Just for fun
My top artists, albums and tracks in 2011
GDF outcome
Just got the grade back from my first large-ish uni project, Graphic Design Fundamentals. It was a Merit, or a B to be precise! Very pleased and unexpected as I didn't feel as if I put as much effort in…
Sense and the City
I recently visited the London Transport Museum's 'Sense and the City' exhibition in Covent Garden. This was a good opportunity to get an insight into themes both directly connected with transport, but also covered a broad range of matters to…
Typography workshop
On Thursday afternoon, after our VCT tutorials and before our group's GDF meeting, I took part in a last minute typography workshop with Ben Richards. Specifically, this workshop was involved cutting up existing typefaces into hybrids, or attempting to create…
GDF second meeting
On Thursday we held our second Graphic Design Fundamentals meeting, with the aim of deciding on 3 clients (an international one, a national one and a local one) from which we could individually pick our own final client to progress…
Glug: ‘An Evening With’ - Intro
On Wednesday (and thanks(!) to one of my course tutors Paul) I attended Glug - a 'Notworking' event put on by Ian Hambleton (Studio Output) and Nick Clement. This was a talk by 3 members of the 23 year old…
Graphic Design Fundamentals
Today was the introduction to our Graphic Design Fundamentals assignment, in which we were introduced to the “basics and realities of professional communication design practice” and “instead of quickly focusing on the production of an outcome such as a poster,…
TYPO London 2011
Just got back from TYPO London 2011 and will be posting thoughts on some of the talks I saw here very soon!
BÖIKZMÖIND
I recently went to the London screening of Gavin Strange's new documentary 'BÖIKZMÖIND' (that's Bristolanguage for “bikes, mind” so I've been told!), which happened in the Apple store in Regent Street. It's all about the people and culture of fixed…
Text & Image
In today's workshop with Paul Bailey, we discussed and debated the differences between using text and image for visual communication. This progressed into using a restrained vocabulary to describe images and looking at certain words in detail to extract hidden…
Day 1 at LCC
After living in London for exactly a month, today I started at the London College of Communication, which is 1 of the 6 colleges that make up University of the Arts London. To be precise, I started my first year…