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Colour Choices

The colour choices are based on answers from the questionnaire, where I asked children from the age of 5 to 12 in a Primary school, what they're favourite colours were and what colours made them happy, and which made them sad. Therefore the colours used above are the colours that they stated were happy colours and were the most frequently described as their favourite. 

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Creativity at your Service

Holly O'Connor

Creative Mentor for Children

Keeping Small Minds Alive

The concept for my self branding is to base all my design decisions around answers from children, therefore they become an integral part of not only the brand identity, but also account for all design decisions. 

Questionaire

I undertook a questionnaire, which I passed on to Mum who works within a primary school, which she then passed onto all the teacher of the different classes and age ranges. The questions asked were designed to specifically gage how much children understand about design, colour and art, which I could then use to inform my design decisions and my self branding in general.



What are Colours?

• Colours are ways to show moods.
• They make a picture look much nicer.
• Vibrant things that can be anything you want it to be.
• Colours are the beauty of the world.
• Colours are things that make your pictures look nicer.
• Things you see everyday around you.
• Colours are things that when you look at them you feel a different way.
• Colours are different things that are coloured in with different colours.
• Rainbows.
• Flavours
• Colours make things feel more real.
• A bright/dark colour
• They write
• red, blue, green, purple, black
• red
• all sorts
• Just colour
• Colours are colours
• A rainbow colour
• Things in the air that change colour.
• colour is colour
• Colours are everything that you see.
• Colours are colours you see.
• colours are dye

Favourite Colour

• Red is vibrant, bright and it stands out.
• Red, very bright and reminds me of a rose.
• Red and Brown mixed together.
• Green
• Blue
• Black
• Gold
• Yellow
• Blue and green
• Dark green
• Bright red
• Purple
• Blue
• Black
• pink
• gold
• green
• Pink
• red
• green
• turquoise
• blue
• turquoise
• blue

Why is it your favourite colour?

• Because it’s cheerful and looks good.
• - Bright colours.
• Velvet red.
• It is refreshing and bright and it makes me feel relaxed.
• Cold, quite bright and makes me think of the sky.
• Dark, personal
• Shiny, Sparkly
• Reminds me of the sun and happiness.
• bright and dark, beautiful.
• It is the colour of lots of my things.
• Makes me feel like I am looking at a close up of the sun.
• Nice to write with
• because it is
• it’s dark
• nice and shiny, I like it so much
• because there are two colours of it
• because it’s dark
• it is the third rainbow colour
• because it is pretty
• I just like it
• pretty

Sad Colour

-Dark Blue

• Blue because it reminds me of tears.
• Purple
• Blue, represents water and it feels like you’re drowning.
• Blue
• Purple
• Black
• Blue
• very dark colours
• dark colours
• red
• grey
• Green
• yellow you can’t really see it
• black
• white because you can’t see it
• red
• blue
• black
• grey
• blue
• red
• dark colour
• grey
• black

Happy Colour

• Yellow
• Gold and yellow, because it reminds me of starts and sunshine.
• Yellow is a happy colour.
• Pink
• Yellow
• Black
• Green
• Yellow
• Bright colours
• yellow
• blue
• light colours
• blue
• blue
• gold
• purple
• yellow
• red
• yellow
• purple
• yellow
• yellow
• bright
• yellow
• green

How does art make you feel?

- Art makes me feel inspired and excited.

• Very relaxed and entertained.
• It makes me feel happy and like I am free from chaos.
• Art makes me feel open and joyful.
• Really Happy
• Ok
• Happy and excited.
• Art makes me feel like I am what they draw.
• happy
• relaxed
• Happy
• happy
• happy
• happy, I like doing it for mummy and daddy
• happy, I like making with my friends
• happy
• happy
• happy
• happy
• interesting
• happy
• confident
• happy and relaxed

Why do you like drawing?

• Makes me feel relaxed and happy.
• Because it calms me down.
• Because you can draw what you feel and it lets me be creative.
• It expresses my mind and makes me feel creative.
• Makes me happy and relaxed.
• Calms me down a bit.
• It’s really fun.
• It makes me feel proud.
• Makes me happy.
• proud
• makes me feel relaxed
• under the sea
• it’s fun
• for my family
• My dad loves my colouring in
• I like drawing pictures form my mummy
• I like drawing cards and making my family happy
• because I do
• because we draw all the time
• because it makes my mum proud
• peaceful
• because it is fun
• it’s fun
• happy
• you could be an artist when you’re older. 

What do you think graphic design is?

• When you design something on a computer.
• When you design your picture before you do the real picture.
• Where you create art using electronic devices like if you were making an animated movie, like Moana or Toy Story.
• I think it is art and designing something on a computer.
• A design that you have to be very careful with.
• A 3D model.
• A picture made from shapes.
• That the picture is HD.
• 3D pattern
• The graphics in a game
• Drawing on computers.
• designing for games
• don’t know
• making something
• pink
• designs of pictures
• different colours
• art
• designing stuff
• something colourful

How would you feel if art wasn’t a subject?

• I would feel a bit downhearted.
• I would feel sad.
• I would feel trapped in a bubble, an invincible bubble.
• I would feel lost and have no creativity in my mind.
• All right
• Bored
• Angry and sad
• bored
• sad
• sad
• sad
• sad
• sad
• sad, I would feel like I want to go home.
• sad
• sad
• very sad
• sad
• bored
• sad
• very very very very sad!
• very very sad
• horrified

How do you think emails and texts are sent?

• When you press the send button it uses the wifi.
• They go through the wire and go to the other phone. 
• Through technical transporters.
• I think they are sent via wifi.
• By hand and people pressing different letters.
• Over the internet
• Through a signal
• Magic
• satellite
• signal poles
• internet
• Write a message and it will blow away to who ever you send it to.
• by things
• space
• special button
• pressing a button

How much money would you like to earn?

• £100,000 per month
• Depends on how good your drawings are.
• £50 per month and a half.
• About £65,000 a year.
• £50.00
• £10
• £40 or £20
• £20 a week.
• £70 a day
• £10 for half an hour.
• £99 billion
• enough to get by
• £150, that would be a lot, I could go to pizza hit and buy lollies.
• zillion
• 100000
• 100000
• £79 a week
• 2p a year
• £50 a day
• £100 a month
• £99
• £100 a year
• millions per minute

A2 Research Poster

Things I have learnt:

- What weed smells like!

- Skills in all Adobe Software, Illustrator, Photoshop and Indesign

- I have learnt how to cook, very important life skills

- Learnt how expensive food shopping is, especially cheese.

- I have learnt how to make a doctors appointment and how collecting prescriptions work.

- I have learnt how to do my own washing.

Things I have engaged with:

- I have engaged with and become more open minded to fine art and conceptual art, and using new techniques and process away from the screen within my work.

- I have engaged with all the visiting professionals, including Build, DR ME and Brand Nu. 

- I have engaged with all the workshops that are available to us, especially so in the print room, with the likes of letterpress and screen printing. 

My ambitions for the future and aims for Level 05:

- To step outside of my comfort zone, both in everyday life activities but also within my work.

- To travel the world, experience and embrace new cultures.

- I would like to achieve my life long ambition and become a primary school teacher.

- I would love to graduate with a 1st. 

What I haven't enjoyed:

- Missing my dog.

- Being away from home, I have found very difficult, however I think it has made me a much more independent and stronger person.  

- I haven't enjoyed being stressed all of the time and also meeting deadlines. 

- I also haven't enjoyed long hectic journeys on the train home, as it has been the first time I have been on a train on my own.