How to...

This is from my first brief 'HOW TO...' which is a five people group brief where we were looking at the problems student face when they first begin university. As part of this brief we have to design something to solve one of these problems for students. For our initial research we wrote down some of the problems we have faced as new students so far. 

Out of all the ideas we came up with we then narrowed it down to just five. These five ideas were then taken down by a tutor for each group in the class and then we had to choose one from a hat. After doing so the idea we had to work with was weather conditions in Leeds. 

We composed a list of everything that is weather related so we could start to develop ideas. 

We then came up with our 'problem' and 'solution'. Our problem was the fact that students who are new to Leeds aren't familiar with the weather conditions and we came up with the solution of creating something that showed students how to create essentials for the weather conditions using household equipment. We then looked at our list of weather related things and separated this into two different seasons, winter and summer.

This is where we began looking at different ways we could inform students on how to survive the weather conditions. We chose three from this list that we thought were most appropriate to our idea. 

We wrote what we intended to do for each of these three ideas and then another group of students looked at each of these ideas and decided what they thought we be best for us then to go on to produce. 

For our final pieces we will design four posters, two for summer and two for winter. As there was four of us we decided to design a poster each. I chose yoghurt aftersun and here i have mapped out my ideas for what will go on my poster and how it is going to look. These ideas were shared with the group so each poster contained the same type of information. From this i could then design my final piece. 

The final piece I designed for the series. 

The four final posters.