The Covers
Tuesday, 8 April 2008
Sunday, 23 March 2008
Last year, I was offered a week's work experience at Notion Studio in Digbeth, an associate of BCU.
One of my tasks was to animate some pre-made characters in Flash for use in their Media Talent Bank website. I got an email today to say it has finally gone live...
Someone else designed the characters, I just made them move!
One of my tasks was to animate some pre-made characters in Flash for use in their Media Talent Bank website. I got an email today to say it has finally gone live...
Someone else designed the characters, I just made them move!
Thursday, 21 February 2008
New Modules
I still need to re-organize my Science Fiction Book Cover boards and send them off to the D&AD competition. I also need to pick up my grades and speak to the tutor about what to do about entering the competition. Deadline is 20 March.
Got a 2:1 for life drawing, a 2:1 for creative writing, and probably a 2:1 for something else I can't remember. But lots of grades I haven't picked up yet.
I've got a part time job on a Wednesday afternoon, supposedly teaching young people who need an alternative education and are studying music, how to use design software. I think I have bored them so far. Now i have 2 part time jobs.
I've done a business name and logo design for my mum's Training/Life Coaching business and am building a website. Might have to leave that to one side for a while.
Modules for the next 12 weeks:
Narrative Sequence. (Illustration)
Mostly based on Children's Books, but I will be doing an adult graphic novel probably. Need a plot and a concept.
Have to have a few double page spreads ready. Popped into waterstones to see what graphic novels are selling. Some of them have some narrative text as well as speech and images which is reassuring.
Creating a Visual Identity. (Graphic Design)
We are in groups and have to form political parties, and later we will be doing branding and identity individually. Somehow my group has come up with British Identity. Compiled a few web pages to look at concerning this, multiculturalism etc, along with the meaning of the british flag etc.
THS
I have chosen 'Representations of sexuality in perfume/toiletries ads' for my presentation.
Notes:
Sexuality according to Wikipedia: 'How people experience and express themselves as sexual beings'.
Books to look at: Foucault, feminist literature. Mythologies.
Stuff to do: Tape perfume/toiletry ads and record my personal reactions. Semiotic analysis - binary opposites. Framing devices, devices to make the ad seem natural or like a 'window onto reality'. Role of the spectator in inserting meaning. Social context and values of suggested reality. Dominant ideology of culture.
Tutor's suggestions: spectrum of gender: homosexuality through to aggressive heterosexuality/female sexuality. Age spectrum.
Individualism and sexuality.
Values.
Target audience - often very specialist for perfume ads.
Youtube: spoof perfume ads?
'intertextuality' - advertising referencing other related texts
(e.g. women underwater with hair floating everywhere??)
Hidden persuasion.
Feminist viewpoints.
Got a 2:1 for life drawing, a 2:1 for creative writing, and probably a 2:1 for something else I can't remember. But lots of grades I haven't picked up yet.
I've got a part time job on a Wednesday afternoon, supposedly teaching young people who need an alternative education and are studying music, how to use design software. I think I have bored them so far. Now i have 2 part time jobs.
I've done a business name and logo design for my mum's Training/Life Coaching business and am building a website. Might have to leave that to one side for a while.
Modules for the next 12 weeks:
Narrative Sequence. (Illustration)
Mostly based on Children's Books, but I will be doing an adult graphic novel probably. Need a plot and a concept.
Have to have a few double page spreads ready. Popped into waterstones to see what graphic novels are selling. Some of them have some narrative text as well as speech and images which is reassuring.
Creating a Visual Identity. (Graphic Design)
We are in groups and have to form political parties, and later we will be doing branding and identity individually. Somehow my group has come up with British Identity. Compiled a few web pages to look at concerning this, multiculturalism etc, along with the meaning of the british flag etc.
THS
I have chosen 'Representations of sexuality in perfume/toiletries ads' for my presentation.
Notes:
Sexuality according to Wikipedia: 'How people experience and express themselves as sexual beings'.
Books to look at: Foucault, feminist literature. Mythologies.
Stuff to do: Tape perfume/toiletry ads and record my personal reactions. Semiotic analysis - binary opposites. Framing devices, devices to make the ad seem natural or like a 'window onto reality'. Role of the spectator in inserting meaning. Social context and values of suggested reality. Dominant ideology of culture.
Tutor's suggestions: spectrum of gender: homosexuality through to aggressive heterosexuality/female sexuality. Age spectrum.
Individualism and sexuality.
Values.
Target audience - often very specialist for perfume ads.
Youtube: spoof perfume ads?
'intertextuality' - advertising referencing other related texts
(e.g. women underwater with hair floating everywhere??)
Hidden persuasion.
Feminist viewpoints.
Sunday, 10 February 2008
Tuesday, 22 January 2008
Orion Book DANDAD brief
Foil blocking & stretched out format = shelf appeal
My idea works because I have compressed key ideas and themes from each novel into a symbol which must be decoded. This coupled with the sleek black and white colour scheme, stretched out format and minimal use of foil blocking provides shelf appeal to a wide audience.
My idea works because I have compressed key ideas and themes from each novel into a symbol which must be decoded. This coupled with the sleek black and white colour scheme, stretched out format and minimal use of foil blocking provides shelf appeal to a wide audience.
Monday, 14 January 2008
To Do - January 14th
Gra-Fix
Mock up navigation bar ideas - keep simple to leave room for group theme/logo/colour scheme. Structural ideas for website: flowchart
Create example of scrolling newsfeed
Create example of a gra-fix forum with various topics & interactive elements
Gather material for & mock up 2 'design advice' pages in Illustrator/InDesign
Build example of gallery? Research Flickr, look for ways users can upload examples
Design optional animated elements for website
Email ideas to group for clarification
Mock up navigation bar ideas - keep simple to leave room for group theme/logo/colour scheme. Structural ideas for website: flowchart
Create example of scrolling newsfeed
Create example of a gra-fix forum with various topics & interactive elements
Gather material for & mock up 2 'design advice' pages in Illustrator/InDesign
Build example of gallery? Research Flickr, look for ways users can upload examples
Design optional animated elements for website
Email ideas to group for clarification
grafix notes
Drop-down/popout menus in HTML - Layers. Menu present on every page on the left, does not change whilst browsing site- subheadings displayed for each section
Scrolling newsfeed on homepage - provides movement, saves space. flash component with link to alternative HTML version (opening in new window) Can make this link to an easily editable text file rather than going through flash - easily update news
How can users upload images to a gallery automatically?
Grafix logo acts as 'home' button
Forum - image uploading here?
Gallery - start with images by the group. Flickr?
Use Flickr?
Link to users' Flickr accounts & display examples
Flickr group?
Redesign site competition - submit mock-up or zipped folder with HTML (email)
black&white - can't go wrong, classic, contrasting, attractive
Use headline
Have plenty of webspace at www.sarahaccident.com. Can link for free through http://grafix.cjb.net or purchase a .com or .co.uk domain for about a tenner
Anchor tags link to other components
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