Project 6: What is Graphic Design?

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In this task we had to come up with our own brief and lead the final project based on what we said on the brief. This task was completed in a team with Laiyin, Sonia and I. Out of all this project, I found this really difficult to start but once I got to the final thats when it became easy for me to understand everything and how the final outcome will be.

To start with this project, I have looked at the world issues within the cause and effects that is happening throughout the different countries such as the conflict between India and Pakistan which started in 1965. The conflict between Turkey and Greece over Cyprus, and one of the major conflict between Israel and Palestine.      

I have looked in details of how the conflict started between Palestine and Israel. For more information, click on the link that is shown on the blog called Reference and Research folder (right side).   

As a part of the research, I looked at different posters that has been advertised of the campaign to raise money for young children and also to raise an awareness of this particular issues. 

I have looked at Adolf Hitler who was also part to this conflict between Palestine and Israel. I decided to create a poster using his quote which quoted "Make the lie big, make it simple keep saying it and eventually they will believe it". This is the strongest quote as people will believe it when you feed them with so many lies that repeats over many times. This is exactly what cause the problem between this two countries. By looking at this, we can say that the history is still repeating. 

I have created some few posters based on the international law that has been broken by Israel in order to claim what does not belong to them.

I have found this clip that makes an awareness of this conflict that is related to Palestine and Israel. This clip has inspired me to come up with an outcome of creating different posters based on international law of Israel that has been wrecked. Once the posters have been created, we will then put it into the video clip by using other facts and opinions from the video of Palestine and Israel. 

This is the final video that we have produced as a group, regarding the conflicts between Palestine and Israel, which contains the posters that are produced individually and the facts and opinions regarding this issue. 

Project 5: Game Play

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In this task, we have worked as a group with Laiyin, Sonia and I. It's been really great working in this project as we had to crete a game as a group as well as creating my own little mock up game.

The game can be played individually or up to 3 players, age from 10. We made the game easy so it can be easily carried around where ever you go. We as a group decided to have up to 3 players due to us being 3 in a group. therefore, this game represents Laiyin, Sonia and myself.

In order to find out how we can construct our board game. We did research on different types of board games such as Chess, Checker, Scrabble, Snakes and Ladders, Monopoly, Taboo and Ludo. We did this to see how we can re-create our game, what information we should contain when it comes to playing the game and the instructions of the game. This has helped us out to build our own games and it has been successful working as a team. 

Our inspiration for the first game came from the Ludo. Although, we changed all the rules and the layout of the game, and we also changed how many players can play the game. However, one of the big changes that we made in our game is instead of rolling the dices, we made cards and the inspiration for this, came from the game called Taboo. Yet, we made it more challenging for the players as we added numbers at the bottom of the card from 1-3, 1 being easy and 3 being hard. If the card is guessed correctly then players can move squares according to the number they have on their picked card.

The image shown blow is the components to see which one will be an appropriate and which will be the most suitable for the game. I have produced using different coloured card for this game. To make this flat components into 3D, the players have to lift up each sides of the triangles and put them together and make sure the top corner where the 3-point meets are together. At the edge of the each side, there is a dotted line where the players must bend it in order to stick all the sides together and to create it into a 3D. For the final components, I have used 2cm long to create a components using different cards so it can fit perfectly into the square of the board game. 

We have produced 50 cards with some questions that are really challenging as well as some being really easy. 

An image shown below, is two different pamphlets which shows how I created this board game. The reason for this being in two parts it is because we also had to crete our own mock up game and one for the team.therefore, the blue rectangle is my own game and the one in purple is the team game which I have produced.    

The images shown below is the team game that I have produced. The game is made from the card but I have laminated them in order to look professional and made it waterproof at the same time. To make it look like that it has been produced manufacturing, I have used a wood underneath to make the game hard so when you carry around it stays straight with out even getting any dents.

The pictures shown below is a triangle box. That I have created using the same card, that I have used to make components for the 50 cards that I previously produced. The reason being that it is easy to carry it around. 

The pictures that are shown below is my mock up game, that I have created using foam board. The reason for this is that I wanted to make the surface thick so is easy to carry around and it will be much more comfortable to play as it it more 3D, rather than 2D.  

The images shown below is a triangle cover box for the cards which I have created using the same card that I have used to make components.