Final Project

For my final project I was instructed that I must create something that is more intricate than a flat piece of paper. My first consideration was a leave behind portfolio, but I was struggling with the decision of which pieces to include, so I opted to make a visual ordering flip board for Sweet Designs Cakery. I have been interning with this company over this semester and have been discussing the difficulty the manager has explaining all the options and decisions people have to make when ordering a custom cake. For this assignment was goal was to make the ordering process easier, faster, and more understandable for the client. My target audience is visual thinkers who want to order cakes at Sweet Designs Cakery.

First here are my thumbs while brainstorming ideas for my final project. . .

Here is my Rough . . .

Folding Dummy outside . . .

My Project Design  . . .
(8.5" x 11" menu board in landscape orientation)

(8.5" x 11" fold out menu) which is placed in the pocket when not viewing.

With 8 flipping categories and one fold out menu this project created some challenges, but wasn't impossible as long as I created a folding dummy, followed the current menu, and was able to visualize the layout. Mrs. Bensen has requested we state the cost to print 1000 of these, but it seems that Sweet Designs Cakery would only need to print 1 or possibly 2 every year at most.
To print 1 at printing services cost _$ 19.31.00___.
To print 1000 would cost _$_19,310.00 _.  WOW!!! Hopefully we won't need that many. . . EVER!

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Let's Recap

This semester seems to have flown by. I'm just getting the hang of things and it's time to call it quits...with the class anyway. When I enrolled in this class I was a little turned off by the fact that it was a writing to learn course, but I am now glad to have created my blog and will be using it as a tool to show my work and thought process to future employee.

I have a learned a lot during the course of this class. Before, I struggled with understanding even the basic file types and their compatability and now have a much better grasp on what each file type is for, when to use them, and which are compatible with specific software. Thanks to the gradesheets, that we all cringed when filling out, I better understand the basic requirements to ensure my file will be sent successfully to a rip. I think preflighting a file is like anything you do, the more you do it the better you get and the more shortcuts you will find to make the process easier.

Each assignment gave me a chance to further understand the preperation involved in creating files that are sure to pass the rip in order to be printed in their final phase. I enjoyed this class and learned a lot from Christel as well from my other class mates. Now that I'm in the habit of preflighting my files I hope to make that a life long practice.