Lesson Summary 1

The significance of these corporations owning music companies , television networks, film studios and cable channels is to make the brand or item more famous. This brand will make more money to the people that invested on it. Owning music companies is a to attracts the targets for the target consumers in order to make money on the brand or item that is being sold. They are in television networks because commercial is another way to attract a person. Film studios and cable channels is all a way of informing and attracting others on the product that is being sold.

1. Define the following terms:
You may use your notes and online references.

Brand -kind, grade, or make, as indicated by a stamp, trademark, or the like
Marketing -the act of buying or selling in a market.
Demographics-the statistical data of a population, especially those showing average age, income, education, etc.
Aesthetics-the branch of philosophy dealing with such notions as the beautiful, the ugly, the sublime, the comic, etc., as applicable to the fine arts, with a view to establishing the meaning and validity of critical judgments concerning works of art, and the principles underlying or justifying such judgments.
Focus Group-a representative group of people questioned together about their opinions on political issues, consumer products, etc.

Respond to the questions below with a short answer response of four to six sentences each.
2. Explain how these terms are used in product analysis and product evaluation (refer to your notes).
These terms are used in the product analysis and product evaluation to help explain what everything means in this project and how it help the whole project.

3. After creating a CD cover, what have you learned about product design?
I learned .

4. Explain the steps you took to translate a concept into a design and then to a finished product (consider the design cycle).

5. How has knowing and understanding your demographic helped you to create a product for that demographic?

6. Reflecting on your own process in the design task, what would you do differently in executing your design (consider investigation, design, evaluation, planning, etc.)?

Journal 5

I was able to communicate my ideas in this design process through information and persuading other peoples.I was very successful when in creating a concept for a particular demographics by creating guiding questions, a design brief that helped me when doing my project. My concept was well received because I did everything I planned and finished my project in an organized way.I made that determination by evaluating my project over and over again. The techniques and equipment was essential to the execution of my design by helping my CD cover.The key terms and ideas in my project is to create , investigate , evaluate , design and reflection.

Journal 4

My opinion on how my project is , if it is successful or finished and ready to become advertised under my name , I would evaluate and keep evaluating until I know that I have finished. The most challenging stage in this process was the designing process because I didn't know which font to use and I didn't know would make my album attractive. I used my problem solving skills and inquiring skills by writing my guiding questions that helped me help out my challenges.

CD-Cover

Process Journal 3

The purpose of me evaluating a product is to attract others through my creativity. Rihanna and people from urban societies at the ages of 15-35 are involved in my evaluation.I will use the data from my evaluation by designing A COVER SHEET AND INSERT. I will change the way i would put it on my cover in order to fit everything in. I would determine that i have conducted a good evaluation because my target consumers will be attracted to my work.

Process Journal 2

I think I'm on the Create Stage of the Design Cycle because I have Followed all the requirements and the task that I planned to do. I Have Accomplished the cover of my sheet . The steps I took to follow my task is to pick out a picture save it then I created my background then I cropped My Pictures and then i added it to the cover that I created with the nice background then I added some Information About The Artist.I Have Had a lot Of Challenges transforming a lot Of Pictures and writings on my cover.This concept helped me formulate through the design process by creating and moving in an orderly way. My next goal is To add more color to my cover and I plan to do that my writing in a different color than the background.

Homework #1

1. If branding targets prospects to recognize its product as having a solution to a problem, what problem does your brand address?
- The problem that my brand addresses to people who dont have rings and will save them people. Consumers such as wedding rings,or girls or women that wants to wear rings for fashion.

2. What solution does your brand offer?
- The solution that my brand offers is rings pretty rings that people want for weddings and for fashion.

3. Does the brand clearly convey that message? Explain how.
- The brand clearly convey the message that I am trying to explain because my brand design is with a ring with the initials of "F-atou's R-ing C-ollection"

4. Do you identify with the message? Explain why.
- Yes I identify this message because my name is apart of the brand and design