ASSIGNMENT OUTLINE AND SUMMARY

/kiCH/ 

noun – German / mass produced art, objects, or design considered to be in poor taste because of cheap quality, tacky look, lowbrow taste. 

Kitsch is everywhere. You probably even have several items in your home. There will always be tacky kitsch but there are many items that are actually well designed. This is what the assignment required us to create.  A well-designed clever kitsch display type package or box.

The copy is always important but especially on this type of product. At first glance the design may not look like kitsch at all. Only after reading the copy viewer might discover the humor in the design and this is the goal.

 

What's the Product?

This is one of the bigger projects for the class. As mentioned above, for this assignment the type of product will be a Kitsch display box. You decide the target audiences. 

There will be at least two names on the piece – a product name and a parent company name.

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Parent Company name: Funky Kitsch®

HAND COMP

There have been challenges this semester, during this project I was affected by strep, and fell prey to extreme exhaustion and overall blah. But with some time, I was able to bring the project up to speed with where my peers were at and finish a project that I was proud of.

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The worst part was during some of my handwork I was running a fever and imagined myself being further than I was, those sketched weren’t the worst but they weren’t the best either. I also had issues with finding them after I showed them in class. So somewhere somehow, I finished this process. But there were definite challenges and aspects that affected my overall quality and design.

I did lean towards one of the other products but this was the simplest to execute and one that could still be fun and creative in the end. It was a fun project for sure, and it all started with the ideas that I had a the delusions of a fever brain. So Much Fun! There were parts of me that wondered if I would in fact pull it off or not. I don't like to fall behind but sometimes things do happen. 

COMPUTER COMP

So easy, I loved when I finally got to this stage, what was different though from the other projects was the Die and layout, I had many adjustments that were done and several were done at the computer stages, because I had to create my own, and I figured how I would do it, but I had to really put it to the paper and layout board to construct and problem solve

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This was huge, and I had no idea how sore my fingers could get with scoring board or cutting it with the exacto-knives. I really was interesting, because I cut it out, assembled it then adjusted it, and with every time I had to adjust it I adjusted my computer design, I tell you there is no way you could do this without building dummies. There are just things that you don’t see until you do. And as wonderful as computers are, making our lives and processes easier, there is still something about building it by hand. Touching and feeling it, then understanding it. This part of design goes a long way.

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I do feel like this assignment overall was successful, There are still areas to improve, especially with the copy and typeface, but overall it really came together and is a project I can be proud of.