Friday 14 January 2011

Possible titles for investigation

The format Fred suggested we work to has been very helpful. To combined all the themes and areas of graphic design I would like to investigate for my FMP design context.
A ...................... investigation of ............... with a focus on ..........

An illustrative investigation of marketing with a focus on book front covers.


  • How to market a book
  • Illustrating children's literature
  • Illustrating Adult literature
  • Colour theory for book front covers
  • Types of illustration, hand drawn, photographic, pattern, character etc
  • How to communicate tone and genera in illustration
  • Ways to illustrate Fact and Fiction
  • How environment can inform the design (in bookshop, on street, supermarket)
  • Mass print production for publishing
  • Analysing other relevant designers work

A marketing investigation of cinema with a focus on Image

  • Analysing past movie marketing campaigns
  • Types of print based advertising for cinema (billboards, posters, magazine adverts, cardboard cut outs)
  • Types of advertising for digital based distribution (Viral campaigns, apps, motion graphics)
  • How to develop imagery for persuasive purposes.
  • Image used for different target audiences.
  • How to illustrate for different genres of film.
  • Combining image with layout and typography. Scale frame and format
  • How environment can effect design i.e. on street, cinema foyer
  • Colour theory for film advertising
  • Investigation into print production on a mass scale

A poster investigation of theater with a focus on Image

  • Reviewing current theater poster campaigns
  • Communicating type of genre through image (comedy, drama, panto)
  • Poster design aimed at different target audiences
  • Scale frame and format
  • Types of suitable image (photographic, hand drawn, vector etc)
  • History of theater promotion
  • How can we take a modern approach to poster design and attract new audiences.
  • Colour theory in theater
  • How to incorporate the experience of the theater into a poster
  • The future for theater marketing campaigns

An illustrative investigation of marketing with a focus on product packaging

  • Ways to market products
  • Types of image on product packaging (photography, vector, hand drawn)
  • colour theory for different products
  • Image for different scaled products
  • How make products visually desirable to different target markets.
  • Analysing the effectiveness of current products based on their marketing strategies.
  • combining image, typography, frame and format for effective product design.
  • mass printing processes .