Thursday, 10 February 2011

DESIGN CONTEXT - workshop

ILLUSTRATION WITHIN PACKAGING DESIGN

- What are the packaging design rules?

-How important is grid and layout for packaging design?

-How can packaging design help sell the product?

-Differences between decorative illustration and simple illustrations, which one is more successful with different target markets?

- Who responds to it?

- How do the illustrations help sell the product? (statistics)

- What do the illustrations say about the product?

- Is illustration used for commercial formats. why/why not?

- What products do you want to package?

- How can illustration hinder popularity of products?

- What are the 'devices' used by companies? (eg. mascots, ideological illustration)

- there are 6 sides to a box. consider them all

- Does it make the first impression of a brand? what impression?

- How valuable does it look?

- who is your audience?

- define your target market

- consider 'on-shelf'

BOOK COVER DESIGN

- How important is the cover for sales?

- what makes a good book cover design?

- Budget range for book cover prints and finishes?

- What print processes are regularly used for book cover design?

- Does the cover design affect the price of the book?

- What are the rules within book cover design?

- What do book covers have to contain? (info)

- Traditional-modern book covers (through history)

- Don't judge a book by its cover?

- does the book deserve the cover?

- Should it be designed just to sell the book?

- How do you start to visually communicate a whole book in just one image?

ILLUSTRATION AS PERSUASION

- How can illustration be used in advertising?

- Who responds to it?

- How can illustration be used to portray a serious message?

- How can illustration style differ to suit different target markets?

- What products could benefit from an illustrative design campaign?

- Variation in illustrative style for application. technical/decorative/vector/handmade/audience driven.

- How do people respond to it?

- What are the 'relevant' target markets?

- Does propaganda become a relevant issue?

- Put a definition to 'persuasive' is that in advertising - eg mascots, like tony the tiger.

- how can illustration become a persuasive tool?



HAND DRAWN TYPE

- decorative illustration compared with decorative font

- How much does pure font influence hand drawn type?

- Where is the line between influence and plagiarism?

- Where can it be applied and who will respond to it?

- How is it successful/unsuccessful?

-What are the different styles?

- Different materials make different effects

- When does it stop being hand drawn and becomes a workable typeface?

- readability? what application?

- How do you start to create your own style based on conventions or rules with existing hand drawn type?

- is hand drawn more appropriate?

- Where would you apply hand drawn type?

would you create hand drawn type yourself?

DESIGN FOR CHILDREN

*Persuasive design for a younger target market

- What are the rules/laws for advertising to children?

- How does selling to children get their parents to buy the product?

- Does it have to appeal to the parents of the children as well as the children?

- What type of promotional items are allowed to be distributted in school? are they permitted at all?

- Differences in selling to children than adults?

- What is trendy to children now.. the fads etc?

- Who says what kids want?

- How do you break down 'child' to different groups?

- does child psychology become relevant?

- what is the history of 'fads'? eg yoyo, pokemon etc.

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