Design Principles Crit Feedback and Reflections

Text only - Quote from the NHS website, wanting to inform and educate the public. Background is scans of news articles related to the top of nursing in public. The typeface is from the Guardian newspaper. Overall aim is to be informative and easy to understand. 

• Why not the typeface used on the NHS website to show the source of the info.
• Could you take a screenshot of the articles and manipulate the text to make it read how it would if people looked at breastfeeding in a different light?
• Text is the focal point, good factual quote. 
• Good use of articles on the background.
• The focus is on the actual law but shows places have gone against that.
• Headlines - demonstrate the contrast between the law and actual events. 

- Need to make it more obvious using text only. The headlines in the background are slightly distracting and convey a different message than originally intended. 

- Could revise previous manipulations to type, such as distorting the Bs and Os.

- Add the reference of where the quote came from. 

Text and Image - Using the template of a breastfeeding pamphlet to make a tongue and cheek poster design aiming to help women dodge the judgement when they feed in public. Overall aim is to highlight the ridiculousness behind some women's experiences. 

• Manual is humorous. Could you maybe us scribbles rather than squares - make manually and scan in?
• Where are there grey squares? Are there other better ways of covering the other steps?
• Different lighthearted approach, conveys the theme without being too emotial/hard hitting - would make women in that situation laugh more than be upset (realise others are the problem).
• Think the concept is good, would appeal to right audience as breastfeeding women would recognise the pamphlet.
• Could experiment with showing the real pamphlet and then the 'fake' one. 

- The idea isn't obvious straight away, was the one the audience struggled with the most out of the 3.

- Could put into practice physically, isolate an issue and make an object that presents this issue to the audience, make it look even more ridiculous as this is the aim overall. 

- Could then link to a QR code with all the other info (could be part of a series if it were to be taken forward.)

Image only - Replacing the image of a women on page 3 of a newspaper (where you'd normally have photos of women with the boobs out) with photos of a lady breastfeeding. The overall aim is to highlight the irony behind sexualising boobs when breastfeeding. 

• Really like the concept, could try formats on other magazines or is there a more obvious title would could pick. Really good concept though.
• Really like the reasons behind the poster, maybe use a more 'sexualised' magazine to make the point more obvious.
• Challenged peoples position on breastfeeding - raises questions.
• I didn't notice the page 3 reference however once I did it makes more sense. Could you make the page 3 more eye-catching?

- Could include the full spread to try and make it more obvious, however then the page 3 part will be even smaller. 

- Try and find a more suitable newspaper with a better layout to place the image over the top of?

- If people can't recognise it is page 3 of a newspaper they probably won't even if I make slight alterations, the layout is pretty standard across all newspapers and issues.