Monday, 20th february

John's seminar was cancelled, so just worked with the photograph setups I had taken last night. Due to my experimental knowledge of SLR cameras, most of the shots were immediately discarded. Some of them were useful enough to make some quick poster layouts for them. After altering these photographs, I experimented with text placement and image composition.

Week Three Summary

Monday 13^th February

Talk from Richard, then did a more accurate version of collage mock up. Looked up some design ideas online.

Tuesday 14^th February

External examiner looked at work and gave general feedback. Printed off some more research.

Wednesday 15th February

Finished mockup of collage idea and found some designers who make collages out of everyday items.

Thursday 16th February

Met with John and showed him my collage mockup, he was very positive and helped me with ideas for further set up ideas.

Friday 17th February

Started blog again properly, added fancy new 1950s style header.

Saturday 18th February

Nine hour shift as usual, did very little, but read more on ISO and white balance settings on my camera.

Sunday 19th February

Did first proper desk, stationery collage photography setups. Experimented with light and camera settings.

Week Two Summary

Monday 06^th February

Met up as a group for first seminar. Mentioned which briefs I had chosen and initial ideas.

Tuesday 07^th February

Began researching different advertising campaigns for newspapers

Wednesday 08^th February

After hours of searching, finally managed to…acquire…the required Stag typeface. Also met with Alex to get his ideas on the brief.

Thursday 09^th February

Individual meeting with John where we discussed my ideas for the project and media. Presented all work so far. Met with Alex again to discuss typographic detailing.

Friday 10^th February

Sat on D Floor due to studio being occupied for interviews. Began creating rough mockups of collage idea for project.

Saturday 11^th February

At work all day, too tired for anything productive.

Sunday 12^th February.

Practiced with camera settings and quick shots of close ups on items.

Week One Summary

Monday 30^th January

First day back. There was an introduction talk outlining the semester including the grading and the dates. Shortly afterwards, we spoke to our tutors briefly and found out our marks. 45, 38 and 60. Quite disappointing, but am aiming to do much better in this semester.

Tuesday 31^st January

Arranged a meeting with Christine to discuss my disappointing marks and to get some advice. It helped me feel a bit better about everything. Started looking at all the briefs and made a long list of all 43.

Wednesday 01^st February

Went in and narrowed list down to 10 briefs that I might be interested in, started weekly planner.

Thursday 02^nd February

Met up with John to discuss marks in greater detail and decide which briefs to do. Helped to choose the final 2 that I will actually work on. Bought first issue of the i.

Friday 03^rd February

Talk from John about ISTD projects of the past. Was useful and helped me realise that typographic projects were not for me, due to my shortcomings in the area. Stayed in the library reading creative review and finding details about The Independent. Bought second issue of The i.

Saturday 04^th February

Randomly given day off work. Watched Super 8 to help with illustration project.

Sunday 05^th February

Watched Drive for illustration project. Sketched out some ideas for projects and mind mapped brand values.

Final Year: Final Semester: The Beginning of the End

Ok, so here is my first post in quite a long time. I didn't continue this blog throughout the end of second year, or the beginning of final year, but have resurrected it to help act as a better log for my work on a daily basis. So far, final year has been quite challenging and the first semester was a struggle for me, to say the least.

However, this final semester involves choosing your own projects, working on them at your own pace and is largely an independent one. As I write this, I am just finishing my third week, but I have been keeping a brief log of my daily work back at home. I had a few problems with Blogger again, during my revamp of this blog's design and layout, but I'm finally ready to continue this. Soon, I will post two entries detailing my first three weeks, then after those, each day will be a more in depth description of my work.