Hand in for Visual thinking

Well i have handed in my Visual thinking project (Amnesty), i think i have done well, better than my last project so hopefully i will get a better grade. I enjoyed this project better than text and image, i think this is because it was more professional.

First type workshop with Sally Castle

I have decided to attend type workshops with a perfessional typeface designer Sally Castle, and today i have my first workshop all day. We went through some history of type, then we worked on a few exercises.

These excercises consisted of merging one letter into another in 5 steps, then we had to take are two initials and merge one into the other and the final exrcise was to pick a random word and change it from a san serif to a serif.

These excerises were good, and was an eye opener, and helped us experiement more with type.
Sally also showed us some of her work which i thought was really good. She also told use what we are going to be doing in time to come, and i am really excited about making my own typeface.

Final critique for VT - 2 Options

I have managed to come up with another idea and today i shown them both in the crit with the whole group and then it happened........ they choose the 2nd idea. I now have a lot of work to do, i won't to cry. But this will be good for my sketchbook, managing to develop two ideas.

The day it changed

I dont know whether im happy about this or not, earlier i had a crit with Sally and thought that my design leads off from the subject abit, so she thought that i should go off and develop a few different ideas come up with one different design and in the next crit which is soon, pin up both designs and see what all the other students say. Even though i knew that i didn't have to listen to Sally and i dont have much time left till the end of the project, i thought it would be a good idea to do anyway.

Crit with Pal leaders

In our Pal groups today we had a little crit to show the pal leaders what we have done and for them to give us some feedback, this was really handy because they have done the same sort of thing before because they are past first year students. So they were able to give us some good feedback.

Pin up of initial ideas

Pin up of initial ideas went well, got some good feedback from the rest of the group, and i have a few ideas of how to develop my design.

Back to Uni tomorrow

I am really proud of myself, I have managed to finish my essay for Anna and i believe that i have done quite well, because writing essays, is not one of my specialities, but i think i've done well.
Also i have come upo with a initial idea for my Amnesty project, ready to show on Tuesday at the crit.