Development for Website design

Website designs

Below are the 5 designs for my website. The Homepage will have 4 links to other pages.

Type Factory- The Brief

Type Factory 

The Brief

Create a visual Identity and range of promotional materials, the identity must capture the essence of the experience, that the visitors will have whilst visiting the Museum/Gallery.

Background 

the type factory is a new museum/Gallery space being developed in a location of your choice. offering an exciting resource and experience for designers, school children and tourists. It aims to inform and enthuse its visitors about all the aspects of typography, from the designers behind it to current work and trends. The Gallery will also house a Cafe and book shop.

Target Audience 

• Designers, Typographers, Artists and anyone interested in Art or Design. 
• Tourists- or anyone who may want to visit the Gallery from Away from the area 
• Secondry school students 

Considerations 

Screen based submissions could be a website which would include the identity, appropriate information, examples of promotional work and merchandise, 

Final Designs for Print Booklet

 Colour Modes Booklet

Book Binding Booklet

Print Process Booklet 

7 Important things to know about print

From Amber's workshop I have created lists and written notes on the different printing methods, this should help me when creating my info pack and research into print production, all the information was very helpful and has given me a small incite into printing. There are several different things which need to be considered when printing and so i have categorised them into different sections.

Colour models

• CMYK
• RGB
• Hexachrome - Made up of dots upclose
• Spot Colour
• PMS - Pantone Matching Systems

Based on a model for lithographic printing:

• Colour models
• Formats
• Art work
• Stock
• Processes
• Finishing
• Costing

Stock

• Weights (gs) 80-90 gsm is the office standard weight
• Finish - Gloss/silk/matt/coated/uncoated
• Laid wove
• Boards
• Variations
• Plastics + acetates

Artworking

• Preparing work for print, working in the correct manner
• Document set-up - packaging - fonts etc
• File formats & fonts - making sure fonts are supported by printers,
• Spellcheck
• Colour specification
• Printer marks - e.g. registrations, crop marks, plate/separations information
• Pre-flight check
• Mock-ups
• Proof
• Sign off

Processes

• Lithograph
• Gravure
• Screen-print
• Flexography
• Pad-printing
• Six colour
• Laminate - gloss/matte
• More on the presentation

Finishing

• Finishing could be done in-house, be in touch with the clients and printers to see what your limitations are in designing and processes, along with the budget
• Folding & creasing
• Die stamping/cutting/drilling
• A die cut, is the outside cut- the outside cut would be a die cut

Formats

• ISO Paper sizes
• A + SRA Sizes
• Imperial sizes (North America) & Metric (Rest of the world)
• Tabloid (compact) Broadsheet, Berliner - These are newspaper and magazine kind of sizes, Berliner is kind of an imperial sizes, going with North America's system
• Envelope 'C' sizes

Costing

• Quotes, get early on before starting the job, just so you know what kind of budget you're working with, whether it's a personal project, your own personal money or for a client.
• Specify an identical job, right down to the finishing to at least 3 different printers and compare quotes is a good way of working.
• Learn or have a rough idea of what different processes and finishes will cost so you can keep it in the back of your head while art-working and designing
• Understanding viable minimum quantities, a lot of printers may only do a minimum run.
• Extras/Authors connections
• Delivery?

Within my info pack I would like to cover most of these areas however there is too much to cover all, further research will be carried out in order to be more specific and accurate. I want to info pack to be easily understood so the information will be laid out simply, with limit text.  

WEB EXPERIMENTATION

If you want the website to be centrally aligned then you have to add to the Container after the top 0px
then left :50% then Right: 50% then Margin- left :-512px

when creating a template you can change the original template and automatically the other pages will update. The navigation is consistent throughout, it is not a editable region, whereas the columns are.
To make the

3 Scamp Designs and Crit feedback

Within the crit we were asked by Lorraine and simon to come up with 5 questions which we would like to be answered, so below are my 5 questions,

• Is there too much imagery within the page? Does it take up Too much space?
• Does it look overcrowded?
• Should it have more colour?/ is it too dark with the black?
• Should there be more information on the homepage? if so what would it be and where would it go?
• Does the white and black work?
• Should the title be more specific to the summer brief?
• What else could go on the page? 
• Is the Imagery relevant?

 Scamp 1

Scamp 2

Scamp 3 

Feed back from the crit, 

After having the crit we discussed questions and which ones were good and which ones were bad, 

this is what we came up with..

• No loaded questions 
• Don't ask "does it work"
• Don't ask "what would you change"
• Write useful questions 
• Be specific 
• Always ask why they propose what they are saying

Type Workshop Myriad pro

Areas of Print and designs with feedback

Below are the 8 different areas wining Print that I could focus on 

1. Colour modes - CMYK, RGB, hexachrome, spot colour, Pantone matching system
2. Programme info - Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign
3. Document setup - printer marks, colour specification, mock ups, proof, sign off
4. Terminology - gamut, overprint, separations etc
5. Print processes - lithographic, gravure, screen print, flexography, pad printing, six colour, laminate, folioing, embossing/debossing, spot varnish
6. Stock - weight, finish, laid/wove
7. Format - ISO paper sizes, 'a' format, imperial vs. metric, tabloid/broadsheet, envelope 'c' sizes
8. Finishing - die cutting, binding, folding 

However I think the ones which I will focus on will be: 

1. Print processes - lithographic, gravure, screen print, flexography, pad printing, six colour, laminate, folioing, embossing/debossing, spot varnish
2. Format - ISO paper sizes, 'a' format, imperial vs. metric, tabloid/broadsheet, envelope 'c' sizes
3. Finishing - die cutting, binding, folding