ISTD comments

istd book

this is a book i made that reflects the information in the book in the layout and its design

for this book the ISTD awarded me a pass which i am very pleased with considering i am a second year student

after a long wait

I have decided

to give the

blogging game

another go....

playing round with shutter speed/ light drawing

photos from Gibraltar port.

FdA year 1 sum up

Over my first year on the FdA I have learnt a lot of things to do with the graphic design world. One of the main things I learnt was the importance of a good knowledge for typography. I learnt a lot of things to do with type in the second term where I did the design for education publicity project. I'm not brilliant at type as you may have seen but in comparison to the start of the course I have come on leaps and bounds. I hope to keep extending my knowledge of this subject in the future. I have also learnt to go through a process more when generating ideas which hopefully has made my work richer. In my work I can see a distinct style emerging which is sort of simple illustrations that I then vectorise in illustrator. I DO NOT LIKE THIS STYLE. I want to wean myself off this as soon as possible. I want to do this because I want to be more versatile and for personal reasons of becoming bored of going through the same process in most of my work this year, but is much harder than I anticipated it would be. One more thing that I have learnt this year was to look at the world with a more critical eye, picking up on design aspects I like and more so things I don't like as much. The last thing that I'm going to take on is the enjoyment and passion that I'm developing for this thing called graphic design.

patterns finished

I didn't like what I did in the work shop so I decided to do some illustrations based on life in london using a pigeon. Meant to be a bit of fun just to make my job a little bit more enjoyable.