Final Project Idea?

After having a rather mellow first two weeks of this project I have finally stumbled on the news article that could form the basis of my letter box project. Voyeurism...

Illustration Class

Over the past few weeks I have had my Developing Illustration Concepts class. This class is headed by Francis Lowe. My drawing skills are not my strong point but I like to think over the past few weeks that they have improved. Here is an example of the improvement. Not too bad?

Opportunity...

 

 

University hasn't been the only thing that has grasped my attention over the past few months. Having played guitar for a few years I decided it was time to form my own band. I really have enjoyed playing in this band and having finally decided on the name (Versity 92) I thought it was time to start a Facebook page. It's at this point an opportunity arose. The band needed some a new logo to feature on our new page so i got out the laptop and started designing various styles of logos. Here are some examples.

The Big Draw Work

A live project that i have had to participate in over the past few weeks was for the Big Draw Project. There were clients who wanted ideas for possible posters etc. Here were some of the ideas that I came up with as part of the group.

New Blog

I started off this academic year doing my PDP (Personal Development P...) On the University apprtoved blog know as PebblePad. This i have found to be over the past few months to be a waste of time as it it quite childish in a way. This blog so far has impressed. The transfer of information all at once will seem odd but it's just me transferring past entires in to catch up :)

Typography 146DVA Week 1

Finally started the Typography module for 146 DVA. For this module there are two briefs to satisfy in 5 weeks. Sounds easy.... It really isn't. Just started on the first brief for now. Making a contain for a letter that's 200 x 200 x 200 mm as response to a current news story. My first port of call was to decide what story to actually respond to. After searching the internet i found two stories of interest. The stadium name change that was going on at Newcastle United and hackers overloading Facebook with pornographic material. I started to mind map my idea and see where it takes me. As for a response i quick cam up with an idea that would satisfy my my brief to a certain point. The only hurdle was the size of the container. I want to hang a new Facebook logo in the middle of a computer screen. However as soon as you start to take one apart they blow up. It's a good job i questioned this before i started opening one up. To get around this problem i plan to make a vacuum formed container that looks identical to a computer screen. This way it will satisfy the brief.

I will continue to work on my first project brief and start to work on the second brief this week.

Visual Communication 1 - Week 5 of 5

This weeks task was to make a manifesto about my own practice. This manifesto was to be made up of three words. This i felt was a good task. It helped me to look at myself as a person. My strengths and weaknesses in art and design and identify how i work. I started in Simon Bell's seminar writing down the words that he had used to describe how other people work and then i looked up these words to see if they match how i work. Immediately i had come up with a few options and explored the meaning and looked at there inverse to see if i would want to be called that. From this i found my three words and encased these words into  box with a black edge. Simple and effective. Just how i work.

On reflection i think i have done well with this project. I could have possibly looked at more words but this would have made my selection more difficult.