Typography...

Reason for posting this:
It's awesome. Everything I love about type all wrapped up into one ace little video. Informative. I learnt loads from watching it. It's so clever. Humorous. Interesting. All sorts. But I like the way in which they move text around to fill the frame. I quite like moving things around with frames and playing with where things go. Finding the content is another ball game for me all together but once I know what I want to put and say or for choice of better word, communicate, I like playing with where it goes. And there was something similar about this video which I liked for the same reason.

Edinburgh Trip...

Recently went to Edinburgh for a friends birthday/camp reunion and i took some photos (naturally) while i was there. I hope to use some of them for my photography elective finals which is due to finish in a couple of weeks time. I just need to decide on printing sizes, papers and how to present them now. Finally think I've got enough images to work with now though. Here are a few from the weekend...

Finally my video of 100 Flips!

I hope it finally uploads this time and you can see it. What a mission to find out a way of posting it. However, it hasn't come out quite the way I wanted it and the quality isn't very good for the first 3 clips. This is because I transferred cameras half way through after discovering the clips were distorting.

lingo...

Oh and I've just thought of something else that would be good to put on here for me to look back on because I know I'll forget...
Found out today that 'stock' in graphic design terms means the type of paper/card that you're printing onto.
E.g.
If a brief states you are only allowed a limited colour palette say 2 colours and adds (+ stock) it allows you to use the two colours but also the colour/stock of the paper in which you are printing onto however, that doesnt count as another colour. Clever of what!

Or atleast thats what I think it means...praps not a good post after all...

Elective news...

Been to my elective again tonight. Not long left now. Think it's about 3 weeks before submission. Got a lot to do...as ever. Had a mini crit with my tutor to chat about where I'm at etc and what I plan to do for my finals and so on. I've come to the decision that I want to submit two landscape/cityscape photos and two portrait photos along side my development and research notebooks. At first I wanted to do just portraiture however after my trip to Newcastle and finding the amazing cityscapes there I found myself wanting to do try more of them too. Perhaps I'm just getting a little carried away. This is an image I took this evening. I'm not sure why I like it so much but from all the ones I took it stands out most to me...
I used the colour accent mode on my camera, which I've been experimenting with more. I quite like the way it enhances the image and highlights tones in contrast with the black and white.

P.s I used my Canon digital camera, ixus86015, 8.0 mega pixels for the majority of my elective photos.

Video...

Still trying to find a way of uploading my flips video. Not entirely positive on what im doing...will try again tomorrow!

What is graphic design???

I have no idea.

"[Graphic design is] an ongoing examination/conversation between the dynamics of personal exploration and professional practice." - Matt Owens, Volume One.

Which Brief for me...?

Favourite types of briefs:
Short sharp or long and meaty, something to get your teeth into?
This is my debate. Recently I've been doing this 'book of 100' brief and I've had it for the best part of 8 weeks and yet I'm still not happy with it, still havent pulled my finger out and done enough work, and still havent got any further in packaging it. Thus not got it finished. Might I add, I now have to design a set or series of posters for the 'release of my book' which is this friday ontop of finalising the book itself. Not feeling overly confident about it...however since my last post I have FINALLY finished the video.
I'm beginning to think that perhaps short, sharp briefs are more for me. After having a few long briefs set at college, I find myself wasting my time, not getting in depth research done and basically fannying around. This had made me think perhaps theyre not best suited to my way of working. Maybe the short snappy ones are more me. That aside though, I dont always feel I work to my potential when I do short ones so perhaps I'm just being difficult and am somewhere in between of the two...

Vogue...

Whilst browsing through Vogue I came across an article on beauty products and product packaging design. The article was about how illustration is being used on certain product packaging, such as the lancome juicy tubes which have been illustrated by Christopher Kane. It showed examples of many products today that are being produced and feature illustration as part of their packaging. I was particularly interested by the Swedish artist Stina Persson's design for ethical brand Face Boutique. Here are a few photos taken from the article...

Photos...

I found a new site tonight called http://www.flickr.com/ and a made myself a profile so i could be uber geeky and upload my photos to it as aposed to trying to cram all my favourites onto here. Here is my profile url if you care to have a peek...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/25273248@N03/

It's not that interesting yet, but I shall try and develop it more when I get some spare free time.

Flipping mad...

I've actually lost the plot. Who'd have thought it would be that hard to find 100 objects or things to flip and video. Dear god. All i can think about is flipping things and trying to find objects that will be good enough to video. The sooner this project gets finished the better...it's taking over my life! will post the finished video once i eventually get it done...thats if i can work out how to put it up on here! Lets just see if I can upload a small taster for you...