Well well well, Apple have done it again with their new product MacBook Air. I have always admired Apple's design skills for both product design, advertising and packing. I can certainly say I will be down to get on by the time they are released.
Today has been a very interesting day, slightly stressfull towards lunch but never the less an enjoyable day. Starting off with part two of the typography lecture. It was all very well knowing the things contained in the first lecture but the second was to clarify how to actually use certain typographical elements. This was a nice, easy, but interesting and useful start to the day.
Today's timed task, something I was not looking forward to, I actually really enjoyed. I think the downside of such a task is the lack of space within the room, when i'm working on design tasks such as this I like to have much more space to lay my work out in a logical order and enables me be messy.
Overall It tought me how serious things had and I think is the biggest inshigh I have had to a professional industrial environment.
I found it quite hard to contain my desires to embellish the design with pointless decoration. In the end I decided to go simple. With lots of space, after all that is what the real book cover did, (I saw it after the event - but they have more still white space - or rather yellow space). I think it worked quite well. I really enjoyed working with yellow, working with just one colour makes you (me) think more about its use. To me that shade of yellow is a nice happy colour which will create a shockingly harsh but eye-catching layout.
Knowing about how this Assignment is going to run at this moment I think I am going to enjoy it. I always find it is better to enjoy something you are doing, it makes you more productive and allows you to really open your mind onto the page and experiment slightly more with your thoughts/ideas.
I feel I am making great progress with A5! I have Completed the template and just experimenting with adding my content. I must say, so far, touch wood, it has gone through quite smoothly and without many drastic hick ups which surprised me slightly.
I think come next week I will be able to upload a preview for you all to have a look round. Which comes somewhat back to A1 and todays seminar session, Many of us are posting our work on the blog but arn't doing it soon enough. By the time feedback has been received it is too late to change anything. It really needs to be done before you commit yourselves to something which is why I'm going to post it so early! I'll let you all know in my next journal entry.
p.s. I do hope my "Apple is great paragraph" is not seen as an obvious plug that APPLE IS GREAT!!!!
4 comments:
I know what you mean about liking space when you work and lucky for me I’ve got quite a lot where I am!
I feel the same about enjoying something you’re doing and even though I didn’t enjoy the first timed task to start off with. After awhile I really got into it and I think that I’ll enjoy the ones to come.
The seminar group really did highlight how much we’re neglecting A1 and I think uploading your website early is a great idea.
When I first got the brief for the timed tasked I kind of panicked and thought I might not get any ideas but ones I had started designing I enjoyed the task. Like you I could have done with a bit more space to spread out because I wanted to see both my designs and my time planning sheets.
I suppose I am just finding it hard to adjust from the huge amount of space I had upstairs in Art.
The room isn't the most ideal location but I suppose it is one of the challenges we have to deal with.
I can't wait for the next timed task.
Also a note to everyone: I should have a version of my web site uploaded and ready for some initial feedback by Monday afternoon. Although this will not be the whole web site, maybe just a page or two created via the template.
Can anyone suggest what kind of questions I should put on a questionnaire at this early stage?
Thank you
Gary
Hi Gary
I am sure that Apple are loving the free advertising!
I was surprised to read that initially you were not looking forward to the timed tasks; we have to see these opportunities as exactly that. The more work we can produce, the greater our portfolio will be.
Whilst I am sure that we can all come up with a fantastic design [given the right amount of time] it is really interesting to see the kind of work we all produce with only a very limited amount of time.
You are right, bright and vibrant colours such as the yellow we used are great for creating maximum impact.
It is great to see that your posts are becoming much more positive!
"The secret to true happiness isn't doing what makes you happy, its been happy in what you do!" - unknown source.
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Thanks
Shaun Bellis
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