tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30395595877312977692023-11-16T04:06:37.225-08:00laura fosterLaura Fosterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12166620009164384009noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039559587731297769.post-45893873612821524232009-10-28T09:17:00.000-07:002009-10-28T09:36:37.447-07:00Laser Cutting Induction<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;">Today we were given a quick lesson on the basics of laser cutting. I found I couldn't stop watching the little laser go! It cut out the shape of a scalpel and emboss the letters onto the shape .. I am looking forward to using it in the future!</span></span><div> </div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;">But anyways this induction reminded me of the work of Rob Ryan ... </span></span></div><div> </div><div> </div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlmFph5wk1_Vr2z4xokdFI1zfLPji2amnYUi55DLakR1uOnNmQtbOAtnYNfuKf_z0lKKpkWi4ScyFiWjPaI2T2-_qqH2sMbBnv3hBfkOetBpkKgV-rdoDvHkAwJlnc01cq1LubjMXNMh0/s1600-h/can-we-shall-we-lasercut.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 236px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlmFph5wk1_Vr2z4xokdFI1zfLPji2amnYUi55DLakR1uOnNmQtbOAtnYNfuKf_z0lKKpkWi4ScyFiWjPaI2T2-_qqH2sMbBnv3hBfkOetBpkKgV-rdoDvHkAwJlnc01cq1LubjMXNMh0/s320/can-we-shall-we-lasercut.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5397687906850207090" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;">I really love his work, while the cuts look really nice it's more of what they say that I like. The messages are always warming and inspiring and make me smile.</span></span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiG4t7UZ7hhVSUM84Rw2SGwRCUdVi1woO3OGqyKXtROjJWM9ly6UdPh1X2lYIYq83t4MaE_JFgv8Lqv3PJRKHTjse6Tp_zsxvfGTiRYFakHZY14asRg_GEnf90_TfQNxujSdf-U7xQspow/s1600-h/Ellescan.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 238px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiG4t7UZ7hhVSUM84Rw2SGwRCUdVi1woO3OGqyKXtROjJWM9ly6UdPh1X2lYIYq83t4MaE_JFgv8Lqv3PJRKHTjse6Tp_zsxvfGTiRYFakHZY14asRg_GEnf90_TfQNxujSdf-U7xQspow/s320/Ellescan.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5397688088719670530" /></a><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;">I went to go on his website but it's under construction, however, this was on the splash page and I always find that when you see something like this it makes you feel better .. could be to do with the bright colours or just the message itself ... but it made me realise that not everything is so bad.</span></span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5v0fuiwTqV_u7B0ZXCfbXBVm-NgNiUdiu3R6iLExwsWeBXNmCoJzcbEdpIGxYfWwvLibI63EoQ-7Ey9Xn2IC9jkB6H3oGFQGmnNGY9nHGTrgsDt3jSdCEh5uBzNmRy6CcK3rr0XNUdJs/s1600-h/Picture+1.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 192px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5v0fuiwTqV_u7B0ZXCfbXBVm-NgNiUdiu3R6iLExwsWeBXNmCoJzcbEdpIGxYfWwvLibI63EoQ-7Ey9Xn2IC9jkB6H3oGFQGmnNGY9nHGTrgsDt3jSdCEh5uBzNmRy6CcK3rr0XNUdJs/s320/Picture+1.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5397688293262951042" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;">see ... www.misterrob.co.uk (when it's back)</span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;">blog: rob-ryan.blogspot.com</span></span></div>Laura Fosterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12166620009164384009noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039559587731297769.post-90623098276397149612009-10-27T08:04:00.000-07:002009-10-27T08:11:26.786-07:00D&AD<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;">Start of a new brief today! After looking and looking through the briefs it came down to two... The Body Shop ... or Quaker Oats.</span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;">I've decided to run with the Quaker Oats brief which is to create packaging for Quaker's 'Chilled Creamy Oats'. I had my first tutorial today and some good tips I was given from my tutor was to try with visual experiments with key words from the brief such as cold and hot and sweetness .. and how to convey these words? So from now I plan to experiment and see how I can show these words and hopefully that will be a good starting point for this brief.</span></span></div>Laura Fosterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12166620009164384009noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039559587731297769.post-41768069720967212492009-10-27T07:47:00.000-07:002009-10-27T08:00:38.271-07:00<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;">Last Wednesday I with my group went to visit another elderly people's home and as we got there were told no you cancelled... which we knew nothing about but apparantly we did. So we thought about our previous visits and looked into the conversations we'd had to realise a problem from that.</span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;">After talking to Albert, we discovered that people now in homes can't take part in hobbies they enjoy because the homes can't facilitate that so though conversation we had a problem to solve ... how can people in homes take part in their hobbies?</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;">This was what we worked on for the rest of the week after we had an idea to design a service where elderly people could register with an organisation for hobbies or interests they had and if they wanted to take part they could book in for a day out doing their hobby at a place such as a community hall. </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;">We created the idea of their being a card which held all their details and their fingerprint and the authorities were able to stay in contact with this person while they were out and track them to their location.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;">For our pin-up crit we presented the card design, how this works with the fingerprint and a website where people's key workers could book them in for the sessions.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;">A suggestion made in the crit was that there could be a better way for keeping track which I agreed with, such as a small chip that could be within the card which could be used as a tracker and will show the very location the person is. </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;">This is something that could be considered and carried forward with developing the project, however I felt the crit went well and I could definitely feel the benefits of this brief and writing our own one and gathering the relevant information to proceed with our subject. It was a hard one but worked out well in the end.</span></span></div>Laura Fosterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12166620009164384009noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039559587731297769.post-26029102483831208902009-10-21T05:07:00.001-07:002009-10-21T05:19:08.252-07:00<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;">Since last Tuesday (13/10/09) following the pin-up crit for the 'True' brief, I have been working with 2 other colleagues on a brief of which we had to write ourselves. The idea is to design a system/service for a target audience that solves a problem we have found in the environment. So we began by going out into the environment to find problems that we could potentially solve. We visited the hospital/libraries/town/shopping centres in order to observe and try and find problems. We then took all these ideas into uni on Friday 16th October to work on and to narrow down to just one idea we would develop. </span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;">Friday proved to be a really difficult day as our idea we decided to go with had such a broad audience and we had to narrow this down too. Eventually we had our brief .. which was a tough task to complete as no assumptions could be made. </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;">Our brief is to design a system/service where elderly people within a rest home can take back ownership and have their freedom and to take part in hobbies and interests.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;">Since Friday we have visited some homes to have a general chat with some residents to find out what they like, what they used to like and just to find out a bit about them, where then we can take a significant piece of information and to work on it. </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;">Today we have one more home to visit to a home to hopefully give us any last minute important information before we finalise a service/system design.</span></span></div>Laura Fosterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12166620009164384009noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039559587731297769.post-43163931059968540212009-10-20T10:30:00.001-07:002009-10-20T12:54:57.550-07:00Graphic Design 3rd year!<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">So a new year on a new course ... and it's time for me to knuckle down! ... not just on work .. on my blog!</span></span><div> </div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The course began with being introduced to a short brief called 'True' as part of our specialist practice unit, so the idea for this brief was to take a statement or proposition and to show that it was true or to at least convince it was and to get evidence to show it. The good thing about this was that it could be something really simple but I needed to be creative about it. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Whilst looking for inspiration I came across this piece of work...</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 226px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhF2-wN52kHic6fVDcI0Vina0YahrHq9ggXcw_NJmi1pnfhTuGI1xOMziY4l3JVUwiZqe22mjwB_HE7zWPYr-GqWtLHuXyOSwjLZoT8_lQbBiBUI39IzdgTAXWLJiznuYnD1Cfmisls5Nc/s320/107.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394756556109390514" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(30, 30, 30); line-height: 20px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">(by Andrew Dyjak: </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(30, 30, 30); line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/05/12/sexy-bold-and-experimental-typography)</span></span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(30, 30, 30); line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> I found that with this piece of work I could understand what it said which reminded me about not using vowels in text messages and how words could still be read. I thought this would be a good idea forward but I found that getting a statement which should be true but without its vowels proved difficult. For example ... "You can read a sentence without its vowels" .. would read </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">"Y cn rd sntnc wtht ts vwls"</span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> .. to me that just looked like nonsense and that statement wasn't true for everything. </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span><div> </div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">This lead me on to thinking about words that are misspelt and to try and prove that misspelt words could be read as long as the first and last letters are in the correct place. I did a few examples handwritten and on word and asked people to read them for me and this proved to be a successful idea. </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></div><div> </div><div> </div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Next I had to think about how I could present my statement.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I thought about why you can read the words misspelt and who gets spelling of words wrong or mixed up... this lead me to children.<br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></div><div> </div><div> </div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I thought that presenting it in a child's play way could be a route to go down. I had my statement and I was ready to explore with different objects to show my statement was true. I researched into buying children's building blocks but found that this was going to be expensive as there were only so many letter blocks to a pack and I had a lot of characters in my statement. I next thought about magnets as they were already on my house's fridge so I tried a few ideas with them... </span></span></div><div> </div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div></div></div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /><br /></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFcH7OCMGagUEOhW-AfePqXz68921zLnHGx-yMfI5qErLKsdMINx9k4wtk3W9M4RNC1O4zMWDkR7QV9SKnF_piH1EXSm_TwCgawkmMP_n2_Q9Bz3gy9RWifRIHukvfS7LWnvFUKPl3N6s/s1600-h/11015875.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFcH7OCMGagUEOhW-AfePqXz68921zLnHGx-yMfI5qErLKsdMINx9k4wtk3W9M4RNC1O4zMWDkR7QV9SKnF_piH1EXSm_TwCgawkmMP_n2_Q9Bz3gy9RWifRIHukvfS7LWnvFUKPl3N6s/s320/11015875.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394767533710683090" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /><br /></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsCrEiyqsLvNlR0_0U4z_9tmDk3oFnbGpJ_-sFta5WjDx3cEBG_qR6vvSBAyfv8FrkLmG7o-j27em8vcEB9q9y56R_cfxqNZyla91ib3o-MASwSXWQq3xshq4ExAQXDFtw4GKIn3aqXwc/s1600-h/11015867.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsCrEiyqsLvNlR0_0U4z_9tmDk3oFnbGpJ_-sFta5WjDx3cEBG_qR6vvSBAyfv8FrkLmG7o-j27em8vcEB9q9y56R_cfxqNZyla91ib3o-MASwSXWQq3xshq4ExAQXDFtw4GKIn3aqXwc/s320/11015867.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394765854528323650" /></a><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /><br /><br /></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuipRUm-IV7fVYWOduoD4GnEk1b8JvKPAREwmLivSzrdU0eBv6d7VeJThbdLmjMPyMhKALIUXQ9pTEVwFyxzb47Uqtbr-wa5A3B52OOL7-n6nshF6uRVn7SI79ZR-V979fcFc6e-JywJA/s1600-h/11015878.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuipRUm-IV7fVYWOduoD4GnEk1b8JvKPAREwmLivSzrdU0eBv6d7VeJThbdLmjMPyMhKALIUXQ9pTEVwFyxzb47Uqtbr-wa5A3B52OOL7-n6nshF6uRVn7SI79ZR-V979fcFc6e-JywJA/s320/11015878.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394767898803426450" /></a></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I went on the concept of being muddled up as some quick ideas to try but thought that one word wasn't enough to show my statement and that it was true, so I took my statement of which I already had and thought I would try and spell it out.. however as you can see from the third image it's only half a sentence as I ran out of certain letters. I didn't think that this idea would work as I had to use upper and lower case letters and didn't want my idea to be confusing.</span></span></div><div> </div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I took a trip to WHSmiths and was lucky enough to come across some adhesive blocks which looked similar to scrabble pieces and had to buy them to experiment with them. I didn't want to throw my idea of magnets away, as I liked the interaction with them. I decided that I would incorporate the blocks with magnets, buy a metal tray and I could then show that my piece of work could be played with and the letters could be moved around. This was my final piece...</span></span></div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /><br /></span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiA8D4bKOL99RUFpCGPrlCZq8W8BRajGCJsHzzRRnRbcYZPCeET0qnPVEOudnxnhHM5zUr6Oovs2BZFf_dzJc9D7gRlUfVe5kGlxi_TmAx9V40uFat_lSnWJpplsPAQmJO5KCNI181RJVk/s1600-h/11015883.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiA8D4bKOL99RUFpCGPrlCZq8W8BRajGCJsHzzRRnRbcYZPCeET0qnPVEOudnxnhHM5zUr6Oovs2BZFf_dzJc9D7gRlUfVe5kGlxi_TmAx9V40uFat_lSnWJpplsPAQmJO5KCNI181RJVk/s320/11015883.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394771956471920930" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /><br /></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-z8COMhDztS_vdsmJrV0RVIU4PmPtYnLDQN38RWStY6Q9LSqwV_sxufCL5COZ31tZrRmJSZRNGuBhUQPILkvV2HPm-Oi6i3TygIJSJ0i2nzRd1PNofVVsZVqK5w_rqpZLyWdwvbZqyhY/s1600-h/11015898.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-z8COMhDztS_vdsmJrV0RVIU4PmPtYnLDQN38RWStY6Q9LSqwV_sxufCL5COZ31tZrRmJSZRNGuBhUQPILkvV2HPm-Oi6i3TygIJSJ0i2nzRd1PNofVVsZVqK5w_rqpZLyWdwvbZqyhY/s320/11015898.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394772277483874866" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">So I have summarised my first small brief within the unit .. and promise to be more regular with updates from now on. </span></span>Laura Fosterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12166620009164384009noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039559587731297769.post-35504520146650087142008-11-07T08:26:00.000-08:002009-01-08T06:35:13.334-08:00This afternoon I had a small presentation on my ideas and some suggestions were made which I will take into account. Because my target audience is for 10-16 year olds the box needs to be exciting and have some level of interactivity to it so I will take these comments away and include them into my design as at the minute my designs are quite focused around the Animal logo.Laura Fosterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12166620009164384009noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039559587731297769.post-22663347761321798132008-11-03T06:28:00.000-08:002009-01-08T06:30:48.940-08:00I've been looking at other box designs for watches to get an idea about what's on the market and how to approach my design. My main aim this week is to get some sketches/mock ups of nets and some graphics to help me with developing my box.Laura Fosterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12166620009164384009noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039559587731297769.post-25442837301589672772008-10-30T06:23:00.000-07:002009-01-08T06:28:27.993-08:00Our task for today was to work within a group to get together a target audience and ideas for a for a watch box design for Animal. The group together put a good presentation on and it was good to get a lot of research done so quickly to give a clear path to head down for designing the box. Overall our presentation went well and I felt I had quite a bit to work with. Laura Fosterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12166620009164384009noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039559587731297769.post-19878549311403571712008-10-16T02:07:00.000-07:002008-10-16T02:08:41.273-07:00a post ... voi laLaura Fosterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12166620009164384009noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039559587731297769.post-40904390495804197982008-10-13T06:20:00.000-07:002009-01-08T06:22:28.982-08:00I've mainly been looking out for things I like and inspiration. I've made my decision to aim my greeting cards at a younger target audience and so i'm going to carry on researching what a card for a younger person entails.Laura Fosterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12166620009164384009noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039559587731297769.post-9533199178861844862008-10-10T06:17:00.000-07:002009-01-08T06:20:51.864-08:00Today we were given a guest lecture and more details were given regarding the second part of the unit. We were told about the process of getting jobs and how to show potential employers your work. I also learnt a bit about greeting cards and how a business that the guest speaker Claire worked for ... worked. it was really interesting to find out little things about greeting cards and so it spurred me on to research card designs, colours and textures and to get a feel of the project and to look forward to working on it.Laura Fosterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12166620009164384009noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039559587731297769.post-18492791367558907942008-10-09T06:10:00.000-07:002009-01-08T06:17:31.314-08:00This morning I worked on final touches to my poster and took advice from a peer to try my poster with a different strap line. I also relocated elements in my poster such as the recycle symbol and made some other small adjustments. I wanted to see what it would look like with both strap lines, but I think for the presentation I should have chosen my original poster to present.<div>Comments made in the crit were as follows:</div><div><ul><li>The graphics could be made a bit bigger.</li><li>A 3rd element could be added to explain a bit about the poster in general.</li><li>Proposed strap line: "don't drown in waste" or change back to the original line.</li></ul><div>I will take these into account and make these adjustments to improve my poster so that it connects with the audience.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div></div>Laura Fosterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12166620009164384009noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039559587731297769.post-78039781067013092172008-10-08T06:06:00.000-07:002009-01-08T06:09:55.000-08:00Today I focused on developing my idea and decided to develop it based on my research. I wanted to take an illustrative route and worked around the line 'don't let your money go to waste'. I took stock images and edited them and also used Stencil for my font and used a spray tool to edit it in photoshop to make it more like spray painted text. Eventually I was aiming for a spray painted look in my work.Laura Fosterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12166620009164384009noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039559587731297769.post-3464551193794303732008-10-06T06:49:00.000-07:002009-01-08T06:23:26.172-08:00When i first started working on ideas for this task, I originally wanted to illustrate the poster, however being more into graphic design, I may take stock images and manipulate them to give the effect I want and also use type within a line that will tie in with my image that will make you think again once you look at it. Laura Fosterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12166620009164384009noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039559587731297769.post-53100470285561393132008-10-03T05:59:00.000-07:002009-01-08T06:02:37.599-08:00Yesterday in class we discussed our ideas in small groups and after talking with others I decided to develop my idea more towards the tax/money spent on waste and the effects in the future. I mainly worked on rough ideas today taking inspiration from an illustrator Jay Taylor and Blek La Rat.Laura Fosterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12166620009164384009noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039559587731297769.post-45194551484676168952008-10-02T05:24:00.000-07:002009-01-08T05:41:23.783-08:00Year2<div>In today's session we were introduced to our new unit titled Visual Communication in Context 2. I mainly focused on the first task (the unit is made up of 4 tasks) which was to create an A3 poster on either a social issue or an object of sentimental value and to convince the audience to "Look again. Think again." Once we were briefed, I looked for inspiration from other designers that focused their work on social issues and decided to focus on the social issue of recycling.</div>Laura Fosterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12166620009164384009noreply@blogger.com0