Tinned Veg critique

I think I got a lot out of today's critique, I also liked the feedback, as it was a lot more constructive to critiques I have been in before... Going first in the group had it's positives because I think I got a lot more of a class input than I would if I was towards the end. Some points I picked up from the Crit were:

• The logo was too harsh and I should make it smaller.
• The faces I made out of food were to small and I should make them bigger.
• I should keep all the logo's the same colour, instead of having one yellow to keep the continuity.
• When fitting the label on the tin make sure the type doesn't go around the corners.

Dreamweaver 2

We had a recap on our first session which I had already known from the summer. The today's session was much the same, and we just began to touch on CSS and aligning our page layouts to the same sort of thing as other websites.

Even though today's session was much like the last one it gave me chance to revise stuff I already knew and learn bits and pieces I didn't know.

So some terms I learned today...

Advanced tags: A:link= a link

A:visited= been to a link before (when it turns purple)

A:hover= cursor hovering over a link

A:active= What happens when you click

screen prints

Doing a bit of thinking on the style of prints I wanted to do for the event we are going to do for the fund raising, and I found these designs. I liked how simple they were.

A little inspiration

Just been doing some research into cans, and I found this design for cider, which I thought was pretty cool...

Monday session

I thought today's session was going to take the format of the usual Monday session, talk about live briefs, about fund raising and maybe the odd dig at how crap everyone's work is... etc etc.

Instead we started off with our C.V session which I thought we did last year, so I wasn't looking forward to it so much.. but once I started getting into it, I discovered the information was different, and was actually relatively useful, I'm going to list some of the key points at the end. After that we just went through a couple of live briefs, ideas for the end of year show and fund raising... so it wasn't all bad.

What a client looks for...

1. Work experience (most important)
2. Good attitude
3. Degree subject studied
4. Team player
5. mature attitude
6. Reputation of uni
7. Ambitious, Career minded
8. Natural Leadership.

The top point was regarded as what most clients looked for. In the survey 46% of clients said this was most important for industry. The lowest point was leadership, it only had 10% of clients interested.

LinX 2

I hadn't heard from linX in a while so I sent them an email to check what was going on. He looked over the bits I sent him and he's sent them to the printers, even though the proper phone numbers aren't set in stone yet, so it will be interesting to see how that works... hopefully ill hear back once it gets back from the printers!

Interesting discussions...

So a critique usually comprises of why something works/doesn't work so well and a few constructive ways of how to improve on your works...

To be honest I can't see how most of that discussionhelped me to push an idea forward, even though what I showed wasn't a finished product buta concept, I can see why the tutors went about it as they did, but then most of what they said was a bit to far..

For the crit I wanted my work to look professional as if I were going to present it to a client. So that is my reasoning for the layout. Obviously you wouldn't have a character with no teeth on children's food, so it was just trying to provide a better idea of the concept. I can't really present stuff on the spot so I hope I can bounce back and get the relevant help needed.