Statement of Intent - Personal Project

I’m planning on using this stage of the project to get better understanding of packaging and just generally try and see what I could do to make it more fun. I want to see what’s out there, see how I could improve it and see what change I could make in the design world. This project for me is all about really setting myself up for FMP, increasing my knowledge and less about an end product, the hopefully end product for me is mainly the knowledge, but a physical design showing me just how design can be improved is also pretty likely!

Research for me here is everywhere and in everything, Design takes place everywhere you look, If something is manmade then it was more than likely designed by someone so that it looks right to do its job. I’m going to be looking everywhere. One place I hope to look more than others is actually in films, films aren’t limited, and they can go outside of conventions and have things like chocolate frogs in Harry Potter or Light Sabres in Starwars. I want to look at these products, how they could be packaged and how I could relate that to my own work.

For this project the most part of it is going to be research, the big thing I want from this is knowledge and to have a better understanding of the design world for when I go into FMP and further past it. I’m going to be visiting shops, scrawling through the internet, finding books and everything I can do to find examples of some great packaging, examples that will help my own design world to have an impact and make a change. As for a timescale, my main plan is to spend probably 80-90% of the project researching and getting better, then spend the last 10-20% putting it to practical use to show what I learnt by creating a design that showcases things I have learnt.   

The best way to see what my work has done for me in this section is for me to see just how much it sets me up and helps me for my FMP, how much my designs showcases my work. If I do well in FMP and my design shows off what I’ve done then I probably worked to a good level!