Showing posts with label a. Show all posts
Showing posts with label a. Show all posts

Friday, 30 January 2015

Adaptation A: Opening Title Test 1

Typography - Title screen colours and type

Having a practice with some type faces, order and colour for my title screen. I have gone for a few different styles.


I chose two that I felt were the best, I then tested colour, though i'm going to stick with the turquoise blue and merge the two styles of type and order together.


I took the layout of the bolder typeface and made the type a slightly similar to the first typeface as for my transition I need to spherical O on the word "work"


This is my final decided type face: Gill Sans GT - BOLD


Thursday, 29 January 2015

Adaptation A: Style and colour

I have chosen to do my style as if inside the screen of an office computer, the mouse will interact with the moving fonts and images and the colours will represent office colours:

I looked at items that are found in an office such as desks, computers, sticky notes, pens, paper. I came up with three main colour grids.





I decided to go with the third one which represents Sticky notes


This is a colour composition I done and a practice into the layout of the desktop.



Adaptation A: The foods to eat

Common fibre foods that help "move things along"


Raspberries
Fiber: 8 grams per cup, raw.

Blackberries
Fiber: 7.6 grams per cup, raw.

Pears
Fiber: 5.5 grams per medium fruit, raw.

Bran Flakes
Fiber: 7 grams per cup, raw.
Whole-Wheat Pasta
Fiber: 6.3 grams per cup, cooked.
Oatmeal
Fiber: 4 grams per cup, cooked.



Adaptation A: The Questions

My Questions:

How long does food take to digest and become poop?


Digestion time varies between individuals and between men and women. After you eat, it takes about six to eight hours for food to pass through your stomach and small intestine. Food then enters your large intestine (colon) for further digestion, absorption of water and, finally, elimination of undigested food. Drinking water with a meal also helps digestion.


Does caffeine affect the speed?


drinking coffee can stimulate movement of the colonic muscles, thus promoting peristalsis (the coordinated contraction and relaxation of intestinal muscles that causes bowel movements). One study noted that the magnitude of this peristaltic effect of caffeinated coffee is similar to one induced by eating a meal. It’s also 60 percent stronger than the effect induced by drinking water, and 23 percent stronger than the effect due to drinking decaffeinated coffee. T
he caffeine in coffee stimulates muscles in the colon causing peristalsis, the contraction and relaxation of intestinal muscles that causes bowel movements.

How much caffeine is in coffee?


So how much coffee is needed to get results? The above-referenced study used a black Colombian coffee containing 150 milligrams (mg) of caffeine, a fairly average caffeine content for an 8-ounce (oz) cup of joe. A 12-oz “tall” drip coffee from Starbucks contains approximately 240 mg of caffeine, and single-shot latte drinks approximately 90 mg. In the end, the effect will vary by the individual. 


How often do humans poop?


Everybody is different, and there is no set “normal” when it comes to passing stools. That said, the normal range spans three times a day to once every three days, meaning the average person poops approximately once a day—about 1 ounce of stool for each 12 pounds of her or his body weight. That means a person weighing 160 pounds produces an average of just under a pound of poop each day.


What should a person eat to encourage a healthy bowel movement and/or quicken the process?


Fibre



So, when is the best time to poop at work?

Saturday, 24 January 2015

Monday, 19 January 2015

Adaptation A: When should you poop? The Facts



"When is the best time of the day to.. poop at work"

I have researched into different factors that'll help me with my information for my Infographic.

Firstly I looked at the "Rules Of Pooping"






This helped me decide that it's not a good time to go when the toilet might be quite popular, which got me into thinking when the toilet would be mostly used, during breaks and during/after lunch.

The average time of day for a lunch break has changed in some work places, but I found that the typical time from a 9am-5pm job was from 11am-1pm due to differences in amount of collages in the building and small companies. Retail jobs tends to be varied on the day and amount of collages working, for instance, 2 people working on a Sunday, the lunch hour would be when which ever one was hungry first and the other person would have their's after, not necessarily straight after.

Lunch hours over the years have changed as I found in this article in the Daily Mail online.


You can read the article here

So with this I decided that I would base my Infographic on pooping at work with an office job rather than retail, teaching, labor or other.

I then thought about once you have had your lunch... It doesn't necessarily  mean you'll "go" straight away. So how long does it take for your food to become poop?