Smile!

 So yet again another blog update to do when ive left the blog alone for too long.. Well pretty chilled few weeks for the work in some cases, but the recent brief turned out quite good. 'What if?' was the title and we had to devise a problem from the previous research in the brief (research from a theme devised from 100 photographs taken) in a nut shell. Our problem in my group (Martyn Woolley, Sophie Robinson, Rebecca Liggins and myself) was that leeds isnt happy enough from all the research we did.

From this, and the questionnaires formed we tried to solve the problem directly from the answers 'what makes you smile?' answers included smiling from other people, comedy and other related answers. the solution was really only based around photographs I took with art direction.. they came out quite good. Check emmm-

look alright don't they? Going for more of a natural smile than something that may look forced.. and I think we did it well.

Super update.. or 'supdate' if you will..

Well.. time for a super update on the ol' blog. I have to admit my attempts recently have been a little thin on the ground, but not to worry, by the end of this post I should have pretty much everything up to date. Ok firstly Visual thinking the new rota'd time in on tuesday afternoon.. At first I thought it would be just time taken away from the rest of the course but its actually quite a good afternoon to work with paper in a raw form, something I haven't really worked with in the past. So, heres the pictures.. We had to visualise different words and phrases within paper shapes and a fixed amount of colours.

'Bright bounce'

'Simple bear'

'Harsh Penguin'

'Tall'

(From L-R) 'Line', 'squash', 'comfortable', 'lost', 'snap', 'dance'

NEXT. Plastic recycling is booming in the UK. quite an interesting brief to form three high impact posters based around the quote from the news paper.. from the work we had done the monday to do with combining image and type, it worked well as a basis for ideas to be produced.. There was limitations with the outcomes which i'll moan about in a minute, grr. Anyway, ideas -

Lots of little ideas on a5 sheets to be a basis of the posters.

 Open, closed questions. Fact and opinions

Symbols created.

Selection of development for the posters.

NOW. We weren't allowed to use black and white in our designs which is fair enough.. but the annoying thing is I actually havent, but still caught up on it. The bags are blue, the text was green and the 'maths' poster the stock was allowed according to Amber but then turns out not to be. Not impressed. Although, that aside, probably my favourite pieces so far on the course. It was good to think that these were created with illustrator, a program I would usually be scared of using, but they came out alright yes? 

Mailshots is the new brief at the moment we are conquering, based around the recycling briefs i have had previously. To produce a mailshot to be sent to relevant people, I have some goooood ideas, but nothing really to post as yet, so you'll have to hang on for that. x

New brief... what is yellow?

A brilliant brief! im actually really excited about it.. no pictures just yet, but the ideas im generating I think could actually be quite good. A proper blog tomorrow, i just felt I had to say something today. Its not the kind of thing i'd usually do, but taken an interest recently for.

You'll see. Not that anyone actually reads this :S

It needs to be updated.. I know.. :$

i will when i'm home, just at uni at the start of the second week of my course :D its amazing! brilliant facilities, tutors, people and good nights out.

Anyway.. more tonight, I promise!

Aaaaaah!

Its been so long.. ive totally forgotten about my blog.. how terrible. I have plenty to say but probably best to put it in pictures and fill in the gaps with what ive been doing :) including the final show, visits to leeds, birthdays, a burglary :( emma's final show, wicked college marks, chatsworth, Sara joe and carley moving house, and other crazy antics :) and LCAD stuff! its been pretty hecktic.. here we go!

I found these in the window of a bakery in leeds when I was visiting Sara, they look so creepy! but kinda cool at the same time.. Leeds was fun as always even if its just walking round shops and things. later.. we got tapas for a tenner! brilliant..
Yummm yumm :) like the best meal in ages, all you can eat at la tasca. definitely doing that again soon.
When I was back I got some posters printed for my final show on a2 and they look sweeeet! three for £27 which worked out pretty good.. plenty more goodies to come too.
With an evening free I managed to go see Joni, tim and fiona (L-R) near the helmlock stone for some sort of crazy free music festival, which turned out to be quite good! the first summer evening of the year too. super warm drinking pints of real ale.. I couldnt have too much because I had to ride home :S not cool..
Ice creams at work! Cliff was a little left out, so I left half on his car for later for him :D Took and absolute age to get it off the windscreen.. was really funny though.
Anna's vinyl came to college while we put the show up.. It was amazing! super huge and really well printed. Got loads of attention at the show and was well worth it. Well done anna!
I havent been to dad's allotment in ages so I went for a look and see whats cracking off, bless him he loves it. Next door was some crazy old man that had made a shelter from literally rubbish! really freaky and interesting..
The Show is done! time to burn off some steamm... why not invest in some quality time on GH3 and get a new high score? Sorry I had to..
The show day! jeeez what a day.. It started off first in the morning and I had to drop my bike off so I didnt end up leaving it there for days and getting it stolen.. oh dearrr.. While I was out, someone broke into our house, took two consoles a laptop, ipod and a massive stack of dvds :( and probably my bike if it was there. I was so unbelievably lucky because Sara was in bless her in my room. The burglar probably opened my room door, took one look at her and left her alone along with all my stuff! I could of lost like 10,000 pictures (literally 10,000) my laptop, ipod, CAMERA, tv etc etc etc.. the list goes on. Im so thankful she was alright and I still had my stuff still. Gutted about everything else though.. its all covered so we'll be alright. Only material items gone which is an upside. ANYWAYYY. Back to the show.. Everything was up and people came. It was kind of a success.. I quite liked my show, but I had been looking at it for 12 weeks so I was really sure what to expect as a reaction towards it. The balloon on the display was a present with a bottle of cider tied to it. Get in! was brilliant.

Results! A week or so later we had our results for the course. For my FinalMajorProject I got DDD (triple distinction) which is wicked :D and overall I got DDM (two distinctions and a high merit) which is really good, im really proud of it. Everyone else did really well and got what they wanted, so well done!

'After party' which almost went to pot.. but we ended up in the rescue rooms with nachos and bulmers. good times :)
Carlitos menu in the rescue rooms which was cool.. I didnt catch the artist, but I will! Im sure locals have seen it and know what its like.
Art show number 2! Emma's final Art show in B'ham which was good. Emma knitted columns in the main foyer floor to ceiling which looked really good. There was reason behind it, but like all the art, you should have your own opinion and just enjoy it visually.. almost a theory for how design should be, apart from with function. 'Design is art people use'

There was a guy upstairs who did spraypaint on stretched canvas architectural forms.. how cool are they? it went all the way up the wall.

Adam's birthday! which was pretty sweet, went to his with mili and ben for a bit of bbq and beers. Nice a realxed, his family and friends are so laid back.. Was a really good evening. I was meant to go out too on the thursday but I couldnt make it out :( gutted. But I will! eventually..

N'awh Adam back in the day..
Crazy bong with banana flavoured stuff in it... I didnt try any but it apparently tasted well good.
Now im off and free, I managed to tag along with a day to chatsworth house for abit of a picnic and a nice wander.. and in the coal line too.
Aaah! sorry...

Bit of camera phone photography.. looks quite nice. i went a little over the top that day but this is my favourite.. Nothing wrong with a few flowers?

On the way to leeds on the train.. this time a long one straight from nottingham so I took a few pictures..
Blurryyyyy! but kinda coool. I like seeing what you can do with just a phone.. not bad?
the new home of carley and sara! not bad is it? And I only had to move two lots of stuff. You should've seen the taxi with sara's stuff.. and sara in there somewhere.. hehe
Cool poster? yes yes yes! more like this in nottingham pleasee!
Can you believe there was no microwave at sara's? so me and joe found one near his, and a chair... and rolled it! So funny, especially when we lost a wheel...

Thats it for now! its only taken me a few hours to do it.. expect more soon like a seaside trip, first bit of uni work and bbq's!

Yeah! im back x

Deary me..

Well it has been a long time since Ive properly posted. Sorry! But it has been a pretty busy week or so. lots of things happening and lots of work for deadlines and such. Instead of the usual ramble, ill break it up with pictures. Always works best.

Plenty of 9 hour days at college and late nights needed serious energy boosts. The crazy canteen lady wasnt kidding when she called it sugared stodge. was really nice though..

Always best to take a break from work so I jumped on a train to see sara in leeds :) and look at some halls of residence. Still wondering where they plan on spending the £95 a week its going to cost me.. but theres not much choice in the matter.

Round the corner was a super swanky dentist! Chandeliers and everything inside. Seems a much nicer experience than the one I go to.

We got our spaces for the show! yaay! look how big it is! and to think its all for a magazine. Put I have some tricks up my sleives to fill it, you wait and see.
Quick trip to B&Q for some prices on materials for the show, what is he using chippings for? You'll have to wait and see.

Back to college after a day off to lug the work around, im kinda getting fed up of it now.. especially when the lift decides to break at college. I swear the air on G floor is thinner.


My magazine! only in a rough draft but more or less done, it just needs a few more bits of text and tweaks and its finally done. Off to the printers pretty soon hopefully.

Another sneak look at part of my final show, but again unless ive told you in person you'll have to wait and see. Im really looking forward to it.

On my trip to leeds I bought a copy of Computer arts from borders, and pretty much havent put it down since. Its so good! definitely consider a subscription to it in the future.. Thats all for now. Hopefully have some progress with the show in the next few days x