Design Practice

After presenting my research on Russia, I received the following feedback:
- Research further into a Russian topic that you're interested in
- Have a look at Vodka labels and advertising - you could produce a publication?
- Think about what areas of Russia you prefer and would want to work with
- Could you focus on the cyrillic alphabet?
- How could you incorporate Tetris design styles?

In the afternoon we had a design board workshop with Lorraine.
First of all, as a class, we discussed the Do's and Dont's of design boards...

What not to do:
- Write in 1st person
- Initial sketches aren't always relevant (they want to see what you produced, not how you got there)
- Spelling mistakes / typos
- Food stains / crumpled paper
- Print problems
- Poor image quality
- Too much text (TLDR - too long, didn't read)
- Too little text - like a scrapbook

What to do:
- Name and number your boards
- Titles
- Show your final products
- Good quality photos of final products
- Crit each other's boards
- Proof read

After this, we handed our design boards over to someone else on the same table and wrote everything that they did wrong on their boards, for example spelling mistakes or poor layout.

My feedback was as follows:

RESEARCH BOARDS
- Horrible layout
- Bad quality images
- No information

- TLDR
- Grammar errors
- Bad quality images

- Layout issues
- Misalignment
- TLDR

- TLDR
- Annotate images so that they can be understood
- Why is Putin on a horse topless?

- TLDR!!!
- Do you need a full stop on a title?
- Annotate images

DESIGN FOR PRINT BOARDS
- Why is one of your mockup books black?
- Underline subtitles

- The tone of voice is too informal
- Can you reword some areas?
- Layout is poor
- Difficult to view imagery

- In what way are KS2 and KS3 books similar?
- Don't mention negatives
- Don't use 1st person
- Long winded
- Layout!

- Same body copy as previous page
- Don't use 1st person
- Layout

- Inconsistent layout
- What are these images of?
- Too informal text

DESIGN FOR WEB BOARDS
- "go-to" is too informal?
- What is this image for at the bottom? Just to fill space?

- Poor quality images
- Strange layout

- Poor quality images

- Hard to view website mockups when the screens are titled

DESIGN FOR PRINT AND WEB BOARDS
- Don't overlap your images!
- Don't use 1st person
- Images are dark

- Don't use 1st person
- TLDR

- Good layout!
- Dark images

- Don't use 1st person

- Consistant layout! Looks good!
- Make sure your paragraphs aren't split up awkwardly, e.g. having two words at the end of a sentence in a new column on one line
- Don't use 1st person
- Dark images

- Hard to view website mockups when the screens are tilted