Web

In the end I managed to finish a web design that I created it on photoshop. After I had all aspects of the design finished Neil helped me put it on flash and get it working so all the buttons and thumbnails worked. I found web pretty hard to make because I was trying to create a website that reflects me as well as my work whilst trying to make it an effective and easy to use website. Here are some screenshots of my web. 

Here are some of my other designs that I did before my final that I didn't like as much.

I had several others but they were even worse.  This project has shown me that web design is far harder then I thought and I've now got a lot more respect for web designers

Live projects

The past 2 years I have participated in a lot of live projects. I liked doing these as they give you an idea of what its like to have real work. The only thing I didn't like about most of these was that there was like 40 people participating in them so it just felt really unlikely that my work would be used.
With the Laura thomas project Neil Kelly didn't like my thumbnail ideas as they didn't suit her or her work and I agreed with that as I didn't really like her work and thought it was boring so I found it hard to create a nice piece of work for it as I had no inspiration.
Christmas card project I liked  because even if paperchase didn't like my ideas I could still use them if I wanted to and so they weren't completely pointless.
The KMFM project was really boring as well but I liked it more then the Laura Thomas one. My logo didn't get chosen but I thought I did alright with it anyway. I still need to get better at applying logos on different objects.
DTML - This was the best live project I did as it was just me and a couple of other people doing it so it was more exciting and felt more competitive. I produced a logo how they wanted but I should of stuck to how I would of created one myself as there idea was really bad. Someone else made a logo for them that looked better so I advised them to just use that as they wanted mine as well. I still created the shirt mockup for them and set it up for print. I learnt the most with this live project and although Its not my logo being used Im still happy with what I learnt.

Vintage

Really like how the show looks. Its really good seeing everyones work printed properly and in big. I have 3 pieces up in the show, a coloured chicken drawing, my tpyeface made from long exposure photos and a torch and my thinking with type poster. I like my type poster more then anything else I've made since being here and it was good seeing it printed big as it really stands out. 

I have also got my website up on a mac that you can see when you click my name.

End of year show and work

The last week we have been doing our end of year show in the old oil painting room, over the holidays some people in to paint it. Then we all had different jobs to help sort it out. me and chris stuck bits of black sugar paper behind the chipboard so that you couldn't see the gaps, other people did like a giant mood board on the wall and swept the floor, cleared tables etc. I've now got all my work up to a pass and just need to try and get my grades as high as I can.

Today

I've just realized how much work I've really got to do in a short amount of time. I've got Babs asking me to get a load of work ready for Will and the show and Rob asking me to do web, Im going to work hard today and get as much work I can do over the weekend done.

FMP...

Comming up with ideas for t shirt designs is harder then I thought it would be, whenever I get a good idea I forget about it before I do anything with it so I've started to just do a few different drawings that are pointless and don't stand for anything and hope that I can make them look good. 
The drawing I've been working on today is alright but the type on it looks a mess. So I spent ages measuring it all out properly on another page and it still looks bad. I realize now that its a lot to do with the fine liners I am using. They don't create a very even stroke as it bleeds into the page easily, so I'm going to order some new ones and see if that helps. Also to start off I didn't use a ruler and some lines are slanted. I will remember all this next time I draw this or anything else 

Units

Unit 1 Visual Recording - Need to produce independant work to gain Distinction                     Full Merit
Unit 2 MTP                                                                                                                                  Full Pass
Unit 3 Ideas & Concepts                                                                                                              Full Pass
Unit 4 Vis com                                                                                                                             Full Merit
Unit 5 Essays                                                                                                                               M1
Unit 6 FMP                                                                                                                                 
Unit 7 Design Methods                                                                                                               M2
Unit 10
Unit 12 Computers in art and design                                                                                          Full Pass
Unit 29 Image Manipulation                                                                                                      Full Pass
Unit 32 Desktop Publishing                                                                                                       M1 M2
Unit 33 Type Poster
Unit 34 Typographic Design                
Unit 39 Website Design + Blog                                                                                                      
Unit 40 Graphic Media Techniques and Technology                                                                Full Pass
Unit 42 Design for Advertising                                                                                                 Need P3
Unit 43 Packaging                                                                                                                     M1 M3
Unit 44 Narrative