Product Design Y10

Thursday, 7 April 2011

Evaluation

I have finished developing the logo and changing all of the PowerPoint slides to a jpeg and it was very effective and worked really well because when you when on my blog you could click on the image and come up as the size of a PowerPoint screen so you could have images and text clearly.

The blogger works really well to show your work on the net so any one in the class can view it comment on it. The bad thing about this is that anyone can look at my blog so any person from anywhere so they could comment on my work these could be offensive language so I need to report to my teacher (Mr. Thomas) about the comment and he will deal with it for me.

The other good thing about blogger is the design on there too like you can design your blog add gadgets and useful things that are beneficial for me. I used the program Macromedia Fireworks 8 as my program of choice to re design a company’s logo which I chose Sony to re-design

And since I’m advanced at this program I finished the redesigning on schedule.

I used the Books provided by the teacher (Mr. Thomas) and type up on bloggger as a post the global responsibilities that companies have and how they resolve this E.g. Carbon Footprint, Fair Trade and other responsibilities that a company way have.

To find out the printing techniques I went to the cd rom program and then selected graphic products after clicking this it there are info for offset lithography and what CYMK is. All this info was very useful which I put the info into my own words and DID NOT COPY AND PASTE THE INFO other wise if I did and put it on my blog then I could be prosecuted for copyright theft because every one can view my work.

Thursday, 24 March 2011

Global Responsibility

Designers, manufactures, retailers and consumers all have some impact on the environment. Taking account of the material we sue, where they come from. and what we do with them at the end of their use full life is known as sustainability.

Non-renewable resources

Traditionally, designer and manufacturers have used a range of materials from non-renewable recourses. This means that the raw materials, such as oils, ores and minerals, are taken from sources that will eventually run out. they are naturally resources that have been produced over thousands of years.

Renewable resources

If we are to make our natural resources last longer, we must aim to use a greater quantity of renewable resources in our products. This will both help to protect our environment and will also help to safeguard the supply of products and services.

Carbon foot print

A carbon footprint is "the total set of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions caused by an organization, event, product or person".Greenhouse gases can be emitted through transport, land clearance, and the production and consumption of food, fuels, manufactured goods, materials, wood, roads, buildings, and services. For simplicity of reporting, it is often expressed in terms of the amount of carbon dioxide, or its equivalent of other green house gasses , emitted.
The concept name of the carbon footprint originates from ecological footprint discussion. The carbon footprint is a subset of the ecological footprint and of the more comprehensive Life Cycle Assessment (LCA). All of these companies are trying to reduce the carbon foot print by using less fossil fuels and cutting down energy use.

Fair Trade

The fair trade foundation, based in the UK, was set up to help poverty among farmers. The range of products are growing and some of those are now are composite products such as clothing not just food for farmers but slave labour.