Visitor from Amnesty called Barry

Today we had a visitor come in, who works with Amnesty. Barry is a volunteer for Amnesty International and kindly took time out to come and show us a present about Amnesty and have a chat with us after about are project subject. This was really helpful, i got to learn more about Amnesty and about the perticuler problem i was looking at. Now that Barry has spoken to us, i now have a better insight, and more knowledge to work from.

New project and Spend More Save Less task

We started a new project today called Visual thinking and to start us thinking about ideas generation we were set a task to design some posters which will incourage people to spend there money to help with the recession at the moment, Spend more Save less.

I really enjoyed today, we got to work in a team to complete this task by 3 o'clock, then shown are designs infront of the class to get some feed back. Towards the start of the day we were just getting to know the rest of the group because we were with people we didnt normal speak to, so we were just having a few laughs which was good and as Kit said we were probably the group that has had the most fun.

After messing around for a bit we started off just by generating some ideas on a A2 piece of paper, then trying to develop some of the ideas on the computer. Finally ended up going for series of posters which included bold hard hitting text with a slit bit of humor. Simple but effective.

Hand in for Text and Image

Well the day has come, time has flown by. Will need to manage my time better in my nex projects. After a long day yesterday and a long night, and working to the last minute today, i have finished my project for Text and Image.

Im not to proud with myself on this project, i think i could of done much better, but we will see what happens, and i learfn from my mistakes.

Monday before hand in of Text and Image

Stil quite a bit to do for my project, note to self dont leave work to the last minute, start work as oon as handed to use. I am a bit worried because i dont know if ill finish in time. Have done alot of work through the day at uni, staying in to about 6 30 but still cracking on with it.

Grids and layouts and Quark

I had never used quark before, so i was a bit confused at the beggining but have developed my skills in the program. After using Quark for a day i found that i didnt lioke using this program and woul prefer to use Indesign.

Group crit on first ideas for book

The crit that i was involved in today took up most of the day, which wasn't bad because we did quite abit of work. I feel that the way the crit worked was a good experience for me and evry one else, because we were put into groups to talk about other groups work, this was helpfully because we got to speak about others work in a team and i got goo feedback from a group of other students.