Pop up poster final task Report

1.0: Introduction

The task is about vegetable pop up and interactive poster. Pop up will give a 3 dimensional characteristic of the poster and will attract the attention of the viewer. This poster is to promote about eating vegetables daily during lunch and choosing appropriate meals by interacting with poster by pressing on plates. It also contains information on nutrients and health benefits that researcher found out during research. The green light means it is a good meal with vegetables and red light will indicate the unhealthy meal without vegetables. The font used is Century Gothic with manually spaced kerning. The style of this poster is contemporary which is colourful in nature.

2.0: Ideation

2.1: Sketch

The sketch contains a inhuman carrot holding 2 dishes on his hands and asking the viewers to choose their daily lunch. Some of the sketch and drawing of vegetables are as follow:

 Figure 2.1: Initial sketch

 Figure 2.2: Getting layout before proceeding

3.0: Materials for experimentation

The materials used are LED lights (red and green), 3Volt batteries, double sided tape, mounting board, foam board, printed layout designs in synthetic A2 size, scissors, paper

3.1: Experimentation

 Figure 3.1.1: Experimenting with LED

The researcher experiments with LED lights with batteries to find out the positive ends and negative ends. The researcher also experiments with different batteries like 1.5 Volt battery and 9 Volt battery to find out the effectiveness of the light brightness. The 9V battery burned the LED since overloading of voltage, meanwhile 1.5 battery made the light dim. So the researcher decided to use 3Volt battery, because it was working perfectly with LED light.

The poster is printed in A2 size with synthetic paper.

 

Figure 3.1.2: The printed poster. 

Steps:

 

Figure 3.1.3: The design is cut out.

 

Figure 3.1.4: The cuttings of vegetables and fonts.

The reseacher experimented on layout to be used before doing the pop up steps.

 

 

Figure 3.1.5: Assembling.

 

 

Figure 3.1.6: Paper is folded to form the pop up effect.

 

 

Figure 3.1.7: Cutting and folding of paper.

 

 

Figure 3.1.8: Making the pop up.

The cut out illustrations are pasted on the pop up paper. The heights are different for each to give the 3 dimensional effects.

 

 

Figure 3.1.9: Experimenting of pop up.

The researcher was experimenting on how to stick the LED together with the battery on back of the design where the viewer will interact.

 

 

Figure 3.1.10: Battery and LED 

 

 

Figure 3.1.11: Doing the switch.

 

 

Figure 3.1.12: The LED and battery are sticked on the board.

 

 

Figure 3.1.13: Experimenting with LED.

 

 

Figure 3.1.14: When press the dish (switch), the LED will light up.

Red and green lights are used to indicate the healthy and unhealthy dishes. The viewer will be allowed to choose one. By choosing, the LED will be given information and awareness on including vegetables daily in their lunch.

 

 

Figure 3.1.15:  The first experiment.

The final artwork did not come out as expected since there were a lot of errors like cutting errors, pixel errors, as well as distorted pop up. So the researcher come out with sticking the design cut outs on a foam board first before pasting them on the pop up papers. The black cardboard also does not suit well since it appeared grey.

4.0: Design

The researcher used Adobe Illustrator and Krita to design the vegetables and illustrations for the task. Adobe Illustrator is used to image trace the creative common pictures of vegetables taken from websites. Meanwhile, Krita is used to add effects like luminosity, darkness, shadow, soft light layers.

 

Figure 4.1: Image tracing of carrot

The carrot is drawn and added colours. Krita is used to add the effects.

Figure 4.2: Carrot with dishes.

Figure 4.3: Image tracing of eggplant

New layer is added on the existing layer and the outline of the eggplant is traced. Then, colour is added.

Figure 4.4: Progressing on eggplant.

Figure 4.5: Image tracing of pumpkin.

 

Figure 4.6: Adding colours and face features.

  

Figure 4.7: Adding shadow effects and light effects in Krita.

 

Figure 4.8: Finished eggplant and pumpkin.

Figure 4.9: Image tracing of other vegetables in different layers.

 

Figure 4.10: Adding colours.

 

Figure 4.11: Adjusting size.

 

Figure 4.12: Adding luminosity and shadows.

Figure 4.13: Designing onion.

 

Figure 4.14: Finished vegetables designing.

Figure 4.15: Doing heading for the poster in AI.

The Heading is done in font 'Century Gothic'. The 'V' in vegetables is replaced with a spinach which has the V shape to give a different effect to the word. The researcher added the nutrients value and health benefits to the poster. The style of the poster is contemporary. So the colours like yellow, blue and green are added to give the contemporary style.

Figure 4.16: Progressing on typography.

 

Figure 4.17: Compilation of all the illustration in one page.

 Figure 4.18: Finished designing for poster.

The design is saved in PDF format to avoid the distortion of pixels.

5.0 Materials: Perspex, Perspex cutter, green and red LED lights, 3V batteries, Foam board, Printed layout (A2 syntethic paper), acrylic double sided tape, cutter, scissors, glue.

5.1: Process

Cut the printed layout using cutter or scissors.

 

 Figure 5.1.1: Cut out the layouts.

 

Figure 5.1.2: Cutting the printed designs.

 

 

Figure 5.1.3: Cutouts.

White glue is used to stick the cut designs on a foam board.

 

Figure 5.1.4: Applying glue.

 

  Figure 5.1.5: Pasting on the foam board.

 

 

Figure 5.1.6: Pasted layout.

Use a ruler and cutter to cut the foam board. Excess form board are removed later using cutter.

 

 

Figure 5.1.7: Cutting out the foam board together with the designs.

 

Figure 5.1.8: Cutting the spinach.

 

Figure 5.1.9: Finished cutting the foam boards.

The foam board allows the design to not bend like previous experiment and make the design to look attractive to the eyes.

After that, LED lights are attached at the behind of the dish where the viewers will interact with. The battery was pasted on a small folded paper by double sided tape. One end of the LED light is attached to the battery while other is attached to the other side of paper. When the viewer touch the dish, it allows the positive end on LED to touch the battery and completes the circuit.

 

 

Figure 5.1.10: Attaching the LED.  

To make the cut outs to appear as pop up, different numbers of foam boards are cut and pasted behind the cut outs using double sided tape. Different number of foam boards give different heights to the cut outs thus making them as 'pop up'.

 

Figure 5.1.11: Pasting double sided tape on foam board.

 

 

Figure 5.1.12: Pasting foam board behind the cut outs.

 

 

Figure 5.1.13: Different heights of foam boards.

 

Then, paste all the cut outs on a perspex using acrylic tape.

 

Figure 5.1.14: Perspex.(A2 size)

 

 

Figure 5.1.15: Acrylic tape.

 

 

Figure 5.1.16: Paste acrylic tape.

 

 

Figure 5.1.17: Pasted acrylic tapes.

 

Figure 5.1.18: Peel the acrylic tape.

 

 

Figure 5.1.19: Paste the cut outs on perspex.

 

 

Figure 5.1.20: Pasting the vegetables on perspex. 

 

 Figure 5.1.21: Finished pasting.

Figure 5.1.22: Peel the paper on the perspex to finish the work.

This pop up poster is interactive because the viewer will be interact with the poster to choose the healthy meals and indicated by the lights, red and green. The poster also has information on health benefits as well as nutrients that obtained through eating vegetables daily during lunch. Through this task, the researcher learned how to design a proper poster and how to do a pop up version of poster using foam board and perspex. The researcher also learned that contemporary style is simple and colourful when delivering message to others.