Jean Paul Sartre

Thinking about health, the theme of the project, we were automatically drawn to this quote by Sartre: "Everything that exists is born for no reason, carries on living through weakness, and dies by accident".
It's a sentence that perfectly encapsulates many of the issues at stake: life, death, health, disease. As atheists, we cannot help but see the cruel meaninglessness of it all; a meaninglessness that can be both liberating and depressing. There's an ambiguity in the idea of a life without meaning; an ambiguity that we tried to incorporate in our poster in the form of a pink, day-glo darkness, lurking behind the surface. In short, we used the suggestion of a torn page to show the abyss that exists under the paper. After all, between us and the abyss, there is only the printed page.

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?