As well as looking after the show I have updating my other projects to bump up my grades that I previously got. At the moment I have been working on my final major project and also my type project.

After all or work we have finish getting the show ready and is now free for the public to see and below is pictures of the show

Finishing all my projects, and nearly finishing my course at canterbury college, I am now helping create a show to showcase all are artwork to the public. We have had to mount the artwork to foam boards using spray mount, we had to decide and organise where we want all are artwork to be presented on the wall and to make sure it looks professionally presented too, it has been hard because of the small place we have been give to show are work.

As well as doing work of my college, I also do work for SLA, as you have previously seen on my blog, so below is some of the recent work I have been doing for them:

I finally finished my Final Major Project and all the work I have put in, I think Has payed off in my final outcomes.

Below is the finals for my client the band 'The Kairs' there Cd cover, back Cd cover and poster:

Cd Cover: I am pleased with because it simple with soft calming colours which identifies them as an indi band in my opinion.

The back Cd cover I kept the theme of the front cover and used a simple sans serif typeface to suit the theme of the design.

The poster above more or less has the front cover of the Cd on there because that is where I got my design from which still keeps within the theme of my designs with simple colours and the same typeface.

All in all I am happy with the designs I have produce, I hope you like them as well.

promoting the band 'The Kairs' I wanted photography of the band, so took it upon myself to go to one of there gigs to do that and have a few decent pictures you can have a look at but these are without been photoshopped:

I was inspired by other 3d type designs and decided to create my own for my FMP, here is my design.

I hav been researching into 3d type and have found a cool websites that display the other peoples designs.

http://www.httpartist.com/beta/trends/inspirations/973-the-beauty-of-3d-typography.html

While doing my current projects I have been updating my other projects like my type project and have improved my final design which is an optical illusion design as you can see below


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At the moment I am currently doing my Final Major Project which gives you the chance to do a project on what ever you want, so I decided to promote and advertise the band, The Kairs. I have to design the logo, cd cover and booklet, a poster and a T-shirt, I will keep you updated with my designs for this project.

Working for sla I also done some image manipulation, by brightening the colours of the picture and making it more attractive by taking away pieces of the picture that is not needed. below I have some examples of that work:

Recently I have been creating designs for SLA (student lettings agency) because they are creating an ad to advertise their company, and here is a mock up of the video ad:

finishing my narrative of the three image of my storyboard, I have very happy with the final outcomes and here they are below

The hardest to design was the last piece 'it's been emotional' and in my opinion it has ending up one of the best design.

Near finishing my Narrative project about lock stock and two smoking barrels, I had to create a storyboard of three pictures of type, the first piece of type I had to illustrate was "I feel safer with a chicken drumstick" the second piece of type "Can everyone stop getting shot!" then the last piece of type is the obvious one "Its been emotional"

I will update later on with all my final pieces.

V&A T-shirt Designs

Main poster for the V&A

V&A

finishing my V&A project I created various postcards for them and also a main poster.
Here are my Designs:

Functional Skills
For my this unit in college I have to show evidence of refining my google search and below is my google evidence:

Search = golf

http://www.google.co.uk/#hl=en&source=hp&q=golf&btnG=Google+Search&meta=&aq=f&oq=golf&fp=80b30ff86ca2d276

Results 1 - 10 of about 286,000,000 for golf

Search = volkswagen golf

http://www.google.co.uk/#hl=en&safe=active&q=volkswagen+golf&meta=&aq=&oq=volkswagen+golf&fp=80b30ff86ca2d276

Results 1 - 10 of about 15,700,000 for volkswagen golf

Search = "volkswagen golf"

http://www.google.co.uk/#hl=en&safe=active&q=%22volkswagen+golf%22+&meta=&aq=&oq=%22volkswagen+golf%22+&fp=80b30ff86ca2d276

Results 1 - 10 of about 8,210,000 for "volkswagen golf"

Search = "volkswagen golf" +car

http://www.google.co.uk/#hl=en&safe=active&q=%22volkswagen+golf%22+%2Bcar&meta=&aq=&oq=%22volkswagen+golf%22+%2Bcar&fp=80b30ff86ca2d276

Results 1 - 10 of about 3,840,000 for "volkswagen golf" +car

New Search = andy warhol

http://www.google.co.uk/#hl=en&safe=active&q=andy+warhol+&meta=&aq=&oq=andy+warhol+&fp=80b30ff86ca2d276

Results 1 - 10 of about 4,980,000 for andy Warhol

Search = “andy warhol”

http://www.google.co.uk/#hl=en&safe=active&q=%22andy+warhol%22+&meta=&aq=&oq=%22andy+warhol%22+&fp=80b30ff86ca2d276

Results 1 - 10 of about 4,960,000 for "andy warhol"

Search = "andy warhol" +design

http://www.google.co.uk/#hl=en&safe=active&q=%22andy+warhol%22+%2Bdesign&meta=&aq=&oq=%22andy+warhol%22+%2Bdesign&fp=80b30ff86ca2d276

Results 1 - 10 of about 1,560,000 for "andy warhol" +design

Search = "andy warhol" +pop art

http://www.google.co.uk/#hl=en&safe=active&q=%22andy+warhol%22+%2Bpop+art&meta=&aq=&oq=%22andy+warhol%22+%2Bpop+art&fp=80b30ff86ca2d276

Results 1 - 10 of about 994,000 for "andy warhol" +pop art

New Search = web design

http://www.google.co.uk/#hl=en&safe=active&q=web+design&meta=&aq=0&oq=web+de&fp=80b30ff86ca2d276

Results 1 - 10 of about 291,000,000 for web design

Search = “web design”
http://www.google.co.uk/#hl=en&safe=active&q=%22web+design%22&meta=&aq=&oq=%22web+design%22&fp=80b30ff86ca2d276

Results 1 - 10 of about 72,400,000 for "web design"

Search = "web design" +companies

http://www.google.co.uk/#hl=en&safe=active&q=%22web+design%22+%2Bcompanies&meta=&aq=&oq=%22web+design%22+%2Bcompanies&fp=80b30ff86ca2d276

Results 1 - 10 of about 23,100,000 for "web design" +companies

V&A

I recently visited the V&A museum to gather research and found out about what they display, and how it presents itself.
I enjoyed the Experience of looking at Art from all different cultures but found there wasn't much for the younger generation, and the exhibition that was, I didn't have enough time to visit which was the decode: digital design sensations, so I will have to go visit the museum in my free time and researching the Science museum I would really like to visit there on the same day because the museums are opposite each other and in my opinion it seems more interesting and has more modern equipment.
I have been given a project from the V&A to design a poster about what ever you like to be honest it just has to main the poster around the V&A, but unfortunately only been given a short amount of time to design this poster so will keep you updated with my final designs.

Here is a link for the V&A if you want to check out the website and to give you details, if you want to visit the museum yourself:

http://www.vam.ac.uk/

Interesting Website

Whilst researching into Herb Lubalin I found a very interesting website showing creative posters and art for advertisement. Have a look at the art they have posted and see what you think.

The website is called:

http://kissmyblackads.blogspot.com/

Here is a couple of examples of art that is on the website.

Websites

I looked into finding flash websites and came across:
http://www.thefwa.com/
This displays the best flash awards and below is some good examples i have found like Jim Carrey's website http://www.jimcarrey.com/












Also Orange website: http://friendometer.orange.co.uk/

One of my final packaging designs

For my packaging project I decided to design packaging for DKNY to create a fragrance called DKNY Man and DKNY Woma. I looked into styles to base my design on then came across Roy Lichtenstein's work and thought it would be perfect to have a comic book style inside the packaging then on the outside have a modern, clean cut surface graphics and in my opinion the designs came out successful but unsure if the two designs will mix once produced together ?

Formats for Web design

Fla = Adobe Flash
Flash is commonly used to create animation, advertisements, and various web page Flash components, to integrate video into web pages, and more recently, to develop rich Internet applications.








Html = HyperText Markup Language
Used to create documents on the Web, There are hundreds of other tags used to format and layout the information in a Web page. To create a Html to go on the World Wide Web you go onto Adobe Dreamweaver.








For my web design I think I will be using Adobe Flash instead of Adobe Dreamweaver because Dreamweaver is a very lengthy process, unlike flash where what you see is what you get.

Graphics Formats I use.

Psd = Photoshop Data
Adobe Photoshop, or simply Photoshop, is a graphics editing program developed and published by Adobe Systems.








Ai = Adobe Illustrator
A CS4 software is a comprehensive vector graphics environment with new transparency in gradients and multiple artboards that invite you to explore more efficient ways to design.








Indd = Adobe Indesign
A CS4 software breaks down the barriers between online and offline publishing. Create compelling print layouts, immersive content for playback in the Adobe Flash® Player runtime, and interactive PDF documents.








Jpg = Joint Photographic Experts Group
Pronounced jay-peg. JPEG is a lossy compression technique for colour images. Although it can reduce files sizes to about 5% of their normal size, some detail is lost in the compression, usually done so the information can get transferred to the web.

Gif = graphics interchange format
Similar to Jpeg, Gif is also used mostly for the Web but the can only compress the image a limited amount of colours which is about 256 colours but is more effective for scanned images such as illustrators, not so much photos

Png = Portable Network Graphics
Pronounced ping, a new bit-mapped graphics format similar to GIF meant to replace the older format being GIF.