current observations

Category: university

  • Finished up :: photomontage

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    Do you ever finish a creation and it really pleases you? I confess this doesn’t happen to me very often as I’m my own worst critic but every so often all the stars align and I produce something that just captures what I set out to achieve. This image is one of those times. The…

  • Old fashioned phones and bee hives

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    And I bet you thought I was going to show you a hairstyle, am I right? Sorry I’ve been so silent this week, Uni has been a lot of work and I’m starting to wonder if it’s all worth it. We have these ‘mini’ tasks we have to do each week and they are more…

  • Circle logo :: my final three

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    Thanks so much to everyone who helped me choose my final 3 circle logos. I think choosing 3 was actually harder than creating 40. So these are the 3 I went with for a few reasons. I was very attached to the top one, I kind of liked the painterly circle that reminded me of…

  • Circle logos :: help me choose three

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    Here is one challenge that has been messing with my head for the last 2 days. The task was to create a logo for a restaurant called ‘circle’ and we were allowed to use the word circle and the circle shape and we had to come up with 40 variations. Let me just say at…

  • And speaking of geometrics

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    Uni started back this week – my first week back since last June. I study via distance and they are usually very organised but one subject (I’m only doing 2) has been a bit of a fiasco this week; no lecturer, no material, broken links to readings, no answers to our queries on the subject…

  • Working on :: issey miyake

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    This is where most of my energy has been expended over the last week. This is assignment #2 for uni, which is due in 2 weeks, and it seems an extraordinary amount of work for the marks and time frame allowed… am I sounding grumpy? We have to produce an invite, catalogue and promotional gift…

  • Update :: a cover story

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    This is what I’ve been toiling away at for the last month. My next Uni assignment which is due in a little over a week. It’s an 8 page magazine and the mock-ups to a 5 page website for a fictitious magazine called LOL – Life out Loud. Drawing on inspiration from magazines like Dumbo…

  • Design Dilemma – Help Please

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    I’m appealing to you for help with my next assignment… again. We have to design a small brochure for a restaurant opening and this is just the front cover. The assignment is quite prescriptive in terms of text content but the style of food that the restaurant serves is really up to us. I’m going…

  • Meet My New Favourite Toy… I Mean Tool

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    I have a new toy.. it’s a free iPad app called Adobe Ideas. It’s become a nice little tool when researching colour which is what I’m doing at the moment for my next Uni assignment. We have to design a brochure for a new restaurant that serves North American West Coast cuisine… oh and by…

  • Face out of Fonts

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    Things have been a little quiet on my blog front… apologies. I’ve been settling back into normal work hours, fighting a cold and trying to make a start on my first Uni assignment which is due in a couple of weeks. This semester I’m doing Digital Publishing and Typography and part of my first assignment…