Saturday 6 December 2008

Pinch Punch 1st of the Month of December

In PAL today we did harverd referencing, which seemed to go well and they all seemed to be into it and quite enjoyed it, kit came into the session as she was doing reviews of all the PAL groups to see how they getting on.
Also i had a talk to Neil about the D&AD briefs which went pritty well, i had chance to go over and talk about what my ideas were so far and if i had chance to pick an idea and my ideas so if. It was good to have a talk about them and helped clear up a few things. the Brand one could become quite interesting but also fairly difficult to define, however the HP project seems interesting and creative and i feel i could do a lot more with that so after the discussion with Neil i think i am going to go head and look further into the HP brief .

Friday 28th Novermber (Day After The New Brief)

We Had our new brief set yesterday which sounds like it could be interesting. It is to design a website and sort of brand and advertise our selves. So yesterday was mainly spent searching the internet looking for nice and interesting website designs that appeal to me and that i can use for inspiration to design my own website for myself. After the the dream weaver sessions i now have a better understanding for using dream weaver but now we are also recapping flash programs and being shown how we could also incorporate flash elements into our website which have been really good at the moment and i have really enjoyed using it. Today we learnt how to use various buttons and how to use them as controls to jump to numerous pages which was good and really helpful to learn i felt. I look forward to doing this project and enjoy looking at current and existing websites. I have also decided on a final to D&AD briefs which will be the open HP brief and the brand union identity brief. I have booked a tutorial with Neil for monday afternoon to disgues the two and hopfully he can help make things a little clearer for me to choose between the two.

Tuseday 22 November The Day After The Night Before

If managed to get the day extension for Neil and got together and have completed everything i had to. Well i hope. I spent most of last night finishing off my personal web page and my chosen artists website. Which i personally think went really well and for the first ever time i had done this i was very happy with my end result

Monday 21st November

After a really good weekend its back to work now. with everything handed in all i have to do now is the short course dream weaver and hand it in to Neil so that i can hopefully qualify for the ABC certificate. However i don't think i will get it finished today so i may ask Neil for an extra day so i can finish it off. i have done all the work and got examples for t however i would very much like to make them just a little better and to use the methods i have learnt again to prove i can use them in different ways as i will hopefully prove in the work i submit.

Tuesday 25 November 2008

Friday 21st

Wow what a week feeling very drained as just finished all my work and slightly regretfully handed in my work. i finished the last bit this morning which was a slightly unconvincing poster for my look again thing again project which was by far my most unsuccessful project from the first three but i guess i only have my self to blame but i think you can see in my work i had not quite got back into the work at that point but i think over the next two projects you see a big difference in quality of work and how i got into them more. I do feel i would have like to do more work on them thought if we had more time like experimenting further with my greeting cards and designing new logos and furthering my colour scheme for my animal packaging project.
If feels good though to have handed it in and now have a little time off. Although i do have one last thing to do which is my dream weaver which needs to be handed in on Monday. I want to re-do it though to demonstrate i can use it better than i have done already but i mite not get chance to over the weekend as my sister is coming down on today and going home on Sunday so i will do it hopfully Sunday night and Monday day.

Monday 17th

after a long weekend its looking like its going to be a long week to as its deadline week for our three projects and have got to hand them all in on Friday.
PAL went ok to but i do think we need to have a more structured session so they get the most out of it because it can get a little dragged on and some seem a bit distant.
The rest of the day was spent sketch booking for hand in on friday until five when i had dream weaver but because i was ill last week and a few other people apparently were away we recapped CSS and went over a few other things so we knew what we were doing and had to do due to the hand in being next week.

Friday 14th

This weeks been a pritty long one as it didn't start very as i have been ill for most of it but have still been developing and following through on my ideas.
I chose to go with the polystyrene box and have developed my idea of the box and i feel really confident with this now as over the last week i have developed the package and the graphics of the box to almost complete it. For the first time this year have really got into a project and felt really confident with it.
My final idea is for the the package to be made out of polystyrene due to its durability, strength (takes impact well when droped and protects the product inside) as well as it being water proof and acting as an insulator. The idea is so that the product/watch inside the box has maximum protection and that the box will be able to be used again after being sold the watch in the box. The box will be sold with a outter layer of wetsuite material to add extra waterproof protection and so that it is shown to be water proof and the wetsuite material will also act so that graphics will be able to be put on the box easier than putting them on the polystiren box. The wetsuite will also be fitted with a zip which will also that hold the boxer together better and add more security.
In my final crit i expalined all this and more and it went really well and most people seemed to really like the idea. I got feed back to look at the logo and think about re-designing it as it was the only thing i had not really looked at doing. I would have liked to have gone further witht the logo and liked to look more into the graphics on the box that i had already done so that the buying could have a choice of 3 or 4 patterns on the box for guys and girls. So it would appeal to them so they could re-use the packaging box for personal uses. If this happend i would have succesfully achieved what i set out to do.

Friday 7th

This weeks been rather interesting after we had been given the new brief for the animal packaging project last week, so i've been looking into existing products and packaging for watches. i have come up with a few ideas and sketches for my crit of what i could go with.
i have had my usual problem with coming up with many ideas and not yet quite being able to choose one that i want to follow thorough with completely yet. so hopefully the crit will help me.
After the discussion in the crit and sharing my ideas with my group i has come to my attention that some of my ideas may be to gimmicky, however i do have two that people seemed quite intregued by which was the wooden box inspired by the old wodden dominos box and the other being a polpsyreen box which the watches would be sold in. Over the weekend and next week i will be looking into these to product ideas further and see where i can go with them.

Monday 10 November 2008

Monday 3rd

PAL went really well today, Matt went over blogs again with the last few people that didnt get chance to last week and for the people who were away, while my self and kat went back over a better version of time planning. James floated between the two groups helping out with imput.
later on i had dream weaver and its going really well still ive never done this befor so and really enjoying it.

Monday 3 November 2008

Thursday 30th

New Brief
Today we were given the new brief, which is for Animal. The brief is a packaging brief for animal. it is to create new inventive packaging design keeping within the theme of animal yet trying to bring in a new and wider audience as watches as no longer selling as well as they once were.
To start this project we were split into groups of around 6 and 7 and were told to come up with a few ideas of where we would like to go with this, choose an audience, a theme and maybe a unique selling point.
We began with a group discussion and all started pritty well and we had a really good talk about how we would go at it, but when it came to breaking up and doing some research everyone got a little confused as to what they were doing as there was no communication during the research, which left us to gather last minute extra info to cover up a few gaps but all in all the presentation went alright although a little confused.

Monday 27th

Kept pritty busy today which has been good, started the day off with PAL session which now seem to be going well, me and matt Lewis helped create blogs for most of the group to get them started and James and Kat were doing time plans. The session went pritty well we thought well for mine and Matts end anyway, haha.
In the evening i had my second dream weaver session and its really good im really enjoying it to be honest, ive learnt a lot more than i thouhgt i would have done and am looking forward to the next lesson. weve got a bit of time off thought this week as we didnt get a new brief set and were not until thursday but we dont know what it is yet all we know it that its about packaging so should be interesting to see.

Sunday 2 November 2008

Friday 24th

This weeks been quite good and ive got really into my card designs i do believe i have over experimented tho looking in to do to many different things but once i had decided a genre i still found it fairly hard to develop m style correctly.
After the first crit on Thursday with the group, neil and claire i came out thinking i could easily finish these by tomorrow to meet the hand in. i did have work to show and the feed back i got was fairly straight forward that for a younger audience the music related pictures should be more obvious i.e. guitar, deks, maybe ipod. i should also use look to brighten up the colours so they stand out ad are more eye catching. i also took advice during the day to use vector images for my cards which i made two of but the illustrated cards seem to have a greater impact on people and my group seemed to like them more.
So going into the Friday crit led by sally and claire i felt resonably confident after making the recomended changes from yesterdays crit, making my cards brighter in colour and the illustrated images on them more obvious. Although i do wish to go further with them which i think may have came across in my crit and sally picked up on them and discribed them as unfinshed. i came out of the very confused after reflecting on the two crits in two days.. one crit had told me colour and obvious images would work but after the crit with sally i was told that my original pastal colours would be strong and to use other images. so where do i go from here. Very confused. gona go back to the drawing board and see what i can sculpt out from what i already have.

Thursday 23 October 2008

Monday 19th

To day has been fairly good, started off with our second PAL session which went a lot better than the first one, we broke them down into smaller groups and had discussions over sketch books as they were a little unsure how to begin and what to do in them, so we brought in so examples and went though it with them. next week we have blogs and time planning scheduled in for them.
Later on in the afternoon we had a meeting to discuss the INK BAR project, coming up with names and ideas aswell as ideas for the names pitched to us. I fee; the idea generations went well and i find it could be rather interesting to see what we can do with this project.

Monday 20 October 2008

Week 4 (part 3)

today was really good due to the fact that we were given an other brief how ever this time it was to help create and design solutions for the re branding of the ink room bar in bournemouth. i am really excited about this because it sounds really good and should be quite a good challenge.
we also had another little crit to build on what we had done yesterday, buti t was a very similar out come as the day before, but we were in different groups so did get to see other peoples ideas and work which was good.
For the rest of the day i did manage to get a few illustration draw out which loook fairly good but i still need to keep working on them which i plan to do over the weekend.

weeek 4 (part 2)

so far i have been fairly successful with my development in the search to create a pack of six cards, i have a few ideas on the go at the moment which i am following though with. i already feel much more into this than i did with the look again, think again brief. My ideas at the moment have been developed around music, patters and fashion illustration. we have two weeks to do this brief so i have used this week to experiment and will continue to do so over the weekend and plan on Monday or Tuesday to pick a final set and to follow them through and make them at least 90 percent complete by the crit.
We had a mini crit today which was good and got to see other people ideas and what everyone else has done which was good and got some fairly good feed back on mine. The music theme went down well with most people but i would like to continue and follow up wit the iluustrations for a little while longer for experiemntal perposes, seeing as most things i do are on computers its good to use pen and paper again and draw using various methods for artists such as patick morgan.

week 4

To day was the first PAL session we had done so that was a little bit strange but i really enjoyed it it was good interacting with the first years and getting to know them. it was a little awkward seeing as they had never meet them before and the time seemed to go rather so but this was just the first week so next week should be much better as we didnt really know what they wanted to do this week but we have a much better idea for next week so it should be good.

weeek 3 part 2 (friday)

This week has been fair ok i just need to make some alteration to my look again, think again posters. which i plan to do soon.
We were given a talk and he new brief to day as well for the card project we have to do. we were given a talk by Claire who is a card designer(i.e0 birthday, greetings, Christmas etc). The brief is very open and we can do what ever we like with it, which to be honest it good but at the moment i am lacking a creative thrust and cant quite get back in to it after spending the who summer working on packaging briefs but hopefully i can get flowing again with this project and get back into it.
i spent to day just really trying to look at already exsisting cards so hopefully can develop some ideas for there.

Thursday 9 October 2008

weekly update two

This weeks been fairly successful with the poster look again, think again project, my research was strong however my final piece for my poster was not as strong as I would have liked.
Thursdays crit I found to be very helpful because I got opinions from other people and managed generate new ideas for what they were say to strengthen my work that I did on weather graffiti is an art or a crime, I am trying to demonstrate that graffiti is a form of art rather than a crime or vandalism. The ideas that were generated from the discussion were to simplify my idea because there was to much going on and it seemed to much like a mood board rather than a poster, an idea to simplify the idea was to use a strap line or the one I had already created and produce a stencil which I can then can and use a method of graffiti to express my point on a wall.

Friday 3 October 2008

My First Blog

i have finally got round to creating my first blog and this is it. so for you that are reading this, Hello and welcome.

First entry

We have started a new project called look again, think again. The idea is to sort of advertise or sell a product or an issue to people that had been forgotten about. examples of this is to think of a person possession that means a lot and to show people why it means so much and what makes it so valuable. the issue side of it is to bring up an already existing issue or an issue you feel has been over looked so to bring it to light and try to make people believe in the same thing as you buy advertising it.
i have found it fairly hard to come up with an idea for this to relate to as i can not think of anything that i would consider valuable enough in my life to sell at the moment. So my ideas have been developed around social issues such as, doors of opportunity, luck...if it really does exist or its just possibilities and if you can make people believe that something is lucky. Time and how people never seem to use it to there advantage and always regret never doing or saying something they wish they had and say they never had enough time but in fact they did and that we will always have time.
My new ideas that i have come up with today which are art and graffiti. What makes then so different and why do people believe that graffiti is not an art. My other new idea is to pick up on the small things on life that are forgotten but mean the most to people like manners(please and thank you..ect) the smiles in the street and the hugs and kisses from the people who mean the most to us.
i now have to invesigate into them all and try to find the best possible one i could use for my project.