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Typogateaux.

Tomorrow is Typogateaux!

Our group consists of Sam Lane, Me, Chris Shuttleworth and Steph Buck.

We decided to make a cheesecake after long deliberating. We carefully planned the body that our cheese cake would be molded into.

Name - Cheese & Cake!
Strain of cake - Lemon

Take a look at the process.

creating the template.

Ingredients:

1 x Tin of Condensed Milk

1 x Tub of Philadelphia

1 x Large Milkybar

1 x Pack of HobNobs

2 x Table Spoons of Vanilla Essence 

The juice of 3 Lemons

Lemon Zest

Washing our equipment! No time for food poisoning.

Me melting butter.

Hob Nobs folded with butter.

Carefully laying the cake into ts housing..

Carefully mixing all the ingredients together.

LEMON

Topping meet base.

Dont forget that grated white chocolate. Dayym!

We started creating the brand for our cheese cake company.

The finished logo.

Creating the box.

The cake is done.

How To // Evaluation.

We identified that skateboarders generally had an attitude of not caring much for self preservation. Both professional and amateur. This psyche in our opinion developed for lots of different reasons - most professional skaters do not wear protective gear which included helmets, knee guards, elbow guards and hand/ wrist protection. therefore a trend of skating without out protective gear was reinforced within the skateboarding community. We spoke to people who skateboarded and created questionnaires and sent them to skaters and they agreed with what we were saying and thought it is not 'hip' to wear protection although they though protection was necessary.

We thought that this attitude would be very hard to change and that to do so would be pointless. So we tried to focus wearing protective gear and assembling a skateboard safely and aiming it at younger skateboarders aged below 16. We wanted to say basically listen, professional skateboarders usually start off wearing protective equipment when they first start skating and then once they feel they are skilled enough not to they drop the protective gear. From our research we found that younger skateboarders were also more prone to skateboarding injuries because of factors such as in-experience and a low sense of gravity.

When we were making the poster we used shock tactics in the form of facts and statistics of injuries. We found these from secondary and primary sources. Secondary being data collected from skateboarders which was gathers by hospitals. We made statements such as skateboarding with protective gear will reduce the extent of injuries - qualitative. We also said wearing a helmet will reduce head injuries from up to 85% - quantitative.

I found the questionnaires to be most useful because from the answers we could produce statistics which could be represented in info graphics which were straight to the point and quantitative information. Quantitative information allows you to an extent be confident in producing statements because the data backs you up.

We found condensing all the information down to a posters format difficult because there was a lot to say and maybe another format could have been possible. For example a video explaining our points. We over came these problems by making everything really simplified and graphic. We also made the format bigger where appropriate.

I feel as if I my input was more then satisfactory but here is always more I could have done. I felt as if the deadline crept upon the group and we had to rush the to finish. I think more organization would of been useful. I wish we had had a little more time to perfect the poster. I think I think it is always hard working in a group as making decisions and raising points generally requires a level of sensitivity. I think generally all of the group pulled their weight and I would happily work in the same group again. I surprised myself in the presentation because I view myself as being shy in front of large groups but once the presentation began I spoke, made sense and was able to answer questions which is always good. I think the experience was very positive and the presentation as a group went really well!

5/10 things I have learnt about the design process in the last 2 weeks

• Working in a group requires a level of patience
• Research drives the design process and without it the outcome is generally pointless
• Informed design is everything
• Graphic design is about becoming a specialist in every theme and specific subject you are given 
• Pretty images mean S***

5/10 things I would do differently next time

• Plan my time more efficiently
• Communicate with the group frequently
• Stay in college in apposed to working at home.
• Be more involved and confident about my design and thoughts
• I would be faster to react to the brief instead of thinking about what to do. 

How To // Skateboarding Final

Finals printed off.

This is the final poster! It was a rush to get it together and I know there are things we would definitely change but all in all I think it serves the purpose and visually looks good.

 

 

Seb put these two together.

How To // Skateboarding

 

This was a joint effort between us all. Seb created the board with the grip tape but couldn't quite get the trucks right. I changed the angles of the trucks, did the wheels, bearing, risers and flipped the bolts. Suzanne started a version of the deconstructed board but was also finding it hard to get the angle without actually deconstructing a skateboard.

Seb got the final together and applied the colour scheme to to the banner and type.

How To // Skateboarding - Information for Infor Graphics

2. Do you wear protective arm and knee pads?

71% - No

14% - Yes

14% - Some times

3.Do you wear a helmet?

14% - Yes
57% - No
28% - Sometimes

5. Do you think it's uncool to wear protective gear?
71% - Yes

X - No
14% - Not really
14% - Not bothered

7. Do you find as a young skater, you get injured more often?
42% - Yes
28% - No
28% - No change
X - N/A

How To //Skateboard Poster Design

This is Rebecca's design mock ups. I like how simple the layouts are. I think we should try and incorporate the top image.

How To // Skateboarding Questionaire Research

Here are the results to the survey that we made. I havnt got pro features on Survey Monkey so they only give me these statistics presented in this simple way. We have to now turn these into info graphics.

 

Mock up questionnaire:

How To // Skateboarding Designs Colour Variations

These are Sebs design mock ups of our poster - http://s-needler1114-dp.blogspot.com/

 
This was the original colour scheme. The group agreed that the layout was good but the colour scheme needed changing. 

These are the different variations of the colour schemes I found. Seb mocked these up to with my human anatomy figure on as well. Starting to come together now!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We are going to try the these mock ups with a background colour I think that will finish the designs off. Light greys? light pastel colours.

How To // Skateboarding - Colour swatches

 

Miss Piggy Loves Kermit


Bournes Room

View over the town

 

Vintage

 

Sunday Morning

We need to do some mock ups of the final poster so here are some colour swatches I found which work well together and are gender neutral. I used Adobe Kuler to find them:
http://kuler.adobe.com/#themes/newest?time=30
I recommend this website, its great for finding and learning about colours that work well together,