process - Tueday week 2

Our homework was critiqued, giving us insight into what we need to work on, in our case we need to focus on our message and style.

This week we generated a word list of related themes as a class and used those works to help refine our ideas. by choosing one word of each category we are able to create diverse ideas. We also analysed websites for their good and bad qualities (flow, hierarchy, etc) an important task for us to start thinking about our own websites and what we need need to consider when putting them together.
Azzy produced a range of concepts to further our ideas and specifically reach our target audience.

We also attended the HTML workshop to gain the basic skills necessary to create our website for this paper.

process - end of week 1

13/9/14

Ideate, Make, Understand

After class Tuesday we went home and began gathering information to assist with idea generation. We made a wordlist containing themes, tangibles and intangibles that relate to fair trade, coffee and artists. We then made an image library containing the same. Which included type, colour and a few examples of coffee themed websites and how they approached their themes of coffee. Traditional with stamps and grunge looking with textures and letterpress type, and a clean professional approach, sleek, minimalist, flat shapes/ colours.
Then Lucas created some moodboards that visually displayed the two approaches that we discovered. Then we both put together a new thumbnails aiming to use visual rhetoric, and Lucas also created a few potential website ideas using the moodboards as well.

Ideation and word lists are an important part of the process because it helps generate ideas and helps us to consider all relevant aspects of our topics and themes. mood boards are also important and advanced our project by collaborating and sorting relevant ideas into groups that benefit us. 

Process - Tuesday Week 1

9/9/14
Understand, Ideate Define

We got quite alot of information in the first two days, we were introduced to Koha, what it means and how it will influence our design thoughts and outcomes for this paper. We also got introduced to the brief and all of the specs that we will be designing.

In the first lesson we did an exercise using the Simpsons, and that we had to think about how each character would be interested in the topics, or how we could make them interested depending on their personalities and likes. Then at the end of the lesson we had our pair choices. (Lucas and Azzy)
The second lesson we got into our pairs to finalize the topic we were going to go with
 - Coffee Break
After discussing for a while we quite easily agreed on doing the 'Coffee break' as the focus for the chosen 'event'. But then spent a while on choosing a particular audience. We both decided that choosing the audience first was a good step for us because the style would then depend on which audience we chose.
We narrowed it down to 

       -Gamers
       -Artists
       -Housewives/ Mothers
With the help of the tutors we finally chose Artists, we both thought that we could do equally interesting designs that we could both contribute to. We spent a lot of time understanding the brief and working through ideas to generate a project plan that outlines our requirements, objectives, audience and background of the brief, this was a key part to make sure that as a team we were on the same page, and shows our client that we know what is being asked of us. And so we came up with a quick idea that encompasses our ideas, to show the larger group.