OUGD203 - Evaluation

I have really enjoyed this module, I have felt like I have had more freedom to focus into what kind of design I personally want to do, and also what I want to improve on. Throughout this project I have also found I have a slightly clearer idea and understanding of what kind of design I do and do not like to do, and focussed more as a designer myself.

Regarding the collaborative brief I really enjoyed myself. I believe Sophie and I worked really well together as were are both interested in the same type of design and wanted to create the same products. We also got a lot of work done as a team by organising ourselves well and experimenting, allowing us to be more creative. Overall I was really happy with this briefs outcome, I felt that this was the direction of design I would want to focus into in third year, looking into type and layout, and this is the project I am most proud of.

I believe my strengths within this module lied in the ideas generation and production of our Fedrigoni brief. I believe within this brief I provided a lot of ideas of the direction of the project and through being organised allowed me to experiment more than I have done in past briefs. My weaknesses was probably down to the fact of missing out time due to injury, which hindered my excitement and time into the product range and distribution brief. I felt that through missing the time I did not get the feedback I may have needed to improved the project and pushed the idea further.

If I was to do this project again I would continue into exploring and experimenting within the Fedrigoni brief see what other designs I can create and push the brief further. If I was to do the Product Range and Distribution brief again I would have liked to have created more of the event. And made and designed more for the actual in store section for the children.

However overall with this project I am really happy with what we produced for the YCN brief and would like to focus more into this design from now on. As as well as really liking the designs I have made and the product we came out with, I also enjoyed the process of creating the product and experimenting. On the other hand I think from the Product Range Distribution brief I have learnt that I do not particularly like designing for children's products, as I found this difficult. Although I did know designing for children would be difficult for me in the beginning I did want to do this as it was something totally different and challenged me.

Attendance: 4

Punctuality: 5

Motivation: 4

Commitment: 3

Quality of work: 4

Quantity of work: 3

My final boards for the Product Range Distribution brief. 

Final Website

Overall with my website I am very proud of myself! Huge sense of achievement!

For my first page I wanted to make our range of work to come up.. So I did I made an animation in photoshop, with each photo being on for 2 seconds then smoothly fading out to the next image. I then uploaded it as a gif into the images folder. 

About I obviously kept the same layout throughout and within here i decided to add pictures of use with our USP. I typed this out as it would then make the website more searchable in google and such search engines as the type would be found. 

 With the work page I firstly decided to make them black and white then scroll over and they turned to colour. However as I was going with the simplistic white background it looked abit boring. So I decided to keep the colour yet once you click on a photo it enalrges.

I also decided to change and edit my own buttons for the window that pops out. I decided to change the type on the buttons to fit in with my design.

 The blogs page - this looks fairly simple! However the photographs are used as links and once you click on them they take you to each of our blogs.

 The contact page is kept clear and simple, with a map of our location containing tube references along with our address and email contact details.

My proposed idea.. 

My initial idea to start this whole project is that of an instore section (like the ball pool in ikea) where kids are dropped of by their parents to go and play whilst the parents shop around. 

For this I would want it to look something like this: 

Carrying the theme from the packaging and range onto the front of the instore section.
This would then be where the children would plant little pots given to them when they arrive. Those little pots are then taken home with the children.

Name stickers for the children.

I think the tomato sticker would look quite good, but with the type I am not too sure.

The potato just doesn't work I don't think the type would stand out enough and also the shape doesn't work when the type is in one line.

 Although I do really like the onion with the type, however the people wouldn't be able to write on the design. However i do really like the carrot!! It fits the type in best compared to the other more rounded veg.

Creating a small little tub for children to take home with them: containing some soil and a seed. SOOOO i need to create the outside packaging. And also a way in which they can carry the tubs easily.. 

Designs for the packaging.. I want to obviously keep it close to the design on all the other packaging and product. I think the first out of these two looks better without the information on the back being in a white square.

When making the holder for the cups I decided that instead of just making the design 2D to actually make the grass stand up and make it 3D then have the hand blue and the underneath of the design brown as the mud! Brian wave!! 

The white circles representing where the cups would sit in, but wouldn't be printed on the packaging. Also the brown version is the underneath of the product  and the grass is going to stick up at the sides.

As I am proposing to make a instore section for children to play/grow plants as the parents are shopping around Homebase, I would need to design the headed paper for things such as the sign in sheets for the parents to sign when they drop their children of. A bit like the ball pools of which used to be at Ikea.