This week started early for me as I had a meeting with John on Tuesday. Steve had made me nervous about these meeting because leading up to this he told me that John would be getting into my head in these sessions. This obviously made me apprehensive that morning because I wasn’t really sure what to expect. We mainly talked about blogs and how to improve mine. So I will be adding a lot more pictures of my work from my sketch books. John does seem to have given me more confidence in my ability to write more confidently in my blogs and I feel now my blog will improve because of this.
We also talked about asking questions after presentations, or my lack of. John told me I should be a lot more prepared for upcoming lectures and set out some questions that I could ask. I knew Marc (an ex student) would be coming in to talk to the group the next day so I went home and prepared around 20questions ready for the lecture. This proved to be a wise thing to do because I found out some really interesting information. Marc said if he could go back and focus on something in particular he would focus on CSS and Flash. These are two things that we will be studying next year. There is a lot of talk about CSS and I am eager to know that all the fuss is about. Marc’s presentation was in a way better for me because he wasn’t super confident like Johnny a few weeks earlier and talked more on my level (No disrespect to Johnny intended at all).
We also were given our new assignment on Wednesday. I am looking forward to this assignment because it is one of the most creative assignments of the year without question, but it is also one of the biggest. We have to create a logo, corporate identity (which includes several things, including a full website), a CD booklet, CD inlay, CD body and pre-flight document. This week I will be gathering as much information on logos as possible because if I design a bad logo I know it is going to appear on every other piece of work for this assignment, so it has to be good.
We are creating all this for a music label. I chose an album called Inertia by Glitch. It is supposed to be a hard trance album from Germany but Steve wouldn’t let us hear the music until next week. This make me quite nervous because I am totally in the dark about what ideas I should be thinking of to produce a good album cover design, but I suppose this is good practice for the future because we are not always going to like the subject we are working on.
I am looking forward to this assignment and have a good feeling about it already which is strange for me at this stage of an assignment. We haven’t received ouR mark for the assignments we handed in a week ago yet however, so I am still nervous about getting those referred.
If your stuck for logos many are on this site most with plain white background so will look good in the sketch book. http://www.goodlogo.com/
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Good link for the Logos Rich, I've been surfing around there when I should be finishing my blog.
You're right about designing a good logo, it has to be right, as it will be visible on all of the stationery!
The logo is undoubtably one of the most important parts of the whole assignment this time around. It's the centrepiece of the whole corporate identity, and if it's tough to work with or just looks naff no matter how good of a design you do it'll still look bad because of the rubbish logo.
It's a tough one, creating a good logo. That's why I'm just sketching loads of roughs for em.
Hey Rich,
Thats a good point about the logo appearing on everyhting, I hadn't thought of it like that.
I think its great that you are including these links and making your blog more interactive, I was trying to do the same but didn't find anything of much worth. the link you've used is great.
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