My Printed Products.

After deciding what company to make for my printed products. I came up with a confectionary establishment called Amber Sweets. I have explained in various documents and a Powerpoint presentation of what my company is about.
Amber Sweets is my company which sells confectionary but it has an alternative edge to my products. I decided on this idea as I thought it was very original and I could be very creative when designing my products.

To begin with I have designed my company logo, this took me a few attempts but I finally got the right logo I was looking for. I carried out research in to sweet designs, and what sweet shops initially have their design styles. I noticed that a majority had stripes, taking this in to consideration I thought it would be benefitial for me to put this onto my logo design. I added stripes within the font of my logo, but added a gothic style font with black and pink colours to keep the alternative theme of my logo. I also added a heart to the M of Amber to make it look cute and have a slight feminine quality to my logo, though it also has a grunge look to it as well as the heart shape splatters.
I was very happy with the outcome of my logo and felt that I would be able to work with it easily when putting it on my products.

I firstly began working on my packaging product, which is intended for cupcakes. I researched in to different templates before finding the suitable template for my design, the template for my packaging was a slotted disc-top carton with a crashlock base. The top had a "clover leaf" design which I though looked very cute. When designing on the template I used soft pink and white stripes along the box to bring out the sweet shop effect. I also added black lace around some of the edges to bring an elegant yet slight grunge effect to my package. I added the logo along with a curved-like border to make it stand out better and to make it easily reconisable.  

Infographic

After carrying out research into infographics, I need to produce my own infographic and demonstrate my knowledge of printing techniques, this has to cover Hand, Mechanical, and Digital Techniques which are involved with the printing industry. I gathered my research using books from a library and internet resources. I was then able to put my information into a model map and began to design my infographic. I thought I used very simple design work with cute colours in order to make the infographic enjoyable and readable for the people who would be reading it. I thought I gave enough information and facts for my infographic and happy for the outcome of my findings and designs.

About my Units

These units involve myself producing and manipulating graphics for print products. This requires and allows me to be creative throughout these units and helps give me practical skills and experiance. I will be designing my products using Adobe Photoshop CS5, and determine myself to show my understanding of creative design and how I use it for advertising my products. This is a popular and growing aspect of the media industry so it is a skill I need to obtain and undetstand thoroughly.

Unit 18 requires me to gain an understanding of the advertisement industry and using design and digital techniques to produce a series of printed promotional proucts.
I need to understand print-based media production and what techniques and technology I can do and use. I need to be able to develop ideas and originate my own designs, and be able to justify my work accordingly in order to achieve a high grade.

Unit 4 requires me to manage my own planning and production and gain experiance in managing my own product as I will be working individualy. I need to be able to originate my ideas and carry out development and research for my media producfts. I need to do a ptich proposal for my chosen media product to demonstrate my research and show my management during the production process.

My deadline for these units is on the 13/12/11.