The 3P's Flashcards
What are preliminary Graphics?
These are sketches, illustrations and thumbnail layouts used at the design stages of new products, new buildings and new publications.
What are Production Drawings?
These are drawings that include dimensions and technical detail so that products can be made and buildings constructed.
What are examples of Production drawings?
dimensioned orthographic views, exploded drawings, sectional views and surface developments.
What are promotional Graphics?
These are graphics and documents that are used in advertising to promote a product. Promotional documents often include an illustration with text and a background. The layout is carefully planned to create visual impact and is designed to appeal to a specific target market.
What are examples of Promotional Graphics?
illustrations, posters brochures, booklets, banners, billboards, graphs + charts, web pages.
What are examples of Preliminary Graphics?
thumbnails, sketching, drawing and rendering
What are the benefits of Preliminary Graphics?
Quick to produce.
Good way of recording ideas or designs.
Good way of developing Ideas.
Can be produced using cheap equipment.
Ability to quickly annotate and edit.
Useful when communicating ideas to a client.
They form the basis for production drawings or DTP work.
What are disadvantages of Preliminary Graphics?
They aren’t drawn to scale and aren’t dimensioned accurately.
What are the benefits of Production Drawings?
Drawn to scale and accurate.
A library of reusable parts can be built up.
They’re important when component parts are to be manufactured.
They can be easily dimensioned.
They show how components are assembled.
Technical details can be shown using a number of drawing types.
They can be used in promotional documents to show customers how parts assemble.
What are disadvantages of Production Drawings?
Training or Knowledge is required to produce them and drawing standards have to be learned.
They can be time-consuming to produce.
Costly special equipment is required.
What are the benefits Promotional Graphics?
They can be animated to have visual impact.
They can be styled to appeal to a specific target.
They can be made attractive in order to sell the project.
they can be placed in a virtual environment to enhance realism.
They tend to be more easily understood than production drawings.
What are disadvantages of Promotional Graphics?
They require skill and knowledge to produce.
They can give a false impression of the product.
You can’t physically handle a rendered model.
