Today we had a workshop focused on design boards, the importance of doing them and doing them correctly. Firstly we discussed as a class what shouldn't be on a design board and came up with the following;
- No 1st person, nobody cares what we did or why.
- No spelling mistakes or typos.
- Avoid food stains or other marks on the final printed boards. If there is a mistake it must be reprinted.
- The boards should be printed to a high standard.
- The images on the boards shouldn't be poor quality, no pixelation.
- Do not put too much text, but also don't put too little text. Balance is required between the two.
- Consistency and uniformity is needed throughout.
Things that should be on a design board;
- Talk about the useful things that are important- colour code, stock, binding, fonts, pt size etc...
- Your name
- Board numbers/order
- Titles, what is the board about?
- Showcase your work and end product making sure it's obvious that it is in fact the final outcome.
- Always use professional images of your product to do it justice.