Ideas- Experience

Design Sheets

Net Ideas

Design sheets for the top and sides of the box

Pantone swatch idea

Speaking from experience- influence

I am designing a box that you put your alarm clock/ phone in before going to sleep, It is easy to put your hand in but difficult to get out forcing you to wake up and use your brain to get it off your hand.

The audience is specifically graphic designers so the aesthetics must reflect this to appeal to them.

These are some interesting products that are directly linked to graphic design which I will use as influence when designing my box.








gifts for graphic designers

Concept Board

SPEAKING FROM EXPERIENCE- CONCEPT BOARDS

Speaking from Experience...Workshop Task

3x messages I want to deliver:

Eating real food makes you feel better

Why?

• Eating noodles for tea makes you feel lazy & anti-social
• Student cooking skills are poor
• You're more productive when you've had vitamins and that
• Most Freshers aren't used to looking after themselves

Delivery

• Easy recipes with as few ingredients as possible- book
• where to buy cheap/ good food- map
• anti noodle posters
• food blog to inspire creative cooking
• leaflet

Having time in the morning to get ready & wake up makes you more productive

Why?

• Waking up is difficult
• It's easier said than done
• Snooze button is too appealing
• taking 3 hours to get going in the morning is not a good use of time
• breakfast and tea in the morning is important

Delivery

• Poster of fun ideas of 'how not to snooze'
• A really annoying alarm trapped in a box
• Custom watch face

Living in a messy room brings you down

Why?

• work doesn't get done
• Not tidying is lazy
• Dust and mould is bad for you
• Motivation is difficult

Delivery

• T-shirts with instructions to put clothes away
• 'Mess Box' - big fold out cardboard box for clothes
• Big box for rubbish
• Poster

3x problems that could be delivered

Spending Money

• It's easy to lose track of how much money you spend
• Student Loan is not infinite
• Learning how to control money is an important skill
• It takes a while to realise how much money you waste
• its easy to not spend money if you budget well

Delivery

• budget planner
• folding wallet
• poster

Disorganisation

• Falling behind with work
• bad quality of work
• bad use of time
• stress
• unprofessional

Delivery

• Planner
• Calendar
• List paper
• Poster to go on ceiling above bed

Motivation

• Lots of factors that could affect work
• living conditions
• its easy to lose when it feels like you've got too much
• its easy to get if you sort stuff out!

Delivery

• posters
• Big planner based on modules
• Day-day calendar
• advent calendar

Speaking From Experience

Here's an edited list of some of the things I generated in the studio workshop:

Things I wish I'd been told before I got here:

• Bus Fares & what to ask for
• The best place for food shopping
• how to not spend a lot of money
• where to download free typefaces
• How to use time effectively

Things I've Learnt:

• Bakery 164 is good but expensive
• buses aren't great
• making lists help with organisation
• knowing software well saves time

Worst things:

• Living in a mess
• Feeling grim in mornings
• getting up early after going to sleep late