Work placement comment

Approaching an agency

Never send a generic letter or do a mass emailing - that will be quickly thrown away. Not taking the time to find out about the company you are applying to speaks volumes about how little you actually want to work for them. Jonathan Barnbrook

Evaluation: Printing process

1. What skills have you developed through this module and how effectively do you think you have applied them?

The skills I have developed through this module have been highly significant I feel that within this module I have learnt many new and vital skills within the printing process in order to for-fill my career of becoming a graphic designer. My understanding of the printing is much stronger and I feel more confident within the understanding and knowing the range of printing is vital for future projects to become more professional and aware of the printing industry around us. With in the summer I went on some work experience in Doncaster at a printers. The printers had a design side where I worked. I had some knowledge of print but felt I needed to know and understand in depth a lot more and so the module came at the right time for me as I could broaden my understanding of both colour & printing processes.

2. What approaches to generating work and solutions to problems have you developed and how have they helped?
Learning about the resources in and out of college has become a vital asset to my work and future work. To understand how the outcomes get printed was an area of mine that needed to be developed and so I feel that within my projects I will understand the limits that a project will take and to understand the clients needs within a professional industry.

3. What strengths can you identify in your work and how have/will you capitalise on these?
The strengths within my work have been my organisational work although this is an are that always can be improved. I feel that within this module I have become more organised within my work and timekeeping in order to make me produce higher quality work and experiment more within my work. Although I need to start this from the beginning of the project in order to ensure that the development of my project is strong in order to create a stronger outrcome.

4. What weaknesses can you identify in your work and how could you exploit these more fully?
My weakness I feel have been research & development. I feel that within my work I sometimes have the tendency to stick to an idea in which I should experiment and develop other ideas to get the full potential of an outcome. This makes me produce poor research although I found my questionnaire to have a good outcome I felt that there could have been more primary & secondary research which may have produced a stronger outcome or perhaps would have given me a wider range of ideas.


5. Identify five things that you will do different next time and what do you expect to gain from doing these?
Start my organisational skills at the beginning of a brief. Categorising parts of the brief that need to be forfilled.
Write a detailed time plan per week of what needs to be complete
Develop ideas further
Experiment and test with a range of ideas to ensure best & most appropriate outcome
Keep relating to target audience.

6.How would you grade yourself on the following areas:
(please indicate using an ‘x’)

5= excellent, 4 = very good, 3 = good, 2 = average, 1 = poor

1 2 3 4 5
Attendance 5
Punctuality 4
Motivation 4
Commitment 4
Quantity of work produced 4
Quality of work produced 3
Contribution to the group 3

lines: Rule Britannia

Subtle foil stamping

During my development within the printing colour module i have developed my idea into a more luxurious end product although the product is for free. The process of foil stamping is something to try for my desired outcome

The Printing Process book

mm type face

way of using lines "Fulguro"

SYR–UP
Prototype glass
Water is never as beautifull as when it has been coloured and flavoured by all kinds of fruit syrups.
This set, made out of moulded-inflated glass, is based on the idea that people usually have trouble finding the adequat quantity of syrup they should mix with their glass of water to make it taste good.
By sloping like a Pisa tower, the glasses and carafe have an angle on the bottom. When the syrup has reached the top of the slope, users can then fill up the container with water.
The slope generates a graphical way to check the syrup level.
FROM NOW ON, YOUR SYRUP WILL ALWAYS BE SWEET ENOUGH!
Glasses: 3 dl. and 5 dl.
Carafe: 1,5 liter

Lines colours & rulers

effectivedesign

Rulers are good: next project, looking at lines and the way that they interact with each other this is a prime example of how we need a guide to create these sort of accurate lines. without the accuracy I don't think that this piece of work would work. To draw accurately we need a guide. How many people can draw an accurately straight perfect line without a ruler?

you can stick christmas

effektivedesign

good Coment

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Carna Fresca Volk.it

Carne fresca (Fresh Meat) is a student annual report 2003/2004 of architecture university of Rome. The university is situated in an ex slaughter house. Carne fresca means new figures in the future architecture scenery which is similar to the term fresh meat.
The concept behind the content and packaging really works.

Foil Stamping

Yesterday I spent a day in the screen printing room and noticed that you can create foil stamping in there? This is a technique that I am going to be trying out as i feel it adds a certain depth to your work that has a glamourous affect to your work depending on the concept this is something that I will be testing.
This example from Zion graphics.com shows the technique. With the black and gold adds luxury to the graphics rater than a normal printing process such as off set printing.

don't panic competition "Man Machine"

Imagine if all our machines were powered by lots of little men? The poster I produced by making small machine men out of vector lines in illustrator. The lines were harsh and straight which complemented the wheels that gave of a liquid spiral effect that gave of the human format of humans mainly been liquid in comparisons to solid machines.

www.dustinarnold.com ways of typography & print

Colour testing CMYK

CMYK colours used within the image created monotone and a spot colour used of pantone solid coated 114C

proud creative.com

Varoom -mag.com

looking at the shapes formed to create a unique typeface that has a contemporary twist. The typeface almost has a constructivism feeling with harsh bold shapes and lines that can become slightly illegible at times.

What is graphic design as buzz it woulden't post

what is graphic design? quote by Paul Rand what a graphic designer does?

COPY: The designer does not, as a rule, begin with a preconceived idea. His idea is the result of subjective and objective thought, and the design a product of the idea. In order, therefore, to achieve an honest and effective solution he necessarily passes thought some sort of mental process. Consciously or not, he analyzes, interprets, translates. He improvises, invents new techniques and combinations. He coordinates and integrates his material so that he may restate his problem in terms of ideas, pictures, forms, and shapes. He unifies, simplifies, eliminates superfluities. He symbolizes. abstract from his material by association and analogy. He intensifies and reinforces his symbol with appropriate accessories to achieve clarity and interest. He draws upon instinct and intuition. He considers the spectator, his feelings and predilections.

what is graphic design?

Is very true. I get alot of ideas whereever I am. I think I am fairly random which is may why I am a creative thinker.

What is graphic design? FOR FAILURES

Failure Support Group is an event that focus on failure in artistic projects.

The event involves a series of 5-minute presentations of failures and discussion of issues such as: Why do art projects fail? Is there a recipe for failure? Are certain methodologies more prone to failure than others? What is at stake in acknowledging failure?

Failure Support Group will take place Friday Feb 29th at Democracy Center, Harvard Sq, Cambridge, MA (space is limited).

Hopefully, the presentations will be documented online. Should be interesting, inspirational - and potentially fun!

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