SB4 Initial Idea Research

The calendar will be based around the classic student fresher idea of alcohol; it is true when you come to uni your alcohol intake increases vastly. This tends to be around times of stress to be able to help said stress, yet at the same time you find yourself celebrating once the stress is over with more alcohol. The calendar will also be based around the idea of stress, as this is something I have vastly become used to since the beginning of university to the point where it has majorly effected my health beforehand, this is something I wish to help them students avoid.

Taking into consideration these starting points I will be making the calendar interactive by creating a cocktail recipe for each month, depending on the difficulty of the month on graphic design the cocktail gets stronger. The calendar will contain the method, ingredients and a small illustration of the cocktail itself, depending on how it would normally be presented.

Desk Calendar Style

The idea of the calendar is to create a desk size calendar which you would be able to flick through and keep on the student’s desk so it would be accessible, and easily transportable for the students. This could be cheaply bound, and the style would allow them to keep the illustration and ingredients afterwards.

The design could also be placed into simplistic ring bound A3 flat wall format. This would allow for the content to be larger and the piece to be hung on the wall itself rather than taking up more space on the desk, which they would need to be able to complete their studies.Similar to the image above the piece would consist of a series of sheets that would be bound.