Manchester United 1, Queens Park Rangers 0.

Not bad I suppose! I thought we played well and could even come away slightly hard done by! but there you go. It took a late penalty to see us off. I'm proud!

Manchester United v Queens Park Rangers

Sorry Blog! Wont be here today. I'll be in Manchester having an awesome time watching QPR get thrashed by Man Utd! Oh well! It'll be an experience.

PAL (Round 5)

The Mini Critique!

After the first years stated they would like to cover what to expect from the crit in a couple of days for their text & image brief, Luke, Vicky and I decided to hit it straight on and almost play a devil's advocate roll to prepare them for what Sally and Neil could potentially be like.

Overall, they responded really well from it. I found they got a lot out of the situation and they responded well to any questions we asked. It couldn't have gone any better I feel. Maybe if a few more of them actually brought all if not some of their work! The ones that did though seemed to enjoy it.

Animal Packaging...

Today we have been set the new brief for us to create a new packaging design along with any advertising media necessary for a new watch Animal, the surfing-type clothes company, are developing and due to release in the near future. Its practically a live brief which has been set by the designers at animals headquarters in Poole.

My initial ideas so far go along the ideas of travel, traveling or possibly an item you would take traveling with you. I like the idea of having a piece of packaging that has a primary use as something personal and a secondary use as packaging or protection for the watch without compromising the quality or security of the watch.

ALSO...

Today, we had a meeting with James, the designer working in conjunction with us on the inkbar branding, about our logo, how it will be used, where, etc.

Basically, he's come up with the menu and various other bits and pieces for it which we all really liked and tied in with the theme we were aiming for. He also gave us a few images he's used in the work he's done and chosen a body text font, Helvetica Neue light, which we also all agreed complemented the typefaces we had used in the creation of the logo.

Another Live Brief!

Well! Whilst talking to Mat Desmier about our current live brief, he has given us another! It's a bit smaller but still very interesting. The client wants us to produce a mini brochure or leaflet for her new lingerie collection she has made for an exhibition of some sort. This has the possibility of us also having a photo-shoot where Dan can use his expertise. This is only a quick one though so it depends all on whether or not Mat can get us a studio or not in time.

Hooray!!! Are Ink Bar design's been picked!

At last! We've finally been given some good news for this brief. They have settled on a logo.

Vicky, Luke, Megan, James and me have had a thorough meeting with Chloe about where to go with this next. Basically, now they have settled on a logo, Chloe wants us to produce all the media for the Ink Bar. That includes;

Window graphics

Invitations

A Website

A Web banner, basically the works!

Luke and me have already said we would love to produce a website for them. I personally wanted to do a website instead of the graphics because we have done so much of that already not only this year but last year and it would be great to start making websites now so I feel more confident about making one for myself in our final major project.

Although we are currently being taught Dreamweaver and how to make websites, I personally still feel competent enough to produce a fine piece of work for the Ink Bar.

Here is the chosen logo.

PAL (Round 4)

Today we thought it would be best for the first years if we helped them out with their time management. I was at first uneasy about doing this with them because I think its quite demeaning and patronising to some of the first years, especially as I am probably younger than most of them and they probably manage their time a lot better than me!

However, when we sat down with them all and asked them if they wanted to or not, they were really up for it! If anything, they seemed to respond really well to the lesson plan and hopefully come away with some good tips from each other.

Today was a first though. At the end of the hour they actually knew what they wanted to cover next week! They all stated they were unsure about what to expect at their final hand in and critique next week so Vicky, Luke and I have told them to bring in all their work next Monday so we can have a Mock Crit. Hopefully we can give them a taste of what to expect and help them prepare for it with confidence.