Tuesday, 27 January 2009

For Tuesday, 3rd February, 2009

Please take your folder home and do the sections marked in pink which you didn't manage to do in the catch-up session(s) you attended. If you didn't attend a catch-up session, a letter will go home explaining the same... a situation which, as I am sure you will agree, is easily avoided.

A recurring gap which a lot of people seem to have is the different stages of designing when designing in 2D Design or Paintshop Pro. You need at least 4 initial ideas for each object... the dvd cover and the clock. To explain what I am talking about, you can see my example if you click here.

You can either use your finished design on the computer and do variations on colour, typefaces, etc. or you can open the image (or Google and find the original image you started with) and do variations of placing, typefaces, colours, etc. (a better option) as I did in my example here.

Another noticeable gap is the mention of manufacturing processes in your Case Studies. A plastic DVD box is injection moulded (examples of a mould on a web page if you click here)
and the printing is, on a large run, usually 4 colour chromolithography. There is a good, clear explanation of different methods of printing dvd covers if you click here.