PAL 14/12/09

The Sloop

A few days ago I was asked whether I could put together an open mic night poster for a local pub called The Sloop. I did my best for them and managed to put together a nice poster in a very short amount of time. I found this a very enjoyable project because my friend I was working for had very little idea about what she wanted the posters to look like. She sent me a message with all the information that needs to be included and I had free range to design what I thought looked good. This kind of project seems to suit me down to the ground, little directional imput from the client and as much creative reign as want.

I will never uses Comic Sans again.

http://www.luredesigninc.com/pledge/

Keeping it in the family.

Business card for my father, feel free to give him a ring.

Beautiful Websites.

They say that nothing is original any more, and design is all about ripping off other peoples ideas and changing them just enough that people can't quite remember what the work looked like before. So the first port of call with any project is to trawl around and find who has been doing it best. Here are some examples of some beautiful websites. Feel free to take a look around, you might see something you recognise.









http://www.agoodconcept.com/

http://www.inventiveandco.co.uk/

http://www.inhousedesign.co.nz/

http://www.randomthoughtpattern.com/

http://www.parkvillage.co.uk/

http://www.associate.ie/

Screen Based Communication 2

New brief.
I always look forward to ending a project, and never quite remember the new and probably harder and more daunting project that will inevitably follow the one I have just handed in. The promise of new challenges, the chance of making this the best project yet, a clean slate, a blank page…the chance to ruin everything.
The brief I received today is called Screen Based Communication 2. It entails me designing, coding and creating a live website. Very daunting, considering I haven’t the foggiest how the internet works. But I’m sure I’ll pull through, I got a very good mark for last years Screen Based, strangely.

Visual Communication in Context 2

Now that Visual Communication in Context 2 is over, I can look back at the unit as a whole. This topic had notable similarities to the Text and Image unit from the beginning of last year, except this year was obviously a lot harder and stressful. Brilliant.
I have always had trouble with time management but I think I’ve been keeping it under control this year quite effectively. On ND, I’m not sure that there was one project I managed to get handed in completed and on time. Honesty, I have no idea what I’m doing here. Why wasn’t I kicked off the course? I can remember at least one project that I didn’t even begin. What a joke!
But the important thing is that I’ve moved on now and grown up. I can proudly say that I have managed to get all my projects in on time, completed and not one referral. Check me out.
Visual Communication in Context 2 challenges my biggest weak points of time management and multi tasking, and even though I found it difficult and stressful and tiring I finished everything as asked, even if it was a little rough along the way. Now come the best part, waiting to see if I’ve fail yet.