As Major Project

Well gang, your packaging projects should have been handed in and completed. Me and Simo will be marking them over the next week or so.

So onwards and upwards......

Hopefully you will have been giving some serious thoughts to your major project. What you choose to do for your final project is an open choice. However, here are some key pieces of advice when deciding what you are going to do for your final product.

1. Find something that you are interested in!!

2. Find a real client!! If you find a person/company that actually needs something to be made then it will help you when you are carrying out the research for your product. It will also allow you to carry out an end of project interview with the client to get their view point of the product you have made.

3. Remember this A Level, not GCSE!!! It is not advisable to 'make up' a client. Neither is it OK to simply say "I'm going to make a CD rack"!!! And no Boxes!!!!!!

4. Ensure your portfolio pages are compact. Do not use a larger font just so you can fill up a page!!

The most successful products that are made at A Level are those that are simple and solve problems.

There is a lot for you to consider and we will be discussing it further during tomorrows lesson.

Peace.

Willy Wonka

Welcome back to school!!! You should be cracking on with your packaging designs for your chocolate. Remember that you now only have 2 weeks left to design what the packaging looks like and create the piece of packaging. You may want to think about the following issues:

• Are you going to redesign the logo?
• Are you going to reconsider the colour schemes of the brand?
• Are you going to rename the company?
• What needs to go onto a piece of Food Packaging (bar code, ingredients, etc, etc)?
• What is your packaging going to look like?
• Have you found an appropriate net yet?
• If so, have you tested it by making a model?
• Have you drawn the net on Pro Desktop so that you can cut it out on the laser cutter?
• Have you created you packaging design on the computer so that it can be printed out on A3 card?

There is a lot to consider and not much time....... Good luck!!!!

If your struggling for ideas just take inspiration from this fella and I am sure you will be fine.