Work Work Work!

Too much work at the moment! Having finally decided on how my book cover will look I have been moving on rapidly with work. However I would love to improve my work rate as I have not been driven enough to constantly be producing work throughout the module. This is something that I will defiantly have to think about for the next module.... owell..... onwards and upwards!

Essay Work and Other....

Having now done a large proportion of my essay I feel as though my work is going well. Having had a few students proof read what I have done so far the general thoughts among peers is that it's quite a well rounded essay. To be brutally honest I can wait to get this monkey off my back and concentrate on the book cover. Aims for this week include actually finishing a first proper draft and then designing a layout for the double page spread whilst starting to look at the book cover project.

This is my current view.....

Still a while yet to go but progress is defiantly being made. :)

Current Work

Work I'm currently doing is a magazine spread. This involves me writing a 1500 word essay for the center fold and finding 5 images to go with it. These images each have to have exactly 10 word caption. Tough.... Yes that would certainly be the case. I have so far struggled with the essasy because I find it hard to put my words on paper. Yes it's easy on this, but I don't exactly fear sounding like an idiot on this because I know exactly what I mean when I try to explain something. At the end of the day it's called PDP for a reason...

On top of this I have to do a book cover for "One Flew The Cuckoo's Nest". I have no idea where to start with this.......

Forgot About This!

Ok.. Something I should have done before the end of 2011 is write about how I thought the end of the year has gone and about my last two projects so here it goes...


Both the General House Style and the Letterbox projects were handed in on time and from the feedback that i have received it seems to have gone down pretty well. From what I gather I had presented two well presented informed pieces. I personally thought that the effort I had put in was equal to the grade that I had received. My time management could have been improved which meant that i could have put more time into my final pieces.

During the first term I feel as though I have stepped up to the level that is required from me. I have kept up with the amount of work that was given to me and I feel as though I'm getting more to grips with my chosen subject. Hopefully 2012 will be as prosperous as 2011. I aim to pass this first year and improve my drawing skills. 

General House Style Project... Plus Other Stuff

After my initial design it was pointed out to me that the line counts as an illustration and from this would not satisfy the brief. However after some editing i have now not only made a stylish document but also complied with the original working brief.

Other notable pieces of work this week include my Solving Problems Through Design module. After weeks of looking into replacing plastics with paper to make the packaging more green friendly, I have made a huge breakthrough.

One of the people at my place of work pointed me towards a television show in which a women makes things from palm leaves. This can be directly applied to my project. If all Ipod packaging was me from this instead of recycling it the packaging can go into the green bin to make compost :)

It's the last week of term next week which mean its deadline day from this terms work....I should get it all done though. One thing I have improved upon is my organisational skills.

House Style Project

After weeks of typing out the general house style guide I have finally came up with my first "draft" of what will be the final document. It is currently now up on Facebook for feedback...

Letterbox Project

Progress with the letterbox project has been made this week. After having made some designs of what I would like my box to look like I finally decided on a design. From this I have started making my box out of MDF. Here are some images of the letterbox so far...