Graphic design investigation - Research task part 2

For this task each individual out of our blog groups chose a category of graphic design of research, i chose to collect frozen food packaging and here is the documentation of my findings.

Tutorial with amber 25/10/11

Specific actions i need to attend to:

- keep attendance higher, only 90% at the moment

- organise a software workshop with simon for a wednesday afternoon (illustrator etc)

- keep up to date with blogs/ don't let work build up

- improve research on design context blog, document everything i look at for briefs

- time management, set my own deadline during the week to keep work on schedule

Graphic Design investigation - Research task

5 x Categories of Graphic Design [investigate/ research]

• road signs in Leeds City Centre (information graphics)
• adverts on transport (advertising graphics)
• instruction manuals for building furniture 
• children’s books (entertainment graphics) 
• food packaging on ready meals (information/ instruction graphics)

5 x Forms of Evidence  [to be documented on our blogs]

• photographs - primary/secondary
• books (referencing - scanning in)
• collecting objects/ leaflets/ flyers
• internet articles (sourced)
• video/ filming

5 x Examples of Criteria for the Evaluation of “Good” Research [comment/ feedback]

• relevance to category
• reliability of source (primary/secondary)
• Quality/Detail of research
• Standard of Photographs (resolution/focused etc.)
• quantity - a good range of varied research