The next task was to decide upon the layout of the poster template. The members of the graphics group that actually bother to show up every week discussed this and decided that the majority of the poster should include images or text of peoples work. That way it is clear what work the individual has produced and then if employers or the public are intrigued about the work they can ask that student about it.
We also decided that there should be the photo of the student that I took a few weeks back with the coloured schemed rings around it. That way it is even more clear who's work is being displayed on the poster along with the large name for the title at the top of the poster. We also wanted to include the atom logo, aru logo and our QR code for the Atom website. That way anyone can see the poster, remember the name they are interested in and see further work on the website. The last thing we decided to include was a 150-200 word biography at the top of the poster. This would state what the student is currently doing, their skills and what they plan to do in the future for a career. That way it is clear to an employer what the student is looking for and then that employer can see if they are right for their business or not straight away.
Thursday, 17 April 2014
Saturday, 12 April 2014
Exhibition Stands
Me and Rhys chose to workout how everyone would have their posters displayed at the events because it seemed the some exhibition group were not going to take charge of this or let anyone know what was expected for everyone to do.
We first wanted to work out what was available for the posters to be secured to and how many posters would fit onto the piece of apparatus. Once we actually asked the exhibition group ourselves what was available, we were told that we could use boards that are 1500mm tall by 800mm wide. They have 3 sides so can be closed into a prism shape and the task that we now had to solve was how many different posters would fit.
We came to the agreement that we would use the posters in landscape as this resulted in the sufficient amount of posters to be displayed for the amount in the group. The next task was to work out the template for the posters so that everyone could just put their work onto the poster and print it themselves, as the initiative from some of the group members has been poor so far and if everyone was responsible for their own poster to be made and printed then it would be their responsibility if it wasn't produced in time.
We first wanted to work out what was available for the posters to be secured to and how many posters would fit onto the piece of apparatus. Once we actually asked the exhibition group ourselves what was available, we were told that we could use boards that are 1500mm tall by 800mm wide. They have 3 sides so can be closed into a prism shape and the task that we now had to solve was how many different posters would fit.
We came to the agreement that we would use the posters in landscape as this resulted in the sufficient amount of posters to be displayed for the amount in the group. The next task was to work out the template for the posters so that everyone could just put their work onto the poster and print it themselves, as the initiative from some of the group members has been poor so far and if everyone was responsible for their own poster to be made and printed then it would be their responsibility if it wasn't produced in time.
Thursday, 3 April 2014
Booklet - Draft Print
We had completed a basic draft of the booklet from people's work given to us. Me and Rhys went down to the printing store to ask about the process of getting it printed and what format they would need every page in. We were told at the time to use PDF.
We originally created each page to the specifaction that each piece of paper would be double side printed and because it was a booklet, all the work would need to be laid out in a way that when everything was put together, it would be in the right order. However, when we first went down to the printing store, they suggested we needed to just put each students work on one page and the machine would print it off as a booklet no problem.
After the we made the changes and then returned to the store, this was soon to not be the case. We spoke to a different employee and were told that we needed to change it back and have every page as an individual page, not two pages together in one file. This was a simple process that we quickly changed and took back so that we could finally get a booklet printed for everyone to see.
Here's photographs on the booklet me and Rhys had printed.
(Photos courtesy of Rhys)
We originally created each page to the specifaction that each piece of paper would be double side printed and because it was a booklet, all the work would need to be laid out in a way that when everything was put together, it would be in the right order. However, when we first went down to the printing store, they suggested we needed to just put each students work on one page and the machine would print it off as a booklet no problem.
After the we made the changes and then returned to the store, this was soon to not be the case. We spoke to a different employee and were told that we needed to change it back and have every page as an individual page, not two pages together in one file. This was a simple process that we quickly changed and took back so that we could finally get a booklet printed for everyone to see.
Here's photographs on the booklet me and Rhys had printed.
(Photos courtesy of Rhys)
The back of the booklet was something I came up with. We wanted something simple so I just took all the photographs of the students and arranged them on the page. I also managed to obtain a QR code on a free website for our own website that the Web Team are currently finishing off.
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