Over the holidays

Please make sure that 3.1 is completed. It is very important that your Concept sketches are detailed and accurate, simple rules to follow are:

• Use a ruler
• Annotate everything you can't see e.g. the size of images in px, borders, colours and effects.
• Your final document must look like your concept sketch
• When you are creating your concept sketch for your multi-page document you do not have to sketch each page if they repeat the design

Good luck and enjoy your holiday!

Design inspiration

http://justcreativedesign.com/2007/12/12/101-places-to-get-design-inspiration/

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

Over the holidays and first week back...

Make sure that your visual diary is up to date

• Research - evaluate / annotate documents similar to the ones you will be making.
• Thumbnail sketches for each of your documents.
• Concept sketches for final ideas - these should be annotated both to describe the document and to say what tools and techniques you plan to use to create them.

Gantt chart

• This should be updated and saved as a different version with any missed deadlines explained.

Client

• You may need to meet with your client again, they should approve all concept sketches before you start to create the final designs.

Research and content

• You should be gathering and creating the content for your documents, remember that if the content is not your original work you will need to gain permission to use the text / image from the author.

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