I have created a range of posters which  use info graphics. Info graphics has been mentioned a lot in my blog and sketch book. But for my final design I have decided not to go with info graphics as it is to mainstream and just looks to generic . so my design will all be typo graphic which means that getting the type face correct will play a huge part in how the design ins interpreted by the reader.

We looked in to screen printing and it looks like that we won’t have the funding to do it . so we then decided to look in to vinyl tile printing . now this looked like a cheep alternative. So we started to  cut out the designs from the vinyl tile’s , how ever it really didn’t work that well so we had to scratch that idea.  This give me time to rethink my design.  My design was originally going to be  laid out with a load of negative space. How ever I think that there was to much negative space in my design. So I changed it a decided to add a charter to it  which removed a lot of the negative space and made the design more interesting  and stand out more. I feel that this is a strong design which would work really well . I didn’t just want to create a poster which was telling people about the charity , I wanted the poster to also look like a piece of modem art which might be found in someone’s house. This I feel will be a way of making more money for the charity.  At the charity show we sold bags with some of the designs in which was good as this helped to raise money which was a good thing. I think that the project has had its ups and downs but I must say that it has gone really well over all. 

development

this week i started to develop some of my screen printing ideas. we had researched screen printing the previous week . so i had to come up with a design with a maximum of 3 colors. i had learned that the ,more colors which i have the more difficult the bags will be to produce. so i have deiced to only use 2 colors as i don't have time to use 3 colors as i have allot of bags to produce. furthermore the print ink is expensive and the lower my costs per unit this will mean  i will be abble to make more money for the charity. so i have settled for a bag idea now, and i have just started to try out with different layouts as i have mentioned before      

meating

this week we had a meeting with the head of the photography department. we were told that we would be making bag for life , using the screen printing method. so we were told  to research bags for life and screen printing. we have been advised to use 2 colors as using 3 would make the process to difficult and would have more chances of going wrong . so i am starting to put some ideas together for designs on the bag .

development

this week i have decided to develop some of my thumbnails in to really posters. now previously i have looked at information graphics , but i have decided to move away from this idea this week and , i have decided to create a poster with on information graphics on it. i must say that i really like this design as a concept but there is scope for improvement . the idea is inspired by a compass , which i feel give a strange , eye catching and individual appeal. this is the first poster that i have designed which i hasn't included information on the subject of aids it just says charity at the top and talks about the charity in the body copy  . he red line which comes out of the bottom of the circle could be used to show statistics on aids but i don't know if i will do that .

week 7

the previous week we had looked at thumb nail designs. so this week we looked at making those had generated thumb nails in to digital ones. the designs had to include information graphics , so this included creating lots of information graphics . so i had to create new ways of showing shocking information in a pleasant way. the style of information graphic i like is the line design. this is where a line is shaded in different colors to represent different statistics . all of the thumb nails witch i have designed have been inspired by quango.com and the book information is beautiful .

week 4

this week i was unable to do any work as i was unable to access my blog .

week 3

This week we went for coffee , to discuss our thoughts and ideas on the project. we sat down at looked at information graphics books.  we put our heads together and and decided that the best thing to do was to use the information graphics which we had talked about. We also looked a website called kiwango . this is a site witch shows lots of examples of information graphics. we also started to look at our own designs. so we started to design our own layouts and stuff. also we stated to look at turning the thumb nails in to a real poster.   so we had to create a basic poster idea to show that we have understood information graphics .