Blogs

Please remember to up-date your blog. It is a log of your work and progress and will be put towards gaining the level 3 credits.

Deadline: Monday 1st June

• Thumbnail sketches
  Meet with your client to discuss designs (evidence of meeting - who, date, what discussed, outcome). Please make sure that you evaluate your designs - strengths and weaknesses.
• Research of design princilples
• Research on….colour / font etc for example try going to http://colorschemedesigner.com/
• Survey – either with client or customers or relevant people
• From your research and results you need to evaluate and revise your designs
• Revise briefs
• Revise stakeholders / key factors
• Revise Gantt chart

Then you will need to start creating your concept sketches, which will need to be agreed with your client and evaluated.

Document design

You should research the design principles in terms of your document for example:

• Images: Quality, size, file type, effects
• Colour: Colour scheme, CYMK or RGB, colour harmony, tone, colour associations, highlight
• Proximity: Layout, organisation, clutter, what should be grouped together
• Typography: Heading font, body font, font size, spacing, legibility, alignment, styles
• Contrast: Size, colour, weighting, contrast between items, stand out
• Balance: Asymmetrical or symmetrical, predictable, dynamic, hierarchy