Monday came and it was back for another go in the design room. This particular day was a work day, as Steve said ‘there is no lecture, so carry on with your work’. So of I started with the build of the website. During the day I came across many problems which were ever so minor, it took some time to get it back right. I finished my template in Dreamweaver and completed my feedback form. No validation yet though. When I was submitting a completed form entry, the computer was automatically opening the Windows Outlook application. Strange!
In the later time of the day I was called in for assignment feedback on A3. John went through a few things that I immediately altered and reprinted. Let’s hope for a pass.
After feedback I was still tampering with the DWT. For some reason when I was changing the links in the DWT file, it was not updating to any of the pages. The rest of the day was spent trying to get this right, with no luck so far.
Tuesday and it was a late start. Steve went to the Huddersfield with four other students to see Dave Panell, at the design mechanics. We were advised to come in for 1 o’clock and carry on with our presentation work that morning. Upon arrival to the class, we gained some more useful knowledge from one of Steve’s lectures. The lecture was about ‘Type Anatomy’, which is very helpful toward the presentation assignment.
During seminar it became clear that I talked a little too much about the life of Stanley Morison, rather then the font types he created and restored. Another factor was the design; apparently it seems a little familiar with another students work. So I will be changing the design of the presentation over the week. Other valuable feedback in seminar groups was that we can compare typefaces in our presentation and explain any differences if any are found. As I have Stanley Morison I believe that will be a fairly difficult task to concur.
The rest of the afternoon involved looking for all the font styles associated with Stanley Morison and the difference’s I saw between them. So far I have noticed one slight difference in the way the ‘counter’ in some letters is slightly bigger in its own way.
So this week will be a busy week.
- Complete the 1st draft of my hand out ready for seminar group.
- Cary on with the build of the website, concurring all overcoming problems
- Design a new presentation layout
- Insert more information about the typefaces created by the typographer given.
- Make the general weekly amount of journal comments or beat it.
Tuesday 29 January 2008
Tuesday 22 January 2008
Recovery Point!!!
The start of another week and my illness has very nearly cleared up aside the constant weak cough. It started off with the usual morning lectures with Steve. Lasting around 2 hours we thoroughly went through Dreamweaver and its easy desirable way to create a feedback form and produce a CSS document for the content. After the very informative presentation created by Steve, it was back to work for the final half hour before lunch.
For this half hour I took the time to continue with the referral work on A3 which is now finally complete (Thank god). Now it time to get on with the fun stuff. The build of course, as this is one of the best parts of the course yet. With an already experienced mind on the matter I plan to crack on with the project immediately in order to gain a slight distanced lead against the assignment brief. That way I will be able to crack on with A4 – Image Restoration feedback and not have to worry about falling behind on the current project.
Tuesday struck and at 1st I had a slight doubt in matter about whether I was going to make it before the 9 o’clock lock up time. This lead to a light comment from Steve about appearing alert and ready for the job when entering the classroom (I think that was aimed at me, but I could be wrong). Following a lecture about more Typography we fired up the machines to get on with the presentation assignment on a famous typographer. But wait! Immediately after opening the IE application to gain more research, we were prompt to shut down out computers and begin a timed task on typography. This involved creating a book cover on the various different fonts out there. At only 10:40 am we had an hour and 20 minutes to crack on with the job. After running the Olympic printer run for a colour copy of my design it was in fact too late to hand in the deign as the 12 noon deadline was narrowly missed. But luckily this was only a practice run to get us in the mood for future preferences.
Following the time task and lunch we carried on with our work on the presentation. For this project I have been given Stanley Morison, the creator of Times font styles and Blado. At the moment I am a little frustrating at the amount of research I have gained, and how much I will need for the presentation. Stanley really seems like a difficult person to research on as I have had no luck what so ever on finding anything about the companies he actually worked. I was hoping to perhaps get my hands on an article he produced or some information as to how he came up with the font styles. The long winding road awaits.
Seminar this week was a wake up call for the sketchbook assignment. It appears the majority of the class has let it slip a little through focusing completely on the other assignments. I for one do not personally know the learning out comes which is something that was said to be essential in the assignment in order to pass it.
So for this week I have a lot of work to be getting on with. So here we go, this is what I need to do:
- Read the learning out comes of Unit 4 and be sure that I understand them.
- Produce a draft presentation for next Tuesday’s seminar group.
- Manipulate all the images for A5, ready to be placed in Dreamweaver.
- Gain more inspirational images for my sketchbook and fully annotate.
- And produce 4 journal comments on other students journal entry.
For this half hour I took the time to continue with the referral work on A3 which is now finally complete (Thank god). Now it time to get on with the fun stuff. The build of course, as this is one of the best parts of the course yet. With an already experienced mind on the matter I plan to crack on with the project immediately in order to gain a slight distanced lead against the assignment brief. That way I will be able to crack on with A4 – Image Restoration feedback and not have to worry about falling behind on the current project.
Tuesday struck and at 1st I had a slight doubt in matter about whether I was going to make it before the 9 o’clock lock up time. This lead to a light comment from Steve about appearing alert and ready for the job when entering the classroom (I think that was aimed at me, but I could be wrong). Following a lecture about more Typography we fired up the machines to get on with the presentation assignment on a famous typographer. But wait! Immediately after opening the IE application to gain more research, we were prompt to shut down out computers and begin a timed task on typography. This involved creating a book cover on the various different fonts out there. At only 10:40 am we had an hour and 20 minutes to crack on with the job. After running the Olympic printer run for a colour copy of my design it was in fact too late to hand in the deign as the 12 noon deadline was narrowly missed. But luckily this was only a practice run to get us in the mood for future preferences.
Following the time task and lunch we carried on with our work on the presentation. For this project I have been given Stanley Morison, the creator of Times font styles and Blado. At the moment I am a little frustrating at the amount of research I have gained, and how much I will need for the presentation. Stanley really seems like a difficult person to research on as I have had no luck what so ever on finding anything about the companies he actually worked. I was hoping to perhaps get my hands on an article he produced or some information as to how he came up with the font styles. The long winding road awaits.
Seminar this week was a wake up call for the sketchbook assignment. It appears the majority of the class has let it slip a little through focusing completely on the other assignments. I for one do not personally know the learning out comes which is something that was said to be essential in the assignment in order to pass it.
So for this week I have a lot of work to be getting on with. So here we go, this is what I need to do:
- Read the learning out comes of Unit 4 and be sure that I understand them.
- Produce a draft presentation for next Tuesday’s seminar group.
- Manipulate all the images for A5, ready to be placed in Dreamweaver.
- Gain more inspirational images for my sketchbook and fully annotate.
- And produce 4 journal comments on other students journal entry.
Tuesday 15 January 2008
A New Term.
The start of a new term and tension surpassed the average atmosphere in the room. This was in motion with the grades in which we we're to receive from our previous assignment. As it appears I did not pass this time round, but as it was a substantial improvement from the last web design assignment, I have been awarded another chance to set this right. Failure is not an option!
After the grades we're handed out, it was time for business. Steve produced a presentation about the Dreamweaver application. Following the presentation we got down to to some practice in the desktop application. As I have had previous experience in this application it wasn't too difficult to get to a state where I feel comfortable in using it.
Tuesday arrived and with a bit of bad luck, I came down with some sort of cold illness. I think I can stand tall and actually say it is not the man flu that was going around some time ago. But it did in fact cause me to leave college early on the day. Fortunately I managed to appear for the presentation on the upcoming assignments. As a result of this I am hoping to gain back my health s soon as possible and carry on with the work set out for us.
My goals for this term are as follows:
- Produce higher quality work.
- Set mini goals during assignments to manage it more effectively.
- Progress in terms of the sketchbook assignment, not forgetting to insert pieces of inspirational art/design.
As a closing note I would like to thank John and Steve for the encouraging conversation during assignment feedback.
After the grades we're handed out, it was time for business. Steve produced a presentation about the Dreamweaver application. Following the presentation we got down to to some practice in the desktop application. As I have had previous experience in this application it wasn't too difficult to get to a state where I feel comfortable in using it.
Tuesday arrived and with a bit of bad luck, I came down with some sort of cold illness. I think I can stand tall and actually say it is not the man flu that was going around some time ago. But it did in fact cause me to leave college early on the day. Fortunately I managed to appear for the presentation on the upcoming assignments. As a result of this I am hoping to gain back my health s soon as possible and carry on with the work set out for us.
My goals for this term are as follows:
- Produce higher quality work.
- Set mini goals during assignments to manage it more effectively.
- Progress in terms of the sketchbook assignment, not forgetting to insert pieces of inspirational art/design.
As a closing note I would like to thank John and Steve for the encouraging conversation during assignment feedback.
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