The Final Letters

These are my final 10 letters that i designed.

The Process

To start with i wrote down the designs which i was going to do and decided how i was going to do each design; either hand drawn or using card. I also wrote which colour card to use on each design.

After this i started to cut out the 15x15cm squares which my designs of the letters are going to sit in.

For cutting out the squares i used a t-sqaure to get all my lines straight and measured out each square, i cut them out using a scalpel and ruler.

These are all the materials etc that i used to make my letters

Letters drawn onto tracing paper to transfer onto the final card cut outs

Process used to get the letter drawn onto the card, then i went round the outline in pen and coloured it in

Drawing onto the card ready to cut out

cut out letter

On one of the letter when i traced onto the card it left a dent in the card, so i had to retrace the outline and trace it again to get rid of the in dent in the card.

Fonts to use - alphabet soup

These are the font that i chose to use for my letters.

Alphabet Soup Ideas

After doing my brainstorm i started to think of some ideas that i could for my final letters.
I had chose to use the letter 't' because i like the shape of the lower case and i thought with my word being expand it would make it more interesting with a letter that actually had some shape to it.

From this i chose the ones which i liked the best out of them all and drew them at the scale they would be on the finished outcomes

Out of all of these i have chosen my final 10 which i am going to use to be the final outcomes of this brief.

Alphabet Soup

For this brief we have to create 10 designs on the same letter ( which we choose ) to do with a word we were given, i was given the word 'expand'.


To start with we did a quick exercise to get us thinking how you can make letters communicate something to the reader, I found this really helpful as i was struggling to think of how to do this at first.

After this exercise i decided to do a brain storm on what my word meant and things i could do with a letter

Presentation boards

As part of our presentation we printed off some of the work we had done, so we could pass it round for people to see up close.

This is the symbols that steph had designed.

This is the screenshots which greg did with the iphone i designed.

This is a advert which i designed, which was done to send out as a text/mms to people, it would come up on the phone as shown above, giving some details and price of the app.

powerpoint presentation

Presentation Ideas

For our presentation we came up with a couple of ideas.
- Powerpoint presentation
- Cut out iPhone - this would be a big iPhone, like the character suits you see, where we would demonstrate the app. This would be visually good and keep the audiences attention and hopefully find the whole presentation more interesting.
- Interactive board - instead of have the cut out iPhone we would do the same sort of thing but by projecting an iPhone onto the projection screen.


We decided to go with the powerpoint presentation and the interactive board, we have combined the two ideas together, this will hopefully show the audience what our app is like and how to use it, as well as bringing something different to our presentation.


Plan:

Crit Group discussion

During the day we had our first crit session, within this we had to describe our concept, research and presentation ideas to another group. Within this discussion we had to ask them five questions to get some feedback of them about what they thought of our concept.

After this we asked them for some general feedback on the whole thing and this is what they said:

Calendar Designs

Emily was the one to design the calendar designs

We as a group decided to use the last design, throughout the app we have used the colour scheme of black grey and beige to keep it minimalistic and simple so that it will be easier for the user to use, the last calendar design fits in best with this, so we chose that one.

App Screenshots

We decided for the presentation we would create a page with the screenshots of the app on, this will give the audience an idea of what the app would look like and the features within it.

How the app icon looks like on the home screen of the iPhone

How the app looks like in the Calendar mode - this is where you enter all your details and categories

How the app looks like when all the categories have been entered into the calendar.

 This is what it will look like when the app loads the pop - up on screen. Showing the symbol and details of the event.