I plan to attempt to create 10 different items as my final products; these 10 could be everyday supermarket items such as breakfast items since I already have baked beans in line. I'm thinking of items such as cornflakes, eggs and maybe toiletries like toothbrush and plasters.

After spray painting the lid yesterday I quite liked the matted even coating the spray paint had given and so I have tested the spray paint on piece of paper. This gave a very smooth finish and the plastic coating that you will find on labels already. I will need to think about whetehr the letterpress ink will absorb into the spray paint and whether it is cost efficient for me as I will need different colours which can become pricey. To save money I could alternate the colours between the cans and lids... but then I would need to think carefully what colours contrast with what and which one becomes suitable.

I did reach to the conclusion that spray painting the labels would be too expensive and that coloured paper would be cheaper. I brought some flourescent colours and ordinary bright colours to see which one would work best. After putting the flourescent pink and green onto the can it did make my eyes strain and could imagine the colours not helping to read the context better, but to damage the eye further. Because of this flourescent colours are a no no and so had run down to Paperchase to buy a pack of coloured paper because the ones I got from the college shop was a bit too thick for my liking. I plan to cut this out in time for letterpress tomorrow to test it out and hopefully my labels will be ready. The last image compares the two labels (orange which was spray painted and the yellow which is yellow paper) and shows which one has the glossy coating. After reading adivce off the RNIB website about how to make clear print they said to avoid glossy paper as this can distract someone's ability to read. So therefore the spray paint is not effective as it is too expensive and creates too much of a gloss.

Also I had brought my 10 items today which were a bottle of lambrusco, bottle of perrier, plasters, toothbrush, 3 tinned cans, cornflakes, fairy liquid bottle and comfort fabric detergent bottle. I had chosen some containers which were similar to each other ins ize and shape because I wanted viewer to realise how one can easily mistaken something because of their sight loss.

I had also thought about how to integrate the sound system into the odd shaped containers like the wine bottle, and a possible solution could be to have an elastic strap connected to the device container and let it wrap round any container where it is flexible and universal. This idea canme across to me after looking over my research where elastic bands are frequently used to distinguish cans between each other and thought it would be nice to try and develop that idea further. However the negavtive sides of the elastic idea is that it might not be stable enoughw hen wrapped round the wine bottle as I can imagine it slipping off and could result to a terrible accident. Might not be safe..