MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!

Term is over…

Over the next month or so I will be attending a few exhibitions, which have been recommended to me by my tutor.

I also will be attempting to design my website, hopefully getting that up and running in the January if time permits.

I will post my progress as and when…

The Results are in…

I was given my mark for the radio project. I have to say after a shakey start to the project I turned it round and got a decent mark. The finished radio and all my photos, presentation boards came out well and I was really happy with what I submitted. The idea of the manual was well received (thanks to an outside source for that), not so much from fellow student because they thought I was being a bit too clever.

I am really pleased with the outcome of the project, I felt good I would get a good mark, like a C+ or B, but I got an A. Only two other people got an A out 28 people so I couldn’t of done much more.

Hopefully it will continue to the next 2 and half years, below is what I submitted, enjoy…

The stu-stu-studio…

One of the most productive skill / technique that I learnt was how to create professional photos of our products at home. It is an easy and inexpensive way of getting great photos.

All you need to do is get a large box and cut holes in the top and the sides. Cover those holes with tracing paper to diffuse the light. Then put a piece of white paper in the back, tape at the top and leave loose to create a curve. Then all you need is a lamp and darken room, I was told that natural light is better but I found that a lamp gives just as good results.

It also depends on the settings on your camera or you do a little photoshop trickery.

Project No.2

I was handed the brief, I read it and I thought this could be quite interesting. The brief was to design a radio out of card (300 gsm). The project also includes learning the skills we will need to fulfill the brief.

I started off by gathering boxes and wrapping them in white paper to hide the details of the boxes so I can draw them and to get the shadows of the boxes. I then picked a box and took it apart and measured the net.

I then got a random net that someone else drew to draw on SoildWorks, the one I got was completely wrong and just made it up. SolidWorks is a program that most agencies use, you can draw 2d images such as nets and also it is a 3d program.

The next step was to draw the components that was ordered from a website. We also had a workshop in typography, which was fun but a bit of waste of time to be honest.

The final results to come…

How the Brief was won!!!!!!!!!!

The brief we came up with after our research presentation was…

How to help the NUS empower & involve students?

We decided to re-brand the NUS, as we found out that the younger students have never heard of this organisation due to them having no presence around the university.

There are no posters, no advert on uni intranet, no one really telling us what and who they are.

The NUS I think are seen as a old organisation that doesn’t understand students, even though it is ran by students. Not many student actually know this, students need to be made aware of the services and benefits that the NUS provide.

So we designed a new logo…

We also made a new NUS card…

and also we decide to create an event that happens at freshers week to raise awareness of the NUS and what can do for students.

That was our solution I think that it was quite successful and maybe with a huge amount of work we could make this idea a real possibility.

The First Project... Research

The project is going well, we don’t even think of ideas yet. The project at the moment is just research based, we have to research certain groups that are affected by freshers week. Our group has selected students and event promoters, we thought it could be quite interesting to see if there is a connection between the two and to see if we can come up for a solution to benefit both groups.

I have never really done much research when studying but I am seeing the benefits of research. It does open up some many doors and has opened my eyes to research. Also I have had a chance to get creative with the presentation, I hope everyone likes it.

Here are two slides from my research, the general graphic style runs all the way through the presentation, enjoy.