TP 2 Uses an awareness of how existing products and processes affect people when applying a more deliberate approach, within existing constraints, to designing and producing technologies that meet human needs; communicates verbally, through text, drawings and models; and evaluates throughout the process, comparing the final result with the original intention.

TP 3 Uses an understanding of the relationship between aesthetics and social and environmental effects when generating and communicating designs, both graphically and through models; plans and achieves production, making safe and efficient use of resources; and evaluates whether criteria relating to functional and aesthetic criteria were met.

TP 4 Considers the values and beliefs held by the developer and user when determining the appropriateness of technologies; applies this understanding when creating, communicating and justifying designs; and in planning, adapting and producing technologies includes social and environmental criteria when evaluating progress and results.

The one item that nearly all companies use is a business card. This wallet size piece of paper contains all relevant contact details for the company. Most business and business people spend considerable amounts of money each year for these cards.

For your travel agency you need to design a business card to give to your clients that contains all the relevant information so that your clients can contact you.

You will need to find the relevant information that business cards contain and invent for your travel agency a fictional name, address, phone number etc that you will use now and for the rest of the Tasks.

You will be required to investigate the design and cost of business cards for a business today and discuss whether you feel you could produce cards and still make a profit.

• A business card for your Travel Agency.
• A signed and dated plan detailing starting and finishing dates.
• Evidence of research, such as print outs from the Internet and example business cards from a variety of sources.
• Discussions of your original intentions for you card based on the research that you carried out.
• Sketched designs of your business card showing alterations, colours and layouts.
• Costings for purchasing business cards from a company, with comparisons of your own.
• A handwritten journal accounting what you achieved each lesson.
• A word-processed document discussing the evaluation of the task and marketing used.

This task will take approximately 4 periods to complete. You will be assessed at an individual level, so if you wish to research with another class member you must submit all research items for yourself.

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