Blog Entry #4.1-Design Task (A)

The project that i am asked to do is to design a cereal box to honor a person from World History. The person that I am working on is Margaret Thatcher. As you may be concern this person is not American or Canadian.This person created history throughout history.

Blog Entry #4.7 - Image Research (A)

Blog Entry #4.6 - Person Research (A)

1. Name of Notable Person: Margaret Thatcher

2. Web Addresses of all Sources (copy and paste)

http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/590098/Margaret-Thatcher , http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/COLDthatcher.htm

3. Biographical Information

a. Date of Birth and Death – October 13 , 1925

b. Place of Birth and Death (or current residence) – Grantham, Lincolnshire

c. Family (e.g. parents, siblings, spouse, children) – married to Dennis Thatcher, Carol Thatcher(daughter) Mark Thatcher (son),and father Alfred Roberts.

d. Education – Oxford University, studied law

e. Occupation – Became a barrister, was in the Conservative Party , joined the Government , was a parliamentary secretary, was elected secretary of state.

4. Two-three Quotes (either about the person of from the person)

. “The desire to win is born in most of us. The will to win is a matter of training. The manner of winning is a matter of honour.”

“It pays to know the enemy / not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend.”

“Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and importance, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.”

5. Significant contribution(s) to World History

Europe’s first woman prime minister. The only British prime minister in the 20th century to win three consecutive terms and, at the time of her resignation, Britain’s longest continuously serving prime minister since 1827, she accelerated the evolution of the British economy from statism to liberalism and became, by personality as much as achievement, the most renowned British political leader since Winston Churchill.

6. Ten terms related to the person

Brilliant Margaret, Justice, law , Oxford, Britian, Strong, Competative,

7. Timeline of at least five important dates in the person’s life

1925: Margaret Hilda Roberts was born on 13 October 1925 to Beatrice Stephenson Roberts and Alfred Roberts in Grantham, Lincolnshire.

Her father owned 2 grocery shops. She spent her childhood in Grantham, Lincolnshire.

1936: She went to Kesteven and Grantham’s girl’s school.

1944: She went to Oxford. She studied chemistry there.

1946: She became the president of the Oxford University Conservative Association.

1947: She graduated from Oxford with a degree in Natural sciences.

1950: She completed her MA from Oxford. Margaret fought unsuccessfully as the Tory candidate for Dartford.

1951: She married a wealthy, divorced, businessman Denis Thatcher.

1953: She qualified as a lawyer. Margaret gave birth to twins Carol and Mark.

http://www.buzzle.com/articles/timeline-of-margaret-thatcher.html

Blog Entry #4.3 - Adult's Cereal Box(A)

1. Describe all of the ways the designer has targeted adults with this cereal box.

Answer: The designer has targeted the adults with this cereal box by making it look healthy and boring. When it is usually healthy and boring the adults are most likely to look at it then children

2. What gender of adult is targeted? What elements led you to this conclusion?

Answer: This is targeted for female adults.The elements that led me to this conclusion is because most of the time when they talk about waist they are more likely to be talking about females.Also because the cereal box is pink and pink is usually for girls.

3. What is the advertising slogan?

Answer: The advertising slogan is "lose 1 inch from your waist in 2 weeks"

Blog Entry #4.2 - Children's Cereal Box(A)

1. Describe all of the ways the designer has targeted children with this cereal box.

Answer: The designer made the cereal box, and funny. The way he made it creative is by making it a cartoon. The way he made it funny is by making a wolf eat the cookie crisp.

2. What gender of children is targeted? What elements led you to this conclusion?

Answer: This is targeted for males. The element that led me to this conclusion is that since there is a wolf this represented for the boys attention. Also because the box is blue and usually blue is a boy color.

3. What is the advertising slogan?

Answer: The advertising slogan is "Its Cooooooooooooooooooookie Crisp".

Blog Entry #3.12 - Completed Poster (D)

Blog Entry #3.9 - Image Extractions (D)

These are the pictures of the leader of my country Shimon Peres and the IB globe.

Blog Entry #3.11 - Progress(D)

This is the picture of my poster design before I finished

Blog Entry#3.16 - Human Ingenuity Evaluation (E)

I would say a person who do not understand English wouldn't know what I am talking about when They see my poster or a person that can't read English or a person that is blind.

Blog Entry#3.15 - Create Evaluation (E)

I would give myself a 6, because I have more than two extracted pictures, I also did all the work that is required. To my opinion I think I did a very good job the picture is pretty and attractive to me and I also I think it will be pretty to others as well.

Blog Entry#3.14 - Design Evaluation (E)

I think I could improve my poster design with the rotation of pictures , the size of the font, and the information. I think that it will benefit me if i did these things and fix it it would have been more creative.

Blog Entry #3.12 - Process Journal 3 (E)

The exact items i put on my design poster are food , monuments, the president, the flag, mostly everything about the country. But, I need to put up the currency and government of the country.

Blog Entry#3.10 - Process Journal 2 (E)

So far the steps I have completed for this project is I learned how to extract. i also learned a lot of information on how to separate the letters when typing words in Adobe illustrator. The ways I can improve is on how to finish my writing part of the poster, the information part.