Course work and workshops 3

24th October - 29th October

Monday 24th

We started the week off wits a 9am lecture presented by Dr Simon Bell. The lecture was about William Morris and Industrial Revolution. There are the notes I gathered:

Happened mostly in 1800'some victorian period. During which factories and machines took over
Gutenberg's invention is a revolution
William Morris was in the middle of this time (designer, artist, writer, linguist and printer)
Member of Pre-Raphael Brotherhood
Founder member of Arts and Crafts Movement: valied fine Craftmanship
Set up Kelmscott Press which used hand printed methods to recreate medieval style books
Industrial revolution by the 19th century, chimineys became part of eras visual language
Victorian posters: letter press in black (colour was poor quality)
Key words were emphasised
18th century: bigger fonts to emphasise
19th century: bigger and different ones to emphasis
Fashionable into could be ugly/ hard to read

Tuesday 25th

Todays day was spent with tutor Rob Tovey. We looked at advertisement and how to make it effective. Here are images of the notes gathered.

Today was also they day we handed in out final Kenzo design. I am very happy with my finally design and I feel it was very successful. here is the feedback I received from Rob:

After rexciting this feedback, I realised the design does look refer rush and it definitely needs neatening up.

Wednesday 26th

Breakfast club with Paula. We watched a video about an artist called Geoff McFetridge who is an artist and graphic designer. We were also given the name of our instagram page CUGD2016

Taking graphicall work and making them them into prints
"Stoner forest"
Refine image until late it looks found
Hand made (painted but looks printed)

Add-Vantage module

Lecture 4 was about ASA. here are my notes:

Advertising standars Authority (ASA)
Legal, Decent, Honest, Trustful
Is a self regulating
Paid by advertising industrys
Open to public use

After the small lecture we where placed into groups, my groups name is Alpha.

Thursday 27th

Today we had a critique not out festival project so far. turned out I'm the only one in my class that started to producework in a sketchbook. Everyone else had done research and started to think about what they wanted to do.

IT- InDesign

Used for posters, flyers, magazines ext
Layout is very important
Communicates a message across
Arrangement of visual elements
Everything sits within a frame
Always bring your own colours ( Panton + solid coated/uncoated
Always savery as PDF for printing

Friday 28th

Typograph with Phil Perry. we watched a video entitled The machine that made us. it was about Gutenbergs creation of moveable text. here are the notes I gathered.

First media revolution
Letters were carved by hand in metal using a sharp chisel
Make duplicatesure using a mild and liquid metal
Made paper from clay

After the video was finished, we went downstairs to try it out our selves. the design we produced and to contain the first letter of each of our namessage in our group (V,T,Q,D) this is how our design went...