MAKING THE CALENDAR

In order to get the calendar done, me and Emily decided to split the months in the year. I took January to May and Emily was to do the rest. We obviously wanted something that flowed and worked as a whole, therefore we sat down together and discussed some ideas and drew up some design sheets together. After a while of getting some designs down, and looking at some secondary research, we came up with this idea of a calendar box. This would be a small box, with a roll of paper inside, which would have the months of the year on. Each month would contain a silly task to do, and as the year went on, you would rip the month out. 

As there were two of us designing this product, it was decided that I would begin putting the calendar together, and then Emily would continue where I left off, so that the style and so on was continuous. 

I worked out the measurements of the box, and how much space you would get on each month. Keeping to the colour scheme, I wanted to make it fun and a little bit quirky. The tasks were intended to be quite silly, in order to make people smile, something that they could do in the environment that they were currently in. I made sure the illustrations were relevant, and kept them in the same style that I did the coffee cup sleeve illustrations in. 

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I am extremely happy with how these came out. I decided to get some peer feedback from an other group and they took real interest in the illustrations in particular. It was also suggested that perhaps one task a month wasn't enough, therefore there could maybe be extra tasks that came with the product that you could do whenever you wished, or perhaps you could be sent to a website where extra little things could be downloaded.

Working as a team on this particular part of the brief didn't run particularly smoothly, as it can sometimes feel like you're doing most of the work, however it was resolved in the end.