save less spend more

Today we had to work in groups to design a poster to promote the idea of saving less and spending more.

I think it was a particularly hard task to begin with because the idea generation was very minimal. Once we had done a bit of research, we were then able to pull ideas from the work we discovered. We went off on our own to make some individual posters, and then came back at the end to discuss the best ideas and how we could bring them together to create one piece. I really liked the way two of our ideas came together. 

Quark

Today I came into college on a self directed research day! I made my 3rd illustration which, now completes my series of editorial illustrations. I also imported the picture into quark so my book was then ready for printing.

Aside from that I began my proposal and evaluation which were supposed to be 500 words each. I managed to complete the evaluation but I still have to do the proposal once my book has been checked and I am happy with the layout.

I think that I have had a very productive day, and I guess I'm kind of looking forward to my hand in, because everything is almost complete.

Layout for critique

We were shown how to use Quark the other day by Kit,  she showed us how to make different layouts and how to add pictures and text to a document. We have been briefed to make a book of our journey through our text and image unit so far, so I have been working on pages for Poole and vernacular typography. This picture is part of my pre- lim spreads for my book:

Book Binding

So I have ben pretty busy trying to finish the rest of my project for the hand in next week,

Hannah showed us how to do book binding which was pretty cool, I think my favorite one was the japanese style of binding. Even though it was my favorite, it was the one that took the most effort to create. 

Aside from that, I went round Winton and Bournemouth taking pictures for my vernacular typography project. so I managed to finish my photo-montages. Now all I have left to do is the editorial illustrations and annotations.

Illustrator2

The last week has been looking back at all the projects we have done and seeing how close to finishing each part we are. I think my tutorial with Kit went well and let me see the standard of my working comparison to everyone else's, which was encouraging.

Today I had Pal, where we basically did some stuff on time planning, we were put into groups to help each other decide which, projects had more importance to others. I felt some of the stuff we covered useful, while the other stuff could have been better time managed by doing projects. 

This week we have been taught how to use illustrator, I decided t

o start a side project of creating this sun-seeker boat with just the aid of illustrator. While som

e of it was fun, it was just mostly frustrating I also managed to corrupt the original file, which was a little annoying, but i think I almost concluded it well... (took me ages) 

Illustrator1

I had my first illustrator session today, which was really good, we had to trace round this cartoon and add shading to make it look a little more realistic. It took a bit of time to get used to because I've never done Illustrator before, and I'm used to all these photoshop shortcuts.  Tonight I did a bit of research on YouTube looking for some short tutorials I could watch about the basics of illustrator, I found this video about creating reflections of images which was pretty cool. So as you can see from the picture I have added in a little bit of reflection.

Although it was a bit hard today, I found it really interesting trying to learn about a new program. I am looking forward to next week when we will hopefully do some more on this mac program. 

PPRD

I haven't written a post in a few days. So basically over the weekend I was working on research for my sketchbook, and I did a bit of annotation.

This morning we had our PPRD session, we didn't really do much because it was a bit unorganized. We made a spider diagram highlighting stuff that we find difficult in writing essays, our group got punctuation, grammar and structure.

I got the rest of my letterpress back which looks pretty good, because it is actually in colour this time. Dr. Anna wanted us to find an image that represented racial controversy for our seminar this afternoon and I found this editorial illustration i liked the style of but nothing else i.e. the concept of the idea because it doesn't work with the advert and doesn't get the message across:  

The poster is for a Hanes advert, they specialize in clothing without labels. For this idea the strap line is 'because the world gives you enough labels,' the picture is showing a man lugging behind him the stereotypes of his group. This particular campaign wanted to extract a reaction from the viewer, and thats what I wanted to do when I brought this into class. Is this Racist?