M2-3+Yearbook+Design

=** Design Stage **toc= Have a look at these links.

** Designs **
Using your design specification create four or more __ **DIFFERENT** __ designs for your Yearbook page. Consider the style, layout, images, theme and colour and make a style sheet, such as this one: 

Check them against the design specification. These can be flat plans, such as these: If you need text to fill your page you can use this generator for text. It will produce dummy text, as used in the printing and typesetting industry.

** Design Principles Practice **
Download the file below and apply the design principles to make the page better designed and more attractive. When you have finished, save it in the M1-5 shared folder and Mrs Ahmed will upload it to voicethread (click here for the link to our work). This is a program that allows you to give written or spoken feedback on a piece of work. We will practice with this and then use it for our designs too.

** Design Principles **
Remember to consider the four design principles when creating your designs (Contrast, Alignment, Repetition and Proximity). They will help make your work look better designed and more attractive.

** Check against the design specification **
Now compare each design to the design specification, does it meet each point? Make a checklist from the design specification and mark how well each design meets the specification with colours, ranking them or using smiley faces. Order the designs from best to worst at the bottom of the checklist.

** Justify the chosen design **
Now select the best design and justify (explain with good reasons) why you have chosen it. You can write why it is the best or you can record your explanation of it and add to your page. You need to address __each point__ of the design specification.

** Assessment Criteria **
List your ideas on you wiki page for your designs. You need to include 4 or more different design ideas with annotations or a completed checklist against the design specification. Read the criteria carefully and check off the things that you have done. Make sure all of your work is on your wiki page.

