Analysis & Evaluation

I think that the project in general was a total disaster due to lack of planning and organisation. The lack of funding left the few graphics students rummaging in college cupboards for materials and myself actually purchasing items such as string (for the bags) and card (for my prints) just so that we could get something out there. The project caused students to have to travel into college for days that were not timetabled (and until twilight hours)  and caused them to undergo a large amount of stress. On many occasions I found myself trying to get things done during free sessions and lunch hour. eg. selling raffle tickets, making paper and making bags.

I think that the things that caused this was the disorganisation, the 8 week July/August break and the lack of funds/ equipment. If I was to do this project again, I would set up a basic plan instantly and ensure that everything was done with time to spare rather than working up to 15minutes before the actual event. I also think that we pulled it off the best that we could considering the circumstances.

Some Kind Of Success!!

Finally! Some success!

I had an epiphany! Thus was to back minature versions of our designs (printed using our own printer credits) upon card and to write "Thank You" or something on the back to go in the bag. This idea is quick, easy and affordable. I knocked up a prototype and presented my idea. It was OK'd instantly so I set about creating more.

We also began covering sheets of newspaper ( taken out of the "free" stands at Sainsbury's) with coloured tissue paper that was dumped around the college. The lecturer duplicated my net for the rest of the class to use. Today saw us "build" the bags.

I then proceeded to create my " postcards" by using the spray booth when using spray mount to adhere the images to the card. This is due to Health & Safety. The booth has an extractor fan at the back so that the user does not inhale adhesive. I then used a guillotine to cut the cards up as I did 4 to a sheet.

I then wanted to stencil something on the back and the lecturer suggested that I should do a heart instead of text. I created a stencil with a scalpel and card (upon a cutting mat) and airbrushed the heart on the back.

I have written a quick thank you on the back of my prints for the guests. 

 4 days until the show! 

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Tut.

It was suggested that we made our own paper ( a couple of weeks ago).

This plan was fine. Now knowing that we were not able to create large screen prints of our designs or bags for life due to lack of funding. We were given the alternative of making paper bags out of newspaper that were covered by coloured tissue paper. That was it.

I really was not happy with just this as an alternative, as it would of meant that all of our designs would be wasted. With the suggestion of homepaper still going round. I suggested that we should make minature prints of postcard size to go inside the handmade bags with the other information. And they could be done on the homemade paper.

I researched how to make homemade paper and soon found it wasn't as easy as it sounded - it would take a long time to make any successful amount - that and the fact not everybody owns a blender. A classmate suggested making paper mache sheets. So I tried it over the weekend.

I stuck on a postcard sized print off of my design and soon found that it didn't look very good at all and scrapped the idea before it was too late.

Angry at my blatent failiure, I went back to the drawing board and began thinking of a way that we could get our work out there whilst I created a prototype of a bag using a net that I resized and configured.