Speaking From Experience

Week Two:

I spent alot of time researching existing products of information graphics for some ideas. The ones I liked best were a combination of type and image, as the images broke down the information making it easier to take in and more enjoable to read. However, not taking away the importance of the information. A good compositon of the layout is vital in masking the piece of design a visually engaging one. (Design Context)

I began thinking of my own product ideas:

Important considerations for my product range:

Information: Simplified, broken down so it is easy and more enjoyable to read. Clarity.

Images: Kept simple, not to distract from the information

Tone: Fun (Makes the reader more relaxed, ease nerves for new students), light hearted

Function: To entertain and inform

Colour: If  have alot of illustrations the colour pallete shoudl be kept limited to not distract the reader from the information. However, if the illustrations are kept simple I think working with bold colour could prove effective.

Hierachy: Image, type, composition

Form: shape, structure, relavance to 'party', interactive

Range of products: Must work well together and work as a set

Crit Feedback: 30/04

Here are some improtant things I picked up on fromt he feedback.

1. Is it aimed at a specific type of party? (Safe, controlled, mental)

I want it to be a fun party but I also want them to be safe.

2. Girls or boys - Seperate packs or mixed?

I will create a unisex pack as that is what parties usually are.

3. When to hand out packs?

Freshers Fair (Stall)

4. What the pack contains?

Yet to decide...

5. Cost of makign the pack

6. Differnt party pack examples, combinations

7. Colour

8. Logo

9. Why do people not already socialise much?

Nerves when starting in a new environment, this pack is to make it easier for them.

10. More visuals as all the writing can be hard to take in

11. Mock-ups

Speaking from Experience

After brainstorming different ideas for the brief I chose to go with 'How to throw a flat party'. It is aimed at first year freshers both male and female, and will give them advice on how to organise and prepare for a flat party as a way of helping become more social with their flatmate soutside a college environment. They will respond to the range of products holpefully by using them throughtout their time at uni.

Week One:

I began researching into what people thought made a good flat party through asking questions to students, (being the target audience).

Here are some questions and important answers I picked up on...

What makes a good flat party?

-A good amount/group of people

-Good music/ sound system

-Lots of air

Name an essential item for a flat party:

-Pack of cards

-Shot glasses

-Music

-Alcohol

-Plastic Cups

-Paracetamol

Name an essential action that should be taken before a party:

-Lock rooms

-Designated toilet

-Involve flatmates and get them to invite friends so you don't have to clean up alone the next day

What can be dangerous at a party?

-Smashed glass

-Drugs

-Fire (Smokin, cooking/hob/oven)

-Walking home alone

-Violence

-Leaving sharp items around (knives) and htings that can get broken or damaged

Paty Prep Summary:

In order to keep the party accident free, I looked at ways of avoiding some bad situations:

Crit: 23/04 (With John)

In the crit I was told i should try and come up with as many different ideas as I could for how I could get people to know how to throw a flat party. I want to create a 'freshers pack' for students so I began to think of different things it could consist of:

I also thought of different existing party products that could hold information on:

Another issue was how would the students invite their fellow classmates to the party once they recieved their party guide. I thought of things such as:

Printable invites they could get off the internet,

Word of mouth,

Noticeboard - google calendar

Posters

Website-join as a class-say when having as party-text subscription-immediate invite

Facebook (popular with target audience)

What is a line?

Line: ''A formation of people, objects or things, on/besides/behind eachother.''

A few bits form the sketchbook

After researching into artists and ways of communicating the word line, I chose to focus on people. I thought of police line ups and mug shots and began drawing peoples faces. To make it as accurate as possible i drew them over a grid. I like how they look in a row next to eachother, I think this would look better if there was alot of drawings of different faces.

Another form of line on humans is the lines on your hands. I like how palm readings can show that these lines have specific meaning.

Another use of hands is sign language, here is the word line using the sign language alphabet.

Photographing the left eye of different people.

I liked the use of grids, as the lines are in rows and collumns. This reminded me of pixels and I used a photograph of one of the mugshots and pixelated it. For each of the 'pixels' I used different images of different peoples eyes for the eyes, noses for the nose, lips for the lips and so on. I quite like this idea. I chose to pritn this in on a large scale (A1) as when you are close up you can see the 'pixel' images', and when you move away the image of the face is clear to see.

Visual Language

After collecting a range of images based upon light switches, I then took the idea of having pairs together, and began photographing them outside of college. Here are a few of my images:

Visual Language - Experimental images for Book Fair

Visual Language - Studio Lighting Brief

We had to produce 10 photographic images using our objects to represent our given colour (Green). We had to consider colour theory, and how images can be affected when different colours are used together.

Here are my 10 chosen images:

Visual Language

For this task we had to create timelines based upon information from daily and yearly routines, and one off events. We had to create 'pictograms' and create a key to show what they meant. We did this task in pairs, so my routine pictograms are in drawn in pink and my Sarah's in blue.