Shipping Forecast-Organising Information

 This is a print off of the Shipping Forecast from 27th October, I've tried to start categories each part of it so I can start making inforgraphics around this information and try different ways of organising it.

Shipping Forecast-Organising Information

I went through the different sections in the Shipping Forecast and gathered all the terminology, I will use this as the basis for organising my information in my infographics. I will now take this and start oraginsing the information given in each shipping forecast into categories.

Design Ideas Brainstorm

From my feedback from my conept crit I was told I need to focus down my idea, to start this process I have brainstormed possible outcomes, ranging from large scale ideas such as printing onto boats down to small scale infographics, I think I now need to go away and gather some research and start designing.

Format/Method/Print Considerations

We have been doing a lot of contextual work for this project, building up a good body of research to work from, we have also been learning a lot about print from Lorenzo's seminars. Its now time to combine all we have learnt and start designing for print. I feel like its been a while since I sat down and did some designing, with all the tasks we have been set and workshops we have been too I feel I have neglected my design work a bit, its time to get on with it!

Project Rationale-1st Draft

Feedback from Concept Crits

Here is the feedback my crit group gave me after I presented my concept boards and ideas to them. They have definitely given me some informative feedback and some ideas I need to go away and think about, and then how to start designing for this project.

Duffield Print Visit

We went on a field trip to Duffield printers, they produced the year books for leeds college of art last year, they were really helpfull and informative and answered all the questions we had. Overall I think it was a really worthwhile trip, it was good to see what happens when you send anything to be printed and now I know where its going to go and whats going to happen.

Concept Boards

InDesign Workshop

 This is the InDesign document we have been given, it has 8 mistakes that we need to find, what we do know is that its a 4 page doc and it can use 5 printing plates when its printed.

 1. The first mistake we found was that it needed 7 plates to be printed, two of the colours were not being used do need to be removed before printing so only the 5 plates needed are printed.

 2. Another problem was on the first page of the document the yellow background did not go all the way to the bleed.

 3. This image is RGB and needs to be converted to CMYK.

4. The link for the tree is missing, if this happen you would have to try and find it or contact the person who sent you the original file and get the missing file. 

 5. The file size is too big, it will be a problem when sending the file, it will be an issue for other people to open, all the others are 463x312. To solve this we can change it in Photoshop.

6. The text on the last page is registration, it means to much ink is being used it will print 100% of each ink being used, it will saturate the page when its printed and bleed.

7. The blue background is RGB is should be CMYK.

8. The image is 72dpi which is resolution for screen it should be 300dpi.




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File-Package, to group all the files you are using in your document together.

You can check through all the settings you've used in the document.

After you have saved it you can add any instructions you want to attach when sending it to your printer.

Another way of doing this is to export as a PDF.

You are given a list of PDF formats to choose from.
A small file size is good for e-mailing if you want to send your PDF for someone to view on screen.
Commercial print would be Press quality option.
High quality option would be good fro a laser printer.

Background tasks shows you whats happening after you have exported your PDF.

If your not ready to package yet you can use the preflight options to see whats happening.