YEAR 1
SEMESTER 1
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Week 1
To do list for week commencing 26th september
Tuesday- Graphic Design Practice 1: Complete research on London Bridge, have all 10 draft ideas complete beginning to plan for the final 3.
Wednesday- Intro To Typography: Have all research on the 8 typographers complete, and make sure the research on the 4 typographers chosen to base work on are solid and look into their principles behind their work. Begin thumbnails of possible poster ideas or designs to do with certain typographers way of working.
Thursday- Theory: Begin to build a knowledge of graphic designers work and typographic styles and how these come about and their principles behind the work or type in spare time.
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Week 2
To do list for week commencing 3rd october
Tuesday- Graphic Design Practice 1: Test different ways of how I could produce the posters, think about how I could set the type out in the layout, could images be used to explain things ie. hand showing 4 fingers? Look at what artists inspire me, have final 3 mock thumbnails ready to begin to think about producing finals.
Wednesday- Intro. To Typography: Research different types ready for morning brainteasers, try to remember the groups that type is placed into and how they are classified into these. Look into the 4 typographers work and think about which ones the 2 posters will be based on then go deeper into these typographers (possibly look for quotes they have said?) Have thumbnails sketches ready with ideas showing how posters could be set out of designed.
Thursday- Theory: To complete Bauhaus essay ready to be handed in at the start of next lesson, move all lecture notes into a separate book.
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Week 3
To do list for week commencing 10th october
Tuesday- Graphic Design Practice 1: To get the 3 typography posters completed and begin to think about ideas for letters to begin constructing the alphabet we have to make, think of how I can then manage to fit in to complete the posters with also the next part of the project beginning, need to make a plan to control work load and make sure I do not get behind with any of my work, as this will cause problems in the long run.
Wednesday- Intro. To Typography: Make sure the information I have on each designer is correct and strong to design the posters for each one. Stay behind as well to finish the graphic design practice posters I haven’t completed.
Thursday- Theory: Debating a point was the topic of this lesson, and the point I had to debate was ‘The case for and against New Typography/Swiss Design’. We had to work in pairs and each either had for or against and had to debate our points against one another, we then all got together in a large group and spoke about the points we had found out during the lesson. Make sure all this work is clearly in book, for research potential if needed.
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Week 4
To do list for week commencing 17th october
Tuesday- Graphic Design Practice 1: Continue to design different letters for the start of our alphabet for the area, look into how certain letters can be turned into other such as O and G and A and E.
Wednesday- Intro. To Typography: Complete research on each chosen designer, April Greiman and Herbert Bayer and also the designs for poster, try to get to a point where they are beginning to be created on the computer.
Thursday- Theory: This week in groups we had to produce a timeline which indicates the progression and links between the following key movements, Futurism, Vorticism, Expressionism, Dada, Bauhaus, Constructivism, De Stijl, Ect. Get a copy of the photo that was taken of the timeline poster, and stick this into theory book, make sure notes from the research are also in there too.
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Week 5
To do list for week commencing 24th october
Tuesday- Graphic Design Practice 1: Develop letters further with the designs I have started to develop, being to establish what letters can be changed into others, and how certain letters will become other letters, finalise the alphabet and get in drawn up onto graph paper, ready to scan into illustrator to draw around.
Wednesday- Intro. To Typography: To finalise the poster designs on each designer, April Greiman and Herbert Bayer, begin to create each one on to the computer, also look at ways that each poster could be developed and how they can be added to in ways, leave the next 2 lessons to complete these two posters before moving on to the next part of the module.
Thursday- Theory: Continue to research on branding which was looked into in this lesson.
Due to illness, mainly working from home and completing the work on my own personal mac, because of this I was being emailed work and due to the circumstances this may be different from the class plans.
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Week 6
To do list for week commencing 31st october
Tuesday- Graphic Design Practice 1: Scan in the drawn up alphabet and begin to draw around each letter using illustrator, using parts already created for other letters to build up parts of the other letters so that everything is even and all parts of the letters will be exactly the same size. Begin designing spec sheets in which the alphabet can be shown off.
Wednesday- Intro. To Typography: Finish creating both posters, beginning to look at the next part which is creating 2 magazine spreads on another 2 artists.
Thursday- Theory: Begin to look at the essay questions, have a essay title ready for next week and do some research into the title, I will also need to create a small plan of how I am going to lay out the essay, with small headings for each part of the essay.
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Week 7
To do list for week commencing 7th november
Tuesday- Graphic Design Practice 1: Complete the alphabet and begin to create the spec sheets on the computer, try to get both done this lesson as both should only take a short amount of time, then begin to look at the next part of the module which is creating a logo for london bridge, begin looking at people who have created logos, and look at there process in why they chose the parts they did to create it, whilst at home begin to design a logo for london bridge, draw at least 15 alternatives.
Wednesday- Intro. To Typography: Make sure posters are done, look into 2 other designers to create the magazine spreads on, once research is done begin designing each magazine spread, design at least 5 alternatives.
Thursday- Theory: Begin to research about the essay ‘The impact of digital technology on typography, a completely positive development?’, look in books looking closer and looking closer 2.
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Week 8
To do list for week commencing 14th november
Tuesday- Graphic Design Practice 1: Begin to make some of the logo designs I have drawn on the computer using illustrator, trying out a few different combinations of the ones I have designed and also using colour to see whether this adds anything to the logo. Try to get it down to 3 logos to choose from.
Wednesday- Intro. To Typography: Keep designing magazine spreads for the two designers Kurt Schwitters and Anthony Froshaug make sure it keeps inline with how they used to design posters and magazine spreads.
Thursday- Theory: Write up research on paper, to get all the plan ready to put onto the computer, splitting the essay into 6 paragraphs with the first 5 being 300 words each to fill the 1500 word quota. Make sure there is a balance with book research and internet sources.
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Week 9
To do list for week commencing 21st november
Tuesday- Graphic Design Practice 1: In this lesson I will choose the final chosen logo, pick which colour it will be and then begin to design a logo spec sheet, this is a quick process and I am hoping to design and create this during the day, although I will have a few designs ready before so that it is easier to just create on the computer.
Wednesday- Intro. To Typography: Begin to create the magazine spreads on the computer, make sure it is a double page spread, make sure the information I have on each artist which will be placed on each magazine spread is correct and true about each one.
Thursday- Theory: Begin to place the research information and information I have wrote up onto the computer under titles on word processor.
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Week 10
To do list for week commencing 28th november
Tuesday- Graphic Design Practice 1: Make sure logo spec sheet is done and completed begin looking into the next part of the module, advertising for london bridge, I need to look into designers who have created advertising posters which work well, I also need to look at the different types of advertising such as minimalist posters.
Wednesday- Intro. To Typography: Continue creating magazine spreads. Make sure all research is up to date for all designers, and also the research for the posters and mag spreads.
Thursday- Theory: Continue building research for essay, continue writing about each heading I’ve made before placing all together.
Placed a request to the mitigation panel due to a ongoing illness which will either be approved or declined on the 5th of december and will receive the result on 7th december.
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Week 11
To do list for week commencing 5th december
Tuesday- Graphic Design Practice 1: Begin drawing up my own advertising posters for london bridge, do at least 6 mock ups for and against the area, then need to pick 4, 2 for and 2 against, these then need to be created on the computer.
Wednesday- Intro. To Typography: Mitigation panel meet today – Application was approved.
Continue creating the magazine spreads.
Thursday- Theory: Begin to start placing the essay together, start to complete each section off and begin to going them all together. Make sure research and quotes are all stated properly in the bibliography.
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Week 12
To do list for week commencing 12th december
OFFICIAL HAND IN DAY 15TH / MINE HAS BEEN CHANGED TO THE WEEK BEGINNING 9TH JANUARY.
Tuesday- Graphic Design Practice 1: Continue creating the advertising posters.
Wednesday- Intro. To Typography: Continue creating the magazine spreads.
Thursday- Theory: Continue writing the essay.
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Week 13
To do list for week commencing 19th december
Tuesday- Graphic Design Practice 1: Continue creating the advertising posters.
Wednesday- Intro. To Typography: Continue creating the magazine spreads.
Thursday- Theory: Continue writing the essay.
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Week 14
To do list for week commencing 26th december
Tuesday- Graphic Design Practice 1: Continue creating the advertising posters.
Wednesday- Intro. To Typography: Continue creating the magazine spreads.
Thursday- Theory: Continue writing the essay.
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Week 15
To do list for week commencing 2nd january
Tuesday- Graphic Design Practice 1: Finish off all the advertising posters, make sure that all the other posters are correct and finished before printing.
Wednesday- Intro. To Typography: Finish off the magazine spreads that I have been finishing off, make sure all information is all correct, and then check the 2 posters I’ve created aswell to make sure everything is correct before printing off.
Thursday- Theory: Continue writing the essay.
Everything was wrapped up printed and handed in before the start of the new semester apart from the essay which has continued into the new year due to health issues.
SEMESTER 2
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Currently not in college due to ongoing health issues which are causing me to complete work from home.
Due to not being in lessons I haven’t kept by the week by week diary as I was completing the work at my own pace due to illness and being in and out of hospital on many occasions. Although all work was completed and handed in on time within the mitigation time that was given by the board.
FILED FOR MITIGATION BOARD MEETING ON THE 11/06/2012
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YEAR 2
SEMSTER 1
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Week 1
To do list for week commencing 24th september
Tuesday – Graphic Design Practice 3 / Professional Practice: GDP3/Complete research into aztec print and chinese buddhist art (more indepth) Begin changing simple sketches into finalised design points which can then be worked on more to be then scanned into the computer to edit via photoshop and illustrator. PP/Come up with atleast 4 different promotion ways, work more on logo (needs updating) too plain? Think more creatively, don’t put myself into a box?!
Wednesday – Theory: Make sure all work that was ask of in previous lesson is complete and ready to move on for the next lecture.
Thursday – Graphic Design Practice 3 / Professional Practice: Continue on work that I have set out for the week. Make sure blog is updated and sketchbook is fully annotated.
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Week 2
To do list for week commencing 1st october
Tuesday – Graphic Design Practice 3 / Professional Practice: GDP3/ Look into updating the buddha head shape and maybe creating a simple more contemporary buddha that will be a universal shape. Make sure book is fully annotated and up to date. PP/ Make sure book is fully annotated. Develop logo more, think about how the stop motion can be used within the self promotion project.
Wednesday – Theory: Complete tasks from lecture and make sure all notes and tasks are complete and done before next lecture.
Thursday – Graphic Design Practice 3 / Professional Practice: Continue on work that I have set out for the week. Make sure blog is updated and sketchbook is fully annotated.
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Week 3
To do list for week commencing 8th october
Tuesday – Graphic Design Practice 3 / Professional Practice: GDP3/ Finish completing work on the buddha heads and work on the hair styles for each individual head, look into modern hairstyles that would be classed as stylish and contemporary, hairstyles that are slightly different from the norm. PP/ Look into different companies and also look into designs and ideas for CV? Think outside the box what could make me stand out from the crowd.
Wednesday – Theory: Complete tasks from lecture and make sure all notes and tasks are complete and done before next lecture.
Thursday – Graphic Design Practice 3 / Professional Practice: Continue on work that I have set out for the week. Make sure blog is updated and sketchbook is fully annotated.
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Week 4
To do list for week commencing 15th october
Tuesday – Graphic Design Practice 3 / Professional Practice: GDP3/ Look into drawing up the designs so they are able to be scanned into the computer and to be worked on in illustrator. Start deciding on final font that I will be using for the text that is going to be added to the t-shirts. Looking into quotes that were spoken by the Buddha himself. PP/ Being deciding on ideas for business cards and CV.. styles that could be used.. use of colour/ font etc?
Wednesday – Theory: Complete tasks from lecture and make sure all notes and tasks are complete and done before next lecture.
Thursday – Graphic Design Practice 3 / Professional Practice: Continue on work that I have set out for the week. Make sure blog is updated and sketchbook is fully annotated.
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Week 5
To do list for week commencing 22nd october
Tuesday – Graphic Design Practice 3 / Professional Practice: GDP3/ Scan in typography that I have drawn up to be able to compile with the drawings of the buddha heads with hair. Make sure all work is done in illustrator so that I can edit lines and edges on parts if needs be. PP/ Begin to compile business cards together. Deciding on layout on the computer.
Wednesday – Theory:Begin to look at essay titles and making a decision on what essay we will end up picking. I have decided to chose ‘The pros and cons of digital technology in relation to illustration’ I went to the library and managed to get 4 books to begin getting the notes ready to write the main body of the essay.
Thursday – Graphic Design Practice 3 / Professional Practice: Continue on work that I have set out for the week. Make sure blog is updated and sketchbook is fully annotated.
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Week 6
To do list for week commencing 29th october
Tuesday – Graphic Design Practice 3 / Professional Practice: GDP3/ Begin to decide on a brand name and a label to accompany the t-shirts, as the t-shirts needed a swing tag I felt that giving them a brand name would give them a more professional look and feel. PP/ Finish up business cards ready to work on CV in the following weeks.
Wednesday – Theory: I sat down with nick and wrote a 5 point plan for the essay so that I could begin putting the information I was getting from books and websites into paragraphs, which could then all be connected together .
Thursday – Graphic Design Practice 3 / Professional Practice: Continue on work that I have set out for the week. Make sure blog is updated and sketchbook is fully annotated.
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Week 7
To do list for week commencing 5th november
Tuesday – Graphic Design Practice 3 / Professional Practice: GDP3/ I had decided on the brand name ‘AMRAK’ which is karma backwards as I felt it worked well with the message of the Buddha and also the way of life that they trusted in. I have started to design the shape of my swing tags ready to begin making them the following week. PP/ Have begun to look at lots of different graphic design CV’s to get ideas for the type of CV i’d like to create as it has to be something unique and creative to catch the person who is viewing it’s eye.
Wednesday – Theory: Spent the day collecting information for each paragraph that I had decided on for the essay.
Thursday – Graphic Design Practice 3 / Professional Practice: Continue on work that I have set out for the week. Make sure blog is updated and sketchbook is fully annotated.
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Week 8
To do list for week commencing 12th november
Tuesday – Graphic Design Practice 3 / Professional Practice: GDP3/ I’ve decided that I am going to acetone the t-shirt logo on to a brown card for my swing tags and use a thick string to tie them onto the t-shirts. I also want to individually number each shirt on the label as each one is unique where I have screen printed them. PP/ Begun to get a rough design of how I would like my CV to look and what style I want it in.
Wednesday – Theory: Began to put the information I had collected for each paragraph into constructed sentences. Completed the introduction and 4th paragraph, and was continuing to write the rest ready to hand in a 2000 word draft following week.
Thursday – Graphic Design Practice 3 / Professional Practice: Continue on work that I have set out for the week. Make sure blog is updated and sketchbook is fully annotated.
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Week 9
To do list for week commencing 19th november
Tuesday – Graphic Design Practice 3 / Professional Practice: Missed the lesson today due to fainting at the weekend, so spent the day at home working on my professional practice work trying to get my cv figured out and set out how I would like it to look, i’m looking into different typography styles because I want to use a mixture of different typefaces on my cv that I am going to draw myself as I want to , i’ve also spent the day working on my essay getting it to the 2000 word draft we need to have completed for tomorrow.
Wednesday – Theory: Hand in draft and await any corrections that are needed.
Thursday – Graphic Design Practice 3 / Professional Practice: Continue on work that I have set out for the week. Make sure blog is updated and sketchbook is fully annotated.
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Week 10
To do list for week commencing 26th november
Tuesday – Graphic Design Practice 3 / Professional Practice: GDP3/ Begin to screen print the designs onto t-shirts whilst doing this begin to plan photo shoot so that I can compile a look book for the Amrak t-shirts. PP/ Continue finishing CV.
Wednesday – Theory: Change any corrections that have been stated on the 2000 word draft and make sure that the final 500 words are typed up and a draft is handed in to be corrected so that the essay will be finalised for the following week ready to smarten up for hand in day.
Thursday – Graphic Design Practice 3 / Professional Practice: Continue on work that I have set out for the week. Make sure blog is updated and sketchbook is fully annotated.
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Week 11
To do list for week commencing 3rd december
Tuesday – Graphic Design Practice 3 / Professional Practice: GDP3/ Continue planning photo shoot ready & printing t-shirts ready for photo shoot in christmas break, also being planning look book. PP/ Annotate sketchbook fully and continue working on CV & make sure business cards match CV.
Wednesday – Theory: Double check that the essay is updated with corrections and make sure that any corrections stated are clearly changed so that it is ready to hand in the following week.
Thursday – Graphic Design Practice 3 / Professional Practice: Continue on work that I have set out for the week. Make sure blog is updated and sketchbook is fully annotated.
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Week 12
To do list for week commencing 10th december
Tuesday – Graphic Design Practice 3 / Professional Practice: GDP3/ Continue planning look book ready to put photo when photo shoot has taken place during the christmas break. PP/ Finish CV and make sure sketchbook is up to date and everything is annotated correctly.
Wednesday – Theory: Hand in essay with lecture notes. Make sure essay is 12p arial, double spaced, has correct title and layout and that the bibliography is done correctly.
Thursday – Graphic Design Practice 3 / Professional Practice: Continue on work that I have set out for the week. Make sure blog is updated and sketchbook is fully annotated.
SEMSTER 2
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Week 1
To do list for week commencing 14th january
Tuesday : This week was an introductory week and we only had to attend one tutorial this week as we aren’t on full timetable till the following week. We had a website tutorial session with Neil in the morning in which we had a talk about coding, HTML based websites and also how to write our own coding within Dreamweaver. He also explained to us how we can use photoshop to create a website, as in Photoshop you are able to create something using just design talents and Photoshop programme will save the project as a HTML based file which you are then able to save and open in a web browser. After this I then had a meeting with Dave in which we spoke about the D&AD competition and how I would expand on my ideas that I had come up with from my 2 chosen briefs which were Oakley cycling and Batiste dry shampoo. During conversation it was felt that my Oakley ideas were stronger and this is the brief that I should pursue. I had two main ideas of pieces of clothing that could be created either socks or a snood as I had spoke to a few avid cyclists and they had spoke about how they have issues with their buff/snood on wet or cold days as the buff/snood is not made of a material that they are able to breath through and this causes their glasses to fog and steam up. I need to look into other brands such as Nike/Adidas/Umbro/Puma/Diadora/Canterbury/Samurai/Kukri. Check positioning of logo on products, see where the best place is to have the Oakley logo? Are they bold? Are they in your face? Take photos of a person wearing a plain snood & Photoshop the Oakley logo into position to get and idea of what it would look like as a finished item. SAFTEY ISSUES? WASHABILITY FACTORS? COLOUR?…. Need to look into all these points.
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Week 2
To do list for week commencing 21th january
Tuesday – Graphic Design Practice 3 / Professional Practice:
Wednesday – Theory: Todays morning lecture was about environmental and sustainable design in which we discussed the issues that come up when creating a piece of work as the industry is now becoming to be in a environmentally friendly mind set. We then got set a task to greenwash a previous product that is about that isn’t environmentally friendly and make it seem as if it is with the use of packaging and promotion that gives of that image. For the second part of the day we then spoke about consumerism and commodities. To do at home, Make sure tasks are complete and printed out & make sure all notes are finished and finalised if I need to refer to them for the essay module.
Due to ill health continuing and causing issues with me traveling around my projects were continued from and this is why there is no clear blog entries as I was completing work at my own set pace and there was no clear order to completing it, the work was handed in early september and all passed which I was extremely pleased with due to the situation I was in.
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YEAR 3
SEMSTER 1
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Week 1
To do list for week commencing 16th september
Tuesday – Graphic Design Research Module 4: Started my research module with the idea of information design with my main theme to do with traveling, although, this idea then developed when I begun looking into the two themes. This then lead me looking into pictogram and pictographs and how these have developed and the history behind them.
Wednesday – Thesis: Spoke about how hard we will need to work to complete and develop our own individual thesis’s and how this will be a important part of our marking scheme and also to show our own development and growth into third year, proving how we can develop with our essay writing and research skills. Also spoke on how each thesis will need to be of a minimum of 5000 words with the maximum being 6100 and this will be excluding referencing and quotes.
Thursday – Graphic Design Research Module 4: Continued researching into pictograms and pictographs which has then lead looking into hierogliphics, chinese and oriental languages and also in Olympic pictograms and how these and understood worldwide.
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Week 2
To do list for week commencing 23rd september
Tuesday – Graphic Design Research Module 4: As the research was developing the theme of pictograms took over and I then decided that with keeping with the information design theme I wanted to create my own set of pictograms but with many of the pictograms used for travel very well know, understood and used daily I felt that it would be too difficult to change these and decided to channel the pictogram idea into a different theme. After much deliberation and decisions I decided to use fairy tales, as I felt this was a theme that everyone comes across in their lives, and I decided that it would be a good theme to use for pictograms as they are basic, clear small images that would be good for children as they are easy to recognise and understand.
Wednesday – Thesis: Although knowing this is coming soon I have been focusing most of my attention on to the GDRM4 module as I feel this is more important at the moment. Although during lesson I have been looking into the type of route I want to go down.
Thursday – Graphic Design Research Module 4: Once I had the theme of fairy tales I decided to create a small questionnaire to find out what peoples knowledge on them was and if so what was there top 5 favourite fairy tales? most memorable? and their top 5 favourite characters? This gave a basic starting point on what fairytales I should look into and which others needed to be more noticable. Although whilst I was establishing this information I was still building more research on pictograms and pictographs and these originated, I also look into how pictograms are used in daily life and if so where are they used and how are they used.
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Week 3
To do list for week commencing 30th september
Tuesday – Graphic Design Research Module 4: I begun indepth research into fairy tales and begun looking into how they first came about and who was their creator, this also lead into looking how all fairy tales have a dark side and many have been created from dark beginnings. This showed that although many are pretty and have happy endings, the brothers grimm have a very different view on this. I also looked into how these could be turned into pictograms and how this will help people will understand better. This followed into me looking in the educational side and how creating the pictograms would be potentially something that will help aid children’s reading.
Wednesday – Thesis: Due to getting into my GDRM4 project I continued my research module on this day aswell, considering how far it had developed and grown.
Thursday – Graphic Design Research Module 4: Developing into the educational side of how these pictograms will benefit children who will not necessarily pick up a book and read, I looked into how picture based images aid this and how creating them will also become an educational factor.
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Week 4
To do list for week commencing 7th October
Tuesday – Graphic Design Research Module 4: Beginning the final weeks I decided to make sure that all the research I needed was there and made sure that I had looked into all paths that I could of, I also made sure that I had developed each part throughly!
Wednesday – Thesis: Begun to concentrate on this module by looking into the lists of title choices and also thinking about creating my own personal one.
Thursday – Graphic Design Research Module 4: Considering the next two weeks would be leading up to the presentation I decided to begin to make sure that my books were at a stage that would need small touching up of annotating and slight sticking in pages at stages.
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Week 5
To do list for week commencing 14th October
Tuesday – Graphic Design Research Module 4: Beginning the final week of the GDRM4 module I begun to wrap up my book work and make sure that any loose ends in it were tided up. I then made sure that all annotation was completed and that my books were at a point where I would be able to hand them in so that my main focus would be on my presentation stage and how I would form a piece for this.
Wednesday – Thesis: Look into list of titles for thesis, although decided that I wanted to keep the thesis in connection with my design project and chose to keep the theme to do with Information design.
Thursday – Graphic Design Research Module 4: When beginning to plan out how I wanted my final presentation to look and decided to create a book explaining how I was going to undertake the project I have decided to do and how this would turn into a piece of design work. I wanted to book to be layed out in a very simple and clear way that would be easy to understand and not hard to work out what the main idea and plan was.
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Week 6
To do list for week commencing 21st October
Tuesday – Graphic Design Research Module 4: Once I had the plan I begun to design my book on indesign using a blurb layout, so that I would be able to have the book made into a hardback copy to accompany my final design work when we have our end of year show. This will be my main concentration for the rest of the week to get the layout correct and to also have a chat with Dave on thursday to talk about how the font is laid out and if he felt any parts should be moved or rearranged.
Wednesday – Thesis: After deciding to keep the thesis with the same theme as the design module I chose information design and after playing around with a few titles I came up with the question, Information Design: Do Pictures Speak Louder Than Words? as I felt this is something that is in connection with the design work and is also something that is prominent in the world today, due to the development of technology and the bombardment of pictures and images in our lives in the form of newspapers and magazines.
Thursday – Graphic Design Research Module 4: Continue to work on my presentation book ready to have checked over the following week, to change any mistakes ready to print for the final presentation.
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Week 7
HAND IN WEEK 31st OCTOBER
To do list for week commencing 28th October
Tuesday – Graphic Design Research Module 4: Completing small mistakes in the book i’ve created for my hand so that it is ready to be able to print the PDF version of it.
Wednesday – Thesis: Left thesis work alone this week to concentrate on the hand in of GDRM4, went into college to print off the book and hand it printed correctly and stapled ready to hand around the group when giving my presentation.
Thursday – Graphic Design Research Module 4: PRESENTATION DAY! I feel that my presentation went well and I explained the project structure and what I was aiming to achieve clearly and I feel this was executed well as no one had any questions or queries they needed to ask which I felt was more of a positive than a negative.
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Week 8
To do list for week commencing 4th November
GDRM4 is complete. Thesis to complete by 12th December.
Thesis: Currently feel that I have a lot of information to begin my thesis and that the plan I have set out is going to help me begin to form the starts of each paragraph and also help me to gain more information I may not have to add to it.
Plan
Intro
1. What is word? (Jacques Derrida, More Than Words, Left To Right, Visible Signs)
2. Different between languages in other cultures. (TRCP Article)
3. What is picture? (Jacques Derrida, Left To Right, Visible Signs, This Means This- This Means That, When History Meets Theory – Ellen Lupton)
4.Recognition & Retention (The Power of Visual Communication Article)
5. Pictorial Language Where They Have Failed/Succeeded? (Jean Paul Van Bendegem Article, Paul Martin Lester Article, Reading Isotype – Ellen Lupton)
6. What can image give you that words don’t/what can words give you that image don’t? (Visual Literacy ‘What You See Is What You Get’ – Lynell Burmark)
7. Case for symbols in contemporary western culture? (Look into multiculturalism)
Conclusion
Thursday – Meeting with Tony 3.30 for thesis talk: Spoke through this plan with Tony and he seemed pleased with the plan, and spoke about whether the multiculturalism is something which could become the main aspect of the thesis and also then be added into the overall title. He spoke about possibly starting the thesis by saying how London was stated to be the one city with the most speaking languages, then lead into isotope and how he had hoped to create a language that would be understood by everyone. He also said to look into olympic symbols and how these are a global events that many different countries attend yet still everyone understand what each event is and what each symbol means.
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Week 10
To do list for week commencing 18th November
Tuesday – Thesis: Begun to research into the subtitles I had planned out to begin to build small paragraphs that I would then be able to form my thesis. This will then give me a basis that I can then gather quotes and information on specific headings instead of just overall information that will then become confusing and gather things I don’t need to know.
Wednesday – Thesis: Continue this week collecting and forming paragraphs on the selected headings for the rest of the week, begin to write out individual paragraphs for them. Continue this till the week commencing 25th November.
Thursday – Thesis: Continue this week collecting and forming paragraphs on the selected headings for the rest of the week, begin to write out individual paragraphs for them. Continue this till the week commencing 25th November. I then sent this to get read over, ready to correct any errors the following week.
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Week 11
To do list for week commencing 25th November
Tuesday – Thesis: Wrote my introduction for my thesis as after the meeting it got me thinking about multiculturalism and how this is a main point that I could use throughout the essay and is something that will form meaning behind my question. I decided to start the essay talking about the multiculturalism that is prominent in Britain and how this is something that has lead people to look for a universal language, as it is something that people feel will unite the world, these were such individuals as Otto Neurath.
Wednesday – Thesis: Continued the week placing together the paragraphs I had previously wrote for each subheading and made sure that all the information that I had wrote and all the quotes used linked together and worked well in the order I had previously planned out.
Thursday – Thesis: After playing around with the layout and rewording the beginning of some paragraphs it begun to come together, leaving a paragraph and conclusion to complete ready to get printed up and binded in the following week. I then sent this to get read over, ready to correct any errors the following week.
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Week 12
To do list for week commencing 2nd December
Tuesday – Thesis: As I felt the last paragraph lacked some detailed information, on how people looked for and why that looked for a universal language, I researched into this heading more to gain a clearer understanding for the person who will read the thesis. Once this was done, I then added the additional information that I had collated, this then aided me to begin my conclusion, once completed I then sent this over to get read for any corrections needed. The rest of my week would then consist of correcting any errors and then sending in one more draft before printing the following week.
Wednesday – Thesis: Collected draft and edited any corrections needed.
Thursday – Thesis: Collected draft and edited any corrections needed.
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Week 13
To do list for week commencing 9th December
Tuesday – Thesis: Placed thesis through turnitin, percentage was initially quiet high, but after working on it the final percentage ended up at 5% which was fine for my hand it. Finished any final edits that needed to be completed to be able to get printed and binded the following day.
Wednesday – Thesis: Today is purely dedicated to printing & binding the thesis, ready to hand in after 5pm thursday, 11am on friday or before 2pm on monday.
Thursday – Thesis: Thesis completed and handed in.
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Week 14
To do list for week commencing 16th December
MONDAY 16TH DECEMBER FINALHAND IN- BEFORE 2pm!!!!!
SEMSTER 2
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Week 1
To do list for week commencing 13th January
Tuesday – GDPM4/GDRM5: Over the holidays I had spent time analysing each fairytale and how each of them were made up and what components it is that make up each fairytale. This meant finding out all the characters, props and also scenery that was used for each tale. This then gave me a basis that I was able to work on to begin sketching out ideas for each of my pictograms. As I have begun looking into them I have noticed that many of them have well known hair-dos and items that they wear that means each character is instantly know as to whom they are. This is a concept that I could use when adapting the pictograms for the final project.
Thursday – GDPM4/GDRM5: I have begun to look at other illustrators and designers that use fairytales in their work and how these have been portrayed in different styles. This then gave me a sense of what people like and how people grasp the characters from fairytales. Although for my images personally they shall be purely based on the pictogram form and the bodies will have no major features other than hair and accessories.
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Week 2
To do list for week commencing 20th January
Tuesday – GDPM4/GDRM5: Continued to work out body shapes and forms of how I could begin to design and build my characters, as I want them to stay as pictogram form and basic as possible but yet have the character to fit in to each tale without looking stiff boring and bland, this is why I started to look into different ways they could stand, the way their arms are positioned, this all creates a bit of character and personality to something which could be potentially quiet boring.
Thursday – GDPM4/GDRM5: Begun to work on the exhibition work and we all started to brain storm ideas that are relevant to the business design centre and also the surrounding area, whilst also involving us as a class and by the end of the day the main concepts that were chosen were the post office, CMD, periodic table and also harvesting and agriculture. These were then split across the groups we were already split into to work on, develop and to bring back next thursday to then make a decision on the chosen concept.
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Week 3
To do list for week commencing 27th January
Tuesday – GDPM4/GDRM5: As I had started creating body form I started to add colour and hair and things to them which then ended up becoming the group of princess’s and with these completed this then gave me the start to begin working on the rest, all of the characters have evolved and been created through the design of another character and this is a concept I wanted that they was all interchangeable and could be taken apart and made into another part for the story quickly and this is something that worked very well. I also needed to begin working on using these characters within environmental scenery and whether this worked or they got lost, and if so could changing opacity help this situation.
Thursday – GDPM4/GDRM5: Once all back together, each concept and the chosen concept was the post office, again we were then set upon the task of coming up with a name and logo that revolved around this concept and how this would also work with us as a class. Also to look into things we could do and use and design for our exhibition that then involved the post office.
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Week 4
To do list for week commencing 3rd February
Tuesday – GDPM4/GDRM5: Continue working on building characters, scenery and props.
Thursday – GDPM4/GDRM5:
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Week 5
To do list for week commencing 10th February
Tuesday – GDPM4/GDRM5: Continue working on building characters, scenery and props.
Thursday – GDPM4/GDRM5:
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Week 6
To do list for week commencing 17th February
Tuesday – GDPM4/GDRM5: Complete all the characters and scenery and props ready to begin constructing the flow chart posters, need to look at ways to make them flow onto the page properly and also for them to be in way that the reader will find interesting to read.
Thursday – GDPM4/GDRM5: Deciding the name and starter logo for the exhibition, the chose name was first class designers with a logo to match although many people in the class were unsure whether this made us sound too full of ourselves and there us a possibility it will change to 1st class 2014.
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Week 7
To do list for week commencing 24th February
Tuesday – GDPM4/GDRM5: I spent the day looking into flow charts and researching different versions of how they can be formed and created as this will be the general layout to form the stories that will explain what happens in each fairy tale. In the afternoon we spent time to choose a identity for the exhibition space, we each got given 3 post it notes each colour meaning a number to point score and choose the best logos designed and also the general concept for the idea. They descended 3,2,1.. this then gave everyone a chance to have a fair decision when choosing a finalised logo.
Thursday – GDPM4/GDRM5: Spent the morning making sure that my book was annotated and up to date ready for an afternoon meeting with Tony to talk over my concept so far and how it is shaping to become a piece of design work. Points to now work upon, that come up from this meeting are;
1. Work towards the development of your definitive treatment.
2. Consider the potential attention of environmental elements and how these may support/interact with the characters.
3. Fully clarify the contact of different narratives and if they are to remain in the traditional setting/ or become more contemporary.
4. Consider how a book might be structured and subdivided. i.e coloured sections and page dividers between sections. Might be an introductory key.
ATTEMPT TO CLARIFY ALL THIS BY NEXT THURSDAY!!!
After this meeting we then had a group meeting to talk about the identity we are going to choose for the overall exhibition at new designers, we decided upon the post office with the theme of first class designers, as this was the general agreement in the room. We then begun to brain storm ideas that develop from the word post office and how we can use these for ideas for the exhibition. As the business design centre was turned into a post office after the one down the road got bombed in the 1940’s this then brought into context such ideas as wartime posts and the idea of rationing, how this can all be incorporated into the exhibition.
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Week 8
To do list for week commencing 3rd March
Tuesday – GDPM4/GDRM5: I was absent from class due to a hospital appointment but was filled in by people were in on what went on during the lesson and kept me up to date with the details of the meetings for the group exhibition work.
Wednesday – GDRM5 Print Company Meeting: Today we are going to the print company to have a look at idea and designs for the brochures and catalogues that will be handed out on the exhibitions. This will then give us a rough idea of how much we will need to spend all together and how this will be broken down per person.
POINTS FROM MEETING:
*Perfect Binding
– Done in multiples of 4/2 page inserts
– Professional Looking
– Clean & Neat
– Would look nice with a textured cover
*Square Format
– More cost effective
– Get more pages when printing as apposed to A4/A5
– Sits well in your hands / Not too big to carry
*Paper Choices
– Coated Silk/Gloss – Better for making images more prominent and punchier
– Uncoated – Images look flatter and softer
*Spot UV
– Silk paper is need for this process for the ink to sit on does not work with uncoated paper will soak through
– Will cost more/ Not cost effective
*Foil
– Affordable process for out front cover of our catalogues, as it isn’t overly expensive
– Lots of colour choices to pick from
– Can be done onto uncoated paper, again more cost effective
– Will work out cheaper yet still has a professional and classy look to it
*Bolt Binding
– Needs to be done manually
– Gives you the chance to add and remove pages / i.e sticker pages and tear out pages can be added to this
– Gives you the chance to personalise them and be able to add to pages for special gifts for people
– This option of binding gives options for choice and change
*Debossing
– Embossing the front cover without a foil
– Could mean the foil added on top could get damaged and scratched off as the image is raised as its pushed from underneath
*Perforated lines
– Not cost effective
– Would be easier to do the whole book instead of individual pages and would not work for what we want
*Book Bind
– Can be printed onto or foiled
– Gives an extra added part to the catalogues
*Pocket in book
– This is a possible option and would make it easier for people to collect business cards ect and place them in the back
*GFSmith
– Paper company
– Textured papers for the front cover of the catalogue /look into these
*Schedule
– Make sure there is a schedule laid out of when all the decisions will be made and how we will get the design parts created
– This then takes away pressure and rushing
*MAKE A DECISION BY MAY!!!*
Thursday – GDPM4/GDRM5: The points from this print team meeting were then taken back and shared with the rest of the group on the thursday lesson, everybody took in the information and felt that there was lots of choices that we could decided upon in terms of what everybody wanted individually and also as a group. This also then allowed us to begin the design of the logo for the 1st class designers exhibition for new designers in which the catalogues would be used at.
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Week 9
To do list for week commencing 10th March
Tuesday – GDPM4/GDRM5: Begun the first flow chart poster after working out a design concept on how to have them laid out onto the page, although it took a while as I was going along as I kept having to move, change and rearrange parts to fit within the next part of the story so I need to be patient when working with the rest, snow white is now complete just 15 more to complete.
Thursday – GDPM4/GDRM5: Finalising designs for the logo for our new designers exhibition and getting a final name so that the web team which I am part of could begin to get up and running on the web with a website and also social media sites. I am in charge of the twitter account, which has been made and I have been making sure that I have been updating it every few days in the lead up to our exhibition.
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Week 10
To do list for week commencing 17th March
Tuesday – GDPM4/GDRM5: Continuing with the flow chart posters now that I have got the idea going they are starting to flow more easily when I am creating them on illustrator and are not taking as long as I had expected, I’ve also realised that I didn’t take all scenery into account and have been having to make extra parts as I have been going along to help fit with parts of each fairy tale.
Thursday – GDPM4/GDRM5: Now that the name has been decided and final logo chosen it is time to start designing the front cover of the catalogue, and also choosing colours for the overall catalogue and also logo, as these will be the colours that will then run throughout the entire exhibition within our post office theme. The colour choices atm are black/red, cream/red, grey/red, or black/red & spot and then this alternative then with the other colours aswell, so this is another decision that needs to be taken to the group.
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Week 11
To do list for week commencing 24th March
Tuesday – GDPM4/GDRM5: Begun constructing the book layout ready for my fairy tale flow chart posters to be put into, this way I can just place the 16 posters into place when they are all complete. Make sure in the book I add a contents and also page numbers so the book is ready for printing an official copy with blurb. Also continuing with designing the fairy tale flow chart posters.
Thursday – GDPM4/GDRM5: Continuing with the GDPM4 work currently as it is getting nearer to the deadline date.
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Week 12
To do list for week commencing 31st March
Tuesday – GDPM4/GDRM5: Begun to design a poster purely to state who each character is and so people can be introduced to each one before they have a chance to look at the book. I decided it would be nice to put them onto one sheet and have it longer than usual, I felt this would be the best way for everybody to be able to meet each one.
Thursday – GDPM4/GDRM5: Continued to work on designed the flow chart posters and also the character posters, also continued the layout of the book in indeisgn ready to begin adding the completed flow chart posters into.
EASTER HOLIDAYS
Spent the 2 weeks of the easter holidays creating the rest of the flow charts that were left and then once they were completed placing them into the book layout I had already created in indesign. My character poster is already designed and created and all spelling errors have been changed, this is ready to print first thing on the monday back along with the 16 character posters. I have also made sure that everything I have been doing has also been stuck straight into my book so that I do not fall behind on any annotating and it is all up to date for the hand in on wednesday and I do not run out of time trying to complete small things that don’t matter.
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Week 15
HAND IN 30th WEDNESDAY!!!!!!!
To do list for week commencing 28th April
Tuesday – HAND IN!!!!!!: Went in early to print my 16 flow chart posters and also my 6ft character poster, spent the rest of the day adding page numbers to my book so it was ready to print and also annotating sketchbooks.
Wednesday- HAND IN!!!: Printed book first thing which then needed to be stapled together, spent the rest of the time up until hand in annotating my sketch books ready to hand in. Handed in on time, all completed.
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Week 16
To do list for week commencing 5th May
Tuesday – GDRM5: Due to struggling from my fainting I have been working at home and have been in contact with my groups from home and helping out where I can and also making sure that the twitter has been updated daily with work and head shots for the build up to both exhibitions.
Thursday – GDRM5: Due to struggling from my fainting I have been working at home and have been in contact with my groups from home and helping out where I can and also making sure that the twitter has been updated daily with work and head shots for the build up to both exhibitions.
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Week 17
To do list for week commencing 12th May
Tuesday – GDRM5: Due to struggling from my fainting I have been working at home and have been in contact with my groups from home and helping out where I can and also making sure that the twitter has been updated daily with work and head shots for the build up to both exhibitions.
Thursday – GDRM5: Due to struggling from my fainting I have been working at home and have been in contact with my groups from home and helping out where I can and also making sure that the twitter has been updated daily with work and head shots for the build up to both exhibitions.
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Week 18
To do list for week commencing 19th May
Tuesday – GDRM5: Due to struggling from my fainting I have been working at home and have been in contact with my groups from home and helping out where I can and also making sure that the twitter has been updated daily with work and head shots for the build up to both exhibitions.
Thursday – GDRM5: Due to struggling from my fainting I have been working at home and have been in contact with my groups from home and helping out where I can and also making sure that the twitter has been updated daily with work and head shots for the build up to both exhibitions.
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Week 19
To do list for week commencing 26th May
Tuesday – GDRM5:
Thursday – GDRM5:
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