Company Letterhead (10 marks)

Please remember that you must have each phase of a product (Investigation, Design, Production) signed off by your regular teacher before you proceed to the next phase of that product.

Outline
You are to design a letterhead for your company to be used for any communication in letter form that you may wish to send.

Investigation

Collect at least 3 samples of company letterheads and list the information contained in each so that you have an understanding of business conventions of letterheads. Also consider the amount of space these letterheads take of the total A4 sheet of paper and note where each piece of information appears within the letterhead. Please note that the McKinnon letterhead which is on display in B9 and B10 is NOT typical of business letterheads.

Design
As a group, decide on the information that you feel needs to be included in your letterhead and list these. ON PAPER ...Prepare three different possible arrangements for your letterhead and then choose one of these with which to proceed. Record in writing WHY you chose this particular arrangement over the others.

Production
Prepare your letterhead to be printed in colour on A4 paper. (The teachers will actually print these out for you later on the colour laser printer.)

Evaluation

Those group members not involved in the production of this letterhead should write a report indicating

  • - the good features of the letterhead
  • - what could have been improved

Remember that you need to be critical but also constructive. Try to be particular in your analysis.