This document discusses the opportunities presented by a project for improving skills, knowledge, and creativity. It identifies opportunities for challenging oneself creatively through designing a web banner or product packaging. The project also allows experimenting with designs for an established company and creating original images. The skills developed, such as Photoshop skills, could be useful for jobs in advertising, marketing, website development, and graphic design. The opportunity to design for different media and create product packaging is seen as appealing for starting a portfolio and challenging professional designers.

1. Opportunities
Every project gives you opportunities to create but also constraints to work to. Use this hand out to
consider the opportunities this project has to help you improve your skills, knowledge and creativity.
Opportunities
What creative opportunities can you see in this project? How could you challenge yourself
creatively in this project? You can refer to your previous experience here.
This will give me the chance to do a few things that I have not done before for example
designing a web banner or creating packaging for a product. This will give me the opportunity to
build on the Photoshop skills that I have developed during previous projects like the SASH
project and also the t-shirt designing for red bubble. I would try to build and expand on ideas
and tricks that I have tried in other projects and develop them further in order to get a better
finished product.
What technical opportunities for development are available in this project? What technical
challenges could you set yourself? You can refer to your previous experience here.
This project allows me to experiment with different designs and try to be innovative with a
design for a well-known and established company. I will set myself a target of making my
designs as strong as the professional ones. This means that I can try out new things with
Photoshop and try and make a clean and clear design. It also gives me the chance to create my
own images rather than using source images which I have predominantly used in the past.
How could the skills you are using and developing here be useful in a professional context?
Consider the requirements for different job roles.
There are a number of different ways that these skills could be used in a professional context,
the image making side of it could be used in advertising, modelling, and marketing. The web
banner designing could obviously be used in the development of websites. And finally the
Photoshop work could be used in graphic designing which offers a large spectrum of
opportunities.
What opportunities for designing for different media does this project give you? Which final
product type interests you the most and why?
This could give me the chance to get into the product designing side of media and also if I
decide to make my own images if they are strong enough they could be used to jumpstart a
portfolio for advertisement companies and marketing. The product packaging design aspect of
this project is most appealing to me because I like the idea of trying to build on and improve an
existing product and trying to push myself to outdo a team of professional designers.