Design Practice: OUGD504 - Design Production Workshop

Following on from last week, as a group we were asked to discuss what we discovered from researching into the six categories:

Format // Colour // Production // Process // Stock // Finishing

We created lists of key terms for each category followed by a short summarising definition. This was to help us understand the boundaries between each of the key elements when designing for print.

FORMAT:

-Magazines

-CD inserts

-Business Cards

-Flyers

Definition: The way the designer chooses to arrange or layout the final physical outcome.

COLOUR:

-Monochrome

-CMYK

-One-colour/full-colour

Definiton: Appropriate to the audience and other contributing/ relevant factors within the design.

PRODUCTION:

-Bookbinding

-Assembling

Definition: The way the printed piece is made/ assembled. In some cases it covers everything after the print process from start to finish. (It is hard to define between production and process).

PROCESS:

-Digital

-Screen Print

-Inkjet

Definition: The chosen way to print the inks onto paper/ stock itself.

STOCK:

-Metal

-Wood

-Paper

Definition: The material the design is applied to.

FINISHING:

-Foiling

-Embossing

-Spot Varnish

Definition: Extra/ additional processes to final the product.

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As a group we then agreed one ideal way to summarise our findings from all of these elements was:

All processes work together (synthesise) to produce successful, appropriate and effective design for print. Each element is individually definable but these all work more effectively as a whole.

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From the board:
What is...
Format: scale + size + working within that.
Colour: Colour modes, hues, functions etc
Production: "The actual making of it."
Process: The Method
Finishing: Production & Process
Stock: Substraints for printing + considerations (e.g cost)

PART TWO

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Comparing print products.

FORMAT:

bags -- divided into plastic // canvas // canvas // paper