Wednesday Morning began with a little test from Steve to see if there were any natural designers in the class. We had to design business cards for Widget World. This was a good way to start the week as it got all of the class working on something much different from report and essay writing. After break Steve gave us a lecture on what makes a good business card and designs in general the four key parts were Proximity, Alignment, Repetition and Contrast.
In the afternoon we were given time to work on our assignment A3. I think I am progressing at a good pace in order to have everything done for next weeks group feedback. I have most of my competitive analysis, goal and target audience researched ready to be put into words. I am happy to say my sketch book looks a lot neater for this assignment compared to last, theirs more colour and it seems a lot more structured this time around. I think I am learning from my mistakes, which is important.
I also got my first assignment feedback from Steve on Wednesday afternoon. I had been looking forward to this all week as I was curious to know what I was doing well and how I nearly failed the assignment. The main reason I nearly failed was because work had been done but in the wrong place. I had done a lot of work on web hosting and domain names in my sketch book but only written a small amount in the report. The second reason was my spelling mainly capitalization or lack off Internet Explorer was a main one. I do find it very difficult to spot these mistakes but it is something I am going to work hard on over the next 6 weeks or so.
Thursday began with a test. I now defiantly know PPI and DPI because this was the question I was asked. I will defiantly be reading my sketch book through in the future especially all the work we have done over the past few weeks as Steve has made it very clear we need to know this information by heart if we are going to make it in this industry.
We then had an important presentation about Colour Space for our assignment A4. I had only heard of the RGB colour space so it is important that I look back and take the information in. This image below shows the colours visable to each colour space.
In the afternoon we were given time to work on our assignment A3. I think I am progressing at a good pace in order to have everything done for next weeks group feedback. I have most of my competitive analysis, goal and target audience researched ready to be put into words. I am happy to say my sketch book looks a lot neater for this assignment compared to last, theirs more colour and it seems a lot more structured this time around. I think I am learning from my mistakes, which is important.
I also got my first assignment feedback from Steve on Wednesday afternoon. I had been looking forward to this all week as I was curious to know what I was doing well and how I nearly failed the assignment. The main reason I nearly failed was because work had been done but in the wrong place. I had done a lot of work on web hosting and domain names in my sketch book but only written a small amount in the report. The second reason was my spelling mainly capitalization or lack off Internet Explorer was a main one. I do find it very difficult to spot these mistakes but it is something I am going to work hard on over the next 6 weeks or so.
Thursday began with a test. I now defiantly know PPI and DPI because this was the question I was asked. I will defiantly be reading my sketch book through in the future especially all the work we have done over the past few weeks as Steve has made it very clear we need to know this information by heart if we are going to make it in this industry.
We then had an important presentation about Colour Space for our assignment A4. I had only heard of the RGB colour space so it is important that I look back and take the information in. This image below shows the colours visable to each colour space.
I think the essay is very difficult to put into words for A4 because there is so much information that could be written I have re-written the essay 2 or 3 times already because I chance my opinion on what people say all the time. At first I thought my bitmap image (below) was artist work because I would gladly put that image up on the wall in my house. But listening to peoples thoughts I changed my mind because it has obviously been designed through a number of stages to meet a required purpose. In my opinion this is what the main difference is between art and design. It is difficult to tell.
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