‘A high street hardware store is developing a series of instructional guides to help their customers with some basic DIY skills. The client wants them to be accessible and easy to use for a non-specialist audience – so, for example, they mustn’t be too visually cluttered. Develop a step-by-step guide for a DIY task you’reContinue reading “Step-by-Step Guides”
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Household Instructions
‘A manufacturer of household appliances wants you to develop a new instruction guide for one of their products that describes its various components and their functions as well as providing basic instructions on use. For example, if you choose to produce instructions for a vacuum cleaner, you’ll need to represent the parts of the machineContinue reading “Household Instructions”
Aircraft Safety Cards
The aircraft safety card as a piece of informative design, is perhaps one of the most universally used, yet also one of the most varied in how it gets its information across. In terms of different aircraft, they don’t vary hugely, however between airlines, the design can look fairly different. Some choose to use numbersContinue reading “Aircraft Safety Cards”
Essential Ingredients
‘A research publication is running an article on our changing relationship to cooking in the home and what we consider essential ingredients. Researchers took a snapshot of what people had in their fridges and compared it to what people thought they would make with these ingredients. They were interested in looking at the kinds ofContinue reading “Essential Ingredients”
The Working Week
‘Think about how you could represent your typical working week. You may want to categorise your time by what you’re doing (e.g. paid work, OCA work), where you are (at your place of work, at your desk at home) or another method. Try and represent your time proportionally. Develop your ideas through at least threeContinue reading “The Working Week”
Local Relationships
‘Using either your own family history or a fictitious one, create a family tree using a pedigree or genealogy chart. Now use this family lineage to create a cartogram that plots where these family members were located. Look at some examples online if you’re not familiar with any of these ways of presenting information.’ TheContinue reading “Local Relationships”
Save Our High Street
The final project for assignment 3 – to develop visual material for a campaign to get local people to shop within their community. Choosing my own village Hartley as a real world example, I identified 4 shops which would really benefit from a larger local customer-base: Glovers Farm (fresh meat and veg farm), Hartley SuppliesContinue reading “Save Our High Street”
Pastiche
“an artistic work in a style that imitates that of another work, artist, or period” – this is the dictionary definition of a pastiche. It describes exactly what a pastiche is, but it doesn’t give the wider context. A pastiche then, I believe is something that is often used to portray a message, either throughContinue reading “Pastiche”
Graphic Design in Campaigns
After being asked to identify some ways in which graphic design has helped to support campaigns, my mind immediately thought to the iconic ‘Hope’ poster of Barack Obama’s successful 2008 presidential election campaign. Designed by Shepard Fairey in just one day, it was originally distributed as a simple street poster, but soon became a symbolContinue reading “Graphic Design in Campaigns”
Iconic Brands
For me, brands don’t come much more iconic or recognisable than Adidas. ‘Die marke mit den drei streifen’, the brand with the three stripes is iconic in name and visual features. The three stripe motif that has been consistent from the beginning is a nod to the running track, and the lanes athletes compete in.Continue reading “Iconic Brands”
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