Wednesday 17th March

Today was the visit to Bristol harbour side, we'd been here once before on a trip but that was for a different project. The reason for going to the docks was to collect research and images too help us get started on our final project given to us yesterday. Oli started us off by giving us information about the three man boat companies on the harbour. we then collected any leaflets or took images of the boats and there signal. we then spoke to the driver of the Bristol Ferry boat company, and i took a photo of there jumper as there had there logo printed on it. we also found out Oli designed the logo for this company. then we took a walk down the harbour taking photos of boats and there ways of adverting like signs and broads. This trip helped me get ideas on what my logo needs to have. I found out there are three boat companies, Bristol ferry boat company, Bristol Packet and Number 7 boats. They all have there own signal and there boats are different colours. also with our logo they need to work on both sides of the boats. Now i need to go back and find out more about the harbour and the transport around it.

Tuesday 16th March

Today was our presentation for our last two weeks workshop i was very happy to show my work to the class. In the afternoon we got introduced to our final project, we have to come up with a name from a boat transport company and develop it into a corporate identity which needs to be applied to a A4 letterhead, business card, ferry liveries, signage and staff uniforms they are a must. We can also add it to any other advertisement ways we think will work. For next week we need to think of a few starting names for the company.

Wednesday 3rd March

Todays afternoon lesson with Oli was good, i looked at logo books to get some ideas for my designs. I photo copied the pages and put them into my resoure file so i can go back to them. i then choose two of the names i liked and created spider digram to record my ideas for the names. I then spoke to Oli and he said to choose which one i am going to design a logo for and start by drawing small ideas on paper. I am really enjoying this workshop i really like logo design so this is good for me.

Tuesday 2nd March

Today was the end of our two weeks task on the perfume boxes. We presentation them to the class i then got some feedback on them, like i need to think about pattern as well text. I found this feed back useful as i didn't really no if i had to add lots of colour or pattern. I then went away and completed more designs adding pattern, i also did some on the computer they were allot earlier to do as i could use references from the Internet. In the afternoon we got our third and final two week task to design a logo of one of the names on the sheet and it has to able to look good in colour and black and white. I really like the sound of this task. I now meed to do some research into logos and choose which name I'm going to do the logo for.

Wednesday 24th February

Today i had a group talk at bur Ashton with Sam Thomson. We talked about our research project. This made me a bit late to oli lesson in the afternoon where we continued with our logo and design work. I choose different typefaces for six perfume names and started created my designs. I research different images relating to the names of the perfumes to give me ideas for the box. I also looked at other perfumes boxes.

Tuesday 23rd February

Today we continued with our symbols and logo work. Our second task was to use colour and text to create a good design for a perfume box, i was a bit confused with how it should look and what it should have on it so Malcolm explained it to me and i find it easier to understand. After that talk i started choosing the right typeface that i thought best suited the name. i then choose the right colour and drew them up with marker pens in my layout pad. I liked the look of the text but i think it will look better adding patteren, different shapes and size, so i now need to do some research on things related to the names im using to help me create better designs.

Tuesday 9th February

Today i completed my magazine layout in In Design, i find it very easy to use. I thought it was very good to use for layouts as you can use rulers to create outline on where things go. i am very happy that i have learnet alot of new skills today.

Wednesday 3rd February

Wednesday afternoon we had a lesson with Oli and he showed us how to create a double page spread in In Design for our magazine layout from the last module. He went though step by step how to create two facing pages,he showed us how to use the rulers and how to text wrap an image into the text. We then looked on a web site were we can use a latin text called Lorem Ipsum to fill our text boxes for our layout. I find this lesson really intersting as i've only used In Design once before so i learnet alot of things i dont know i could do on there.

Loren Ipsum
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Aliquam lorem nisl, lacinia non molestie sed, scelerisque vel diam. Nulla facilisi. Vivamus venenatis aliquet consectetur. Cum sociis natoque penatibus et magnis dis parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus. Proin vitae metus quam. Nullam non urna nunc. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Suspendisse eget libero vel odio egestas iaculis ut non orci. Donec sed nisl quis odio malesuada feugiat. Morbi lacinia magna vitae mi consequat vel lobortis risus gravida. Cras ac aliquam neque. Integer non aliquet erat.

Roy Lichtenstein

Tuesday 2nd February

Today we continued with our work for the workshops, to be presented for next Tuesday. We all worked around the table doing marker work or on the Macs creating new designs. We also had one to ones getting feedback one our first module of work. I was happy with my feedback as i didn't get a very good grade percentage. I was disappointed with my final grade but didn't except it to be any higher as i had a few problems in the first semester. I now know i need to do a lot more work and research to supported my designs, i achive a better grade.