1. GCSE Graphic Communication
Process
GCSE Graphic Communication

2. Throughout your portfolio
Experiment
With media (try out different techniques, don’t just ’play it safe’)
With techniques
With processes
If things do not work very well, learn from it and show that in your portfolio
THIS WILL GET YOU MORE MARKS!!!

3. Process For Portfolio’s (1)
Inspiration board
Fill page(s) with images and inspirations
Analyse the products
Comment on how you could use them
Sketch around some images how they have inspired you (thumbnail sketches only needed – more if wanted)

4. Process For Portfolio’s (2)
Design chosen area using mood board
Fill page(s) with design ideas using your mood board
Do not just copy ideas.
Use the shapes
Use the colours
Use the typography style
Use the theme
Use the styling

5. Process For Portfolio’s (3)
Research - Designers, Other work from other designers, things you see (take photos of billboards, packaging, logos, booklets, business cards etc)
Find out about 1 (or more) designer – see designer analysis PowerPoint
DO NOT just find out facts about them – this is useless
Put their name at the top of the page
Get information about them (their style etc)
It does not matter where they were born, or grew up – unless you link this to their style and their influences
Get images of their work
Images can be from (and should be from a mixture)
Internet
Brochures / magazines
Photos you take

6. Process For Portfolio’s (4)
Update your ideas using these inspirations (and annotate)
Fill page(s) and redraw your ideas you had before using the styling / influence of the designer
Annotate your designs
How did they inspire you?
What have you used?
What do you think it has done to your design?

7. Process For Portfolio’s (5)
Develop them (and use annotation to explain why)
Fill page(s) developing your ideas
Modify them
Change them
Improve them
Refine them
Merge them

8. Process For Portfolio’s (6)
Come up with a final design
Draw your final design
This is a plan of what your finished piece will look like
Annotate influences
Where has inspirations come from (artists work / your own work)
Annotate key parts to help you in your making
How will things be made?
What will they be made from?
A key skill you will use (particularly if on the computers)

9. Process For Portfolio’s (7)
Make / formalise the final design (for component 2 do this bit in the exam)
Make / draw and print the final design – it should look about the same
This could be done;
On Illustrator
On InDesign
By hand
In Photoshop
On the laser cutter
In 2D Design
On the Vinyl cutter
Or any combination of the above

10. Process For Portfolio’s (7)
Making Process
Take screen shots / photos as you make
Record and annotate – what skills did you use
This is your evidence that it is YOUR work

11. Process For Portfolio’s
Inspiration board
Design chosen area using mood board
Research - Designers, Other work from other designers, things you see (take photos of billboards, packaging, logos, booklets, business cards etc)
Update your ideas using these inspirations (and annotate)
Develop them (and use annotation to explain why)
Come up with a final design
Make / formalise the final design (for component 2 do this bit in the exam)

13. Process For Portfolio’s
Inspiration board
Design chosen area using mood board
Research - Designers, Other work from other designers, things you see (take photos of billboards, packaging, logos, booklets, business cards etc)
Update your ideas using these inspirations (and annotate)
Develop them (and use annotation to explain why)
Come up with a final design
Make / formalise the final design (for component 2 do this bit in the exam)