woodwork and metal induction

In woodwork we cut a 250 X 200mm piece of wood and were allowed to draw a object onto it to cut out. So after seeing abis beautiful dinosaur top i decided to do my own.

After a long dinner we then vaccum formed the object. I did it green then I just painted them now. I think they look quite good on top of my notice board!

Leeds lights

I went to see the lights get turned on last night...mcfly and shane ward were really good...not sure they were worth the hour and a half wait though! the fireworks definitly made up for it though.

Concepts

My campaign that I am supporting is BullyingUK by making people make BullyingUK your search engine and  yahoo will donate money every time you browse.

I now have to think of concepts to do with this:
- your money makes a difference.
-there are more consequences to bullying than you first thought.
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Ideas.

someone...I don't know who has stolen my bacon :(

16.11.2010 typography

We were told in the first image to make the audience read it starting with the word one, then two, then three and then four. This was looking at typography in the sense of serifs?weight?size?case? and how your choice effects what the reader sees.

The second image was that we had to make the word four the biggest and the word one the smallest but the word one has to be the first thing the audience reads. This one was really difficult to do.I think when you look at this on a full screen does give the effect of seeing the word one first, but I feel the word three stands out more than the two.

This workshop has really really made me think about the use of type and has also made me think about stepping back and asking other people about your work.

Running in Leeds

Reportage: Leeds

Right on Track

 A Guide to Running in Leeds

This is my final book, which I binded last Monday. I have done the dust jacket I just need to print it off. Overall I am very pleased with how the book has turned out. I feel it incorporated everything I wanted it too...which was the vital information about the runs you can do in Leeds, a strength of mine which is illustration, and the opportunity to try something new...or a few things in the case of this book (InDesign & Book Binding). However I still feel there are some typography issues with the book and the layout of the book is some what not right on the pages. But for a first go at a book of this size I am genuinly pleased with it.

Lynne Chapman

Lynne Chapman is a children's illustrator. Although I am not really a fan of her children's illustrations as to be honest they scare me a bit! I found her sketches she has done whilst going about her daily life quite interesting. The images themselves are very simple, but I think that is what makes them interesting. The text which accompanies the drawing really brings it to life and gives a modern, quirky feel to the rough sketch. I also admire her bravery...as strange as that sounds looking at this drawing. but I never dare draw in public. I feel that people are always judging me and that I am going to get told off for doing it!

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james hunter 

I was browsing the internet on different peoples blogs and I came upon a blog by James Hunter. I really liked his work. It varied alot. In particular the mini model above. I love how detailed it is...but i like 

 Harriet Alice

My friend is at Northumbria uni doing graphics...I was just looking through his work on facebook when i came across this! I ABSOLUTLY love it!!!! its soo good...it looks really acturate too!

One of my other friends...who is also at Northumbria...but second year now did this in his first year. I find it really interesting...and when I looked at it a year ago I couldnt understand howit could be so accurate...but looking at it now I can see that it isnt that acurate, as the serifs on the bottom left are too big.

These illustrations were done by a boy on my foundation course. I loved his style of work. It is so simple, yet powerful at the same time!

Design for audiences

How would you make the world a better place?

this is what we were asked today. Of course we came up with lots of things to do with the government, global warming (which I don't believe in), economy and pandas.ha.
One thing that really stood out for me was manners. After working in the swimming baths for 3 years I have come to realise that people just aren't as nice I have always thoughtt....and its getting worse...children are SO cheeky!!! they have no respect!! when I was little there is no way I would have dared answer back to an adult! or just completely ignore what they say. 
But its not jut children...the adults are sometimes worse! I tell them not to throw their child across the swimming pool...as it is quite dangerous...they look at me asif Im stupid and continue to sling their child from one part of the pool to the next.

So for me...manners are something that needs to be changed...the whole attitude of being nice to each other...is it really that hard?

For the brief we have to take something a group/organisation that already exists and act on it. So if the group wants to raise money...I have to try it out for myself. Because it is easy enough for us to jut sit here and say donate money....but when it comes to actually doing it...do you have what it takes to actually give away your own money.

This is why I am thinking about the phrase 'manners cost nothing'...this is my starting point.

Im going to start researching... 

i decided to research:
-the smile high club-basically gets people to smile more
-Depression campaigns-making people more aware of depression
-bullying campaigns-making people more aware of bullying.


From these I have decided to choose bullying as I feel the campaign is so easy to do (all you have to do is make them your search engine and yahoo will donate money every time you browse). I also feel quite strongly for the campaign as I have experienced it more than once. so yeh...my campaign is about bullying!

I had my first crit on this project with Graham today. It seemed to go quite well! he liked the content...just my layout was a bit terrible as I had too much information on each line etc. So I now know what I need to do for next week. I need to start asking people about the effects of bullying they have had, then thinking of 3 concepts, asking my target audience their views on my concepts then coming up with three ideas using one of the concepts.

Book projectt....

I managed to get all of my pages done for the crit!!! I knew that when I got to the crit there would be alot I needed to change as by just looking at it I knew something wasn't right.
From the crit I found out that I had been trying to put TOO much on one page...trying to fit it all on with no thought for what the reader needs to see first. I also found out that when I am producing something that visually communicates something you need to prioritise...make sure you know what is the first thing people should read or look at. A way of doing this is making say images bigger (if they are what you want people to see first) or smaller (if its not as much as a priority).
I simplified my pages right down so that the information is easy to read. I also used a guide on my layout so everything read well.
Although I still feel there is something wrong with my running pages...but I just don't know what...I am going to leave it as for my first go on indesign and making a book...I am pleased!

On monday we did book binding. It wasn't too difficult to actually do but there were alot of steps...I am glad I took notes, because I don't think I would be able to remember how to do it without. The trickyestt part was gluing the pages to the book...but it worked. I am really pleased with how professional it looks! it looks like a proper book. In the future I will definitly consider book binding again. It was fun to do.