks Kannonne!

heres some more doodles from the past few weeks.

i love the last sketch, so random
whatt you said about the black fabric being always black while the grays gradient down makes sense, sorry i couldnt give more specific feedback.
as for other sites, there is always core77

No biggy. Thanks for the feedback non the less.

That kind of thing is hugely contingent on target market. I thought the layout was pretty interesting and dynamic.

Hi Powers

You're right about target market and I agree that nfinlay's original layout is interesting but as I understand it we're talking about a descriptive 'hero' shot that best represents the product.

For me nfinlay's visual is more emotive than descriptive. It shows some nice details but you can't see the top of the larger cases and that's where the most important functional elements are. The part of the case the user will most often interact with isn't visible.

As a dynamic support visual showing some nice secondary detailing it's great but as a principal view to describe and sell the design to the client it doesn't work.

Cheers,

Pete

I agree with you both.

Most of my interaction was with the sales rep and regional director(who was a marketing guy). They really didn't care much about design thinking or understanding, but they could relate and get excited about something that looked cool. So I focused the renderings/product on the emotion. They were already familiar with the functional elements so it was about a new style for the an existing 22" bag. (the other bags were added on my end to help communicate the possibilities of a full line)

If i was going to submit my the designs in a final presentation format, specifically to a client who was unfamiliar with the product line or function, then i would have probably geared the style of the presentation more in the direction Kannonne speaks of. (detailing elements, functional sides, user interaction points, etc...)

That being said from a design approach I like what Kannonne said. I probably could have added or change some other elements that would have communicated more of the product and still kept the same emotion, but I didn't feel the added views/change of perspective would have added anything to the end goal of that phase, and the whole time and money relationship was an issue. I did change the approach once the phase changed from an aesthetic focus to a detailed manufacturing focus. (plus i got some great feedback before that phase started ) -Thanks!

Heres some feminine cases.

so heres the final rendering for those cases.