COMPANY DIRECTOR

1. Please let me know who your company director is.

2. What color clay do you need?

DESIGNER TOY SPECS

Here's some examples of Designer Toy Specs. Start doing some research on the internet to develop your own Spec Sheet.

PROJECT INFORMATION SHEET

Create a product informational sheet describing your Project. SEE SAMPLE ABOVE.

Things to include:

1. Brief info on the people working on the projects

2. About the Concept

3. Who is the target audience? (Who do I want to buy this product?)

4. About the Logo

5. About the Figure

PLANNING

Part 1: Character Selection

(Group Assignment - Due Thursday, Oct 29) 25 points

• Within your team look over all of your sketches and select one design that you will use to create your designer toy. As a team decide on what changes you need to make (color, accessories, size, shape, make it more appealing, etc.)
• Develop 2 more characters that will complement that design or 2 more characters based on that design.

Part 2: Company Logo

(Group Assignment - Due Thursday, Oct 29) 25 points

• Select a Company name and create a logo. I recommend that you try to select a name that is related to your products.
• Develop 5-10 sketches before you select one.
• Design needs to be able to be able to be reproduced in Black and White as well as colored.
• Design needs to be able to be reproduced at 1 inch as well as 8 inch.
• Critique - Place your designs on the whiteboard by the time the tardy bell rings.

Part 3: Blog

(Group Assignment - Due Thursday, Oct 29)

Start adding content to your group blog.

• Create a Title Banner
• Select a layout
• Upload the following items to blog:

1. What is a designer toy assignment
2. Individual Sketches
3. Final Character Design Sketches
4. Logo Sketches

Team Blogger Account

A team Blogger account has been created for you and the members of your team. To access it, you will need to create a Google account. It might be easier to create gmail account (email account). Please write down your email in the comments section of this post so I can give you access to your blog.

Team Selections

Well, today was the start of the Designer Toy project. As a class we decided to randomly select team rather than selecting our own teams. Here is the teams:

1. Melody, Ikaika, Steven
2. Rob, Gladys, Kalin
3. Shanese, Handsome, Preston
4. Tracy, Lawrence, Aaron
5. Heidi, Korey, Cyrus
6. Marley, Armando, Andrew, Quinten
7. Lopaka, Dino, Mac, Joshtin
8. Janie, Keola, Armani

Good luck Teams!

PREPLANNING

Part 1: Research Designer Toys

(Individual Assignment - Due: Wednesday, Oct 21) 50 points

Using the internet, find information about designer toys based on some of the questions that you brainstormed today and well as any other information you can find. Post your research to the comment section.

• What is a designer toy?
• What do they look like?
• What are popular designs?
• What are they made of?
• Size/specs?
• Cost?
• Who designs them?
• What are some popular brands/company?

On the internet, find 3 different designer toy sample designs that you like. Write a paragraph on why you think these designs are interesting design. (Download these designs and include them to your blog.)

Part 2: Sketches

(Individual Assignment - Due: Wednesday, Oct 21) 50 points

• Create 10-15 rough sketches of possible designs for an original designer toy.
• When you are done with your rough sketches, choose one design that you like and create a detailed sketch (Front, side, back, 3/4 view) on a separate paper.

Part 3: Critique

Tuesday, Oct 21 - Place sketches on the whiteboard

We will be treating this assignment as if it were a real "product pitch" to a company creative director. Time is money and meeting deadlines are extremely important. we will have a critique as soon as the tardy bell rings. Sketches must be taped to the whiteboard by the time the bell rings to receive full credit.