Childhood Game

In this task, we were told to choose a childhood game that we like and then from there give it elements that can change the game and make it better and interesting.

With that taken note of, my choice of game was 'Truth Or Dare'. The reasons of the game were :

• Was a popular game with children and still is.
• Easy to play with a certain number of people.
• Fun and cant get boring as easily.

Ways in which i was going to make this game better were :

•  To have a more organised selection of the 'dares' that are done in the game. I was to have a deck of cards with certain dares where the selected person picks from the deck for his dare when the bottle spins on him.

• To refine the game more, i was going to have  a set of players, 6 max sit around in a circle with a spin board having 'truth' or 'dare' on it. There after, a bottle will be spun and the first spin will indicate which player is to be chosen. After that, the selected player then spins the bottle on the spin board and waits to see what his option will be, either 'truth' or 'dare' Thereafter, he picks out his optional card from the deck and does what is required.

Sketches of how the game would look are down below including mind maps and ideas of the game.

In thoughts of how i was going to package the game and the outcome of it. I thought about these points :

• What bottle would i use?
• Will it attract alot of people to play?
• Will be as easy-to-do type of game?
• Is this game worth changing?

With those points in analysis i then later changed the game and gave it a twist, not only just emphasizing on the 'dare' part of the game, i added the 'truth or 'dare' element onto which i would fuse in both games and make them one and more interesting. Reasons for this are :

• More tasks to do (Truth included)
• Would have a sensible packaging
• Would be able to pull in a sensible crowd
• Adds more flavor with both games fused in one.

The ways i was going to enhance the game are listed below :

• Going to have a set cards, two decks which will include 'truth' and 'dare' and they would be atleast be 10 each.
• The bottle will be used to pick out the player in the game and also the option either truth or dare.

How the game would be played - is more defined with what i would refine. 

• 6 players sit around a circle.
• Bottle is spun to select the player.
• Selected player then spins for the options on the board, 'truth' or 'dare'.
• Selected player then picks out his card from either of the options and carries it out.
• Game continues after player is done.

After analyzing that, had to come up with a certain mood or feel that i would to my game. This called for a moodboard to be made and this would show a general type of feel of what my game would have. I wanted my game to have a retro/pop feeling to it. This meant to have a variety of colors, bright colors, some repeatation of designs and vibrant colors. After taking down all that, this was my mood board for my game.

One can see my choice of colors was bright, red,yellow, blue, purple being some of the colors you would notice at first sight. For me, this was a foundation where i can lay my design and work around this so that i can have consistence around my work and not show different variations of my work.

Mood board done, I then started to create my game box, which was going to have a lid (30CM x 30CM) and a bottom ( 28.5CM x 28.5CM) where all my stuff was to go in. After getting my specifications right and my spin board of 26CM x 26CM, my design started.

Front Design

My front design was one that was going to give out the game to a customer where when they see it, they get attracted to it and want to see more. 

• Used color red for my main feel to have that 'alarming' feel to a customer
• Different colors in boxes to give that retro design.
• Text with shadows of different colors to show variation of vibrance feel in colors.
• Graphical content the lips and question marks in the boxes were to emphasize more on the 'truth' or 'dare' feel. The lips showing where the dare would be out of the lips the question mark to show one not knowing what they'll pick or what dare/truth they'll be asked.

Bottom Design

My bottom design was more simple and didnt have much detail on it besides the game lables that were to be on the sides, this was to save on time and the game giving out to much detail.

Spin Board

My spin board was going to give it the 'wow' when you open the box, where as the red gave it that alarming to see the game, the spin board doesnt just give out the same red feel as the front and bottom but different colors as well to show the colorful side of the game. Different colors were used to compliment each other as can see and the text around was to show where the bottle would point when spun.

Card Design

The above are the cards that will be placed in the box, the truth or dare cards. Different coloring but same design was to show the different cards but still show consistence.

With those designs laid out and design it was time to place these on the board that was going to use to apply these stickers onto the board.

This was the final product of my packaging of the game :

Packaging Product Part 2

With correspondence with the last packaging task, this one was to show how we could improve the packaging of the latter and make it more consumable, earth friendly etc.

For that i chose the Fabuloso packaging which originally was looking like this :

Some of the problems that i saw on this product were listed before but to remind you these are :

• The name itself throws it off by giving this 'fabulous' feel to it.
• The packaging and how the bottle of choice is used, plastic to be precise.
• Different colors for different flavors and those same flavors having the smell of their corresponding color.

To enhance the packaging of this and knowing what this brand was, this product was is a house cleaning substance which should give a 'cleaning' and more strong feel to this. And hence for that, i sketched out one of the new packages i would use for such a design.

I also referred to the internet with some images of detergent packages and you could see, the are alike in a way.

This choice of look was going to give it a more mature look and not distinguish the 'drink' reaction it gave. Some of the changes that could be made were :

• Make the bottle a specific color, grey,white or black and to distinguish the different flavors, the bottle top/bottle could be different color.
  

         

The above are some of the designs could have for the brand name, just an idea. And not only that, but the packaging would be made of material that is recyclable which would be more economical.

Packaging Product

In this task, we were told to look at shopping products that we find in shops  and have a review on the product itself, packaging design and relevant things towards our study. With that in line, my choice of products are listed below 

• House hold cleaning product/detergent.

1. Fabuloso

Just by reading the name, one can really think that this is one good and fabulous product you would find in the shop. Attractive? Yes, it is actually but this product gives out the wrong impression one should have about a detergent. The packaging of this product is not one you would expect of a detergent to be branded in such a manner.

With such a colorful packaging, one can think this is a soft drink at fight sight. And that is not a wrong impression you a buyer can get by this product.

• The name itself throws it off by giving this 'fabulous' feel to it.
• The packaging and how the bottle of choice is used, plastic to be precise.
• Different colors for different flavors and those same flavors having the smell of their corresponding color.

Can see from the picture above, the bottles look like energy drinks that can be drunk by people from people and this can cause an effect because of the ingredients found in such a cleaning product.

BICARBONATE OF SODA is one of the ingredients found in this and this quite harmful because it has effects once in-digested. Some of these are :

• Heartburn - Heartburn and acid indigestion are two gastrointestinal problems often treated with antacids that contain bicarbonate of soda. It neutralizes the stomach acid and provides pain relief. Bicarbonate of soda can cause a laxative effect, however, especially when larger or prolonged doses are taken. 

• Stomach And Duodenal Ulcers - Bicarbonate of soda is also used to treat stomach and duodenal ulcers. Ulcers are areas in the stomach or duodenum where the lining has been eaten away, resulting in pain and bleeding. Bicarbonate of soda relieves ulcer pain. So taking this without caution can cause overdose.

• Water Pollution - This is a product that will be eventually thrown away after cleaning maybe outside, go down the drain etc. And with the content, this may cause water pollution as it flows threw water pipes etc. Because of acidity mixed with other products, it may be harmful too. 

Some outline effects of this ingredient outlined above and to think that this product has never been drunk before, well it has. Statistics show that children below the age of 6 have actually had a taste of this 'fabulous' drink.

"Interestingly, adults accidentally exposed to this product were primarily female (29 of 39 [74%]), whereas children <6 years of age were primarily males (45 of 60 [75%]). "

Can see numbers of the children of 6 years were actually higher than older people. This product also recorded atleast 94 cases of drinking this product of release in first four months and the group of most cases were children below 6.

"But researchers with the American College of Emergency documented 94 cases of accidental ingestion during the first four months of the year across Texas. Many were children under 6, the group said."

After outlining this product and seeing what harm it can be done to people and the environment around. Some improvments that may or could be done are :

• Changing the brand name to something more related to the use of the product e.g 'Cleanso' but still having the 'fabulouso' sound.
• Instead of using plastic bottle to present this, a canned bottle will be appropriate and not to show that drink packaging.
• Sticking to one color of the bottles and maybe highlighting the colors of the flavors around the lid or on the sticker would be good than the customer seeing the whole liquid. 

Magazine Task

The task that was given was to know the meanings of rows, columns, gutter, margin and the likes. More of a page layout task, where we define and then have exams of different variation on where we can see the above page layout points being used.

With that in line, i defined the following points belowed :

• Rows - details that is in a horizontal line.
• Columns - details that are in a vertical line.
• Gutter - The white space formed by the inner margins of two facing pages, as of a book.
• Margin - The blank space bordering the written or printed area on a page.

After defining some of the terms, set out to apply those where we would find them in a magazine and for this had a ruler, magazine and pencil with tracing paper.

Placing the tracing paper ontop of the magazine page made it easy to see where columns, rows and so on were located so after noticing that, got the ruler and made boxes to show where these were located. Same process was carried for the 3 pages and you could see that every page has its own variation. 

Fig 1

Fig 2

Can see that the pages had a different gutter on the rows and columns in the text and the gutter size was constant between each other.