This week has been one of the most tiring weeks of the course so far, both physically and mentally. The physical side was our trip to London I was really looking forward to this trip as it would give me the opportunity to see real professional art work up close and get to see some of the famous landmarks of the city. After the long train we arrived and bought our day ticket for the tube. We headed straight for the Tate Modern art gallery.
We arrived at the gallery only to find the vast majority of the building had been closed off or most of the art work covered up. I was very disappointed as we had travelled a long way to visit this gallery. After an hour of walking around the building and watching people on the slides we all headed to Leicester square.
Once at Leicester Square we were given the opportunity to walk around on our own and do the things we wished to do. I have never been to London before so I had no clue what to do. This was a bad thing as for most of the afternoon we spent walking around trying to decide where to go and what to see! If I were to go again I would defiantly do more research and also visit the designers museum which some of the class were really impressed with.
Another 10miles walking and it was about time to meet back up with the group and head back home. I was extremely tired and just wanted to sit down, so the train home was quite a welcome site. We arrived back around half 10 and I got in and went straight to bed completely exhausted.
Thursday was back in class and back to hard work. This was a very mentally tough day because we were given two timed assignments that we could be marked on and if we fail we would have to leave the course.
The first task was to create a newspaper style sheet about Jonathan Gee (not Jhonathan Gee as I noticed I had written on all of my designs after it was too late). I was quite happy with my designs and the planning went fairly well. Pagemaker still caused me a little headache but I was able to get a finished product, handed in on time at least.
The second task was to create a paint tube label. For me this was a much harder task as there was a lot more to think about and quite a large amount of information to go on a very small space. I enjoyed the designing work but once again trying to create what I had planned on paper led to far too much hassle for my liking.
All the text looked a good size on the screen but when printed at half the size it was tiny and very hard to read. I also noticed that I was trying to fill all the white space in my designs this was something I became aware of when I started to create the designs on the computer, so I was able to slightly modify it . I finished with something that was ok but if I were to do it again I would change the whole design. I did enjoy designing on paper I do like the technique of just drawing whatever is in your head and actually seeing how it looks. I hope to carry on with this more as I’m sure there are more timed tasks to come in the very near future!!
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