Due to wanting to progress down the route of creating an ‘instruction manual’, that ultimately creates a workshop experience. I wanted to briefly look at packaging designs, as all the pieces that you would need would be included. For example, paint, balls, sticks, glue, paintbrushes, sketch book, information to link to the webpage etc. Therefore, if each child/school had one of these boxes, it would not only potentially look great as decoration, it would be great for arts/crafts storage afterwards too.

I used designyourownpackaging.com to make a quick mock up of what it could potentially look like. I haven’t nearly completed the design stage and believe that will continue to progress, right the way through this semester. However, I made do with what I already had.

I decided to go with a cylinder shape, due to the obvious connotations of working with spheres, as well as looking more attractive. I believe the logo (not yet complete) would be centered, being wrapped around the box and play the main part of the design. Overall, I like how simplistic this design is, and even though this is just a prototype, it ties in nicely to my overall ideas.

 

I have been playing around in photoshop with different designs for my logo. I have decided to keep the font, size and colour of the title consistent, purely based on the fact that i’m really happy with the simplicity of it. However, that doesn’t go on to mean that I want the overall design to be simple too, as long as the title is clear, easy to read and understand, then young children will be able to interact with it easily.

I decided I wanted to incorporate something ‘spacey’, due to the spark that will go off in a child’s mind, when they realise the subject area. Space is unknown to the majority of us and even though research suggests many thing, on the grand scale of things, we don’t know very much. Therefore, I want young children to get excited about the prospect of learning something that is ‘different’ and sometimes without logic.

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The first design I went with was just a little crowded, there was too much going on and I couldn’t find a simple font colour that fit with the background image. I like that it is obviously unrealistic however, due to encouraging children to create their own solar system and name planets as they wish to.

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This second design was inspired by watching way too many documentaries. It lacks originality and doesn’t exaggerate space, just earth. I really love this image though.

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This is my third design and I really like it. It isn’t my final design however. In my second year of university, I underwent a photography project, that I titled ‘make a wish’ and it was all different elements of why we make wishes and the myths surrounding them. One myth, was the shooting star. I created an image that was obvious to the theme, but not too obvious, with an intergalactic background. This photography project, sparked my inspiration for this potential design.

I will continue to develop my ideas and work on my designs as my research progresses.

I am not completely settled on this name for my project this semester, however I decided to have a play with some potential design ideas. I really like how simple this is and how it reflects the aim of the game, quite obviously. I love the font as it is easy to read and can start creating a branding element for my project, if I continue to use this specific style. The use of the ‘O’ in ‘Inventors’ allowed me to focus on a planet style theme, which is maybe a little cliche, however it works with the target audience I have researched thus far. I will continue drawing up different logo designs for this project, to show I have explored my options and worked with different tools/software. This was created in Indesign. Next stop, photoshop.