At the very start of the project my initial idea would be the focus on chocolate and how it is good. I soon forgot about this idea because after a talk with the tutors i decided it wouldnt be as much as a challenge for the time available. I started to look more into environmental issues and decided of the idea that putting something back into the world would be a great idea.
The focus was achieving a package which was low on energy use, paper use and environmentally friendly. I started by looking at how i could achieve this for businesses, something which could be posted and also cheap. The idea was to design my very own organisation that specialised in getting companies to do their bit for the world.
I looked at different styles of packaging and how information could be applied to it in a readable but recycled manner. I collected existing boxes and began to draw my ideas up opening the nets so i had an idea of how each box would work. From experiments which included attempting to get the packages in the post box, settled my idea from what wouldnt fit, which became a slim box that could hold information and was fairly hard wearing to be processes through the post.
This project was not one of my strongest points of work, i feel this because i was in a spot of complication managing home issues and work at the same time. This was something of which couldnt be helped however it didnt make me feel motivated, i found i had too many things on my mind. I feel given another chance i would be able to deliver alot more in depth research analysing and design which would of aided my decision making and final package. If i was to change parts of the project it would certainly be of my time management skills and how i plan what time i have and what jobs i can achieve. As this was one of my problems it cost me from screen printing because i was unprepared for the exercise.
The project helped me to understand more about the printing processes and as a result of this has broadened my knowlege of the subject. I found that doing this project will broaden any ideas i have in projects to come because now i understand different print method i can now work with alot more materials and effects to bring my idea generation alot more forward.
