Sarah Pritchard - Design Practice

Wednesday, 12 December 2012

Cocktails - Revised Brief

Seen as I have reworked my other briefs, I figured I had best get this one done properly. Following the notes that I have made, I wrote it up.

Hot & Tasty - Revised Brief

I've gone back to check to see if any alterations are required for my Hot & Tasty brief. Only a couple of small ones are, which I am happy about. So my finished brief that I shall be used is...

I have come back to have a quick look at the brief that I have for the Black & White brief. Considering what I have just done with the Typographic Expression brief where I have pt it into parts, I have realised that I can also do that with this brief. So I have edited the brief as required, and here is the new ones.

Type Exp - Revised Brief

I need to get the design boards finished because my print slot is way too quickly approaching. I have come to rework the ones that I have done, and then started thinking more about the brief in general. It has come on a lot since I started out with it - should I rework this? I feel like I should. I'm sure it will be ok.

I've started to note down what to put on my design boards, and realised that the brief can actually be split into 3 parts:

design the posters
experiment with presenting them
method of distribution

Hmm. It would be a proper packed brief to include all of this and explain them too. Could I split the brief up? Make an individual brief for each part? I wish I hadn't left it too late to do this so I could ask someone. Sod it, I'm doing it ha.

The brief title will remain the same, and will have part 1, part 2 and part 3 extended on to the title. I will keep my labels the same as it is essentially just one brief. I could maybe add extra labels for each part? I need to stop waffling on now and do this.

I've made notes and typed them up on to the brief templates.

Cocktails - Stock Consideration

The stock that I use to produce the book is important. This is what will make the difference for it being mint or not. As explained in a previous blog post, I have ordered a 120gsm silk stock for the pages of the book, which still hasn't arrived!! I want to also consider other aspects of the books stock too.

I think using asotate would be quite nice, by printing the cocktil illustration on to there rather than on to the facing page from the information, that way it would be seen on both? I bought some to give this a go and tried it with two different ones.

This works quite nice, although the sheets that I bought weren't intended for inkjet printers. Could I get hold of some in time? I don't actually think I could. I could get some for lazer printers from the library and use that, but the colours will shift with the different printer being used. Hmm.

I have some trace, which could work? It's transparent like the other but not completely. It's worth a try. Again I did it with the two different ones.

Wow. I really like this, more than the other actually because I like the cloudyness to it. And I like how even though the illustration is just printed on to one side it shows up clearly as if it is printed on both. Very happy with this. I think this may be something to go with?

I've decided to try it with the trace laying on top of the DPS with the actual type section included, see how it works with that.

Definitely works. And I like that with the cloudyness to the trace you can still see the text underneath the trace, but it is sort of musked out so you know you're not meant to read it just yet until you turn the trace page. Really happy with this.

A similar idea that I have just had with this is to separate the glass part of the illustration and the colour part, and then have the colour part printed on to the left side of the DPS as originally intended with the whole illustration, but just this, and then print the glass part on to the trace like previous. That way then the glass part will be laid on top of the colour part. Would this work? Hmm. Had a quick try before trying it in context.

It seems to. Trying it in context.

This does work, but choosing between doing this and doing the previous I prefer the idea of the previous so am going to stick what that.

Decided to give it a go with a different illustration to see if it works the same as the other two consist of the greens.

It does. I really like this. It will up the page count of the book but I think it's definitely worth it.

Cocktails - More Information Typed

Using the information that I gathered on the 'More Information' post for things to include on the cocktail pages of the book, I noted down the relevant bits of information I think would be most useful to include.

scan theseeeeeee

Well, best type them up...

Apple Martini

prep time: 2 mins
serves: 1
type: fruity
difficulty: easy
skills level: average

Screaming Orgasm

prep time: 2 mins
serves: 1
type: creamy
difficulty: easy

Sex on the Beach

prep time: 3 mins
serves: 1
type: fruity
difficulty: easy
skills level: average

Long Island Iced Tea

prep time: 3 mins
serves: 1
type: dry
difficulty: medium
skills level: beginner

Pina Colada

prep time: 4 mins
serves: 1
type: fruity
difficulty: easy
skills level: average

Tequila Sunrise

prep time: 2 mins
serves: 1
type: fruity
difficulty: medium
skills level: beginner

Cosmopolitan

prep time: 3 mins
serves: 1
type: fruity
difficulty: easy
skills level: beginner

White Russian

prep time: 2 mins
serves: 1
type: coffee
difficulty: easy
skills level: beginner

Black Russian

prep time: 3 mins
serves: 1
type: coffee
difficulty: easy
skills level: beginner

Mojito

prep time: 5 mins
serves: 1
type: spicy
difficulty: medium
skills level: beginner

Manhattan

prep time: 3 mins
serves: 1
type: sweet
difficulty: medium
skills level: average

Margarita

prep time: 2 mins
serves: 1
type: sour
difficulty: medium
skills level: average

Screwdriver

prep time: 2 mins
serves: 1
type: fruity
difficulty: easy
skills level: beginner

Bloody Mary

prep time: 5 mins
serves: 1
type: spicy
difficulty: medium
skills level: advanced

Dry Martini

prep time: 3 mins
serves: 1
type: dry
difficulty: medium
skills level: average

Whiskey Sour

prep time: 2 mins
serves: 1
type: sour
difficulty: average
skills level: easy

Vodka Martini

prep time: 3 mins
serves: 1
type: dry
difficulty: medium
skills level: average

Tom Collins

prep time: 3 mins
serves: 1
type: sour
difficulty: easy
skills level: average

Purple Rain

prep time: 3 mins
serves: 1
type: fruity
difficulty: easy
skills level: average

Woo Woo

prep time: 3 mins
serves: 1
type: fruity
difficulty: easy

So because they all serve 1, I may as well put this in the start of the book rather than on each page, and also the difficulty and skills level is pretty much the same thing, so I am going to just use one of these. I'll use the skills level one, because all three terms of this is used.

Cocktails - More Information

I want to include more information on the pages in the books. When I was collecting my research, I noticed on some websites that they included things like the type of cocktail they are and how long they take. I will go back on a few of these to find this information for each, for me to then consider including it in the book, depending whether I think it would be useful or not.

Apple Martini